History WebVideo / TalesFromTheInternet

* NonIndicativeName: One video focuses on Panchiko's album ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' - despite the title the album is either AlternativeRock or {{shoegazing}} (Whang consistently calls it the latter), but definitely ''not'' DeathMetal -- along with its status as lost media, part of the internet's initial fascination with the album was probably due to the incongruity between the title, contents, and cover image (black and white manga art of an offended-looking young girl, sourced from the manga ''Mint na Bokura'').

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Apparently, a 4chan user who managed to watch WebOriginal/SakiSanobashi was so traumatized by it that they cried themself to sleep.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Averted in ''CUT OFF MY FEET''. Paul Morgan deliberately attempted to chop off his feet with a guillotine as a form of medical necessity, which thanks to his paralysis, he wouldn't be able to feel the pain. While there wasn't any pain involved during the moment in question since the foot was removed under anaesthetic, the titular Redditor who ate his own foot certainly qualifies; after having one of his feet critically injured during a motorcycle accident (which in contrast, must have been ''extremely'' painful), he finds that his foot is too damaged to ever work normally again, and has it amputated. He then manages to get the hospital to agree to allow him to take the now-fresh cut of meat home with him, carves it up into strips of meat, then serves them in tacos for himself and a few friends.

* BittersweetEnding: ''Grape-Kun: The Penguin With an Anime Waifu'' ends this way; Grape-kun dies of old age after finding love with a cut-out of Hululu from ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', but he is memorialized with a brand new cut-out of him and Hululu standing side-by-side--in one form or another, they will always be together.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Averted in ''CUT OFF MY FEET''. Paul Morgan deliberately attempted to chop off his feet with a guillotine as a form of medical necessity, which thanks to his paralysis, he wouldn't be able to feel the pain.
** While there wasn't any pain involved during the moment in question since the foot was removed under anaesthetic, the titular Redditor who ate his own foot certainly qualifies; after having one of his feet critically injured during a motorcycle accident (which in contrast, must have been ''extremely'' painful), he finds that his foot is too damaged to ever work normally again, and has it amputated. He then manages to get the hospital to agree to allow him to take the now-fresh cut of meat home with him, carves it up into strips of meat, then serves them in tacos for himself and a few friends.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Apparently, a 4chan user who managed to watch Anime/SakiSanobashi was so traumatized by it that they cried themself to sleep.

* GrossOutShow: Much of the videos deal with extremely [[NauseaFuel disgusting]], [[{{Gorn}} grotesque]], [[BodyHorror painful]], and/or [[{{Squick}} horrific]] Internet stories. There may be some videos that do not revolve around such topics and may even be fairly innocent, but most of them involve horrific and/or disgusting incidents.

** Subverted with Gradendine, who created a life-sized, realistic Sally Acorn doll widely believed to have been made from a skeleton (a belief reflected in the episode's title); the doll's "bones" were actually made from carved wood, and he only included the fake skeleton because he's an artist looking to perfect his craft by making the doll as realistic as possible.

* UncertainDoom: The fate of Messytails, a furry with a fetish for eating poop who mysteriously disappeared off the face of the internet. One poster claiming to be a real-life friend of his said that he died of malnutrition due to all the poop he ate, while another claiming to be Messytails himself said that he had been in a mental institution and had been cured of his fetish, and ''both'' of them were fakes. Nobody actually knows what became of the guy.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked and discussed in the video about [[https://youtu.be/Y6Qa5x-5ZWw "Celebrity #6"]] -- Someone posted curtains designed with pop art style portraits of celebrities online hoping the internet could help identify the one figure that they couldn't recognize. Due to a combination of the person's ambiguous features and how heavily stylized the edited photo was, people were identifying "celebrity #6" as various male ''and'' female celebrities or models.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: The entire "Evil Farming Game" saga ends with this trope. [[spoiler:It was discovered that Joel from WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} had riffed on the N64 title ''VideoGame/BodyHarvest'' during a stream, saying it sounded like a ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' horror game and speculated on what the plot would be; the original poster fell asleep while watching this stream and later misremembered this as an actual game they had played, which means that after 6 long years it was found out that there was '' no game at all''. This is slightly downplayed in that somebody has started development of an ''actual'' Evil Farming Game. There's also the part where several posters who claimed to remember playing the game mentioned it having a fishing minigame, which Joel did ''not'' mention in his plot speculation, meaning there could be a different Evil Farming Game actually out there somewhere]].

* CelebrityImpersonator: One episode is about a homeless, drugged out conman who would trick gay men into thinking he was Mike Portnoy, the drummer of Music/DreamTheater, go back to their house/apartment for sex, and then rob the place before they woke up the next morning. Though he did apparently look a little bit like Portnoy, if you saw the two of them side-by-side you could clearly tell them apart. Instead, he convinced people he was Portnoy primarily by knowing a ''ridiculous'' amount of trivia about Portnoy and Dream Theater. The chief weakness in his ruse was that he was apparently not a very good drummer.

* NonIndicativeName: One video focuses on Panchiko's album ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'', which despite the title is {{shoegazing}}, not DeathMetal -- along with its status as lost media, part of the internet's initial fascination with the album was probably due to the incongruity between the title, contents, and cover art (manga art of an angry-looking young girl, sourced from the manga ''Mint na Bokura'').

* OffModel: Discussed in the episode talking about how Krusty the Klown looks more like Homer impersonating Krusty in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E25WhoShotMrBurnsPartOne Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One]]". Since Homer had dressed up as Krusty before, people assumed this was a deliberate RedHerring (not helped by the staff's remarks) until the script surfaced and made no mention of Homer being at that scene; since then it has been assumed that the animators accidentally included Homer in the scene and then clumsily replaced him once they noticed.

* DoingItForTheArt: Surprisingly, ''The Sally Acorn Love Doll With a Skeleton Inside Of It'' turns out to be a case of this--the skeleton's not real and the man who made the doll only gave it one because he was ''really'' dedicated to his Sally doll being as lifelike as possible. Justin ends up being quite impressed by the man's artistry and passion for it, and genuinely praises him...while still considering him a ''tiny'' bit weird. [[invoked]]

* TakeThat: In ''Urinal Poop dot org'', Whang censors photos containing the titular poop in urinals by replacing the feces with photos of ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'', ''Music/StAnger'', [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the infamous dam level]], and ''Literature/BattleRoyale 2''.

* OldShame: The anonymous creator of "Sea of Retards" is less ashamed of the song itself, and more the fact that the only song they've made to become famous contains the R-slur in the title.

* NWordPrivileges: Discussed in the Reddit decomposing fetus story. As Whang relates the story, he finds many derogatory terms related to the weight of the morbidly obese woman on whom the titular deconposing fetus was found. Whang speculates that, given that the account the story was posted from is named "fatmama923", the poster was most likely an obese woman herself, hence why the poster felt so free to use those terms.[[note]]Keep in mind that the story also states that the morbidly obese woman was rather uncooperative through the operation, which certainly couldn't have helped her get NoSympathy from the (former) medical student who posted the story.[[/note]]

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Discussed in-universe in the episode "You Can't Play This Game", which focuses on VideoGame/{{Moirai}} and why you can't play it anymore. While the biggest reason was that another programmer messed with the game so badly it stopped working for other players, some players started trolling others by entering vicious swearing and other offensive content rather than roleplaying.