History Main / ShamelessSelfPromoter

-->'''Zoey''': Man, I ''love'' [[strike:Steam]] steam.

* One of the marks the team goes after on ''Series/Leverage'' steals other people's inventions and names them all after himself.

* ''WebVideo/ActionBunnies'' took this trope literally.

* The GainaxEnding of [[Fanfic/DantesNightAtFreddys Dante's Night at Freddy's 2: Animatronic Boogaloo]] features [[spoler: the story's writer, who is somewhat subtle in mentioning his other work at first, but crosses into this territory pretty quick.]] Dante disgustedly calls him out on this.

* The GainsaxEnding of [[DantesNightAtFreddys Dante's Night at Freddy's 2: Animatronic Boogaloo]] features [[spoler: the story's writer, who is somewhat subtle in mentioning his other work at first, but crosses into this territory pretty quick.]] Dante disgustedly calls him out on this.

* BoosterGold

* In ''[[SimonRGreen Winner Takes All]]'', one of a [[ThoseTwoGuys pair of mercenaries]] who help to protect James Adamant has a sideline, writing chapbook adventure-stories and songs with himself as the hero under a nom de plume.

* ''Creator/DaveBarry Slept Here'' claims that Donald Trump in 1989 purchased Ohio, the Coast Guard, the Italian Renaissance and Mars, and renamed all of them "Trump."
** In "1987: Look Back In Horror," Bob Woodward reports the dying words of various late celebrities, who all seem to have been interested in promoting his forthcoming book ''Veil''.

* [[NewGods Funky Flashman]]. RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement prohibits mentioning who JackKirby [[TakeThat based him on]].

* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' does this as a parody. Episode 16 is titled "Shameless Self Reference", and it's filled with {{Call Back}}s, {{Continuity Nod}}s, and references to the creator's other work--all completely with in-video hyperlinks. Then the episode ends with a TitleDrop, and the end credits claim that [[OverlyPrePreparedGag the entire series was leading up to that one joke]].

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* In [[HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]] Gilderoy Lockhart takes every opportunity to refer to his past exploits and point out how useful his skills are to a given situation. He claims several prestigious titles, repeating them throughout the book, and has written several biographical works based on his adventures. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because [[spoiler: he never actually did any of those things. All of the adventures were stories he heard from other wizards before performing a memory charm and claiming to have done these things himself. So, if he didn't shamelessly self promote, he wouldn't be famous!]]

* In [[HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]] Gilderoy Lockhart takes every opportunity to refer to his past exploits and point out how useful his skills are to a given situation. He claims several prestigious titles, repeating them throughout the book, and has written several biographical works based on his adventures. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because he never actually did any of those things. All of the adventures were stories he heard from other wizards before performing a memory charm and claiming to have done these things himself. So, if he didn't shamelessly self promote, he wouldn't be famous!]]

The ShamelessSelfPromoter is the kind of narcissistic personality that is ''always'' out to promote it's own credentials and knowledge. They will stick their accomplishments on anything and everything and don't hesitate at claiming responsibility for all good things.

* ''DaveBarry Slept Here'' claims that Donald Trump in 1989 purchased Ohio, the Coast Guard, the Italian Renaissance and Mars, and renamed all of them "Trump."

* In the Crash Course DLC for ''Left4Dead'', Valve slips one of these in as a little EasterEgg. If the player was to gather all the survivors around a leaking steam pipe, a conversation like this might occur:

* On the video game music podcast NitroGameInjection, Larry Oji never wastes an opportunity to mention OverclockedRemix. This isn't so surprising, considering he's the Head Submissions Evaluator of the site.

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->"There are 30 million bloggers out there and they are all desperately trying to get you to read about their cat."
-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TheAce internet expert.]]

->"Everyone on the internet has an ego, yes including you, but some people are just shameless."
-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, brilliant social commentator.

->"There are a lot of people who see the internet as their own personal advertising service. You see it all the time, everyone online seems to be pushing blogs, websites, and terrible self-published novels -- when they aren't selling something more, ahem, [[CamWhore personal]]."
-->-- [[RuleOfThree Duckluck]], [[SmallNameBigEgo prophet of the internet age.]]

->"Other people just have to be the center of attention and will go to any length to put themselves in the spotlight."
-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TakeOverTheWorld natural leader]].

->"It's this sort of shameless egotism that causes people to put huge annoying banners in their signatures that have nothing but their name, a link to their blog, and maybe a picture if you're lucky. They put similar links in their profiles, forum titles (if the forum allows that sort of thing), and even names. Plus you can bet they will have a really self-congratulatory avatar."
-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Wise, [[EvilOverlord Supreme Leader]].

->"Once they've turned every available inch of their account into one big, obnoxious ad for themselves, the ShamelessSelfPromoter will then go on the offensive. They may go slowly at first, one piece of ego stoking SelfInsertFic here, one link to their boring website there, but eventually they will get to the point where they'll be starting whole threads based on some piece of crappy Fan Art they drew or {{Emo}} poem they wrote. These threads will typically go on for several pages (with half the posts being by the self promoter) and will only end when the ShamelessSelfPromoter stops getting praise and goes off to advertise themselves in a thread that people actually care about."
-->-- St. Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Humble, [[MessianicArchetype Savior of the People]].

->"The shameless self promoter is almost always either a (really) SmallNameBigEgo or someone just looking to make a buck by pushing their wares wherever they can. Either way, the best thing to do is just ignore them. If they're doing it for attention, they'll lose interest and go somewhere else. If they're doing it to sell their crap, then all you have to do is not buy anything and they'll probably just start advertising elsewhere. The one thing you never want to do is give them the attention/business they're looking for, because once you feed them, they're yours forever."
-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}ificus, [[AGodAmI Dark Lord of Hubris]].

->"There are some guys who, after seeing a trend want to [[FollowTheLeader jump on the bandwagon]]."
-->-- [[OverlyLongGag Duckluck]], Certified Expert

[[OverusedRunningGag See also]]: Tropers/{{Duckluck}}

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[BasementDweller internet expert.]]

-->-- [[RuleOfThree Duckluck]], [[BasementDweller prophet of the internet age.]]

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[BasementDweller natural leader]].

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Wise, [[BasementDweller Supreme Leader]].

-->-- [[RuleOfThree Duckluck]], [[SmallNameBigEgo prophet of the internet age.]]

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TakeOverTheWorld natural leader]].

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Wise, [[EvilOverlord Supreme Leader]].

-->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TheAce internet expert.]]

"There are 30 million bloggers out there and they are all desperately trying to get you to read about their cat."
->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TheAce internet expert.]]

"Everyone on the internet has an ego, yes including you, but some people are just shameless."
->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, brilliant social commentator.

"There are a lot of people who see the internet as their own personal advertising service. You see it all the time, everyone online seems to be pushing blogs, websites, and terrible self-published novels -- when they aren't selling something more, ahem, [[CamWhore personal]]."
->-- [[RuleOfThree Duckluck]], [[SmallNameBigEgo prophet of the internet age.]]

"Other people just have to be the center of attention and will go to any length to put themselves in the spotlight."
->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}, [[TakeOverTheWorld natural leader]].

"It's this sort of shameless egotism that causes people to put huge annoying banners in their signatures that have nothing but their name, a link to their blog, and maybe a picture if you're lucky. They put similar links in their profiles, forum titles (if the forum allows that sort of thing), and even names. Plus you can bet they will have a really self-congratulatory avatar."
->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Wise, [[EvilOverlord Supreme Leader]].

"Once they've turned every available inch of their account into one big, obnoxious ad for themselves, the ShamelessSelfPromoter will then go on the offensive. They may go slowly at first, one piece of ego stoking SelfInsertFic here, one link to their boring website there, but eventually they will get to the point where they'll be starting whole threads based on some piece of crappy Fan Art they drew or {{Emo}} poem they wrote. These threads will typically go on for several pages (with half the posts being by the self promoter) and will only end when the ShamelessSelfPromoter stops getting praise and goes off to advertise themselves in a thread that people actually care about."
->-- St. Tropers/{{Duckluck}} the Humble, [[MessianicArchetype Savior of the People]].

"The shameless self promoter is almost always either a (really) SmallNameBigEgo or someone just looking to make a buck by pushing their wares wherever they can. Either way, the best thing to do is just ignore them. If they're doing it for attention, they'll lose interest and go somewhere else. If they're doing it to sell their crap, then all you have to do is not buy anything and they'll probably just start advertising elsewhere. The one thing you never want to do is give them the attention/business they're looking for, because once you feed them, they're yours forever."
->-- Tropers/{{Duckluck}}ificus, [[AGodAmI Dark Lord of Hubris]].

"There are some guys who, after seeing a trend want to [[FollowTheLeader jump on the bandwagon]]."
->-- [[OverlyLongGag Duckluck]], Certified Expert

* In-universe example: In ''[[SimonRGreen Winner Takes All]]'', one of a [[ThoseTwoGuys pair of mercenaries]] who help to protect James Adamant has a sideline, writing chapbook adventure-stories and songs with himself as the hero under a nom de plume.

* In the Crash Course DLC for Left4Dead, Valve slips one of these in as a little EasterEgg. If the player was to gather all the survivors around a leaking steam pipe, a conversation like this might occur:
--> '''Francis''': Hey, watch out for that goddamn steam pipe.
--> '''Zoey''': Man, I ''love'' [[strike:Steam]] steam.
--> '''Francis''': Yeah, steam's alright I guess.