- Ensemble Dark Horse: Stick from The Scrambled Channel, among others, which somehow became the most popular character despite being an inanimate piece of wood.
- Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Wil used to have an "idiots" page where he made fun of people who asked him Gannon Bannable questions in emails. One in particular is that there is no Chaos Diamonds 1 or 2. It's called Chaos Diamonds 3 because there are three Chaos Diamonds in the story.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Back in the day, there were a lot of people who portrayed Psyguy as a sort of Lovable Sex Maniac in fanart as a joke. These became pretty easy to wince at once the sexual abuse allegations against him came to light.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: Since 2014, the site has become more well-known for its creator, Bryon Beaubien (aka SuperPsyguy), who has been accused of being a serial abuser, sexual harasser, and child predator and engaging in emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors toward his female staff members and fansnote , including minors. This eventually resulted in him taking down Fireball 20XL and vanishing from the internet, before returning to the Internet as BitPolar and later Brinnstar, but the low view counts maintain that he'll never escape his controversy.
- Viewer Gender Confusion:
- Many readers at first thought that Mike (the former member responsible for In Wily's Defense) was female, due to having a female avatar.
- Same for Noccifire. Several discovered he was male on his debut wha-chow appearance. He since changed his avatar.
- Jen. One issue of her comic had her addressing the numerous emails she got asking whether she was a guy or a girl.
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