The problem: Old Shame is a Trivia item about a work the creators would rather forget about. How "would rather forget about" is defined is rather unclear, and the description gives a vague answer:

For the sake of this thread, we'll assume that actively wanting the audience to forget about it is the definition, per the Laconic. And with that in mind, the trope is being misused for works that the creators are ashamed of, but don't necessarily go out of their way to make the audience forget about it. There are also duplication concerns with Creator Backlash and a large number of In-Universe examples. As further pointed out by bowserbros:

To prove there was a problem, I and Yindee did a wick check:

The wick check: Link here, but here's the quick results:

• 10/77, or 12.99%, were correct
• 43/77, or 55.84%, made no attempt to make the audience forget about the work
• 5/77, or 6.49%, were other kinds of misuse
• 9/77, or 11.69%, were In-Universe examples
• 2/77, or 2.6%, were ZCEs or context-less potholes
• 7/77, or 9.09%, were unclear, and
• 1/77, or 1.3%, were unclassifiable

Totaled together, not including In-Universe or unclassifiable wicks, that's

• 10/77, or 12.99% correct, and
• 57/77, or 74.03%, incorrect

The wick analysis: So obviously, a large number of wicks were simply "the creator is just ashamed of this work", which is redundant with Creator Backlash. Some of the unclear wicks were additionally speculation on works the creators "might" consider an Old Shame.

The (possible) solutions: I've got a couple that are not mutually exclusive.

• We could merge Old Shame into Creator Backlash. This is the option I prefer. Examples would be moved over, and if Creator Backlash is too strict then Creator Backlash could be broadened. We could also disambiguate Old Shame's old name into other tropes.
  • On one hand, since the two tropes are so similar, this would make a lot of sense to do. "Creator is ashamed of this work" is IMO an absolutely tropeworthy concept, and this would remove some of the more odd restrictions of the two tropes. On the other hand, we would be cleaning 5,900 articles of wicks, and this new trope could also attract speculation.
• We could split the In-Universe examples off onto their own trope. Since I mainly checked Trivia wicks for my check, there may actually be even more In-Universe examples than I listed, and this new trope would cover them as suggested by Crossover-Enthusiast in the Wick Check thread.
  • On one hand, this would give these wicks a new home, and IMO is a perfectly valid and tropeworthy concept, as lots of In-Universe characters have made things they are ashamed of. On the other hand, I have zero ideas for names for this new trope, and it may end up getting yarded if no one wants to sponsor it in TLP.

What does everyone else think?

• DarthWiki.Idiot Design: The Samsung Galaxy Note 7, released in August 2016 and discontinued just two months later. On the surface, it was a great cell phone that competed with any number of comparable phablets. The problem? It was rushed to market to beat Apple's upcoming iPhone 7 (which came out the following month), and this left it with a serious problem: namely, that it had a habit of spontaneously combusting. Samsung hastily recalled the phone in September once it started causing dozens of fires (to the point where aviation safety authorities were telling people not to bring them onto planes), and gave buyers replacements with batteries from a different supplier. When those phones started catching fire as well, it became obvious that the problems had nothing to do with quality control and ran to the heart of the phone's design ^note (the phone's power draw was greater than any battery that size can handle, leading them to overvolt, overheat, and experience a catastrophic chemical reaction that lithium-ion batteries are prone to). By the time that Samsung discontinued the Galaxy Note 7, it had already become the Ford Pinto of smartphones and a worldwide joke, with every major wireless carrier in the US having already pulled them from sale. Samsung especially doesn't want to be reminded of it, to the point that they ordered YouTube to take down any video showing a mod for Grand Theft Auto V that reskins the Sticky Bombs into the Galaxy Note 7. Censoring reminders of it.
• Main.Magnum Opus Dissonance:
  • Claude Debussy's opera Pelleas and Melisande was by far his longest completed work and one that he took personal pride in, though it remains one of his less popular works to this day. A few years later financial circumstances forced him to publish "Suite bergamesque," a piano piece dating back to his Old Shame period; its third movement, "Clair de lune," is one of his most famous pieces. Would've kept it unpublished if he could.
  • Sir Alec Guinness had a long and varied career, first on stage where he held his own against Laurence Olivier, then in a film career filled with tour de force performances that culminated in his own personal favorite, Adolf Hitler in The Last Ten Days (a proto-Downfall, if you will). So what film is Guinness best known for? A sci-fi quickie he lambasted as "fairy-tale rubbish". Just ashamed.
  • Michelle Pfeiffer experienced this when Matthew Vaughn cast her in Stardust. He told the actress what his favorite film of hers was - and it was Grease 2. Her reaction was a Flat "What" (as the movie is a major Old Shame for her). Just ashamed.
• Trivia.Black Critic Guy: His "Top Ten Worst Male/Female Anime Characters" lists. Two of them in fact. All four are now labeled OBSOLETE on his channel. Obsolete means he wants you to forget about it. Correct.
• Trivia.Chuggaaconroy (2): As he admitted in the second Demon Gate trial video, he deeply regrets his "research" done on Ōkamis final boss, Yami, and the trouble this caused the wikis. His claims that Yami's forms were based on man's destructive desires were based on a YouTube comment on Okami's OST, and he never got around to doing some digging to see if there was anything to back up this argument in Japanese mythology, as the note about this comment got mixed up with the ones that he already confirmed. When he offered a new interpretation of Yami at the end of the final bonus video, he preempted it by stating that it was simply his personal theory and not based in any official statements. Close enough to wanting you to forget about it.'
• Trivia.Da Things: In July 2021, several older poops were made private due to containing jokes that modern-day Ellie no longer found appropriate. She noted during the Twitch stream where she reviewed these poops that some of them (such as "Faces of Florida") were fine other than one nasty joke here or there and she might remake them without the offending scene. DaThings Archives was eventually created as a side channel for the lightly-edited versions, while more in-depth reimaginings would go on the main channel. Pothole indicates that this creator wants you to forget about them.
• Trivia.The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy: Vanessa Marshall has distanced herself from her role as Irwin, saying that an African-American actor should have voiced him. "Distanced herself" implies she wants the role forgotten.
• Trivia.Twilight Pretty Cure: SaoirseParisa regards her Pretty Cure fanfic Twilight Pretty Cure as Old Shame due to the backlash she received over her handling of issues such as rape, victim-blaming and disability. In a nutshell, she was accused of using these topics to create cheap drama and was severely taken to task for "triggering" a reviewer's friend. Though she tried to rewrite the story to make it less offensive, her detractors still weren't satisfied and demanded that she include trigger warnings if she so much as hinted at anything they felt didn't belong in a Pretty Cure fanfic ^note which, in their eyes, meant anything other than family-friendly topics. Eventually, the controversy led to her abandoning the story, as well as effectively quitting the Pretty Cure fandom, and she later deleted all but the first chapter. Her feelings about the story are summed up in her fanfiction.net profile:
  I'd consider this my Parvum Opus, but a bad yaoi story I wrote in high school was WAAAAAAAAAAY worse, along with my super bad Super Robot Monkey Team fan fics from seventh grade. Deleting most of the story definitely sounds like she wants people to forget about it.
• OrphanedSeries.Webcomics (2): The author eventually resurfaced on a dedicated Tumblr that archives the entirety of the series, as well as an admission that he considers the series an Old Shame and it will definitely not be returning. Author tries to make the audience forget about the work. Valid.

• Creator.Jeffrey Dean Morgan: His aforementioned role [cited under Creator Backlash] as a Monster of the Week on Star Trek: Enterprise, which he stated nearly made him quit acting. Hated it but not trying to hide it?
• InformedAbility.Live Action Films: * The plot of Rhinestone revolves around country singer Jake (played by Dolly Parton) betting her manager she can turn anyone into a C&W type in two weeks; She selects taxi driver Nick, who's played by Sylvester Stallone. His singing at the beginning is genuinely as awful as you're supposed to think it is - but he hasn't improved a jot by the end (hearing him say "You got to be luh-huved" is the kind of thing for which Brain Bleach was invented). No wonder this is an Old Shame for Sly. Doesn't say he's distancing himself, just ashamed.
• Recap.The Nostalgia Critic S 2 E 35: Invoked: When The Critic discusseed #9, he mentioned that the reason for the eyeliner was due to a one-time video that shall remain nameless. After this, the theme song to "Melvin, Brother of the Joker" played, and The Critic repeatedly told it to shut up. References the supposedly-unnamed thing anyway, thus naming it for audiences to go look up.
• Trivia.Baldurs Gate: Not the games, but rather the novelizations. Reportedly, Philip Athans was dismayed at the state the novels were released in, as they were first drafts based on early game development notes supplied by BioWare. He submitted his drafts to the publisher with the expectation that they would ask for editing and corrections, but the publisher decided to publish the novels as-is. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Corporate Businessmans Telethon: CBT 2 is frowned upon by the writers of the show due to the writing problems, Paper Lantern speaking full-Chinese (Google Translated as well) instead of speaking in her usual style, and the Turkey suicide pact joke. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Cool Cat Saves The Kids: For Jason Johnson. He did admit to having fun making it but believes the end result deserves its reputation. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Darby Allin: He also appeared on an episode of Sex Sent Me to the E.R., a series about people who engaged in bizarre sex acts that sent them to the ER. Rather understandably, Allin considers it a major Old Shame, later admitting in an interview with Chris Van Vliet that the story in which he was featured on the show was fabricated as he needed the money. Pothole does not mention wanting people to forget about it.
• Trivia.Glitter: In an interview with Watch What Happens Live, Mariah Carey admits to regretting making this film. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Hermans Head: Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria don't like to acknowledge that they were on this show. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Late Night With Conan O Brien: Conan has repeatedly stated that he's not a fan of the first couple years of the series, save for his 1994 interview with David Letterman. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about them.
• Trivia.Gunbuster: Not the series itself, but Gunbuster's design. Anno gave it a single eye because he thought it was unique, but he later decided it was a mistake because it didn't keep the robot recognizable when in shadows (Super Robot Wars, in particular, sometimes has to do a bit of "creative" lighting to get around this). This is why EVA-01 was drawn with two glowing, white eyes on a gloomy purple body. Since he talked about it, he clearly doesn't want it forgotten.
• Trivia.Inseminoid (1): Judy Geeson has said that this is the worst film that she has done. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Inseminoid (2): To a lesser extent Stephanie Beacham has also said that this film was the worst thing she has done though she enjoyed making it. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Gabriel Iglesias: His stint on Last Comic Standing, which ended with him kicked off the show for secretly using a Blackberry to keep in touch with a loved one. (The producers believed he was actually sending out spoilers.) No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Daniel Amos: "Skeptic's Song", off the first album, is a very flippant response to those who doubt Christianity. Terry Taylor regrets writing those lyrics now, and feels that he sacrificed his integrity to tell Christian listeners what they wanted to hear.
  Terry: [...] It is essentially my ongoing prayer that the work I do somehow intrinsically possesses eternal value and is not simply an exercise in self delusion, ego gratification, and neediness for temporal reward and validation—that is except for a couple of songs on my first record. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Dir En Grey: The La:Sadie's era and Kisaki. Even the band thinks that the era is effectively a moot point by now. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Exit Wounds: Eva Mendes called this a "terrible movie". No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Chuggaaconroy (1): He stated in this panel that, in hindsight, he doesn't look back on Trifecta the Dodrio from his Pokemon XD series fondly. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Chuggaaconroy (3):During Tim's playthrough of Luigi's Mansion on The Runaway Guys, Emile admits that he heavily regrets talking about the supposed Safari Ghost who wanted to keep Luigi's head on a mount, as it caused the myth to become much more widespread than it was initially, which culminated in a YouTube channel that did videos on lost media crediting Chugga as the so-called credible source for said rumor. The reason he even talked about it in the first place was because a fan wrote to him and requested he mention the Safari Ghost at some point, and Chugga naïvely took him at face value. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Big Nate: Lincoln Peirce did a lot of comics in his teens and early twenties that he isn't so proud of. He specifically mentioned once that he "drew comics savaging the teachers [he] didn't care for." He also did a comic in college called Third Floor that he called "a Doonesbury rip-off". No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Avengers Age Of Ultron: In the Making of MCU Book, Marvel Studios admitted financially the film did fine, but creatively not so much. No mention of wanting the audienceto forget about it.
• Trivia.Al Snow (1): He takes full responsibility for the failure of the Avatar gimmick. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Boogie Nights: Believe it or not, Burt Reynolds viewed the film as this. After seeing a rough cut of the film, Reynolds fired his agent for recommending it and refused to ever work with Paul Thomas Anderson again. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.GOT7: The "Stop Stop It" era. The members hated the styling so much that Bambam once said, "No comeback would be better than a 'Stop Stop It' comeback," and Jackson continually references it as proof that their fans love them, since they stuck with GOT7 through the era. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Hotel For Dogs: Don Cheadle said in an interview that he regrets doing this film. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Kraftwerk: Ralf Hütter has disowned their first three albums as "prehistoric", and thus they will never be legally reprinted, although it seems that Hütter might have hinted that they might be restored and made available sometime after they release another studio album. Contradicts itself. First it says the creators want the albums to be forgotten, then it says they no longer do. Thus, it is grouped in this category.
• Trivia.Mission Impossible: Paul Playdon, script consultant in seasons three and four, was so ashamed of his own "Time Bomb" (as were many who worked on the episode) that he actually left the show. (While he contributed "The Catafalque" in season five and has story credit on season six's "The Tram," he never returned as a staff member.) Pothole implies the creators are merely ashamed of the episode.
• Trivia.Pamela Anderson: Just ashamed, it seems.
  • Her first film Raw Justice, due to the sex scenes she had to do.
  "I was thrown around, I was scratched, I was bruised, I was bitten. I cried, I went home, I called my mother"
  • She had such a bad experience on Good Cop, Bad Cop that she swore off doing sex scenes for film afterwards.
• Trivia.Pa Rappa The Rapper: Greenblat was ultimately not satisfied with how the anime turned out, especially with his (or even Matsuura's) lack of creative input. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Seth In The Pokecity: KalloFox34 admits that the fanfic suffered from rather scentless writing and gags strung together messily. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.Starflyer 59: Fans may love it, but Jason says he can't stand to listen to Silver anymore. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.The Bonfire Of The Vanities: Morgan Freeman considers this film the one major nightmare of his career. He recalled that being in the film was like being on an aeroplane that you knew was going to crash. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.The Object Show: The creator Kaie Goodman has stated that they do not like this show, and that they were only young when they made it. The descriptions of the videos were eventually revised, consisting of their own complaints of their show. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it, per se.
• Trivia.Young Justice Abridged: Word of God considers the first 3 episodes to be this. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Trivia.The Waitresses: Subverted as Butler thinks the music on their second album, Bruiseology is very good, but he’s still not proud of the record, because the band had just gotten off the road and thus were irritable during recording, and he regretted that it lead to the band falling apart. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.Jennifer Garner: The Elektra movie. She only did it due to contractual obligations from Daredevil. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.David Lynch: Dune (1984) — Based on the novel by Frank Herbert; famous for making the already dense source material nigh-incomprehensible, and for being publicly disowned by Lynch due to the amount of Executive Meddling he faced. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.Jessica Biel (in description): Jessica Claire Biel (born on March 3, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota) is an American actress whose big break, much to her chagrin, was in 7th Heaven. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.Zoe Saldana (1): Apparently she didn't like starring in Crossroads (2002). No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.Zoe Saldana (2): Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, not for the quality of the movie itself, but for personal issues she faced behind the scenes. She has said "they weren't the right people for me" and did not return for any of the sequels. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Creator.Zoe Saldana (3): She also expressed regret for playing Nina Simone in 2020 following the George Floyd protests, which triggered a media reckoning to try to reassess any potential racism in existing media and prevent any racially insensitive practices in the production of future media, which would include casting actors that fully match the ethnicity of the character they are playing. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• HostilityOnTheSet.Professional Wrestling: Katey Harvey was constantly clashing with Lee, first for being booked in a degrading 'Hairspray on a Pole' match that she's embarrassed of to this day. Then for unsafe working conditions - she publicly denounced them when Lorcan Wood got a broken jaw thanks to his inexperienced opponent. She continued working for them for a few more years, but eventually stopped after a show where a botch led to an opponent getting a broken neck. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Literature.Sixth Column: The novel is actually a version of John W. Campbell's All with the racism toned down. Heinlein considered Sixth Column an Old Shame that he wrote to garner the favor of the racist but influential Campbell. No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it.
• Music.Bjork: Canon Discontinuity / Old Shame: She doesn't acknowledge her 1977 album. Not to mention that she named her 1993 album Debut! No mention of wanting the audience to forget about it plus trope slashing with Canon Discontinuity.
• Music.Rubber Soul: "Run For Your Life". At its heart, the message of this song is that if you decide to end a relationship with the singer, he will hunt you down and murder you. As with the earlier "You Can't Do That", Lennon later regarded this song as an Old Shame. No mention of an attempt to make the audience forget about this song.

• AmericansHateTingle.Anime And Manga: Attack on Titan has become this in South Korea, despite starting off as popular as it was back in Japan and in the West, to the point that the series have become Old Shame to Koreans who otherwise enjoy anime and manga. This is due to revelations that mangaka Hajime Isayama has admitted to basing a character off Akiyama Yoshifuru, an infamous Imperial Japanese Army general and has reportedly sympathized with nationalism and Imperial Japan. Old Shame is a creator trope, not an audience trope.
• Characters.Doctor Who Masters: Ambiguous Situation: It's implied during "Spyfall, Part 2" that he is indeed the incarnation after Missy — he makes an offhanded comment that he feels that murdering is what he was born to be doing, vaguely alluding to Missy's attempt to reform. Eventually, the 2021 Annual outright confirms he succeeded Missy. During a feature showing correspondence between the Doctor and the Master, she brings up the time he became a woman and almost turned good. His response? "She spent too long in your company, Doctor -- a mistake I don’t intend to repeat." Not sure what Old Shame is doing there in that last line, honestly.
• Heartwarming.Monte Fjanton: Whenever Felix reviews an Old Shame of his, he will take some time of the video to talk about how even if he's embarrassed, he's glad he made the thing he reviewed because more often than not, it's somewhat nostalgic to him, and may even have helped him become who he is today. On a similar note, he makes it clear that if you're embarrassed of who you were or what you did in your past, that can only be a good thing because it means you've grown and developed. Embarrassed but not ashamed. Love the guy's take on it though.
• Trivia.Al Snow (2): Snow doesn't dislike the Head gimmick so much as he is disappointed in himself for not getting more out of it, saying at the time he didn't understand why it worked or how to draw money with it. The creator wasn't even ashamed of his specific work here.
• Trivia.Toonsylvania: As with all of their pre-Shrek works, any traces of this show appear to have been wiped clean from DreamWorks Animation's history, to the point that they list The Penguins of Madagascar as their first TV show.^note This also excludes their failed prime time series Father of the Pride, which they don't like to talk about for plenty of other reasons. Doesn't really say that the creator is ashamed of this story. Belongs better in Keep Circulating the Tapes, which already has an entry.

• Characters.Bun Al Gun: In-Universe, he sees his old works like this and becomes a taint in order to destroy them in spite of his associates' wishes.
• Podcast.Podcast The Ride: In-universe; Mike "starred" in a segment of Manswers as one of his first gigs as a young actor in Hollywood, which answered the question, "Why shouldn't you get a handjob from a British chick?" That appearance not only turned out to be a deeply uncomfortable and unprofessional experience, but also turned out to be one of the first times his parents saw him on TV.
• Recap.SCP Foundation Other SC Ps:
  • In-Universe. Dr. Cartwright might have rigorously believed the highly racist beliefs he was spewing when he drafted the original document, but one of his descendants later tries to have it quietly deleted from from the Foundation's archives, due to how badly it reflects on his family's legacy.
  • Warts and All: In 1916, after the language of the document has been rendered unacceptable and highly offensive, a member of the later generations of the Cartwright family puts in a request for it, as well all copies and all records of it being destroyed, due to his family involvement with the racist politics expressed in the document having been rendered an invoked Old Shame. The O5 council refuses this requests, and basically tells Dr. Cartwright that they won't whitewash history just for his or his family's sake, and that it is better that they remember the organisation's ugly past than try to sweep it under the rug and pretend it never existed.
• Series.Bones: In-Universe with Cam's role in an amateur schlock movie as '70s bloodsucking vampire with a Funny Afro, from "The Suit on the Set".
• TabletopGame.Ars Magica: In-universe. Ranulf of Flambeau was a militant, angry young warrior, and chose a scary-looking dagger as his voting sigil. As he grew older and mellowed out, he found himself embarrassed with it.
• Film.The Final Girls: Dramatic Irony: There's a good sense that Amanda's financial problems, as well as lack of success as an actress, is due to her treatment of her past as a horror icon as an Old Shame. She complains about being only recognized as a Scream Queen but it's the only thing she's done of any note and they DO recognize her. The movie also makes it clear that Camp Bloodbath, as a Captain Ersatz for Friday the 13th, has an active and vocal fandom that wants to see her. In-Universe example.
• Funny.Persona 5 Strikers: Futaba brings up Haru's "Beauty Thief" alias during a briefing with Zenkichi. When Zenkichi asks what the whole "Beauty Thief" thing is about, Haru spouts, "My name is Beauty Thief!" on cue. Zenkichi looks exasperated and expresses disapproval that she would call herself that. The next morning, you can have an optional conversation with Haru where she expresses her embarrassment over her "Beauty Thief" nickname, saying that she's been going along with the name only because she looked up to that image and totally not because she thinks she's one. A second optional conversation has her saying that she is a college student and an adult, and therefore the name no longer applies to her.^note The original Japanese text for "Beauty Thief" is "bishojo kaito", where "shojo" means "[young] girl." In-Universe pothole.
• Narm.Sonic The Hedgehog: And let's not forget, said panel happens as a result of Sally accusing Sonic of being "so selfish." And why? For having to prioritise protecting the world and their loved ones from Robotnik as opposed to calling it all off to settle down with her, despite him taking the time to sincerely apologise and rationally explain why they can't get married yet beforehand. Notably, he only gets just as angry back when she hits him and insults his entire worldview and motivations; downplaying them to him only caring about "punching out Robotnik's lights". The whole setup — especially combined with her aforementioned bizarre faces and radical change in personality out of nowhere with little-to-no buildup — just makes Sally look incredibly unhinged and impossible to take seriously. It's no wonder why she hates being reminded of it In-Universe after her eventual Character Rerailment. In-Universe pothole.
• Recap.Star Trek Enterprise S 04 E 19 Demons: In-Universe. Minister Samuels was a member of Terra Prime years ago, after his father was killed in a shuttle crash that he blamed on the Denobulan pilot. Archer doesn't expose him, but does use this intel as leverage to take control of the investigation.
  Samuels: I was very young when I joined Terra Prime.
  Archer: You were eighteen.
  Samuels: Didn't you make any questionable choices when you were that age, Captain? It was a stupid mistake. I was a fool. My father had died in a freighter accident and I blamed the pilot, who happened to be Denobulan. We all have our demons. I've exorcised mine.
  Archer: I don't care what you did when you were young, Minister. I need your help.
  Samuels: I underestimated you. I suppose I'm not the first person to make that mistake. You'll have your case file within the hour. In-Universe usage.

• Finally, there was the "home run derby" era of the late '90s and early '00s, with players such as Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds at the forefront. Initially, this was seen as the end of baseball's A.A.E., with the sport rising to heights of popularity perhaps not seen in decades; millions of people were tuning in to watch superstar athletes race to shatter home-run records. However, things turned around quickly once it was revealed where this sudden surge in athleticism was coming from: steroid use so rampant that it triggered a Congressional investigation. Everyone in baseball, along with many fans, now treats that era as one of the most disgraceful episodes in baseball history due to the fact that many of its biggest stars were revealed to have been either doping or engaging in other forms of cheating (like Sammy Sosa's corked bat), with MLB officials turning a blind eye due to the fact that the sport was popular again. Pothole.
• LetsPlay.Achievement Hunter Minecraft Series: A few of the less-well-thought-out Lets Plays have become this, especially the original Creeper Soccer and Twelve Towers (repeatedly referred to by Geoff and Gavin as the ugliest thing they've ever built). No context.

• Trivia.Near Chris: How he views most of the videos he’s removed from his channel, and even how he views many of the videos currently on his channel. Mixture of correct and incorrect.
• Trivia.Miliyah Kato: My Girl is suspiciously absent from both the album it would have logically appeared on and the latest compilation album. It's possible that she (or her agent) didn't want to include a cover on her albums, but it's not a terrible rendition of the song by any means and even Koda Kumi has released covers onto regular albums and compilations. Unfortunately, this may always remain a mystery. "Possible" example, a.k.a. speculation.
• Trivia.Luke Combs: Early in his career, he appeared in the music video of another country artist who chose to festoon said video with the Confederate flag. In response, Combs took his name off the single and explicitly stated regret for appearing in it. Depends on if taking his name off means he wants you to forget about it.
• Trivia.Nutbrown Pooper: Neo thinks some of the old videos are cringy when he gets older, especially Yoshi's Adventures, which leads to cancellation. Unclear on if cancellation means he wants it to be forgotten as written.
• Fanfic.So What Colour Is Your Toothbrush: Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The 'totally not smut fanfics' book that two Old Shames were pulled from. None of the fics in it were actually explicit. Unclear on if this is In-Universe or not.
• GoAnimate.Tropes Specific A To F: One video by African Vulture that was later taken down (presumably because of Old Shame) featured Caillou loudly announcing that "Steven Universe sucks" (with Steven and the Crystal Gems in earshot, no less). He is promptly booed by everyone nearby and Boris lays into Caillou over how he could possibly hate "the greatest show ever", leaving the now-grounded Caillou to leave in humiliation. Speculative pothole. Valid if true, but since we don't know it is listed as unclear.
• OrphanedSeries.Webcomics (1): Shredded Moose was abandoned and taken offline after it ended. Many of the strips are still missing. Given the comic's rather negative reputation, most have assumed the creators considered it an Old Shame. Speculative example. Valid if true, but since it is speculation it is listed as unclear.

• Radio.Adventures In Odyssey: Take That Me: The rap song "Communicate" (from the pulled episode "Lights Out At Whit's End") gets this treatment in a scene from the 2015 episode "Out of the Woods". It's...meta?
  Detective Don Polehaus: "And the old cassette player?"
  Eugene Meltsner: "I unearthed it from Mr. Whittaker's archives. When I push the button..." <pushes it>
  Whit/Kids (on tape): "...Share the gospel before it's too late, and the best way to do it is communicate!"
  Detective Polehaus (overlapping): "You’ll wanna change that."
  Eugene: "Well, Perhaps so."