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Considering it doesn't even mention a single trope I'm pretty sure this is not an example, maybe ask redandready45?
This seems to be not so much Unbuilt Trope, but som sort of equivalent for real-world phenomena.
For example, in the first example, real-world crackpots are not a trope, but what the example says is that the work presents some sort of half-formed version of the concept.
I find that particular example suspect for another reason: crackpots are not a new phenomenon that emerged from the internet; people like that have existed at least as long as the printed media, and I'm sure that the books models its examples from them. So what we're seeing is not so much an "unbuilt" phenomenon, but a phenomenon that has changed over time.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnbuiltTrope/LiveActionFilm
"Man of the Year was made in 2006, 10 years before the 2016 election in which Donald Trump was elected"
"The Siege is a movie that looks at how a major terrorist attack in New York would disrupt life greatly... three years before September 11, 2001."
Yeah.... I really think Unbuilt Trope needs a cleanup
Edited by DayBreakChannelThose examples are closer to Harsher in Hindsight, and even that trope might need a cleanup due to misuse.
SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY

Found this here on https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnbuiltTrope/Literature
"A Confederacy of Dunces: Though written in the 1960s and published in 1981, John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece unbuilds the crackpot ideas and philosophies that emerged from the Internet, and the kind of people who promote them. Ignatius is a predecessor of those very crackpots: he promotes the idea of returning to feudalism and conservatism, predating the modern "Dark Enlightenment" movement, but is a lazy slob who leaches off his mother and spends his time watching cartoons and movies just to complain about their "degeneracy". And it's all but stated he engages in pseudo-intellectual nonsense just to stick it to his liberal activist girlfriend."
The thing is, I just feel uncomfortable about finding some Unbuilt Trope example of something that exists in real-life and not just in the world of tropes and conventions (in fact, the entry explicitly states it is referring to something in real life). It's like saying that so-and-so shows an Unbuilt example of communism or any other real-life theories and movements with real life impact.
To further build upon questionable examples purporting to have found Unbuilt examples of real life movement, here's some other entries on just that page itself:
"The Moviegoer has a series of insightful and utter deconstructive extrapolations about the flaws of 60's counter culture but the book was published in 1961, well ahead of the popular outbreak of what he was describing."
"A good forty years or so before the concept of The Man began to take root in the public consciousness, it is discussed without being named in the 1922 novel One of Ours. Progressive young Gladys takes a moment to ruminate on how protagonist Claude Wheeler's asshole brother Bayliss is one of the type of people who run the world.
— “She believed that all things which might make the world beautiful—love and kindness, leisure and art—were shut up in prison, and that successful men like Bayliss Wheeler held the keys.” "
(I don't even think this is an example of Unbuilt Trope)