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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snrub to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub. One [=YouTuber=] even made an alternate ending to "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two" where [[spoiler:Mr. Snrub was the real victim of the shooting after [[BecomingTheMask getting too comfortable in his role as Mr. Burns' body double]] and the real Burns was the shooter. Not only that, Smithers also had a body double as revealed by his Season 1 design.]]
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'': "What Pumpkin?" In ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'', the facts are sure LemonyNarrator refuses to follow in acknowledge the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumorspresence of a place called Jelly World -- pumpkin and insists there never was one, even though these are BlatantLies. This becomes a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played RunningGag in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', where pumpkins appear and disappear erratically. Sometimes, fans play along with the RunningGag narration's {{Gaslighting}} and dismissed feign confusion when anyone mentions the idea as presence or lack of a pumpkin.
** In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', one character hypothesizes that pumpkins are strangely unconstrained by thepreposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly laws of physics, because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually they seem unusually prone to RandomTeleportation. The confusion is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]retroactively justified.
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snrub to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub. One [=YouTuber=] even made an alternate ending to "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two" where [[spoiler:Mr. Snrubs was the real victim of the shooting after [[BecomingTheMask getting too comfortable in his role as Mr. Burns' body double]] and the real Burns was the shooter. Not only that, Smithers also had a body double as revealed by his Season 1 design.]]
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This can take a few forms. If a character uses a PaperThinDisguise, fans might pretend to not be aware that they're the same person- or will guess any identity besides the real one. If a character claims to be invisible, the audience can no longer see them. If a fictional product promotes itself as real, people will talk about the work as if it is. These forms and many more exist because the audience jokingly takes the work's word at face value. A Play-Along Meme thus makes heavy use of {{Kayfabe}} -- it's obvious that the meme is a joke, but everyone goes along with it for the sake of furthering the joke's humor and/or the meme's spread. Fans who don't play along are thus often jokingly "corrected" by the people spreading the meme.
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This can take a few forms. If a character uses a PaperThinDisguise, fans might pretend to not be aware that they're the same person- person -- or will guess any identity besides the real one. If a character claims to be invisible, the audience can no longer see them. If a fictional product promotes itself as real, people will talk about the work as if it is. These forms and many more exist because the audience jokingly takes the work's word at face value. A Play-Along Meme thus makes heavy use of {{Kayfabe}} -- it's obvious that the meme is a joke, but everyone goes along with it for the sake of furthering the joke's humor and/or the meme's spread. Fans who don't play along are thus often jokingly "corrected" by the people spreading the meme.
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*** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': After [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] uses a memory-erasing spell to eliminate the memory of [[spoiler: Peter Parker's identity out of the minds of the everyone on the planet at the end of the film]], some fans played along by pretending the spell had affected them too, reacting in confusion to the appearance of the character whose identity was erased whenever it was mentioned or appeared in other installments of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
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*** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': After [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] uses a memory-erasing spell to eliminate the memory of [[spoiler: Peter [[spoiler:Peter Parker's identity out of the minds of the everyone on the planet at the end of the film]], some fans played along by pretending the spell had affected them too, reacting in confusion to the appearance of the character whose identity was erased whenever it was mentioned or appeared in other installments of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts:'' After the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', it became a joke to ask [[spoiler: who Xion is. Since she is basically the manifestation of Sora's memories, after she dies, everyone forgets who she is.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': No-one InUniverse is able to recognize the real identity of Count Bleck's enigmatic minion Mister L. And despite the fact that [[spoiler: he's obviously a brainwashed Luigi]], neither are fans of the game.
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* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': No-one InUniverse is able to recognize the real identity of Count Bleck's enigmatic minion Mister L. And despite the fact that [[spoiler: he's [[spoiler:he's obviously a brainwashed Luigi]], neither are fans of the game.
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** Fans will sometimes claim not to remember who Wallflower Blush is, or say that that they've never seen her before - -- this is because in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship'', she used a magical artifact to erase everyone's memories of her.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snrub to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub. One [=YouTuber=] even made an alternate ending to ''Who Shot Mr. Burns Part Two'' where [[spoiler: Mr. Snrubs was the real victim of the shooting after [[BecomingTheMask getting too comfortable in his role as Mr. Burns' body double]] and the real Burns was the shooter. Not only that, Smithers also had a body double as revealed by his Season 1 design.]]
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In the film ''Film/Yesterday'', Jack Malik wakes up in a world where ''Music/TheBeatles'' never existed. To get famous, he begins passing off their music as his own. This led to fans claiming to not know who The Beatles were, and also claiming Jack Malik to be the writer of the songs.
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** Similarly, Wrestling/SamiZayn joined WWE in the beginning of 2013, and is completely unrelated to "El Generico", the folk-hero generic luchador who was an indie sensation until the end of 2012.
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* PointCrow is a video game speedrunner who plays, among other things, VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild. It's become a recurring joke that every time he plays the game and completes the Plateau, he will be shocked and amazed when the friendly old man reveals himself to be the ghost of King Rhoam Bosphoramus, and his chat plays along.
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* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': It has been common to play along with the DoubleThink of the Party when talking about the book. Remember, we were always at was with Eurasia while Eastasia has always been our ally. What's that? Yesterday Eastasia was our ally and Eurasia was our enemy? Nonsense, [[BlatantLies things were always this way]].
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** Fans will sometimes claim not to remember who Wallflower Blush is, or say that that they've never seen her before - this is because in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship'', she used a magical artifact to erase everyone's memories of her.
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Fairly sure that both the "Scootaloo is a chicken" and "Fluttershy is a tree" examples are just Memetic Mutation. The show never presented these as true facts so there's nothing really to "play along" with.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, Fluttershy mentions that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Apple Bloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.
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** In''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, an early episode, Fluttershy mentions mentioned that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Apple Bloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.her.
** Maud Pie canonically doesn't express facial emotion (at least, very rarely), so fans often pretend that she is heavily emoting in images that contain a completely neutral expression.
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* ''Manga/AgravityBoys'' featured an in-series award-winning historical drama called ''Masaru'', which all of the cast is a fan of and gets regular references throughout the story. Fans sometimes make jokes about their favorite Masaru episodes and what seasons were their favorites, despite the fact that ''Masaru'' itself was made long after the 21st century.
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* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': To hide the [[SamusIsAGirl true identity]] of its protagonist, the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' manual described Samus Aran as a cyborg man. Therefore, the ''Metroid'' fandom continues to ascribe to her in-universe ShroudedInMyth status by jokingly referring to Samus as a robot dude in various memes.
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** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': After [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] uses a memory-erasing spell to eliminate the memory of [[spoiler: Peter Parker's identity out of the minds of the everyone on the planet at the end of the film]], some fans played along by pretending the spell had affected them too, reacting in confusion to the appearance of the character whose identity was erased whenever it was mentioned or appeared in other installments of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
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* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax claims to have mastered the art of standing so still as to become invisible, despite Quill saying that's not how it works and Mantis immediately saying hi. This spawned the "invisible Drax" meme of not noticing Drax in images.
* Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy:
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousAlias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
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** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousAlias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
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** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax claims to have mastered the art of standing so still as to become invisible, despite Quill saying that's not how it works and Mantis immediately saying hi. This spawned the "invisible Drax" meme of not noticing Drax in images.
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** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when *** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': When Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided S.H.I.E.L.D.-provided stealth suit. He suit, he makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousAlias "''[[AtrociousAlias Night Monkey]]'' Monkey]]''" to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans was. Fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax claims to have mastered the art of standing so still as to become invisible, despite Quill saying that's not how it works and Mantis immediately saying hi. This spawned the "invisible Drax" meme of not noticing Drax in images.
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* ''Literature/SongOfTheSorcelator'' and ''Epic Legends of the Hierarchs'' are two projects (well, one project) that run on this. After a series of comic strips mocking bad fantasy novels in ''WebComic/PennyArcade'', the creators set up fan wikis for the two franchises they made up and had the fanbase treat them as if they were real, letting them create as much StylisticSuck and FandomRivalry as they pleased.
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* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': During the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
--> '''Commenter''': Homelander saved my cat stuck in a tree yesterday. [[BlackComedy She lost her tail but it's a small price to pay]]. Thanks Homelander!
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* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'': During the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'' discusses the mechanics, development, and playerbase of an MMO game called ''Outside''. The "game" is just real life and everyone knows it, but everyone in the comments section of the videos will always talk about playing ''Outside'' as if it were a game because it's more fun that way.
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* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'' discusses the mechanics, development, and playerbase of an MMO game called ''Outside''. The "game" is just real life and everyone knows it, but everyone in the comments section of the videos will always talk about playing ''Outside'' as if it were a game because it's more fun that way.
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* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros 35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros 35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has an entire arc during which [[CowardlyLion Usopp]] is under the guise of a super-hero named Sogeking because he doesn't want his crewmates to know that he's helping them. Obviously, being a PaperThinDisguise, almost none of the crew fall for it. ''Almost''. It is however a recurring joke for fans to refer as Usopp and Sogeking as two different characters, often complaining how Sogeking completely disappeared from the story after this arc ended.
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** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousALias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
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** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousALias ''[[AtrociousAlias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The 2011 season introduced the Silence, a religious order of creepy humanoids. Once anyone looks away from a Silent, they forget about them. However, they use post-hypnotic suggestions. Many commenters act like they never see the Silence but remember what they said; it went as far as videos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a major plot point in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The 2011 season Series 6 (2011) introduced the Silence, a religious order of creepy humanoids. Once anyone looks away from a Silent, they forget about them. However, they these aliens use post-hypnotic suggestions. Many commenters act like they never see the Silence but remember what they said; it went as far as videos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a major plot point in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts:'' After the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', It became a joke to ask [[spoiler: who Xion is. Since she is basically the manifestation of Sora's memories, after she dies, everyone forgets who she is.]]
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts:'' After the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', It it became a joke to ask [[spoiler: who Xion is. Since she is basically the manifestation of Sora's memories, after she dies, everyone forgets who she is.]]
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros 35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros 35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* Given that ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is rife with Running Gags that are memes of their own, the fandom have gone nuts with several of them.
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** Heaping joke-hate on anyone whose name is a palindrome after an episode featured an event in which there was prejudice against people with palindrome names, typifed with Professor Ross Eforp being the subject of mockery and having to wear a paper bag over his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snurb to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snurb to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub.
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** Heaping joke-hate on anyone whose name is a palindrome after an episode featured an event in which there was prejudice against people with palindrome names, typifed typified with Professor Ross Eforp being the subject of mockery and having to wear a paper bag over his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr.Snurb Snrub to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The 2011 season introduced the Silence, a religious order of creepy humanoids. Once anyone looks away from a Silent, they forget about them. However, they use post-hypnotic suggestions. Many commenters act like they never see the Silence, and Silence but remember what they said; it went as far as videos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a major plot point in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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* In reality, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Curry Man are one and the same. But as far as fans are concerned, there's no relation. Ditto with Wrestling/HulkHogan and Mr. America.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, Fluttershy mentions that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Applebloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, Fluttershy mentions that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Applebloom Apple Bloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35}}'' ''{{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros 35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[Main/Unperson not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[Main/Unperson [[{{Unperson}} not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The 2011 season introduced the Silence, a religious order of creepy humanoids. Once anyone looks away from a Silent, they forget about them. Many commenters act like they never see the Silence, and it went as far as videos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a major plot point in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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* ''{{Music/SiIvagunner}}'': For a few days following March 31st, 2021, all [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] videos on the channel were privated to coincide with the the shutdown of ''{{VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35}}'' and the removal of ''Super Mario 3D All Stars'' from the eShop. During this time, new Mario videos would be posted, but with their titles changed to remove Mario's name. All comments under these videos pretended to [[Main/Unperson not remember Mario's existence]], usually remembering Luigi as the protagonist of the franchise.
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* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': during the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
--> '''Commenter''': Homelander saved my cat stuck in a tree yesterday. [[BlackComedy She lost her tail but it?s a small price to pay]]. Thanks Homelander!
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* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': during During the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
--> '''Commenter''': Homelander saved my cat stuck in a tree yesterday. [[BlackComedy She lost her tail butit?s it's a small price to pay]]. Thanks Homelander!
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Not all [[MemeticMutation memes]] are the same. Some of them come from the fans latching onto a particular line or scene and spreading it like wildfire, while others are tongue-and-cheek reinterpretations and exaggerations. And, in this case, some memes are born from fans jokingly going along with what the work says, no matter how blatantly false it is.
This can take a few forms. If a character uses a PaperThinDisguise, fans might pretend to not be aware that they're the same person- or will guess any identity besides the real one. If a character claims to be invisible, the audience can no longer see them. If a fictional product promotes itself as real, people will talk about the work as if it is. These forms and many more exist because the audience jokingly takes the work's word at face value. A Play-Along Meme thus makes heavy use of {{Kayfabe}} -- it's obvious that the meme is a joke, but everyone goes along with it for the sake of furthering the joke's humor and/or the meme's spread. Fans who don't play along are thus often jokingly "corrected" by the people spreading the meme.
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* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', the character Mechazawa is very obviously a TinCanRobot in a school uniform, yet other characters treat him as if he's just a normal high school boy. Fans often follow this, by saying that there's nothing weird when a picture of Mechazawa is posted.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the extremely simple card Pot of Greed (which allows its player to draw two cards from their deck) is explained in full almost every single time it's played. Fans like to joke that [[ViewersAreGoldfish they really are that forgetful]] and pretend they can't remember what the card does without assistance.
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* ''Fanfic/HouseOfGold'', a RealPersonFic shipping WebVideo/DrewGooden and WebVideo/DannyGonzalez, writes Drew's wife (or girlfriend, as written in the fic) Amanda out of the story by saying she was lost at war in Afghanistan. After Drew and Danny read the fic in a crossover video, Drew's fandom began joking that Amanda was still lost in Afghanistan, despite her never going to war in real life. Even when Amanda appears in Drew's videos, the comments section will express relief that she's finally been "rescued."
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* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' tend to play along with Bruno's characters Hernando and Jorge, pretending that the three of them are separate individuals, rather than just Bruno's blatant character-acting. For example, Pepa's verse in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" will be recontextualized as though Hernando framed Bruno for causing the hurricane, as Hernando is merely Bruno with his hood up, which is how Bruno appears at the wedding. Another example, is fans being thankful that Jorge was there to [[BigDamnHeroes save Bruno]] [[spoiler:when the Casita was collapsing]].
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* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax claims to have mastered the art of standing so still as to become invisible, despite Quill saying that's not how it works and Mantis immediately saying hi. This spawned the "invisible Drax" meme of not noticing Drax in images.
* Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy:
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousALias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': After [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] uses a memory-erasing spell to eliminate the memory of [[spoiler: Peter Parker's identity out of the minds of the everyone on the planet at the end of the film]], some fans played along by pretending the spell had affected them too, reacting in confusion to the appearance of the character whose identity was erased whenever it was mentioned or appeared in other installments of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequel Trilogy, Creator/IanMcDiarmid plays Senator Sheev Palpatine and his alter ego Darth Sidious. In his role as Palpatine, he will always be wearing gaudy outfits and putting on a face of benevolence, but as a Sith Lord, he wears a hooded black cloak with a FaceFramedInShadow. The fans love to pretend that there is no way the two people are the same. Similarly, they love to pretend that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are two different beings and can't possibly be the same person.
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* ''Literature/CandleCove'': There are typically two groups of fans that play along with the story's lore about the fictitious ''Candle Cove'' TV series. The first group of fans say that they remember watching the show, and will often have discussions as they recount various episodes and plotlines that are typically made up on the spot for the sake of the joke. The second group of fans insist that they only see static whenever they try watching the show. When it comes to fan "uploads" of ''Candle Cove'' on Website/YouTube, expect to see the first group of fans commenting on videos that are nothing but static, and the second group of fans commenting on videos that actually have visual footage.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': It is a convention in publications by Holmesian or Sherlockian clubs and scholars that the Great Detective was a real, historic person and Dr. Watson really wrote the stories and novels as a "biographer." This meant they had to spend much time and effort explaining apparent discrepancies in the text (as Doyle sometimes wrote that Watson's wartime injury was in his leg, and other times it was in his shoulder.)
* ''Literature/SongOfTheSorcelator'' and ''Epic Legends of the Hierarchs'' are two projects (well, one project) that run on this. After a series of comic strips mocking bad fantasy novels in ''WebComic/PennyArcade'', the creators set up fan wikis for the two franchises they made up and had the fanbase treat them as if they were real, letting them create as much StylisticSuck and FandomRivalry as they pleased.
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*''Series/TheAfterparty'': The series released a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYKU9B6NGc&feature=emb_title music video]] that was made in-universe by murder victim Xavier. Viewers commented on the video as though Xavier were a real, sadly deceased celebrity.
* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': during the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
->'''Commenter''': Homelander saved my cat stuck in a tree yesterday. [[BlackComedy She lost her tail but it?s a small price to pay]]. Thanks Homelander!
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* Music/NinjaSexParty: In "6969", Danny's love interest is named Kristen, but he immediately forgets her name and instead calls her "Katie". As a result, fans will refer to her as any K-name ''besides'' Kristen.
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* Wrestling/JohnCena's theme song is "My Time is Now" and features the lyric "You can't see me!" Internet users like to pretend that they can't see him whenever he is present in any image or video they see that he's in.
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* In ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense'', Camo Bloons can't be attacked by towers who can't detect them, despite being just as colorful as regular towers, just with camo patterns on. Players like to joke they really can't see pictures of Camo Bloons. This is usually followed by a variation of "wearing the red wristbands", since the upgrade that lets Dart Monkeys see Camo is depicted in-game as a pair of red wristbands.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Following [[spoiler:Miyamoto Musashi's]] HeroicSacrifice in the climax of Lostbelt 5.2. "Olympus" which sees the character essentially RetGone from existence, many fans and players have asked who exactly this character who sacrificed themselves is, or alternatively, refer to [[spoiler:her]] simply as "Data Lost" due to the aforementioned actions.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': The character Kellam, despite being a Knight in noisy, bulky armor, is basically treated in-universe as if he's invisible. Naturally, whenever he shows up in official or fan content, fans often pretend to not see him. Alternatively, fans may claim a picture where Kellam really isn't present actually does depict him, or make "fan art" or mock up screenshots of Kellam consisting of blank or even broken images.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' has a character named Devdan. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' there's a man called Danved, who [[BlatantLies insists]] that "Danved is definitely not Devdan" and joins the party, so the fanbase likes to pretend the same.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts:'' After the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', It became a joke to ask [[spoiler: who Xion is. Since she is basically the manifestation of Sora's memories, after she dies, everyone forgets who she is.]]
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The twist that Sheik's true identity of Zelda is [[ItWasHisSled well known]], but fans pretend that they have no idea who she really is.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': To hide the [[SamusIsAGirl true identity]] of its protagonist, the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' manual described Samus Aran as a cyborg man. Therefore, the ''Metroid'' fandom continues to ascribe to her in-universe ShroudedInMyth status by jokingly referring to Samus as a robot dude in various memes.
* Since the main conceit of the game ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'' is almost nobody realizing the titular character is an octopus in disguise, it's become common for videos and pictures of him to be met with comments wondering what's so interesting about this normal everyday dad doing normal everyday things.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Ask a fan who the Masked Royal is, and they'll tell you they have no idea, but it certainly [[BlatantLies isn't]] Professor Kukui.
* Whenever someone posts ''VideoGame/SteamshovelHarry'', people write comments about the levels in the game, such as how they are struggling to beat them. It's an UnwinnableJokeGame that ends on the first screen of the first "level".
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': No-one InUniverse is able to recognize the real identity of Count Bleck's enigmatic minion Mister L. And despite the fact that [[spoiler: he's obviously a brainwashed Luigi]], neither are fans of the game.
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* WebVideo/DannyGonzalez: In two separate videos, Danny attempted to fool his audience by disguising himself as new people to get clout for the new identity. Though these attempts failed, fans still like to pretend that these identities (cousin Zayden Long and musician Ned Flames) are separate people, such as mocking Danny's music while praising Ned Flames' "Circus".
* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'': Once Brian Wecht of Music/NinjaSexParty started showing up as himself in Grumps videos ''and'' as NSP's Ninja Brian, it became common to see people wondering who Ninja Brian is... While excluding Brian himself from the running. Alternatively, theories that Brian is actually Ninja Brian would be treated as EpilepticTrees for suggesting it.
* WebVideo/JarvisJohnson: In one video, Jarvis offhandedly joked that his girlfriend might've just been a figment of his imagination. Fans took the joke and ran with it, pretending from then on that any videos with her featured in them were actually just clips of Jarvis talking to nobody.
* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'' videos have a screenwriter and producer (and occasionally more characters) [[ActingForTwo played by the same person]], Creator/RyanGeorge. A lot of fans joke in the comments that of course these are different individuals: they look nothing alike, they wear different clothes, and also, the screenwriter has glasses.
* WebVideo/TierZoo discusses the mechanics, development, and playerbase of an MMO game called ''Outside''. The "game" is just real life and everyone knows it, but everyone in the comments section of the videos will always talk about playing ''Outside'' as if it were a game because it's more fun that way.
* ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay:''
** When Liam departed from the Best Friends Zaibatsu to focus on his own solo channel, he asked Best Friends-related sites (like the Facebook group and the subreddit) not to link to his solo videos. In addition, since Liam appeared in the intro for the Best Friends sub-series ''Saturday Morning Scrublords'', all future episodes had him edited out ([[StylisticSuck very awkwardly, for laughs]]). The fandom ran with that, pretending that Liam has been completely {{Unperson}}ed and can only be referred to as [Redacted] now.
** Matt and Pat loved talking about Woolie behind his back and inventing "lore" about him whenever he wasn't present for a video. Sometimes they'd take real events and exaggerate them into absurdity; other times they'd invent "facts" from scratch. The fandom took all of this as the gospel truth, interpreting Woolie as a compulsive liar, a habitual pie thief, and someone who killed a man while playing a high school football game.
* ''Creator/{{Ukinojoe}}'': In the video ''Eddie Murphy'', when it was revealed that Creator/EddieMurphy passed away after making one thousand ''Film/{{Norbit}}'' sequels, comments on the video has viewers debate which of the fake sequels were the best or worst.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': In the ChristmasEpisode, the Jansen twins tell a story about a terrifying holiday mascot in their homeland known as "Vader Johan." It ends with them telling the characters, and the audience, to share the legend of Vader Johan, [[ParanoiaFuel or the creature will eat their bones]]. This led to several fans posting the story of Vader Johan on the show's social media groups just to ward off the beast.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': Candle Jack, from the episode "Candlejack", is a bogeyman-like villain who appears to kidnap children [[SpeakOfTheDevil if his name is ever spoken out loud]]. This inspired a popular InterruptingMeme where fans pretend to be Candle Jack's victims by typing his name in a comment, then cutting off the text to make it appear as though Candle Jack himself has kidnapped them at that very moment. Sometimes, a NonSequitur will begin from where the original text is cut off, making it seem like Candle Jack also hijacked the user's computer for fun.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fans often gas up [[HypnoticCreature the Hypnotoad]] and his sitcom as one of the best things ever. The Hypnotoad does nothing but stare into people's eyes and hypnotize them into loving him, so the implication is that he also hypnotizes the audience (which the show has [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou itself implied]] once or twice). Often crosses over with InterruptingMeme, as people will drop everything to shout "ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, Fluttershy mentions that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Applebloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.
*Given that ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is rife with Running Gags that are memes of their own, the fandom have gone nuts with several of them.
** Referring to Dr. Doofenshmirtz as a pharmacist because of his lab coat, as every character who comes across him believes, despite his building being labeled "Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc."
** Reacting with total shock whenever someone photoshops a fedora onto something (usually a platypus to match the show), like so. "A platypus?" "PERRY THE PLATYPUS!?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz is completely unable to recognize Perry without his signature fedora (and ''only'' his fedora), to the point where even when Perry had a hat and a plumber's toolbelt on, Doof still didn't recognize him.
** Heaping joke-hate on anyone whose name is a palindrome after an episode featured an event in which there was prejudice against people with palindrome names, typifed with Professor Ross Eforp being the subject of mockery and having to wear a paper bag over his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snurb to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub.
* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': In the second episode, ''The Mr. Frog Show'' is a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional program]] starring the titular celebrity Mr. Frog, which is shown to have been a popular LongRunner with an huge following in-universe in spite of [[StrictlyFormula the absurdly barebones formula implied to be used for each episode]]. [[note]] Mr. Frog runs up to the camera, introduces himself and the show, eats a bug, then proclaims it to be the end, roll credits[[/note]] The fanbase ran with the joke by pretending to be reviewers or long-time fans of ''The Mr. Frog Show'', doing everything from calling the program a masterpiece, praising the writing and performance of its (non-existent) episodes, sharing their favorite moments from the show, lamenting its Audience-Alienating Era, expressing confusion about a BizarroEpisode, etc.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [[Recap/SouthParkS25E2TheBigFix "The Big Fix"]] reveals that Token's name has actually always been Tolkien, and Stan spends the episode feeling guilty that he thought the [[TokenMinority only black boy in school]] was actually named "Token." The fandom ran with this by accusing anybody who still called him "Token" of being racist, and claiming that any scenes where he was still called "Token" were edited.
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This can take a few forms. If a character uses a PaperThinDisguise, fans might pretend to not be aware that they're the same person- or will guess any identity besides the real one. If a character claims to be invisible, the audience can no longer see them. If a fictional product promotes itself as real, people will talk about the work as if it is. These forms and many more exist because the audience jokingly takes the work's word at face value. A Play-Along Meme thus makes heavy use of {{Kayfabe}} -- it's obvious that the meme is a joke, but everyone goes along with it for the sake of furthering the joke's humor and/or the meme's spread. Fans who don't play along are thus often jokingly "corrected" by the people spreading the meme.
Subtrope of MemeticMutation.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', the character Mechazawa is very obviously a TinCanRobot in a school uniform, yet other characters treat him as if he's just a normal high school boy. Fans often follow this, by saying that there's nothing weird when a picture of Mechazawa is posted.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the extremely simple card Pot of Greed (which allows its player to draw two cards from their deck) is explained in full almost every single time it's played. Fans like to joke that [[ViewersAreGoldfish they really are that forgetful]] and pretend they can't remember what the card does without assistance.
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[[folder:Fanfiction]]
* ''Fanfic/HouseOfGold'', a RealPersonFic shipping WebVideo/DrewGooden and WebVideo/DannyGonzalez, writes Drew's wife (or girlfriend, as written in the fic) Amanda out of the story by saying she was lost at war in Afghanistan. After Drew and Danny read the fic in a crossover video, Drew's fandom began joking that Amanda was still lost in Afghanistan, despite her never going to war in real life. Even when Amanda appears in Drew's videos, the comments section will express relief that she's finally been "rescued."
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[[folder:Films-- Animated]]
* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' tend to play along with Bruno's characters Hernando and Jorge, pretending that the three of them are separate individuals, rather than just Bruno's blatant character-acting. For example, Pepa's verse in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" will be recontextualized as though Hernando framed Bruno for causing the hurricane, as Hernando is merely Bruno with his hood up, which is how Bruno appears at the wedding. Another example, is fans being thankful that Jorge was there to [[BigDamnHeroes save Bruno]] [[spoiler:when the Casita was collapsing]].
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[[folder:Film--Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax claims to have mastered the art of standing so still as to become invisible, despite Quill saying that's not how it works and Mantis immediately saying hi. This spawned the "invisible Drax" meme of not noticing Drax in images.
* Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy:
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Ned tries to cover for Peter who is dressed in the Shield-provided stealth suit. He makes up a superhero named ''[[AtrociousALias Night Monkey]]'' to explain who the black-suited superhero was and fans have been making jokes that he really is a separate hero that is in no way related to Spider-Man.
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': After [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] uses a memory-erasing spell to eliminate the memory of [[spoiler: Peter Parker's identity out of the minds of the everyone on the planet at the end of the film]], some fans played along by pretending the spell had affected them too, reacting in confusion to the appearance of the character whose identity was erased whenever it was mentioned or appeared in other installments of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequel Trilogy, Creator/IanMcDiarmid plays Senator Sheev Palpatine and his alter ego Darth Sidious. In his role as Palpatine, he will always be wearing gaudy outfits and putting on a face of benevolence, but as a Sith Lord, he wears a hooded black cloak with a FaceFramedInShadow. The fans love to pretend that there is no way the two people are the same. Similarly, they love to pretend that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are two different beings and can't possibly be the same person.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/CandleCove'': There are typically two groups of fans that play along with the story's lore about the fictitious ''Candle Cove'' TV series. The first group of fans say that they remember watching the show, and will often have discussions as they recount various episodes and plotlines that are typically made up on the spot for the sake of the joke. The second group of fans insist that they only see static whenever they try watching the show. When it comes to fan "uploads" of ''Candle Cove'' on Website/YouTube, expect to see the first group of fans commenting on videos that are nothing but static, and the second group of fans commenting on videos that actually have visual footage.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': It is a convention in publications by Holmesian or Sherlockian clubs and scholars that the Great Detective was a real, historic person and Dr. Watson really wrote the stories and novels as a "biographer." This meant they had to spend much time and effort explaining apparent discrepancies in the text (as Doyle sometimes wrote that Watson's wartime injury was in his leg, and other times it was in his shoulder.)
* ''Literature/SongOfTheSorcelator'' and ''Epic Legends of the Hierarchs'' are two projects (well, one project) that run on this. After a series of comic strips mocking bad fantasy novels in ''WebComic/PennyArcade'', the creators set up fan wikis for the two franchises they made up and had the fanbase treat them as if they were real, letting them create as much StylisticSuck and FandomRivalry as they pleased.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
*''Series/TheAfterparty'': The series released a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYKU9B6NGc&feature=emb_title music video]] that was made in-universe by murder victim Xavier. Viewers commented on the video as though Xavier were a real, sadly deceased celebrity.
* ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'': during the third season's "''7 on 7''[[note]]an In-Universe news show[[/note]]" ad campaign, most (if not all) of the commenters on Website/{{YouTube}} go out of their way to be completely in character if they were In-Universe citizens of the show's reality.
->'''Commenter''': Homelander saved my cat stuck in a tree yesterday. [[BlackComedy She lost her tail but it?s a small price to pay]]. Thanks Homelander!
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/NinjaSexParty: In "6969", Danny's love interest is named Kristen, but he immediately forgets her name and instead calls her "Katie". As a result, fans will refer to her as any K-name ''besides'' Kristen.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/JohnCena's theme song is "My Time is Now" and features the lyric "You can't see me!" Internet users like to pretend that they can't see him whenever he is present in any image or video they see that he's in.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense'', Camo Bloons can't be attacked by towers who can't detect them, despite being just as colorful as regular towers, just with camo patterns on. Players like to joke they really can't see pictures of Camo Bloons. This is usually followed by a variation of "wearing the red wristbands", since the upgrade that lets Dart Monkeys see Camo is depicted in-game as a pair of red wristbands.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Following [[spoiler:Miyamoto Musashi's]] HeroicSacrifice in the climax of Lostbelt 5.2. "Olympus" which sees the character essentially RetGone from existence, many fans and players have asked who exactly this character who sacrificed themselves is, or alternatively, refer to [[spoiler:her]] simply as "Data Lost" due to the aforementioned actions.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': The character Kellam, despite being a Knight in noisy, bulky armor, is basically treated in-universe as if he's invisible. Naturally, whenever he shows up in official or fan content, fans often pretend to not see him. Alternatively, fans may claim a picture where Kellam really isn't present actually does depict him, or make "fan art" or mock up screenshots of Kellam consisting of blank or even broken images.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' has a character named Devdan. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' there's a man called Danved, who [[BlatantLies insists]] that "Danved is definitely not Devdan" and joins the party, so the fanbase likes to pretend the same.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts:'' After the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', It became a joke to ask [[spoiler: who Xion is. Since she is basically the manifestation of Sora's memories, after she dies, everyone forgets who she is.]]
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The twist that Sheik's true identity of Zelda is [[ItWasHisSled well known]], but fans pretend that they have no idea who she really is.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': To hide the [[SamusIsAGirl true identity]] of its protagonist, the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' manual described Samus Aran as a cyborg man. Therefore, the ''Metroid'' fandom continues to ascribe to her in-universe ShroudedInMyth status by jokingly referring to Samus as a robot dude in various memes.
* Since the main conceit of the game ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'' is almost nobody realizing the titular character is an octopus in disguise, it's become common for videos and pictures of him to be met with comments wondering what's so interesting about this normal everyday dad doing normal everyday things.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Ask a fan who the Masked Royal is, and they'll tell you they have no idea, but it certainly [[BlatantLies isn't]] Professor Kukui.
* Whenever someone posts ''VideoGame/SteamshovelHarry'', people write comments about the levels in the game, such as how they are struggling to beat them. It's an UnwinnableJokeGame that ends on the first screen of the first "level".
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': No-one InUniverse is able to recognize the real identity of Count Bleck's enigmatic minion Mister L. And despite the fact that [[spoiler: he's obviously a brainwashed Luigi]], neither are fans of the game.
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* WebVideo/DannyGonzalez: In two separate videos, Danny attempted to fool his audience by disguising himself as new people to get clout for the new identity. Though these attempts failed, fans still like to pretend that these identities (cousin Zayden Long and musician Ned Flames) are separate people, such as mocking Danny's music while praising Ned Flames' "Circus".
* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'': Once Brian Wecht of Music/NinjaSexParty started showing up as himself in Grumps videos ''and'' as NSP's Ninja Brian, it became common to see people wondering who Ninja Brian is... While excluding Brian himself from the running. Alternatively, theories that Brian is actually Ninja Brian would be treated as EpilepticTrees for suggesting it.
* WebVideo/JarvisJohnson: In one video, Jarvis offhandedly joked that his girlfriend might've just been a figment of his imagination. Fans took the joke and ran with it, pretending from then on that any videos with her featured in them were actually just clips of Jarvis talking to nobody.
* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'' videos have a screenwriter and producer (and occasionally more characters) [[ActingForTwo played by the same person]], Creator/RyanGeorge. A lot of fans joke in the comments that of course these are different individuals: they look nothing alike, they wear different clothes, and also, the screenwriter has glasses.
* WebVideo/TierZoo discusses the mechanics, development, and playerbase of an MMO game called ''Outside''. The "game" is just real life and everyone knows it, but everyone in the comments section of the videos will always talk about playing ''Outside'' as if it were a game because it's more fun that way.
* ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay:''
** When Liam departed from the Best Friends Zaibatsu to focus on his own solo channel, he asked Best Friends-related sites (like the Facebook group and the subreddit) not to link to his solo videos. In addition, since Liam appeared in the intro for the Best Friends sub-series ''Saturday Morning Scrublords'', all future episodes had him edited out ([[StylisticSuck very awkwardly, for laughs]]). The fandom ran with that, pretending that Liam has been completely {{Unperson}}ed and can only be referred to as [Redacted] now.
** Matt and Pat loved talking about Woolie behind his back and inventing "lore" about him whenever he wasn't present for a video. Sometimes they'd take real events and exaggerate them into absurdity; other times they'd invent "facts" from scratch. The fandom took all of this as the gospel truth, interpreting Woolie as a compulsive liar, a habitual pie thief, and someone who killed a man while playing a high school football game.
* ''Creator/{{Ukinojoe}}'': In the video ''Eddie Murphy'', when it was revealed that Creator/EddieMurphy passed away after making one thousand ''Film/{{Norbit}}'' sequels, comments on the video has viewers debate which of the fake sequels were the best or worst.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' portrays American actor Creator/ChuckNorris not just as a MemeticBadass, but as a ComicallyInvincibleHero who can do just about anything he wants, including feats that require a LogicBomb to work (such as counting backwards from infinity and TheGrimReaper being too scared to come from Chuck's soul). Any time Chuck Norris is mentioned, the facts are sure to follow in the comments, with commenters treating the facts about Norris as the genuine article.
* Within ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', since 2002 there's been rumors of a place called Jelly World -- a [[LevelAte place made entirely out of gelatin]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]]. But it doesn't really exist. That would just be silly. So silly that [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/576/ at least one unfortunate crackpot]] has been canonically imprisoned for life for being caught talking of such lunacy. Users have played along with the RunningGag and dismissed the idea as the preposterous concept it is for decades, albeit [[EnforcedTrope in part due to the site's word filters blocking this hypothetical place's name]]. But mostly because the very idea of such a place would be absurd. [[spoiler:If you haven't figured it out, it's an OpenSecret that it [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/lands/jelly-world/ actually is an accessible area]], complete with a daily item collection and a shop. But you didn't hear it from us...!]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': In the ChristmasEpisode, the Jansen twins tell a story about a terrifying holiday mascot in their homeland known as "Vader Johan." It ends with them telling the characters, and the audience, to share the legend of Vader Johan, [[ParanoiaFuel or the creature will eat their bones]]. This led to several fans posting the story of Vader Johan on the show's social media groups just to ward off the beast.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': Candle Jack, from the episode "Candlejack", is a bogeyman-like villain who appears to kidnap children [[SpeakOfTheDevil if his name is ever spoken out loud]]. This inspired a popular InterruptingMeme where fans pretend to be Candle Jack's victims by typing his name in a comment, then cutting off the text to make it appear as though Candle Jack himself has kidnapped them at that very moment. Sometimes, a NonSequitur will begin from where the original text is cut off, making it seem like Candle Jack also hijacked the user's computer for fun.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fans often gas up [[HypnoticCreature the Hypnotoad]] and his sitcom as one of the best things ever. The Hypnotoad does nothing but stare into people's eyes and hypnotize them into loving him, so the implication is that he also hypnotizes the audience (which the show has [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou itself implied]] once or twice). Often crosses over with InterruptingMeme, as people will drop everything to shout "ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at one point, Fluttershy mentions that she would like to be a tree. Cue bronies everywhere calling trees "Fluttershy" or pointing out a tree in any shot Fluttershy is in. Similarly, when Applebloom called Scootaloo a chicken, the same thing happened with her.
*Given that ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is rife with Running Gags that are memes of their own, the fandom have gone nuts with several of them.
** Referring to Dr. Doofenshmirtz as a pharmacist because of his lab coat, as every character who comes across him believes, despite his building being labeled "Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc."
** Reacting with total shock whenever someone photoshops a fedora onto something (usually a platypus to match the show), like so. "A platypus?" "PERRY THE PLATYPUS!?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz is completely unable to recognize Perry without his signature fedora (and ''only'' his fedora), to the point where even when Perry had a hat and a plumber's toolbelt on, Doof still didn't recognize him.
** Heaping joke-hate on anyone whose name is a palindrome after an episode featured an event in which there was prejudice against people with palindrome names, typifed with Professor Ross Eforp being the subject of mockery and having to wear a paper bag over his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns once put on a fake mustache and introduced himself as Mr. Snurb to promote the power plant. Notably, the usually-stupid citizens of Springfield recognized him at once, but fans still like to wonder about the enigmatic Mr. Snrub.
* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': In the second episode, ''The Mr. Frog Show'' is a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional program]] starring the titular celebrity Mr. Frog, which is shown to have been a popular LongRunner with an huge following in-universe in spite of [[StrictlyFormula the absurdly barebones formula implied to be used for each episode]]. [[note]] Mr. Frog runs up to the camera, introduces himself and the show, eats a bug, then proclaims it to be the end, roll credits[[/note]] The fanbase ran with the joke by pretending to be reviewers or long-time fans of ''The Mr. Frog Show'', doing everything from calling the program a masterpiece, praising the writing and performance of its (non-existent) episodes, sharing their favorite moments from the show, lamenting its Audience-Alienating Era, expressing confusion about a BizarroEpisode, etc.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [[Recap/SouthParkS25E2TheBigFix "The Big Fix"]] reveals that Token's name has actually always been Tolkien, and Stan spends the episode feeling guilty that he thought the [[TokenMinority only black boy in school]] was actually named "Token." The fandom ran with this by accusing anybody who still called him "Token" of being racist, and claiming that any scenes where he was still called "Token" were edited.
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