Approval of God

"Apocalyptica, we love you boys!"

— James Hetfield, on their performance of Metallica music with him as the guest vocal.

Some creators get and accept the presence of a fan work, adaptation or a parody of their work. After all, there are creative fans who are willing to make anything based upon a work they love. Also, there are some other creators who not only accept such works existing but also enjoy the fan material and sometimes even showcase it to other fans.

While not everything that the creator would enjoy would become Ascended Fanon, some works, ranging from fan art to song parodies and fan films, would be good enough to catch the attention of creators, or those involved in the source material. Not only could the creators outright state their enjoyment for the fan material, but they can even link that work to share with other fans. Sometimes such works can become Ascended Memes.

Compare with Creator-Preferred Adaptation, where a creator dubs an adaptation to be superior to the original. Also compare Ascended Fanon, Promoted Fanboy, Official Fan-Submitted Content. Contrast Disowned Adaptation, Fanwork Ban, Sincerest Form of Flattery. Creators may even offer Parody Assistance. See also Rule 34 – Creator Reactions, which may or may not meet the creator's approval.

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Examples:

Advertising

• At one point, The California Milk Processor Board, the creators of the Got Milk? campaign, made a poster with their favorite spoofs of the slogan◊.
• Anthony Sullivan is a fan of Jaboody Dubs and enjoys the parodies of his infomercial, even making a cameo appearance in one of Jaboody's non-dub videos. According to him, Billy Mays originally hated it because he thought they were making fun of him but over time, came around and enjoyed it once he realized that it is supposed to be affectionate.

Anime and Manga

• Those who worked at 4Kids Entertainment enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, even though many of the jokes revolve around mocking them. It helps that most of the work they did that the Abridged Series mocked was enforced by executives and censors, and so they were never too happy with it either. The original Japanese producers, on the other hand...
• Dragon Ball:
  • While Akira Toriyama was writing the Namek Arc for Dragon Ball Z, Toei Animation released the Bardock special that depicted Goku's father and his death as the Saiyan homeworld was destroyed. Toriyama liked the story as it was one he'd never tell, so much so he inserted Bardock into the manga as a one-panel flashback when Frieza meets Goku for the first time. While Toriyama has since written his own take on Bardock's story in the Dragon Ball: Minus chapter of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, the base character design has remained the same.
  • Several of the Funimation English voices for Dragon Ball Z have expressed approval for Dragon Ball Z Abridged. There are several YouTube videos of the actors quoting lines from the series in-character. In fact, Kyle Hebert and Christopher Sabat (as DJ Sexdillionare) guest-starred in some episodes and movies. It seems to be the mark of a successful Abridged Series whenever this happens, as Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged has had a cameo from Chuck Huber in The Movie.
  • The creators of the anime itself in Japan don't share the same appreciation as Funimation does. While Team Four Star had voice packs in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, when Toei caught wind of Funimation's plan to use TFS for a scene in Dragon Ball Z Kai that comedically retells the end of the Cell Arc, they barred Funimation from using them.
• This appears to be the stance of some mangaka and creators, such as CLAMP and Type-Moon. This could be due to their own ties with Doujinshi.
• Hidekaz Himaruya was found to be this to his fanbase. To the point that he posted a drawing showing his thanks to them for all their work and even makes stuff every now and then explicitly for fans to work on.
• Hayao Miyazaki personally approved of Joe Hisaishi's re-orchestrated score for Castle in the Sky, written exclusively for the Disney dub. Even Hisaishi thought it was better than the original, which was far more minimalist and synth-driven than his usual work due to time constraints.
• Hitoshi Ariga enjoyed this video based on Mega Man Mega Mix and Namco × Capcom so much that he asked the creator of the video if he could upload it to his YouTube channel.
• At Florida Supercon, Jabberwocky1996, a Troper on the site, asked Caitlin Glass, Vic Mignogna and Dameon Clarke what would happen if The Hobbit crossed over with Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and who'd use the Ring. To everyone's surprise, all three loved the idea, with Glass suggesting Winry should get together with Legolas, Mignogna jokingly suggesting Ed would shave his feet so he wouldn't be confused for a hobbit, and Clarke saying Scar would be fascinated with Gollum. They then expressed a desire to see it as a fic, to which the fan promised he'd write it.
• Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri has endorsed Pokémon Adventures, stating "This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey." Game producer Tsunekazu Ishihara has also praised the series, saying, "I want every Pokémon fan to read this comic!" Despite the sheer amount of Pokémon manga existing, Pokémon Adventures is the only one endorsed on the official Japanese Pokémon site.
• Taliesin Jaffe, the English voice director of the original Hellsing anime and Hellsing Ultimate, is himself a fan of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, and he's mentioned it in some of the commentaries for the latter episodes of Ultimate. He even got K.T. Gray (the English voice actress for Seras) to say the famous "Bitches love cannons" line in the commentary for Episode IX.
• Cool-Kyou Shinsha, the creator of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, gave a Tweet approving of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game's Dragonmaid archetype, which was an homage to his manga.
• Eiko Kadono, the original author of Kiki's Delivery Service, stated that she thoroughly enjoyed the Miyazaki film and had fun watching it. She was also relieved that, in spite of the changes, the world of her story was kept intact.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades author Bokuto Uno was very pleased when Sakae Esuno was tapped to draw the manga adaptation, having been a fan of Esuno's earlier work Future Diary.

Comics

• Garfield Minus Garfield, a webcomic that takes Garfield strips and airbrushes out all the characters except Jon, leaving a strip about a crazy man who talks to himself. Jim Davis enjoyed it enough to approve publishing a book of the best ones. The book also features a section of unused strips created by Davis himself.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic the Comic – Online!, a fan-made continuation of the long-defunct Fleetway comic, received messages of support from most of the creative team behind the original publication, some of whom have since contributed artwork and consulted on storylines.
  • Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka has gone on to praise the IDW comics and Ian Flynn's writing, remarking that he understood the characters well and brought a great improvement to their emotions and dialogue. It helps that Sonic Team is a lot more involved with the IDW comics than they were with the previous Archie comics. Ian Flynn would eventually get to work on the scripts for Sonic Team's Sonic Origins and Sonic Frontiers, with the latter essentially canonizing the IDW comics through mentioning the IDW original character Tangle the Lemur.
• Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons loved Harry Partridge's Saturday Morning Watchmen, feeling that the short showcased a lot of love for and knowledge of the property with its humour. Even more notably, Alan Moore — who is notorious for publicly disliking almost all adaptations of his work — has also given his seal of approval, giving Saturday Morning Watchmen the distinction of being only one of two adaptations Moore has endorsed (the other being an episode of Justice League which adapted "For the Man Who Has Everything").
• Gary Larson wrote a The Far Side comic in which a female ape accused her mate of "doing more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp". As he related in his book "The Prehistory of the Far Side", Larson received a hostile letter from the Jane Goodall Society, threatening legal action over the strip. Shortly after that, he received a letter from the editors of National Geographic, who wanted to print the strip in an anniversary issue. When Larson explained his difficulties with the Jane Goodall Society, one magazine editor commented, "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." After some research, they found out that Goodall enjoyed the strip and was not aware of the Society's actions against Gary Larson. Larson later met with Jane Goodall at her research facility in Mgombe. In his words, "Everything's cool."
• Darin Calhoun, who wrote and colored The Wild, shared the Atop the Fourth Wall review done by Linkara in May 27, 2021. He himself acknowledges the comic is bad, but the artwork done by Josh Diffey was enough to make up for it.
• Figment (Disney Kingdoms):
  • Tony Baxter, one of the creators of the original version of the source material, Journey into Imagination, approved of the comic and wrote the introduction to the trade paperback collection of the first Figment series.
  • Ron Schneider, who played the original meet and greet version of Dreamfinder and did a few of the character's lines in the original Journey Into Imagination ride, also expressed approval of the comic in interviews.
• Don Rosa was skeptical when Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish approached him about a symphonic metal album inspired by The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, not being a rock fan; but Rosa was won over by the album being, in his words, "more symphonic than metal," and ended up contributing to the cover art of what became Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge.

Eastern Animation

• During Mickey's 60th Anniversary celebration in 1988, Russian animators Mikhail Tumelya and Alexander Petrov made an 2 minute animated short honoring Mickey's 60th Birthday called "The Marathon". The short featured a young boy playing and interacting with Mickey Mouse throughout the character's 60 years. While Mickey remains the same age, the boy is now an old man with his son interacting with Mickey as the old man was as a child. The short was shown to Roy E. Disney and other Disney executives during their trip to Moscow and actually moved them to tears.

Film — Animation

• Heavy Metal: Richard Corben said the producers did a good job adapting his comics for the "Den" story, especially with John Candy playing the lead role.
• How to Train Your Dragon: Cressida Cowell, when asked, showed no offence or anger at the differences the movie had from the original novel (tone, setup, etc.) — she acknowledged that it worked better for the new medium and that the story stood strong on its own despite not adapting the books' narrative more strictly.
• Coraline: Neil Gaiman, the author of the original novel, outright encouraged creative liberties to be taken with the film during development and, by all accounts, was very pleased with the way the movie turned out.
• Brian Boitano loved the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", and his Twitter avatar is even his animated version from the movie.
• Dav Pilkey has stated that he enjoyed Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie a lot, particularly praising how Mr. Krupp was much more fleshed out compared to the original.
• Turning Red: Director Domee Shi has featured Turning Red fanart on her Instagram Stories, including multiple pieces of art shipping 4*Town members Aaron T. and Aaron Z.

Film — Live-Action

• Ryan Gosling is seemingly quite fond of the "Ryan Gosling won't eat his cereal" meme. When the creator of said meme passed away from cancer, Gosling paid tribute to him by finally choosing to eat, fittingly doing it on Vine.
• Tom Cruise laughed his ass off when shown the Tom Cruise Clinging memes.
• Tom Hardy had good things to say about his parodies. "I have seen some brilliant stuff online about [my mumbling] 'Mmmm... Batman doesn't beat up retards!"
• Alien:
  • Many people involved in the movie, including director Ridley Scott and star Sigourney Weaver liked the theatre recreation of the film by the North Bergen High School in New Jersey — so much so that Scott donated money for an encore performance and Weaver attended it and even introduced it.
  • The Alien Queen was not designed by H. R. Giger like the original alien, but created specifically for the second film by James Cameron. Cameron, however, showed his sketches and models to Giger, who was absolutely ecstatic.
• Yukito Kishiro, despite being known as rather strict toward the adaptations of his works (he previously disowned the OVAs), embraced Alita: Battle Angel enthusiastically, reportedly watching it several times. And he even drew an illustration based on it. He also took part in the movie's promotion in China, its best-performing market.
• Hiroshi Sakurazaka was quite satisfied with the Hollywood adaptation of his novel All You Need is Kill.
• Lloyd Alexander, author of The Chronicles of Prydain series, claims that he actually enjoyed The Black Cauldron, which was loosely based on the first two books, even though it was a massive flop at the time. However, he also noted that he felt the film had almost nothing to do with his books anyway, and so was hardly an adaptation in the first place.
• Both Tim Burton and Michael Keaton spoke favorably about Batman Begins, with Burton saying that he found the movie "very good" and "very touching". Keaton also praised The Dark Knight, especially Christopher Nolan's direction and Christian Bale's and Heath Ledger's acting.
• In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Christopher Nolan said he saw The Lion King parody of The Dark Knight Rises trailer and thought it was epic.
• Lauren Weisberger says that the film version of The Devil Wears Prada is funnier than her book.
• Even though Downfall's distributor, Contantin Films, temporarily blocked the Hitler Rants parodies from YouTube at one point, director Oliver Hirschbiegel has stated that he enjoyed them. He also stated they go along well with the message of the original film, which was to stop demonizing Hitler and the Nazis and show them as (still terrible) human beings.
• George Lucas sent a letter to MAD after they published a parody of The Empire Strikes Back which he greatly enjoyed. Making this even funnier is that his lawyers had sent a cease-and-desist letter immediately prior, to which publisher William M. Gaines responded by forwarding them a copy of Lucas' letter and a note reading "That's funny, George liked it!" George Lucas also enjoyed Hardware Wars, saying it was his favorite Star Wars spoof.
  • JJ Abrams gave his official approval for the Despecialized Edition versions of the Original Trilogy, saying that those versions are what he shows his family.
• Dan Aykroyd has said that he approves of all expansions of Slimer's role in the Ghostbusters franchise because he considers the ugly little critter to be John Belushi's spirit.
• Elvis (2022): Elvis Presley's wife, daughter, and granddaughter all approved of the biopic about Elvis, praising the cast and crew for the work they put into the film.
• After the early screening for Toho, they actually love Godzilla (2014). At the premiere, they showed their appreciation by crying with joy and smiling with happiness, as well as marketing it as a legit Godzilla movie and asking Bandai to get Monster Arts to make toys for it. A PlayStation 3 game was confirmed with the 2014 Godzilla facing off the Heisei Godzilla, and a ton of merchandise to go along with it. There even a statue that plays the film's soundtrack with glowing spines and "atomic breath" effect.
• Mike Dougherty, director of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) who remains involved in the MonsterVerse franchise, personally praised the Godzilla: King of the Monsters fanfiction Song of the Tiny Ones by Cyndi.
• Harry Potter:
  • Alan Rickman was interviewed by MTV at the New York premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, saying, "Potter Puppet Pals is very beautifully done, that little piece of work. Can you get rich from that? I hope they did."According to Daniel Radcliffe, he and his fellow cast-members used to watch PPP and found it very funny. They were even planning on doing a live-action version, but it fell through.
  • The cast also adored A Very Potter Musical, to the point that Luna Lovegood herself, Evanna Lynch, joined the show's troupe for the third installment.
• Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, has said he enjoyed Hellboy (2019) and was amazed at moments that came straight out of his comics, and also said he doesn't care about the critical lashing it received.
• Mel Brooks screened High Anxiety for Alfred Hitchcock. When the movie ended, Hitch didn't say anything and just walked out. The next day, Mel received a box with an expensive bottle of good wine, with a note saying "Mel: no need for anxiety about High Anxiety. - Hitch"
• The producers of Highlander, Panzer-Davis, approved four fan-made films: Highlander:Dark Places, Highlander:Hans Kirshner,Highlander:The Watcher and its sequel/comedy companion Highlander:Bad Watcher.
• Suzanne Collins was the one who had Effie Trinket replace the character Fulvia in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, loving Elizabeth Banks' performance. In the book, Effie only appears briefly near the end, but Collins called the director and said: "There's no way Effie can't be in the Mockingjay films".
• As part of his sendoff after wrapping his part on The Hobbit, Orlando Bloom "sang" along to the "Hobbits to Isengard" video. Watch him attempt to keep in sync here.
• James Gunn finds the How It Should Have Ended spoofs of his Marvel movies to be hilarious. So much so that he finds having his movies spoofed by the HISHE team to be a higher honor than winning an Oscar.
• Almost everyone involved in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from The Russo Brothers to Jake Gyllenhaal, all love and approve of Photoshop artist BossLogic's fanart. The Russos even use his post-Infinity War "Last Supper" Steal artwork◊ as the header image for their official Twitter.
• The original Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, gave her wholehearted approval towards Emily Blunt taking over the role for Mary Poppins Returns. Blunt said she actually cried tears of joy.
• Mortal Engines:
  • Philip Reeve enjoyed the film adaptation of his novel, and was so impressed by Jihae's performance as Anna Fang in particular that he wrote Night Flights, a short story collection focused on the character.
  • Actress Menik Gooneratne was delighted to be highlighted in the Honest Trailer, and Screen Junkies' response tweet led to Menik adding to her Twitter bio “'Really really ridiculously good looking' - Screen Junkies”.
• On the commentary for The Mummy Returns, director Steven Sommers and editor Bob Ducsay give props to the MTV Movie Awards parody of the film, featuring Kristen Dunst as Evey, Jimmy Fallon as Rick and Oded Fehr as his own character Ardeth Bey.
• Since the whole concept behind Walter in The Muppets (2011) is that he's an Ascended Fanboy, it's only natural that in an interview he gave a Shout-Out to Muppet fansites.
• During a panel at Wonder Con, Guillermo del Toro gave a shoutout to the sweded trailer of Pacific Rim.
• Although he had his initial misgivings about Paddington (2014), Michael Bond gave the finished film his approval when he saw it.
• The Postman: Despite it being panned by critics and audiences, David Brin liked the movie, feeling it really captured the spirit of his book in spite of the changes. He had looked on in dismay while numerous scripts had changed the story's message completely, and was glad when Costner took over, rewriting it into one he liked.
• Rob Schneider stated that he loved the South Park parody trailers from the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", even saying that they were too easy on him.
• Nobuhiro Watsuki was all praises for the live-action adaptation of his most famous work, Rurouni Kenshin. He particularly praised the casting (especially Takeru Satoh as Kenshin, whom he wanted for the role from the beginning), and the addition of scenes and dialogue that he thought were improvements from his original work.
• Hollywood legend has it that Akira Kurosawa liked The Magnificent Seven (1960) (a remake of his Seven Samurai) so much that he presented John Sturges with a katana as a trophy.
• Sam Raimi has spoken favorably about Spider-Man: No Way Home for using the actors from his own Spider-Man Trilogy and having them reprise their roles, calling it "refreshing". He also praised Tom Holland's performance as Peter.
• So many former Star Trek actors have approved of Galaxy Quest that there's an entire section on Wikipedia's page about it. The best are from George Takei (who called it disturbingly accurate) and Wil Wheaton (who wanted to be cast as a guy who hated the child actor).
• Harley Quinn's creators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm both approve of Harley's costume in Suicide Squad (2016).
• Team America: World Police:
  • Matt Damon thought the parody of him in the film, as a mentally disabled person only capable of saying his own name, was hilarious and claims he would have even voiced him himself if Trey Parker and Matt Stone had asked. This was also the reaction of many of the celebrities lampooned in the film, with the only exception being Sean Penn.
  • Gerry Anderson is also said to have considered it a rather more faithful adaptation of Thunderbirds than the live-action movie, with his only complaint being that the film's very adult nature made it inaccessible to his young children.
• When Stephen Hawking was screened The Theory of Everything, the biopic of his life, he was so impressed that he allowed them to use his synthesized voice during the latter part of the film (as Hawking had his voice copyrighted, they had initially tried to remake it from scratch, but were not happy with the result).
• Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3, is a huge fan of The Shining. Hearing this, artist fan Kyle Lambert made some digital paintings combining the two films into one horrifically funny mashup. Unkrich was elated.
• When asked who he wanted to take over the role of Wolverine, Hugh Jackman stated he hopes Tom Hardy will be able to play it.
• David Morrell loved First Blood, even not having an objection to how Rambo is Spared by the Adaptation.
• In an interview with Esquire magazine where he was taken to see Zero Dark Thirty, the anonymous shooter of Bin Laden had complaints about several technical details of the raid but praised the film for its depiction of Maya, saying it showed her as the tough lady that she really is.
• Despite the film's unflattering depiction of the monster, Patrick Tatopoulos was thrilled to see his version of Godzilla appear in an official Toho Godzilla movie.
• M. Night Shyamalan retweeted a combination of Old with the "For the Better, Right?" meme.
• Despite being a Divorced Installment, author Brian Garfield approved of Death Sentence's film adaptation, feeling it better captured the condemnation to vigilantism he was going for, unlike the film versions of the first book, Death Wish, which he felt glorified it.
• The writer and the director Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings were highly amused by the implications of them featuring "Old Town Road" in their movie.
• The real Tonya Harding was very forthcoming during the production of I, Tonya, giving an extensive interview to the screenwriter. She praised the final film and Margot Robbie's portrayal of her, though she insists she didn't swear nearly as much as the movie says. However, she also admitted that, while she didn't actually tell the skating judges, "Suck my dick!" over the unfair scoring, she totally would have had she thought of it in the moment.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) led to creators Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima both saying they really liked the movie. Sonic's voice actors Roger Craig Smith and Ryan Drummond also expressed support for Ben Schwartz in the role.
• A variation: while Stanley Kubrick has been long dead, the official Twitter account managed by his estate expressed their approval of the teaser trailer for Barbie, which is an homage/parody of the famous Stone Age sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Joe Dante is aware of the Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies and thinks it's quite funny.
• Jodi Benson, the original and very long-running voice of the animated Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989) and all her subsequent appearances, gave her enthusiastic endorsement to Halle Bailey's portrayal in its live action adaptation The Little Mermaid (2023). A very sweet moment on the red carpet at the premiere involved Benson giving Bailey an incredibly warm hug while expressing how proud she is of the performance.

Literature

• The authors of the Warrior Cats books enjoy the animations that fans have made - most notably, they've linked to SSS Warriors and AlliKatNya's "Gravity of Love" AMV.
• Harry Potter:
  • J. K. Rowling has a section on her website to honor fansites who catalog her books, like Mugglenet or The Leaky Cauldron. She's also expressed that she wishes she had thought up the Shrunken Head on the Knight Bus in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film. She takes a "go ahead, I won't look" view toward fanfiction, though.
  • Rowling was more than happy with The Harry Potter Lexicon, a fan-made website that indexed everything in the Potterverse. But once the owner published it as a real book she sued because it was essentially the entire Harry Potter series as written by her only organized differently and with him as the purported author.
  • When asked if she'd seen it via Twitter, Rowling tweeted that she thinks the Harry Potter / Uptown Funk parody Dark Lord Funk is a work of genius.
• George R. R. Martin was impressed by Russian artist Amok's amateur portraits of characters from A Song of Ice and Fire that he sent notes to make them more accurate and eventually commissioned him to make official A Song of Ice and Fire art. Especially notable as he's always taken a dim view of fanfiction.
• James Riley, author of Half Upon a Time, regularly posts fan art he receives for the series on its official blog.
• Tom Angleberger, author of the Origami Yoda series, frequently posts pictures of origami made by fans on his blog.
• Randall Garrett showed E. E. "Doc" Smith the original version of "Backstage Lensman" at a convention. According to Garrett, Smith "laughed all through the convention," and even suggested one small but significant improvement ^note naming the ship Dentless.
• Nivek, one of the original writers of Player Two Start was the beta reader for the AVGN and Player Two Start Fusion Fic A Saga of Parallel Worlds, and approved of the AU.

Live-Action TV

• The folks at 30 Rock loved the porn version of the show so much they had the actors playing essentially themselves in a porno Tracy Jordan was making to get back at Liz Lemon.
• Someone drew a comic spoofing◊ the average plot of an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Chris Meloni, a former star of the show, ordered a signed copy◊.
• While Legend of the Seeker was on the air, a fan created a blog called "Gay for Kahlan", which recapped each episode with light-hearted jabs and playing up the Les Yay between Kahlan and Cara. The show's stars, Craig Horner and Bridget Regan, both said they and the crew loved it and would read it every morning on the way to set. After the show wrapped, the crew sent her a prop from the set as a thank you.
• In 2008, a fan film of Star Trek was made, called Of Gods and Men. While the production is of similar quality to other fan-made films, this one is notable for featuring many Star Trek alumni as main characters in both familiar and new roles, and was directed by Tim Russ, who also played his Voyager role of Tuvok (who had previously been established to have been alive in the TOS era).
• Saturday Night Live:
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger was a fan of Hans and Franz, appearing in one sketch, and later using their Catchphrase "girlie men".
  • Alex Trebek loved Will Ferrell's parodic portayal of him in the "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches, appearing as himself in Ferrell's final episode as a castmember, and also including references to the sketches on the real Jeopardy!.
• David Tennant saw Liam Dryden's video titled "David Tennant is Stalking Me" and sent him an email to let him know that he found it funny, later asking Liam to make a follow-up video alerting fans to online imposters.
• Power Rangers:
  • Unlike Jason David Frank and Saban themselves, Austin St. John, Walter Emanuel Jones, Amy Jo Johnson, and Steve Cardenas like the Darker and Edgier short film Power/Rangers (Bootleg Universe), with Cardenas even making light of Rocky's rather severe Adaptational Villainy. Carla Perez, who played Rita Repulsa in American footage, reprised the role of Rita in it.
  • Musician PelleK did a metal remix of all of the theme songs from Mighty Morphin through the then-incumbent Megaforce. Haim Saban liked it enough to post it on the official Power Rangers YouTube channel and on iTunes as "Power Rangers Mega Mix".
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird is quite well-known for despising the female turtle Venus de Milo from the infamous live-action series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, but the franchise's other co-creator Kevin Eastman stated in an interview after Nickelodeon's acquisition of the franchise that he actually likes Venus as a character and hopes for her to make a comeback someday.
• The Canadian TV series Murdoch Mysteries significantly changes several characters from the way they were depicted in creator Maureen Jennings' original novels. Despite this, Jennings is a strong supporter of the show, is directly involved as a creative consultant, and has even directly written several episodes herself. Jennings has even said that star Yannick Bisson looks exactly the way that she always imagined Detective Murdoch in the novels, except for the mustache Jennings always gave him.
• As with Murdoch Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries takes quite a few liberties with the source material, but author Kerry Greenwood likes it anyway — particularly the casting of Essie Davis as Phryne. By Greenwood's own admission, she took one look at Davis' audition and went "Her! Her! I want her!"
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: While some were less than pleased over the mocking treatment their work received at the hands of the SOL crew, others were fans of the show and quite happy to have their works "featured" on the series.
  • "Cave Dwellers:" Ator actor Miles O'Keefe was quite pleased that a film he worked on received the MST3K treatment and requested Best Brains send him a copy of the episode.
  • Similarily, "Manos: The Hands of Fate" actors Jackey Neyman Jones (Debbie) and her father Tom Neyman (The Master) were both highly pleased to see Manos screened by Joel and the 'bots. They both thought had John Reynolds survived he would have liked the episode as well. Soon after the episode aired Jackey reached out to Best Brains as well to get a copy of the episode.
  • "Space Mutiny:" David Ryder actor Reb Brown was happy to discuss the episode when asked, and even on occasion recited some of the body builder names the crew bestowed upon him.
• Early in its run, Spanish late-night show Buenafuente featured in its regular cast "Latin crooner" Miguel Chiclé, a parody of Michael Bublé. When the real Bublé was a guest on the show, he had a lot of fun with his impersonator.
• Ryan Murphy apparently is quite fond of American Horror Story fans comparing American Horror Story: Apocalypse to Avengers: Infinity War, to the extent he used the caption “AHS: Infinity War” for this post.
• Will Smith caught wind of the Darker and Edgier The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air fan film "BEL-AIR" and loved it, prompting him to interview the writer/director of the short and eventually helped get a series based on the short greenlit for NBC Universal's Peacock streaming service, with Smith as executive producer.
• MAD is constantly praised by the spoofed celebrities. Illustrator Tom Richmond in particular has a "Hall of Shame" of TV parodies that the depicted cast decided to autograph.
• Elizabeth Olsen said that when she found video clips of a WandaVision-themed drag show, that was when she knew the miniseries was a hit.
• invoked While Alan Moore is well known for disowning nearly all adaptations of his work, Dave Gibbons (the original artist of Watchmen) agreed to work with HBO on their Watchmen (2019) sequel miniseries, even being recognized as one of the miniseries' producers. Gibbons would also go onto to draw an illustration for a copy of the Bible young Jon Osterman was given in the episode "A God Walks Into Abar", and has also publicly sided with the miniseries on the highly contentious issue that white supremacists would view Rorschach as a role model. In contrast, Gibbons has been far less kind to Doomsday Clock.
• Matt Frewer, the actor who played the original Max Headroom, was asked what he thought of the infamous Max Headroom incident. He found it flattering... and also was unsurprised that hackers would make use of such a character.
• Tommy Lee has shown his approval for Pam & Tommy, saying it is a story that needed to be told in these days of questionable privacy, and struck a friendship with Sebastian Stan, who plays him in said miniseries.
• Andy Serkis enjoyed watching The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and appreciated how much the creators were loyal to the movies despite not taking place in the same continuity.
• Wednesday: Christina Ricci, who had previously played Wednesday in the '90s live-action films, gave her full approval to Jenna Ortega's performance as the character.
• RuPaul's Drag Race: For the most part, celebrities impersonated on "Snatch Game" have reacted positively to their portrayals, with celebrities like Judge Judy and Carol Channing even getting video messages aired on the show showing their appreciation. Notably subverted in the cases of Jenny Bui and Patricia Quinn, who were very vocal about their disdain for Gia Gunn and Aiden Zhane (respectively) misrepresenting them.

Music

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's parodies are sometimes met with this from other artists. This isn't surprising since he insists on seeking approval from them first before he records them, so they know what to expect. Of course, the fact that his interest in parodying an artist is a sure sign they've hit the big time helps ease things along.
  • The most notable exception was Coolio, who felt that "Gangsta's Paradise" was too serious and intense a song to be parodied, and was upset when "Amish Paradise" was released. Yankovic felt bad about it and had been incorrectly told that he had Coolio's approval. Eventually, Coolio got over it and gave Al a hug. As Al put it, "I doubt I'll be invited to Coolio's birthday party, but at least I don't have to wear a bulletproof vest to the mall anymore."
  • Don McLean has gone on record as saying that he and his children loved Al's "The Saga Begins" parody of American Pie so much that they've found themselves accidentally starting to sing the lyrics to Al's version during live performances.
  • Michael Jackson was a big fan and he enjoyed the parodies of his work. He also lent Al the set from the music video of "Bad" to shoot the music video for "Fat". In fact, Jackson was such a fan that he gave Al permission to spoof any of his songs in perpetuity but asked that he not record a parody of "Black and White" because he felt that its message was too important. Though Al did parody the song (his version is called "Snack All Night") and occasionally performs it live, he kept his promise and has never put it on any of his albums.
  • Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was incredibly flattered when Weird Al asked for permission to parody "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Al reports being incredibly nervous when forced to admit that the lyrics were all about how indistinct and mumbly Cobain's vocals were, but Cobain loved the idea (in fact, he allowed it on the grounds that Al didn't write about food, like many of his '80s hits). The entire band reportedly laughed hysterically when they saw the video, and Cobain called Yankovic a "musical genius" in his journals. He even said that a Weird Al parody was when he knew the band had "made it".
  • Chamillionaire of "Ridin'" fame loved the parody "White and Nerdy" and even featured it on his MySpace page shortly after release. He was even impressed by Al's rapping abilities. And then he name-dropped "White and Nerdy" in the sequel, "Ridin' Overseas".
  • Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo congratulated him for "Dare to be Stupid" and called it "the perfect Devo song".
  • When Yankovic approached Lady Gaga's management to spoof "Born this Way," he got turned down. Gaga herself heard about it, tore her management team a new one, and gave Yankovic a green light to spoof what he pleased. She even said that she saw the parody as a continuation of her original version.
  • James Blunt also approved when Yankovic remade Blunt's hit "You're Beautiful" as "You're Pitiful"... it was the label, Atlantic Records, who refused to allow Yankovic to release it on an album. Yankovic responded by releasing it as a freebie online, and getting the last laugh both in the "White and Nerdy" music video and in concert ever since.
  • The Presidents of the United States of America started performing their song "Lump" with the Forrest Gump quote ("And that's all I have to say about that") that finishes "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody "Gump"
  • On the flip end, Weird Al himself is very receptive to fan content. In fact, he has a list of his favorites on his website.
• Country Music parodist Cledus T. Judd:
  • He has often gotten approval from the original artists on his parodies, also with some Parody Assistance (e.g., Brad Paisley playing lead guitar on "More Beaver", a parody of his own "Me Neither", or the director of Faith Hill's "This Kiss" video doing a shot-for-shot parody for "Christ-Mas").
  • Judd's parody of Garth Brooks' "In Another's Eyes", which he planned to parody as "In Another Size". Garth originally asked Judd not to parody it, but later changed his mind.
  • Luke Bryan loved Judd's swan song "Luke Bryan", a parody of "Blurred Lines" that poked fun at him.
• Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes had cultivated relationships with many of the subsequent artists who cite her as an influence and often performed cover versions of their songs. Brian Wilson, Billy Joel, The Ramones, Eddie Money and Amy Winehouse are among the artists she had given personal approval.
  • In the case of Amy Winehouse, her idolization of Spector crosses straight into Follow the Leader, as she sought to emulate Spector's physical appearance as well as her singing style. Spector made a point to reach out to Winehouse and meet with her personally. Upon Winehouse's untimely death, Spector released a cover of "Back to Black" in tribute and also contributed to the biopic Amy.
  • With Eddie Money, offering her approval ended up reviving her career. Money looked to her for inspiration when writing "Take Me Home Tonight" (which interpolated The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" in the chorus) and ultimately ended up including her on the song as a guest vocalist. It became a massive hit and sparked a revival of interest in her life and career. Money later stated that he would have scrapped the song if Spector had declined to appear on it, as he had no intention of recording it with anyone else.
• Despite her reputation as a serious, intense ballad singer, Céline Dion has a really good sense of humor and is really good at taking a joke. When SNL was doing their parody of her in the wake of Titanic, she thought it was so hilarious, she invited Ana Gasteyer to her show in New York, where she did her Celine Dion impression for the crowd. On another occasion, when promoting her French album Sans Attendre on TV, she invited another imitator, Véronique Dicaire, on stage.
• Corey Taylor of Slipknot was asked what he made of "Psychosocial Baby", a mashup of the Slipknot song "Psychosocial" and "Baby" by Justin Bieber. Contrary to the opinions of many Slipknot fans, he loved it and found it hilarious.
• None of The Beatles objected to The Rutles, and George Harrison liked the idea enough to produce and appear in the All You Need Is Cash mockumentary. John Lennon loved The Rutles so much that when their first film came out, he watched it almost nonstop on loan from the studio. When time was up, he very reluctantly gave the film back. Apparently, Paul McCartney was a little bit wary at first, but his wife Linda assured him that it was all right.
• They Might Be Giants post many fan videos of their music on their Facebook page and website, among various other things. A popular flash for "Certain People I Could Name" garnered much attention from them.
• Apocalyptica started out their career covering songs by Metallica on 4 cellos. Metallica liked their arrangements so much that they played with Apocalyptica playing music written by the former in arrangements done by Apocalyptica.
• Beatallica, a band whose oeuvre consists entirely of Beatles/Metallica mashups (example songs: "The Thing That Should Not Let It Be" and "And Justice For All My Loving"), was aided in a minor legal dispute with Sony (who currently holds the rights to most of Beatles songs) by Lars Ulrich.
• Bob Rivers parodied Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" into "What If God Smoked Cannabis". Osborne liked it so much, she covered the parody herself.
• Michael Bublé loved Bad Lip Reading's parody of "Haven't Met You Yet": "Russian Unicorn". And Gotye tweeted the parody of his "Somebody That I Used To Know".
• In an interview, Rebecca Black was asked which parody of "Friday" was her favorite, which was the Brock's Dub version.
• When asked in a radio interview about his opinion of Time Lord rock band Chameleon Circuit, David Tennant said that "They're quite good, aren't they? It's like proper, decent music."
• Taylor Swift tweeted her love for Walk Off the Earth's cover version of her song "I Knew You Were Trouble".
• Taylor's reaction to Ryan Adams' cover album of her 1989 album, done in Adams' Alternative Country style has been extremely supportive and positive. She has been promoting in on her Twitter account as enthusiastically as with one of her own albums. ^note It helps that Adams was an influence on her songwriting as she grew up.
• Barry Manilow reportedly enjoyed Ray Stevens' parody of him on "I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow".
• One Direction showed approval for fanfiction spoof cartoon The Adventurous Adventures of One Direction.
• Voltaire apparently browses the AMV sections of YouTube and even told someone "Nicely done!!!!" (yes, with all the exclamation marks) on their AMV of his song Crusade.
• Lorde thought South Park's parody of her (where she turns out to be Stan's dad Randy crossdressing as her) was pretty funny and even recorded a clip of herself going "ya ya ya, I am Lorde" just like Randy does.
• The Tumblr blog "This Charming Charlie", combining Peanuts strips with lyrics from The Smiths, is another example of mixed reaction, garnering a cease-and-desist from Universal Music on behalf of Johnny Marr and praise from Morrissey. Since the two jointly hold the copyright to the band's catalogue, and they have to agree in order to pursue a claim, and they don't, the site remains.
• Perturbator reposted this Slam Remix of "Sexualizer". James Kent, the man behind Perturbator, is incredibly humble and tends to have this reaction to any and all fanworks of his stuff.
• Bryan White who is responsible for the song, "God Gave Me You", was amazed how the song was used for GMA Network's variety noontime show Eat Bulaga for their "kalye-serye", AlDub, which shows the host Alden Richards' courtship to Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza in Real Life) which is done by lipsynching various songs as a way of conversing each other and it is in split-screen.
• Nine Inch Nails:
  • While Trent Reznor hesitantly gave Johnny Cash permission to cover "Hurt" at first, he describes hearing it for the first time felt as if Johnny Cash had stolen his girlfriend, and loved the legend's interpretation of the song.
  • Reznor has said good things about Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road", which samples a Nine Inch Nails banjo line, though he declined to appear in its music video feeling he didn't earn a spot there.
  • When it was announced that the 2020 'Cold And Black And Infinite North America' concert tour was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Reznor put a link on the official NIN site a fan-made concert film consisting of several shows from their 2018 tour, stating "HOW IN THE FUCK DID YOU PULL THIS OFF??"
• Devo's cover of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is seen by The Rolling Stones as better than the original.
• Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel gave his approval to Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence" after they performed it on Conan.
• Composer Alberto Ginastera gushed about Emerson, Lake & Palmer's adaptation of his work "Toccata", praising it as "diabolic" and saying that the band had "captured the essence of my music, and no one's ever done that before". Aaron Copland also liked the band's adaptations of "Hoedown" and "Fanfare for the Common Man". On the reverse side, Keith Emerson, who wasn't always thrilled with covers of his band's work (most likely because it's so difficult to play and few people have the chops to pull it off properly), praised Jordan Rudess' covers of ELP, most notably "Tarkus".
• Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason gave praise to this video of a Brazilian keyboardist's Mondegreenified version of "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" on his Facebook account, saying: "When you sound this good you don't need to know all the words..."
• Rob Cantor of Tally Hall wrote a song that depicted Shia LaBeouf as a cannibalistic Serial Killer. Not only did he tweet about it, he made a cameo in the music video, applauding the actors on stage.
• Dolores O'Riordan approved of American metal band Bad Wolves' cover of "Zombie" with updated lyrics highlighting how war never changes. She was even set to re-record the song with the band before her untimely death in January 2018. The band intends to donate proceeds from the song to her children, and the music video is dedicated to her.
• Ariana Grande's response to The Late Late Show with James Corden's "thank u, next" spoof "thank u, jeff"? She went on Twitter and asked for the Jeff Goldblum scrapbook Corden flips through in the video — "it's for a friend. promise."
• Sabaton:
  • Sabaton is aware of the cottage industry on YouTube of fan-made music videos set to their songs. They in fact helped the band break out: a video made by a Polish fan for "40:1" netted several million hits before being hit with a copyright strike (Sabaton later reuploaded it to their own channel), and inspired Polish filmmaker Jacek Raginis (a descendant of the Polish commander at the Battle of Wizna, Captain Władysław Raginis) to contact the band with an offer to film an official video at the Wizna battlefield memorial.
  • The former members of Rockbitch found out that Sabaton had name-dropped them in "Metal Crüe" and thought it was incredibly sweet.
  • Sabaton discovered a Russian YouTube channel doing Russian-language covers of their songs, and helped them do one of "The Attack of the Dead Men". And then brought him on-stage to sing his cover in Moscow! And then covered one of his songs, which was itself an homage to Sabaton!
• BTS's heavy references to the book Jung's Map of the Soul in MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA (as well as the fandom's Wild Mass Guessing and analysis of the album based on the book) were very well received by the book's author, Murray Stein.
  • Both Webstar and Young B. (aka. Bianca Bonnie) reacted with to see the success of BTS-member j-hope's Homage song "Chicken Noodle Soup" and the fandom's response of researching and thanking them both (particularly Bianca Bonnie, who tweeted "I THINK [j-hope]'S AMAZING"). The fact that they were properly credited and paid for the use of the sample probably helped.
• The Dutch EDM duo, Vicetone, find the use of their song, "Astronomia", in the dancing coffin meme very hilarious.
• Chris Barnes tweeted about an acoustic cover of the Cannibal Corpse song "I Cum Blood," calling it "pure gold".
• Charlie Puth gave cover artist Kurt Hugo Schneider a "Well done!" in the comments of his version of Puth's song "One Call Away".
• When somebody on Twitter accused Olivia Rodrigo of plagiarizing Elvis Costello for her song "Brutal", Costello himself chimed in and defended Rodrigo while pointing out his own history of taking inspiration from other artists.
  This is fine by me, Billy. It's how rock and roll works. You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy. That’s what I did.
• James Leyland Kirby, more often known as The Caretaker, is fully aware of the sudden memetic spread of his everywhere at the end of time project — a 6.5-hour long multi-album series intended to illustrate the effects of dementia, infamous for being a very stark and harrowing listen — including "The Caretaker Challenge" that spread in 2020 on TikTok where listeners would see how long they could endure the project before breaking down. Kirby is well aware of the criticisms his fans share of this phenomenon (many arguing it desensitizes a serious art piece and its serious subject matter), but he personally disagrees and has given the spread his blessing, as to him, it represents a widespread curiosity and willingness to engage with very intense and uncomfortable themes, especially among younger audiences unaware of the gravity of dementia.
• In a Songfacts interview, Christopher Cross voiced his approval for a 1999 The Onion article that referenced his 1980 hit "Ride Like the Wind" wherein it's stated he finally got to the Mexican border.
• When DJ Cummberbund did a remix of Earth, Wind & Fire's September with Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train, September's writer Allee Willis voiced approval.
• Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who sang lead on King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man", loved how Kanye West sampled the song in his single "Power", stating that it made the song sound fresh to modern audiences. In the last few years of his life, he always opened his solo shows with a version of "Schizoid Man" that incorporated almost two minutes of West's song.
• Robert Plant famously hates Led Zeppelin's Signature Song "Stairway to Heaven." However the cover sung by Heart at the Kennedy Center Honors concert brought Tears of Joy to his face. Plant was also a fan of Dread Zeppelin, a band fronted by an Elvis Impersonator, which did reggae covers of Zeppelin songs.
• David Bowie has said that astronaut Chris Hadfield's cover of "Space Oddity", recorded and filmed on the International Space Station itself, is the most poignant version of the song he's ever heard. He also had good words for the Langley Schools Music Project version of the song, feeling that the vocals of the Canadian schoolchildren added a Creepy Children Singing element that made it a bit of a Mind Screw.
• In the 1970s, Frank Sinatra added the Beatles song "Something" to his regular concert repertoire, and tweaked the line "you stick around now, it may show" to "You stick around, Jack, she might show". George Harrison was initially apathetic about Sinatra covering his song and changing his lyric, but grew to appreciate it in time. By 1991, Harrison had begun singing Sinatra's version of the line in concert and continued to sing it that way until his death. Harrison has also been quoted as saying "My personal favourite is the version by James Brown. It was one of his B-sides. I have it on my jukebox at home. It's absolutely brilliant."
• Billy Bragg enjoyed Kirsty MacColl's cover of his song "A New England" and wrote two entirely new verses of the song especially for her to record. After her death in 2000, he has always included those verses in his own performances of the song as a tribute.
• Though he hasn't gone so far as to call it superior to the original, Robert Smith from The Cure loved Dinosaur Jr.'s version of "Just Like Heaven", and has said it influenced the way the band play it live. The original studio recording had a clean guitar lead, whereas in live performances Smith tends to emulate J. Mascis' distorted guitar tone, making the song sort of sound like a hybrid of the original version and the Dinosaur Jr. cover.
• Iggy Pop liked Siouxsie and the Banshees' cover of "The Passenger", declaring that "she sings it well and she threw a little note in when she sings it, that I wish I had thought of, it's kind of improved it [...]. The horn thing is good."
• Doja Cat enjoyed Rainych's Japanese version of "Say So" and considers it to basically be a definitive foreign-language version.
• Gorillaz never had a full video for Rhinestone Eyes, with the official video being a storyboard film. However, one fan dedicated six years to animating the video, to gorgeous results. The official Gorillaz page even left a comment with a fist bump emoji in there.
• Norwegian YouTuber Ole Wold has a series of videos where he MSTs russ songs. At least the following three people/groups took it in stride:
  • SOLGUDEN left a comment on the 2017 video saying "Hahaha YOU ARE A LEGEND!!" even though Ole panned both of the SOLGUDEN songs he featured in the video.
  • The group GOOFY 2018 had their theme song lampooned in the 2018 video, with Ole calling out the lyric "I wash my dick in pussy" as gross. They left a comment joking that if he joins them for a ride, he can wash his dick in pussy too.
  • After Ole called out the producer Soppgirobygget for their songs being Strictly Formula, they left a comment saying "Hahaha, we'll sharpen up🖤".
• Russian singer and musician Alina Gingertail did a cover of "Time Only Knows", the ending song from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Among the people who praised it was Stuart Chatham, the song's original composer.
• DragonForce guitarist Herman Li did a live playthrough "Through the Tables and Memes", a meme edit of their Signature Song "Through the Fire and Flames", and enjoyed it.

New Media

• Doug Walker is rather receptive about fan works based upon his characters, Rule 34 or otherwise.
  • For instance, he sang a fan-made song to the tune of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", relating to The Nostalgia Critic's review of the live adaptation of The Grinch, in his section of the 2011 Channel Awesome Holiday Video. He also linked to a Newgrounds cartoon featuring TGWTG characters on his Facebook page. And he's also read the Xoanon's novelizations of Kickassia, Suburban Knights and To Boldly Flee on Fanfiction.com, and enjoys them for having differing elements to the films themselves.
  • On Twitter, Beth Elderkin and Tamara Chambers both liked a Legally Blonde dub (with Critic as Elle and Hyper as douche ex) of one of Critic's rejections of Hyper in The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
• Channel Awesome Anniversary Movies:
  • To Boldly Flee, Terl of Battlefield Earth spelled his name as Turrell. This led to fan speculation that Turrell was so busy learning to conquer galaxies that he doesn't actually know how to spell his name. While Turrell was named that for legal reasons, a commentary by some of the reviewers indicated they heard of this theory and found it hilarious.
  • During their cast commentary for Suburban Knights, Phelous and Brad Jones brought up the faux-Film Brain review of the film, saying they found it "really funny".
• Rooster Teeth, themselves subject of a Fanon Showcase, has also shown off fan videos of their works, such as putting Caboose in Halo: Reach's Firefight, creating compilations of Geoff's laugh, or redubbing the entire opening heist scene of the Dark Knight with dialogue from the Achievement Hunter Heist videos.
• Allison Pregler follows a Twitter account someone made of her Suddenly Speaking cat Ash and is receptive to non-Rule 34 fanart she sees.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd:
  • The intro to the review of Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Wizard had several fan covers of the theme song with James Rolfe and Justin Kyle watching and laughing, with a title screen thanking the fans. The Cinemassacre site also hosts some fanart and fan-games as well.
  • James Rolfe subscribes to Derek Alexander's YouTube account, a parody / homage / self-proclaimed ripoff of the AVGN that takes the AVGN's formula and inverts it - instead of drinking beer and playing awful retro games, the HVGN drinks wine and celebrates underrated Cult Classics.
  • One episode was devoted entirely to fanmade AVGN video games (and the recently released The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures), from games available on the internet to physical homebrew cartridges that he was given at conventions and meetups. Particular praise went to a hacked version of Mega Man 2 that featured the Nerd in Mega Man's place.
• Jason Steele of FilmCow was quite amused by the German dubs of Llamas with Hats.
• LittleKuriboh sometimes shares Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series fanart etc. that he enjoys.
• The creator of the video Doritos - Make Your Own is noted to have enjoyed a parody of his video done in PONIES The Anthology II.
• Serris of Darwin's Soldiers has given his explicit approval for others to create fanworks set in this universe.
• Hillary Clinton loved Texts from Hillary on Tumblr, and even contacted the blog's creators and gave them an autographed copy of a "Hillary Texts" post she made herself.
• Matt and Pat, the main characters in Two Best Friends Play, stated that they enjoy the fan-made crossover Two Best Sisters Play, enough to feature the series's YouTube channel on their personal channel page (probably also because its creator is the animator for their own episode openings).
• Faulerro is an abridger who does Nullmetal Alchemist, a parody of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) in the style of another abridger, purpleeyeswtf of None Piece. The latter enjoyed it enough to appear in one of the former's episodes.
• SMOSH has approved of The Annoying Orange gang trashing the trailer for their movie, linking the video on their Twitter account for all their followers to see (which, in a fit of irony, was later retweeted by Orange for all his followers to see).
• Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD, the guys behind Epic Rap Battles of History, have expressed their enjoyment of the videos of YouTuber ERBfunnies, who essentially takes the rap battles and makes YouTube Poops of them. Lloyd has commented on two of the user's videos — "Free Willy." (based on "George Washington vs. William Wallace") and "O.J. Simpson." (based on "Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter") — voicing his approval, while the ERB account itself made such a comment on "Dude Smoothie." (based on "Rick Grimes vs. Walter White"). ERBfunnies acknowledged the latter comment in this video.
• In ProZD's audio version of "Telltale's Scooby-Doo", the actual Telltale Games YouTube account in the comments can be spotted saying "lol".
• The Gamebook bad ending blog YOU CHOSE WRONG was contacted by the company behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, who praised the site and submitted some of their staff's favorite bad endings.
  "[I]magine how pleasantly stunned I was when the folks who publish the Choose Your Own Adventure series reached out to praise You Chose Wrong and submit a staff-selected sampler of favorite failures – such as today’s platonically perfect gem featured above.
  
  Thank you, CYOA folks, for dispelling my adult paranoia as effectively as you engendered its childhood counterpart."
• Linkara's April Fool's 2017 video was labelled as a review of Power Rangers (2017), when it was really a look at the New 52 in the style of Jimquisition. Jim Sterling found it and left a response in the comments:
  Not fat enough 7/10.

Radio

• X Minus One's "The C-Chute": Isaac Asimov loved the actor for Mullen so much that he claimed to have deliberately taken steps to avoid learning the name so that the actor would always be "Mullen" to him.

Stand Up Comedy

• Suzy Eddie Izzard has said she's impressed with various YouTube videos that take her routines and make them into stop-motion LEGO films.

Tabletop Games

• Mark Rosewater, the head designer of Magic: The Gathering, not only approves of fans who design their own cards and sets, he actually writes official articles on the site intended to teach them how to make good, fun cards that play well. He DOES note that he's not allowed to look at any fan-made cards for legal reasons, but he still very much supports custom card-making.

Theatre

• Lin-Manuel Miranda frequently retweets fan art of Hamilton and posts pictures of him posing at the stage door with various fan artists, like the creator of The Ham Wing, a site that mashes up Hamilton with The West Wing.
• Jack Black went to see the School of Rock musical and he loved it, telling the actor who played his role for the show, "There’s no way I could have done it that well. He really made it his own and he took it to another level. I was laughing, I was crying and I was rocking!"
• When Noddy Live was performed at numerous theaters in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Gillian Baverstock (Enid Blyton's eldest daughter) praised the show for how faithful the show was to the original Noddy books while combining elements of Toyland Adventures into the mix.
• Rick Riordan has expressed his liking for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians musical, particularly when compared with the film adaptations (which, in contrast, he famously dislikes).

Theme Parks

• At Universal Studios:
  • Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss, was both surprised and very pleased with how well the Seuss Landing area at Islands of Adventure turned out to be, feeling that it did great justice in translating her late husband's works into a theme park setting.
  • Similarly, J. K. Rowling was more than impressed with how Universal handled the Wizarding World of Harry Potter areas.
  • The temporary Sailor Moon 4-D show at Universal Studios Japan earned the approval of the franchise's creator, Naoko Takeuchi, who said, "I wish I could experience it every day! Seeing the beautiful Sailor Guardians leaping about and fighting evil, it's all so amazing. It makes me glad to be alive."

Video Games

• The Angry Birds fansite AngryBirdsNest was created in 2010 with developer Rovio Entertainment's permission, and Rovio has acknowledged them on the official Angry Birds website, as well as an Angry Birds Seasons "Pig Days" level.
• The creators of Chinese Parents, a game based on raising a child up until high school graduation that's set in China, gave Vile Monarch their blessing to create Growing Up while basing its mechanics on the former.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Jun Senoue, who writes music for the games, praised the soundtrack of Sonic: Before the Sequel's SAGE 2012 re-release.
  • Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka called the Sonic Fan Film "Awesome!!" on Twitter.
  • SEGA in general is pretty lenient when it comes to fan works. When Game Grumps drew the attention of the official Sonic the Hedgehog channel to fan game Green Hill Paradise Act 2, the channel threatened a DMCA... only to reveal they were just kidding and encouraged fans to keep making great stuff.
  • The Sonic Twitter account has also had a lot of fun with Game Grumps episodes of Sonic games, even though every episode takes the piss out of the franchise (Arin Hanson notably loves the aesthetic of Sonic but abhors its gameplay in any fashion). It's become a two-way good-natured street of Arin making fun of the series, and Sonic Twitter having fun at Arin's expense.
• Valve Software:
  • One of Valve's founding principles was to do the opposite of id Software, whose release of source code was a combination of throwing the fans a bone and Carmack showing off his programming genius. No matter how thriving or prolific the mod community became id dismissed them as geeky hobbyists, amateurs and peons, and made no attempts to support them when communities and distribution channels were at risk of disappearing. Valve from the beginning hosted modding forums, and file databases and file sharing.
  • The company posts fan works of Portal and Portal 2 on the games' Facebook page. These have included "This is Aperture" and a video of "Still Alive" done with lasers.
  • Valve approved and publicized a Half-Life 2 fan film titled Escape from City 17.
  • Every once in a while, the official Team Fortress 2 blog showcases fan works for the game, such as Brentalfloss's Team Fortress 2 theme song.
  • There is Black Mesa, a Fan Remake of Half-Life in the Source Engine, which Valve added to Steam through Greenlight. Valve allowed it on condition they remove "Source" from the name (so people wouldn't think it was an official Valve release), and on condition that they got first dibs on playing it.
  • A fan-made virtual reality build of Half-Life 2 has also been given Valve's blessing.
  • In general, Valve is extremely supportive of fan works, even going out of their way to release and support tools to help make them, particularly Game Mods. Valve's reason for being so benevolent toward these efforts? In a plot worthy of The Last Starfighter, they use them as a means of scouting for talent.
  • They've also been very active on fan-made Left 4 Dead content as well. They published "Cold Stream", a fan-made campaign, themselves for anyone to play (even on console), published "The Last Stand" alongside 20 fan-made survival maps in 2021 (and "The Last Stand" also features the team using a fan-made piece of music for the final Tank battle), and when they learned that a team was developing a campaign in a mall called "Dead Before Dawn", they gave the team a unique voice clip of Francis saying "I hate malls".
• Bungie is pretty benevolent toward all fan works of its material, regularly showcasing notable ones like Red vs. Blue or Halo: A Fistful of Arrows on its news. They gave Rooster Teeth permission to use the Halo assets without problems.
• Hideo Kojima:
  • He was very impressed with Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy, and was moved by the filmmakers' passion and respect for the Metal Gear series.
  • He also liked the reaction videos to and the various parodies of the Death Stranding announcement trailer. In particular, he said his favorite that he'd seen was Beer Stranding.
  • He loved Mega64's parody of Metal Gear Solid and has cameod in their videos from time to time.
• Reverge Labs puts up fan art of Skullgirls every Friday as part of Fan Art Friday on their developer blog.
• Tim Schafer tweeted about a fanmade mashup of Psychonauts footage with audio of the Inception trailer and considered it well-done.
• BIT.TRIP COMPLETE (the Compilation Rerelease for Wii) includes, as Unlockable Content, remixes of songs from the first three games by a fan named Mike Dannebaum, and songs inspired by the games by PreciseHero.
• There was a project to remake Duke Nukem 3D using the Unreal engine. Gearbox, the current holder of the Duke Nukem IP, approved of the effort. That is, until Interceptor read the details of the personal license they were granted...
• Capcom:
  • The company has not only acknowledged the existence of Maximillian's Assist Me series by linking the videos on their website, they even sponsored the Ultimate Assist Me series so Max and the crew wouldn't have to pay for the production costs out of their pockets like they normally do. Taken even further in the finale of Retro Assist Me: where Yoshinori Ono makes a cameo at the end. The only thing preventing it from being Ascended Fanon at this point is that it's still a fanmade work and not official.
  • They also showed their support to the "Mr. X gon give it to ya" meme from Resident Evil 2 (Remake) and even made the joke on their own Twitter feed.
  • Casey Edwards (the composer of the main theme of Devil May Cry 5, "Devil Trigger") left a comment on the Triple-Q mash-up, "Love Shack Trigger", claiming to love it.
  • Also from Devil May Cry 5, a fan rewrote the lyrics of Vergil's "Bury The Light" Image Song to focus on the meme about Vergil not paying child support, which resulted into "Bury The Guilt". Victor Borba (the singer of "Bury The Light") was amazed at the parody cover, he gave it his approval, which is also pinned at the top of the video's comments.
    Victor Borba: wow... honestly can't believe a full 9 minute parody was made for this song and done so well... you've got a great voice dude and the creativity of all of you who wrote out these lyrics is amazing LMAO great job
  • Julia Voth, the face model for Jill in Resident Evil Remake and Resident Evil 5, supports the Jill/Chris ship, joking in the comments of her Instagram post announcing her pregnancy that Chris got her pregnant.
• Bethesda:
  • Their official blog had linked to Fallout: Nuka Break, considering a "great work". They also tweeted Prequel — twice. Every Elder Scrolls and Fallout title produced and/or published by them comes complete with a modding kit that is essentially the API they used to build the game world. And Skyrim wound up being the launch title for Steam Workshop.
  • There's Fallout: Lanius, which got approval and support from both Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda.
  • Enderal and Nehrim are considered among the greatest mods for Skyrim and Oblivion, respectively, being Total Conversions that are considered modern CRPG classics. That said, it's worth noting that Nehrim and Enderal were allowed to have official Steam pages for easy install.
  • Bethesda also featured the massive multi mod project, Beyond Skyrim, on their blog, expressing admiration for the ambitious scope of the project.
  • Bethesda was "left speechless" over Brian Curtin's live action trailer for Fallout 76.
• Double Dragon creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto praised Abobo's Big Adventure and doesn't mind unofficial derivative works as long as they're good and have something to do with the franchise.
• Insomniac Games:
  • Ted Price, president of Insomniac Games, who created Spyro the Dragon, while bashing later entries in the franchise (mostly the Obvious Beta Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly), has also stated that "Digital Eclipse did a great job on the GBA titles."^note Referring to Spyro: Season of Ice, Spyro 2: Season of Flame and Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs.
  • Insomniac Games was pleased with the effort Toys For Bob went through for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
• SWERY, the game director of Deadly Premonition, loves any and all fan-works of the game, and regularly links to pieces of fan art and writings on the game on his Twitter account. In a Game Developer's Conference presentation, he even explained that creating fan-friendly characters and worlds is a part of his game design philosophy because it gives fans a way to enjoy the game even when they're not playing it.
• The Dreamcast version of Soulcalibur contained an extensive, unlockable fan art gallery. Unfortunately, these galleries aren't included in later ports of the game due to the fact that over a decade has passed since the original release, and thus it is difficult or impossible to track down the original artists so they can re-sign the usage rights for new consoles, as well as some of the art being blatantly sexual in nature (and thus affecting content guidelines from other companies).
• ZUN is generally quite supportive of Touhou Project fan work, and usually only demands that the products are clearly marked as unofficial fan material. It's even believed to be part of the reason canon is so vague and Unreliable Narrator-driven; it leaves more space for fanon.
• Overkill Software, makers of PAYDAY: The Heist:
  • They saw a group of fans create a skill calculator for the sequel to help other fans get a better understanding of what each skill does and how much of a bonus some skill tiers give since the in-game description can be either vague or outright wrong. Overkill gave the calculator their seal of approval. Due to some "anti-fan" moves from overkill, the site has since gone down with it showing no signs of going back up.
  • They later gave their seal of approval to HoxHud, a community-made HUD upgrade that shows additional information about the game as well as other features, such as holding down the action key. The sound that HoxHud plays to show it's running, ("HoxHud, Initialized.") was provided by Hoxton's voice actor himself.
• Hanako Games has an official section of their forum for fan art and fan fiction, and Hanako has been known to hold fan work contests with free games as prizes.^note She doesn't allow Rule 34 on her forum, but that's because it is an all-ages forum.
• Rockstar Games has been looking over the top-rated jobs people make in Grand Theft Auto Online, and adding the best ones to the game proper, as 'Rockstar Verified'. They also regularly post news on their Social Club site about fan-made videos and crews that pique their interest. As of recently, however, they seem to have stopped doing this.
• The Silver Lining, a fan-created sequel of the popular King's Quest series of adventure games, received a ringing endorsement from creator Roberta Williams, who was overjoyed to see her characters in 3D.
• Hajime Tabata, director of Final Fantasy XV, approves of Photoshopped memes of a scene with Noctis and company in a car, which was first shown in the Tokyo Game Show 2014 trailer. With that, Square Enix rolls out transparent PNG files of that scene for everyone to poke fun with, which counts as Parody Assistance.
• While Nintendo has gained a reputation for being far more strigent with fan works than their peers, they still manage to have a few examples of this:
  • Junichi Masuda of Game Freak is on record as saying that Pokémon Uranium sounded impressive and that he hoped the devs would make more games. Sadly, while the game wasn't hit by a cease-and-desist as popularly believed, Nintendo's lawyers still issued a warning regardless.
  • Rhythm Heaven Reanimated and Karate Man Reanimated, Multi Animator Projects created by Western fans to celebrate the Rhythm Heaven series, have had both art director Ko Takeuchi and series producer/creator Tsunku♂ express thanks and fondness for their fans' dedication to the franchise.
  • An interesting variant with Cadence of Hyrule. The developers of that game originally planned on making DLC for their previous game, Crypt Of The Necrodancer, that featured The Legend of Zelda music. When they went to Nintendo for permission, Nintendo vetoed the idea... because they wanted them to make a full-fledged Zelda spin-off in the same style instead, thanks to series creator Shigeru Miyamoto and series producer Eiji Aonuma being huge fans of Necrodancer.
  • Nintendo gave their blessing to PlatinumGames to self-publish The Wonderful 101 Remastered as a multi-platform game, despite Nintendo having originally funded the game themselves as a Wii U exclusive years prior. Before this, they also allowed the use of the Japanese voice track made for the Wii U of the first Bayonetta to also be used for the PC version.
• The developers of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Jake Solomon and Ananda Gupta, have regularly shown their support for Beaglerush, an influential player of their games. They would later give him a code to review the upcoming Enemy Within expansion. In turn, Beaglerush goes through every single piece of fan art submitted to him, especially praising talented artists and writers such as Vesmolol's fanfiction. Jake and other developers have also been very vocally impressed by the Long War Game Mod and cited it as a major reason for including modding tools and assets with XCOM 2.
• Nobuo Uematsu's reaction to hearing the OverClocked ReMix track "The Impresario" (a cover of the opera from Final Fantasy VI In the Style of "Bohemian Rhapsody") was to say he owed the creators of the remix a beer.
• Cindy Morgan posted an approval of the new Yori skin for Tron: Run/r on her Tumblr feed.
• Hideki Kamiya, the creator of Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, tweeted that he was looking forward to the result of DEATH BATTLE!'s "Dante vs Bayonetta" match. However, a short time later, he changed his mind and denounced it, saying he would rather Dante and Bayonetta team up instead of fight each other.
• Yandere Simulator: YandereDev has posted fan work, such as videos and artwork, of the game on the blog. He's even said that fan work is one of the few things he wants to be emailed about since he likes seeing it and makes him feel like programming the game is worth it. He's also commented on YouTube videos of the game, and lent his voice to the outro of "Senpai Notice Me: A Yandere Simulator Musical" by Random Encounters. His YouTube channel also lists liked videos, many of which are Let's Plays and other related works for Yandere Simulator.
• Michiel van den Bos, the original composer of Deus Ex 's UNATCO Theme, said that Triple-Q's mashup of it with DMX's X Gon Give It to Ya "made my day". Meanwhile, Alexander Brandon approved of the mashup with Wan Chai Market.
• Eipix, the developer behind the Dark Parables series, discovered a PowerPoint presentation about the games on Tumblr. They contacted the fan who made it for permission and have used it as official marketing on their social media sites. (They also thanked her for making the page about the games on This Very Wiki.)
• James Arnold Taylor voices his approval of a Final Fantasy X mod that replaces all audio with Tidus' laugh.
• Doug Drexler, a popular Ascended Fanboy within the Star Trek series, was tickled pink when he was approached by Cryptic Studios for approval of making one of his popularly designed ships, the NX-Refit (namely a NX-class from Star Trek: Enterprise outfitted with a secondary hull that makes it a go-between of the NX-class and the popular Constitution-class) for Star Trek Online. In fact, Cryptic Studios approached CBS for permission to use this and they suggested they talk to Drexler himself.
• While Pyst often gets a bad rap, Myst co-creator Rand Miller has said he loves it and even has a copy of it in Cyan's vault.
• The Naughty Dog team have had warm praise for Vicarious Visions' work on the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
• LSD: Dream Emulator creator Osamu Sato not only approves of but would like to work with the LSD: Revamped project, an attempt to recreate the 1998 game in modern HD.
• Edmund McMillen spoke very favorably of The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth, a fan-made expansion for The Binding of Isaac. So much so that the creators of the expansion were hired to collaborate with McMillen for the fourth and fifth expansion packs of Afterbirth+. And now, with the Repentance expansion, Antibirth became an official part of the game. You can't get much more approval from God than that.
• The Sakura Wars franchise's founding father and other developers who worked on the previous games praised Sakura Wars (2019) even before its release:
  • Oji Hiroi, the series creator and lyricist for the games, and Satoru Akahori, the scenario writer for the first four games, were very impressed with Sega's work on the game.
  • Naoki Morita, who designed the world settings for the first four games, commented on Twitter that he was excited about the game.
• Joe Sparks regularly posts replies or comments whenever Total Distortion is brought up. In one of his videos, he expresses amazement in how the game over song "You Are Dead" spread all over Youtube.
• 11 Bit Studios, who created Frostpunk, commented on this video, calling the song "just too awesome". They even sponsored the creators of the song to create these songs that details the differences between the Faith and Order paths.
• Most video game creators ignore fan games, some voice approval of them. Scott Cawthon, creator of Five Nights at Freddy's? He's funding them. Behold The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative.
• Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, posted a tweet about the Mettaton reference seen in Episode 7 of the Pop Team Epic anime, thanking bkub for it in a reply.
• Friday Night Funkin' Game Mods:
  • TrainerDerek, the original creator of the song "Hypno's Lullaby", has played Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby and enjoyed it greatly.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot creator Rob Renzetti praised Vs. Jenny, calling it "inventive" and citing "Malfunction" (based on "The Return of Raggedy Android") as his favorite song from it.
  • MoldyGH, the creator of the original Vs. Dave and Bambi (and Dave's Fun Algebra Class, for that matter), has made multiple fan remixes of songs from Dave and Bambi: Golden Apple Edition, and even composed the song "Ready Loud" for the 1.2 update.
• Epic Games:
  • They did this four times for the Unreal series. All the released patches here have Epic's actual blessing, giving them somewhat of semi-official release status^note For legal reasons, though, forget about seeing them on Steam or GOG.com:
    • The first instance was allowing the Unreal Tournament Preservation Group (UTPG) to release Epic-sanctioned patches, resulting in version 440-451b being released for the game.
    • The second instance took place in 2005, where OldUnreal's admin Smirftsch got Epic's permission to develop patches for Unreal, resulting in ver. 227a-j.
    • Overlapping with Official Fan-Submitted Content, the third instance took place in 2014, where the entire Unreal community got to participate in what would have been Unreal Tournament 4. Sadly, due to the unforeseen success of Fortnite requiring Epic's efforts to be focused on that game, few things came to pass.
    • The last instance took place in 2019, with the UTPG long gone, and was, once again, OldUnreal to the rescue: this time admin AnthraX managed to get Epic's blessing to release community patches for Unreal Tournament, resulting in ver. 469a-b.
  • Outside of the blessings, former lead designer Cliff Bleszinski loved the 3dsMax recreation of NyLeve's Falls and during a long time maintained a website in PlanetUnreal called "CliffyB's Ownage", dedicated to collect what were, in his opinion, "the cream of the crop from the Unreal Community", the best maps and mods from all games between Unreal and Unreal Tournament 2004. The Ownage maps for the latter game even made it into 2004 itself, which had an "Ownage" tab where the selected picks could be downloaded and added to the game itself.
• Attacking the Tower is a fanmade instalment in the Henry Stickmin Series, taking place between Stealing the Diamond and Infiltrating the Airship. The creator of the series has acknowledged its existence and has praised the creators for how good it looks.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman once showed up unannounced in Tribute Games' post-development panel for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, during the Montreal Comiccon 2022 Fan Convention. The game's writer Yannick Belzil also confirmed that he liked how the 1987 version of April O'Neil became a playable character.
• In Hi-Fi RUSH, one of the staff members, John Johanes, revealed that he reached out to Square Enix to get their permission to do the Xenogears homage, partially out of worry that it could be copyright infringement.
• Hakita, the developer of ULTRAKILL, has given praise to fan-comic Dream's End Come True, citing it as beautifully referential and as much closure for the character of V2 as players will get.
• A funny preemptive version with No More Heroes III: While the game was in development, director Suda51 approached Nintendo's legal team and Masahiro Sakurai in specific for his proposal to suddenly have the final boss battle turn into a Super Smash Bros. parody. They not only gave their blessing, they encouraged his idea, inspiring him to be even more blatant with the joke.

Webcomics

• Penny and Aggie and QUILTBAG writer T Campbell often links, in his Twitter feed and Facebook page, to fics, fan art and Remix Comics he particularly likes.
• Andrew Hussie sometimes links to fanworks made for MS Paint Adventures that he likes.
• Sleepless Domain: Author and lead artist Mary Cagle has been highly supportive of the comic's considerable fan community, to the point that its official Discord server has a (quite active) dedicated channel for original fan content. Mary also occasionally draws popular Sleepless Domain original characters in her Patreon art streams, such as Shadow Witch, Rock Blitz◊, and Red General.

Web Original

• Clown Illustrations, the creator of Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations), frequently showcases fanart of their project on Twitter and Tumblr.

Web Video

• Economy Watch fan art has been made, with David Johnson sometimes making the fan art his profile picture on Twitter.
• Matthew Santoro likes most fan-art done of him.
• MrRepzion frequently posts fan-art done of him online.
• The members of the Yogscast often reblog fan-art done of them on their respective Tumblr and Twitter pages, although they do have some limits and some of them don't take as kindly to some forms of fanfiction, mainly shipping.
• Sips is a huge fan of the "Sips Sings" series, having provided some vocals to various tracks over the years and tweeting most new releases. Similarly, Trott of Hat Films was very complimentary of the episode guest-starring him and the other two members.
• PewDiePie tweeted his approval of the parody that Hat Films did of his "pack opening" video.
• Let's Players such as PewDiePie and Chaotic Monki regularly put up handpicked fan art as either the thumbnail or at the beginning of their videos.
• Elements of Justice is a Fan Sequel to Turnabout Storm (some of the voice actors from the original would reprise their roles, although this changed due to Troubled Production). NeoArtimus, the author of Turnabout Storm, gave her blessing to the author and wished him good luck with the project.
• Troper Jabberwocky 1996 asked Lewis Lovhaug of Atop the Fourth Wall if he could write a fic series where Linkara is a girl that is based on storylines of the show. Lewis gave him his blessing to write it.
• The folks behind DEATH BATTLE! actively encourage people to make Let's Watches of their videos. They are especially fond of Ris Grestar's work.
• A spin-off of Jreg's Centricide series known as Grej features four of the most extreme ideologies: INGSOC (Auth-Centre), Social Darwinist (Centre-Right), Egoist (Lib-Centre), and Communalist (Centre-Left) attempting to destroy the political compass. Jreg jremself congratulated the release of the first episode and declared it a canon side-story.
• Rooster Teeth absolutely love their fans' work. Monty Oum was quite generous when it came to approval of fan works of RWBY, and frequently shared cosplay photos, fanart, and AMVs that caught his eye on his Facebook page. He was also very supportive of a Japanese fandub of the series. He even gave tips on making RWBY OCs for fanfics◊. Three examples take the cake:
  • RWBY: Grimm Eclipse was originally a fangame before Rooster Teeth snatched it up and made it official.
  • After Lindsey Jones (Ruby Rose) gave birth to her first daughter Iris, someone sent them a piece of fanart showing both her characters and her husband Michael's characters (from both RWBY and Camp Camp) cooing over the baby. She posted a picture of it on Twitter and assured the artist that they would show Iris the art when she was old enough to understand it.
  • "Answer to Me" was a fanmade Leitmotif for Taiyang Xiao Long, Yang and Ruby's father. Taking cues from "I Burn", it's a long Badass Boast in music form interlaced with Papa Wolf. The real awesome, though, is that in the comments below, you'll see that Jeff Williams (the face of the RWBY composers) himself personally popped onto the Soundcloud page to praise it. This particular bit of awesome, combined with the song's popularity, has led to many fans clamoring for the makers to use it as Taiyang's official theme, which is not without precedent at Rooster Teeth.
• When Ron Perlman was announced to voice Optimus Primal in The Transformers: Power of the Primes instead of Gary Chalk reprising the role, many fans had a WTH, Casting Agency? reaction—though Chalk himself isn't among the detractors as he expressed interest in seeing Perlman in the role.
• When The Rpg Monger posted his Fandom Files video detailing the problems within the Eddsworld fandom, he received a comment from TomSka thanking him for his ability to see the fandom for both its positive and negative aspects, and also adding extra information on how he's managed to stay sane by creating his own fandom through projects such as asdfmovie, which are largely disconnected from the larger Eddsworld fandom.
• NileRed, a YouTube chemist known for making interesting and occasionally bizarre chemical syntheses, as well as his monotonous and calming voiceovers, had a parody channel, NileGreen, pop up in 2021, featuring a HowToBasic-level of Surreal Humor and an AI "Deepfake" of NileRed's voice. NileRed commented his praise on the effort NileGreen put into his videos, and the creator of NileGreen would later appear on the "Safety First" podcast where NileRed was one of the hosts.
• Both Amelia Watson and Gawr Gura of hololive's English branch have played and lent their approval to Smol Ame, a hololive fangame featuring a Fun Size version of Watson.^note Based on fanart by Walfie, a Fandom VIP within hololive's fanbase.
• Cover and Hololive in general took notice of HoloCure, requested permission to stream which then resulted in various Hololive members from each branch (e.g. Matsuri from HoloJP, Kronii from HoloEN and Risu from HoloID) giving the fan-made game a go and some of them like Mumei got addicted as a result.
• Steve White (former writer of Barney & Friends) found the 2019 animated short "Barney Takes a Dump" (which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin) very amusing. He actually found the video to be one of the funniest things he's ever seen.
• Despite all the nasty things the Game Grumps say about the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, Team Sonic are fans of their series, watch their show, have tweeted to them before, and even sometimes reach out to them in private to talk about aspects of their games developments. One of the QA team of Sonic Boom even contacted the Grumps, after Dan's "QUALITY ASSURANCE?!" gaffe when reading the end credits, to explain that even they agreed with the Grumps's assessments of the game: They found and reported most of the issues the Grumps complained about, but nothing was done to fix any of them since the game was being so desperately rushed by the higher-ups it was all the dev team could do to duct-tape together something that didn't explode before release date.

Western Animation

• In general, the showrunners and writers of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tend to enjoy a lot of the fanworks created by the Periphery Demographic:
  • Equestria Daily was formed in January 2011 as a fansite and is regularly updated with fan material. Not only does The Hub acknowledge its existence, but it also sent official material, from an extended cut of "Equestria Girls" to exclusive interviews with the show's creative staff.
  • Lauren Faust had stated that she was "kinda totally in love with My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic" and would like to play it when it's finished. She apparently found the idea cool enough that when the game received a C&D order, she offered to design original characters for a new project. She's since officially teamed up with the programmers to create Them's Fightin' Herds.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic posted a link to a mash-up of MLP and one of his polkas on his Twitter page, then later did the same thing with another mash-up by the same editor. Al even hinted he might be/would like to be on the show at some point. In season 4, he's a special guest voice in the episode "Pinkie Pride" as a party planner rival for Pinkie.
  • Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess once linked to a PMV featuring the band's song "Octavarium", saying he thought it was cool.
  • The not-for-profit, fanmade episode Double Rainboom got approval from Hasbro for its creation. It also got approval from Cartoon Network for the use of The Powerpuff Girls.
  • Ashleigh Ball, voice of Applejack and Rainbow Dash, expressed fondness for the PONY.MOV series, while simultaneously being disturbed by it.
  • Example with official works: the episode "Make New Friends but Keep Discord" includes a couple of references to Metal Gear. Hideo Kojima himself tweeted these.^note It's unknown if he missed the one from "It's About Time", though.
  • Devin Townsend apparently approves of a Ponyfication of himself and Anneke Van Giersbergen^note who provided guest vocals on a couple of his DTP albums.
  • Rebecca Shoichet gave a thumbs up to Silver Quill for his in-depth character analysis of Sunset Shimmer.
• Several writers on Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers lurk on the fan list, and Chris Rowley admits to having read some of the fanfic.
• Both Britta Philips and Samantha Newark, who shared the singing and speaking roles of the titular character of Jem is a fan of the extremely vulgar parody series/Gag Dub Jiz. Newark thinks that it's hilarious to make something as sweet as Jem so profane.
• Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick, and a few other crew members associated with Superjail! have been known to appreciate the fanart and cosplay in existence for the series, while Karacas finds the adult fanart hilarious. It culminated in Karacas doodling a quick "Thank you!" illustration for a Japanese/Korean joint-produced doujinshi.
• Greg Weisman has an account on the Young Justice (2010) Wiki. Also, it's sort of a meme in Tumblr fandom for the tie-in comic's artist, Chris Jones, to like or reblog someone's fanart or image edit, followed by the fan screencapping the notif and posting "He saw me!" Weisman also reused the explanation for Jeffrey Robbins knowing Hudson was a gargoyle introduced in The Goliath Chronicles in his official comic book follow-up. He's also "tickled" that the Xanatos Gambit trope was named after his show.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Grey DeLisle, the voice actress of Azula, shared Doug Walker's vlog reviews with a smiley face. Doug was somewhat concerned.
  Doug: So Grey Delisle is aware of my Avatar Vlogs and commented with a happy face on one of them. Um...should I be concerned about this? That is, the last time Azula said she looked forward to a show, there was a circle of fire and an assortment of killer animals. Eh, it'd be a cool way to go. " :) " back at ya.
  • Dante Basco, the voice of Zuko, also watched the vlogs. Appropriately, this became known soon after Doug released a vlog with immense praise for his acting. It even got to the point where Basco himself appeared as a guest star on a Nostalgia Critic episode.
  • Bryan Konietzko and Mike DiMartino (shortened to "Bryke") often reblog fanmade sets of gifs from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Similarly, Mike was screenshotted liking some fanart of Korra and Asami after the final episode of Korra was released. Note that this was a day or two before Bryke would make the announcement of it being canon. They've also admitted that various pun-related memes have become something of a Guilty Pleasure for them.
  • Janet Varney, the voice actress of Korra, noted at a convention that some fans had been reluctant to give their fanart of Korra and Asami kissing or about to kiss. She actively encouraged fans not to worry and said she would happily sign any such fanart.
• ChalkZone co-creator Bill Burnett posted this fan video titled Rudy Gets a Call by Max Gilardi (aka HotDiggedyDemon), where Rudy is an adult (and presumably forgot about ChalkZone) and Snap calls to catch up with him, on his Tumblr account and said it was awesome.
• South Park:
  • One episode has Cartman becoming a hall monitor and turning it into a copy of Dog the Bounty Hunter, with his own crew and big-breasted wife, Beth. Dog loved the episode, and the real Beth said they should've made her boobs bigger.
  • Chris Hansen immensely enjoyed his depiction on South Park, saying that it made him cool in the eyes of his sons.
  • Billy Mays' son enjoyed the pastiche of his late father in "Dead Celebrities", where he pitches products to Kyle's younger brother Ike from beyond the grave, and at one point even pitches a threat to physically attack another dead celebrity, which Mays' son says he felt his father would laugh the most at.
  • Nintendo, of all companies, seemed to enjoy the free promotion for the Wii in the "Go God Go" episodes. Not long after the episode aired, a poll on their website was made asking fans how badly they wanted the new console. One of the choices being "Worse than Cartman", which was at 80% when the poll closed. Nintendo later used a clip of him asking his mother for one in a montage for their E3 2007 presentation. They even gave Trey Parker and Matt Stone their own Wii consoles.
  • According to this article, Kanye West enjoyed the "Fish Sticks" episode, though admitted that their parody of him did hurt his feelings a bit.
  • James Cameron enjoyed their take on him in "Raising the Bar," though he denies making his crew members sing sea shanties about him. Interesting to note is that Cameron is portrayed in a fairly positive if not eccentric light as an adventurous man who, as the title of the episodes suggests, raises the bar with everything he does.
  • Cesar Millan the Dog Whisperer has nothing but praise and laughter for his portrayal in Tsst. He is so pleased with how well the writers have Shown Their Work that he actually uses moments from the episode as teaching aids to eagerly explain the science and mentality behind the way his character is treating Cartman, without ever once being able to find Falsely Advertised Accuracy. He even sincerely thanks Matt Stone and Trey Parker for the work they did, for promoting him and his show, and even offers his services if they ever find themselves with an out-of-control dog.
    They did such a great job on everything. Everything is perfection!
• Rick and Morty: As soon as co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland found out that someone was working on a Mr. Meeseeks mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, he not only posted his wholehearted approval but even offered to record extra lines for it.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes series creator Ian Jones-Quartey frequently expresses fondness for fan art and other fan creations on social media.
• Patrick McHale, creator of Over the Garden Wall, notably geeked out about Garden Falls, a fancomic crossing his show over with Gravity Falls, linking to it on Twitter and tagging Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. Wirt's voice actor Elijah Wood also expressed approval via exclamation points.
• Another Nostalgia Critic-related example: his video "Is Goofy Secretly Badass?" was shared on Twitter by Bill Farmer (Goofy's voice actor) and Jason Marsden (Max's voice actor).
• Alex Hirsch:
  • The Mystery Shack, a fan-made Gravity Falls gift shop, has Hirsch's approval.
  • Hirsch gave a good review of the fan-created Dating Sim video game Swooning Over Stans: A Grunkle Dating Simulator, even though he was surprised by its existence.
• The Justice League episode "For the Man Who Has Everything", which was adapted from a story of the same name written by Alan Moore. Moore is infamous for his disdain of the mainstream comic book industry and how it shamelessly milks its properties for all their worth; this goes double for any adaptations of his work. This one episode is the sole adaptation of his work that Moore has not only never lambasted, but outright praised. It is also one of only two adaptations where he allowed his name to be credited (the other being the film that made him hate adaptations to begin with).
• Both Danny Phantom series creator Butch Hartman and voice of Danny David Kaufman expressed their approval of Danny's inclusion in DEATH BATTLE!.
• Zig-zagged with Schulz's reaction to the 1986 animated parody of the Charlie Brown/Peanuts series Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wish to never see the Peanuts characters depicted like that again.
  Mr Undiyne: "According to someone I know in the animation trade, Charles Schulz was shown this on video at an animation convention. Jim Reardon and friends supposedly managed to talk Schulz into watching the film to get his opinion. He reportedly sat silent and motionless as he watched it. After it was finished he stood up, cleared his throat, and said, "Very clever, very funny, but just don't do it again, okay?" That was it."
• Final Space creator Olan Rogers praised a fan-video that was posted to Reddit.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • Former co-composer Mike O'Donnell has gone on to praise UpsideNow's Thomas Reorchestrated: Sodor Symphony project (which orchestrates much of the Season 1 music) in a YouTube comment below one of the tracks. Mattel also appears to approve of the rearrangements too, as the official Thomas and Friends YouTube account has placed two of the tracks in a playlist dedicated to fan content.
  • Mike O'Donnell has also praised insaneintherainmusic's remix of the main theme. Series creator Britt Allcroft has also shared and praised the remix on her Facebook page.
• Zig-Zagged with Tex Avery and Chuck Jones' reactions to the 1975 fan animated short of the Looney Tunes called "Rabbit Habit" by Steve Peck. The short involved what Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd would be doing in Central Park, New York City 12 years after Warner Bros. stopped making Looney Tunes. The short depicts Elmer as a drug dealer, Daffy as a crack addict, and Bugs Bunny getting high. While Tex Avery (67 at the time) loved the short by saying "I wish I had a job to give you." with the short itself getting laughs at film festivals. Chuck Jones (who was very conservative) did not like what Steve Peck did to his characters and never offered him a job at Warner Bros.
• Star Wars Rebels:
  • Dave Filoni showed "Spark of Rebellion" to the maker himself, George Lucas. He liked it.
  • Timothy Zahn, writer of The Thrawn Trilogy, approved of how Rebels was going to put Grand Admiral Thrawn on screen. After the series aired, he praised the writers for their keen understanding of Thrawn's character and how the heroes had to overcome him.
  • In part thanks to fan demand, Katee Sackhoff and Kevin McKidd have expressed interest in reprising their roles as Bo-Katan and Fenn Rau respectively in live-action Star Wars. Sackhoff specifically found it touching that people wanted her to appear in The Mandalorian, which she eventually ended up doing in that show's second season.
  • Fans have pointed out that Rex's aged facial features, skin tone and beard looked identical to a rebel ground soldier from Episode VI, raising questions over if they were the same person and loving the idea because it would give Rex closure to be present at the Empire's fall. While the creators have never confirmed this theory, they loved the idea and nodded to it in the series finale by having Rex be dressed in a very similar outfit to that soldier.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai has spoken positively regarding Yuki Matsuzaki's performance as Miyamoto Usagi during the fifth season.
• Dan Povenmire has praised Kevin Temmer's 3D interpretation of Dr. Doofenshmirtz, calling it "spectacular" and "basically what we would make Doofenshmirtz look like if we were making a CG version of him". He also says that Kevin's Doofenshmirtz voice is spot-on.

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