History Main / AudienceParticipation

* As anyone who has ever seen the stage version of ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Rocky Horror Show]]'' will be able to tell you, it gets just as chaotic and raucous as it's film counterpart, but with the added bonus of the actor playing The Criminologist (usually a stand up comic, or someone with experience in Pantomime) coming back to the audience with some kind of retort.

* OlderThanTelevision: ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'' has Peter demanding that the audience [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve clap to restore Tinkerbell]].

** It's not just anime that gets this treatment: several Bollywood films, ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'', ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' and ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' also got cheering screenings.

** In ''Muppet*Vision 3D'', Sweetums asks the audience to help him find Bean Bunny, who has run away.

* [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]] has its share of Audience Participation in pretty much 95% of its attractions. Original shows from the past included ''Superstar Television'' where guests can act in select scenes from classic TV shows like ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', ''Series/HomeImprovement'', and others, and the Monster Sound Show, in which guests can add classic sound effects to a short comedic film starring MartinShort and ChevyChase. Superstar Television was replaced with ''Theatre/DougLive'', a [[TheMusical musical]] based on ''WesternAnimation/DisneysDoug'', in which one child played "Quail-Kid," and selected adults played members of The Beets. And after ten years, THAT was replaced by ''The Series/AmericanIdol Experience'', where talented guests auditioned for the chance to be the first in line for a real American Idol audition in their hometown. Other attractions that had audience participation included "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire-Play It!" (which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin more or less a recreation of the TV show of the same name]]), "Lights! Motors! Action!" (in which a guest controlled a stunt car through remote control), the Studio Backlot Tour (guests were picked to get splashed in an underwater mining sequence for an unnamed action film), and "Toy Story Midway Mania" (which is an interactive ride!). Oh, and even one of the RESTAURANTS has audience participation, in the style of a 1950s household with the waiters admonishing patrons to get their "Elbows off the table!"
* As part of the Millennium celebration that ran from October 1, 1999 to January 1, 2001 [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Epcot]] had the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZkj35hGfA "Tapestry of Nations" parade]] in the World Showcase area of the park. The Sage of Time character who headed the parade encouraged guests to dance with the performers - most of which controlled various large puppets strapped to their backs - as part of his narration. The performers occasionally interacted with the guests, depending on a given puppet or costume's capabilities. IE: they reached down and had the puppet shake hands with a guest or in the case of the Reverse Marionette, let a guest hold the hands of the smaller marionette.
* ''Ride/StarTours: The Adventure Continues'': Darth Vader will single out a random member of the audience as a Rebel spy on board, and their picture will show up on the screen.

* Despite Website/FanFictionDotNet outright forbidding this type of fic on their site, these are still quite popular and there are quite a few uploaded there. The most popular being truth or dare fics. (Where the audience makes outrageous dares the characters have to carry out.)

* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'': The author has posted two polls so far, the first of which was to ask who, if any, of the other paladins, would get Geass, and the other to ask if they should give their lions special names beside their colors. [[spoiler: Turns out, they were happy with '''all of them''' getting Geass]]. There was also a review based poll to determine who would end up with who in this story. Based on the tags the story has on ''Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn'', the final pairings are [[spoiler: Lelouch and Kallen, Rai and Shirley, Rivalz and Milly, and Suzaku and Euphemia]].

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': Prior to the release of Episode 39, the author held a Website/YouTube poll where he asked "Which one of these men is the shiniest hidden gem currently serving the Republic?" The choices were Octavian Grant, Terrinald Screed, Nial Declann, and Gilad Pellaeon, all of whom are ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' characters who served in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. Pellaeon, being the most recognizable and well-known of the four, predictably won the overwhelming majority of votes while Screed came in at a distant second place. After this poll, Pellaeon and Screed would appear as POV characters in Episode 39 where they are each commanding one of Kuat Drive Yards' ''Mandator II''-class star dreadnaughts against Battlefleet Xek-Tek in a big SpaceBattle.

* ''Podcast/MarekVsWyshynski'': Prior to [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]], the titular hosts will ask a Question of the Day and invite listeners to give their answers via e-mail or Website/{{Twitter}}, with the best answers (as judged by the hosts) being read on-air at the end of each show. Answers that get on the air range from the obvious to the witty - even BlackHumor will occasionally make its way there if it is particularly clever.

* LetsPlay/ClumsyChicken's live Website/YouTube streams are built around this. Viewers can request areas for her to go to/specific enemies to defeat/specific party configurations.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfEsther: When the book is read aloud during Purim, audiences are [[CheapHeat expected to boo and jeer]] every time they hear the name of Haman (''boooo''!). Noisemakers are even provided just so we can be sure his name is properly drowned out.

** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/reality.here Reality]]" shows an insect dying, and its body parts being pulled apart by ants. The ants' movements are the actions of the previous visitors.

* Starkid:

** In "Theatre/Twisted", the Princess directly asks the audience about Aladdin's intentions at one point. When the audience inevitably tries to tell her that he's not trustworthy, she does not seem to care.

** The Princess directly asks the audience about Aladdin's intentions at one point. When the audience inevitably tries to tell her that he's not trustworthy, she does not seem to care.

* The comics of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' started out this way, being framed as text-based games. Originally fans submitted suggestions for the next 'command' which would become the next panel(s) of the comic. However, the growing fan base and increasingly complex plot resulted in the suggestion box for ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' being closed altogether, though fan suggestions and ideas are still incorporated into the universe on a smaller scale.

* ''{{Theatre/Pippin}}'' has the title character's grandmother, Bertha, asking the audience to join her in a singalong.

* In ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'', the Knights find the Grail beyond the fourth wall, since the clue is hidden behind a rock (exactly what this clue is depends on the seating plan of the theatre itself). The Knights bring the one sitting in that seat onto the stage to congratulate them.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' featured what is known as the most infamous example of this trope (at least in comics): a phone poll to decide if Jason Todd would be killed by the Joker's bomb in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''. He lost by 72 votes out of a total of 10,614 cast, and proceeded to perish, not returning until the events of ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood Under the Hood]]'' (although he was {{Retcon}}ned into ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' in 2003 when ''Under the Hood'' established that the graveyard scene had Batman initially fighting the real Jason Todd before Jason fled partway through the battle and was replaced by Clayface assuming his form.)

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': While many of the creators' [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall stream chats have been canonized from their introduction]], they become crucial in the finale on Day 134 when they are invited to vote for whether the pirates choose to [[spoiler:fight against Ivy (the heart of [[TheHeartless the Corruption]]) or Iris (the leader of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist the Church]])]] in the end, judging by ''their'' knowledge and belief of who's the true villain after watching the SMP, with the total votes tallying up for a final decision. They choose to [[spoiler:fight [[BigBad Iris]] and are able to help the pirates {{Earn Your|Happy Ending}} BittersweetEnding.]]

* ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'' has a variant; some riddles never actually have definitive answers, and are instead deferred to the commenters, who can then theorize amongst themselves as to what the "correct" answer is. On at least on occasion, a riddle's answer was chosen from the comments section.

When the audience for a broadcast or performance are invited to participate in some way. This can include:

A SuperTrope to OfficialFanSubmittedContent, AudienceParticipationSong, FakeInteractivity, and InteractiveComic. A regular feature of {{Pantomime}}.

Usually involves NoFourthWall. Depending on the audience, can lead to AudienceParticipationFailure.

* ''Series/{{Endurance}}''

** ''Series/PakDePoenDeShowVan1Miljoen'' also had audience participation of a different kind. There was a number panel on the front of the screen. If the audience member had the same number as the one that was shown on the panel, they would win the grand prize of 20 million BF. To put this in perspective you only need to know that the winner of the show can maximally win 1,05 million BF.

** ''Series/PakDePoenDeShowVan1Miljoen'' also had audience participation of a different kind. There was a number panel on the front of the screen. If the audience member had the same number as the one that was shown on the panel he would win the grand prize of 20 million BF. To put this in perspective you only need to know that the winner of the show can maximally win 1,05 million BF.

* ''Roleplay/SolarWind'' allows its audience to make decisions to move the plot forward. This mechanic was especially prevalent in the first few chapters.

* Let's Plays on the Website/SomethingAwful forums will often have audience participation in the forum topic, if the game has scope for such a thing.
* All of the segments of the Creepypasta story ''WebOriginal/VoxAndKingBeau'' were originally posted on /x/ with the author writing as the titular character. Vox posted about the strange happenings in her life and frequently asked /x/ for advice, actively encouraging and responding to comments.
* ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'' has a variant; some riddles never actually have definitive answers, and are instead deferred to the commenters, who can then theorize amongst themselves as to what the "correct" answer is. On at least on occasion, a riddle's answer was chosen from the comments section.
* Most (but not all) of the tweets on Blog/MakeUpAGuy are follower submissions messaged to the account.
* In October 2018, On, the creator of the {{VideoGame/Grow}} games, made an audience participation game called ''[[https://twitter.com/ONKICHI/status/1049285632743206914 Grow RT]]'' on his Japanese Twitter account. The game consisted of an image of a creature and gave the audience two choice of how the creature would evolve, similarly to how ''Grow ver. 1'''s gameplay works. If the image would get enough reteweets, the creature would evolve and the audience would be presented with two new options to choose from (All steps can be seen [[https://twitter.com/ONKICHI/status/1051456468065513474 here]] on reverse order). The game got interrupted a week later due to the creator's health problem. In December 2020, he tried the concept [[https://twitter.com/EYEZMAZE/status/1341373413701521415 once again]] on his more popular English account (All steps can be seen [[https://twitter.com/EYEZMAZE/status/1341742325416960010 here]]). Once there was not enough people to reach the next evolution step (largely because the game went on a little hiatus), he decided to conclude the game with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAlLO-co0us animation]] that was made thanks to the specific choices the audience made during the Twitter game.
* Being an open species Art RPG, everyone wanting to join in on the WebOriginal/SeldnacRae is able to make their own Seldnac character and create stories set in their world

* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' takes majority of matches from comments under videos, and even encourages it in one of announcer's catchphrases: "''WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!''" Starting from season 2, fans can also vote for official winner of the battle.
* Chuggaaconroy:
** He based his Let's Play of ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Animal Crossing: New Leaf]]'' on this idea. Once per 2-3 episodes, he asked fans about some idea(e.g. next public works project or his new clothes), and everyone was able to send him his/her suggestion.
** Whenever he plays a Pokemon game, the fans are allowed to choose the nicknames of his party members.
* ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' has the Super Amazing End Card Tournament -- a poll about a set of subjects related to the video shown or about the next episode [=MatPat=] covers. Only a few times does this impact what is shown, such as what subject for the next episode.
* ''WebVideo/LostInGoogle'': The scripts of the episodes are based on the viewers' comments and suggestions from the previous videos.
* One of the appeals of ''WebVideo/MovieNight'' is that you can submit your own reviews of the movies that Jonathan Paula is reviewing.
* LetsPlay/ClumsyChicken's live Website/YouTube streams are built around this. Viewers can request areas for her to go to/specific enemies to defeat/specific party configurations.
* ''WebVideo/{{Xiil3gendaryzetsubou}}'' do this during their Twitch streams to decide things like who to spend time with in ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'', who to take into battle in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', which route to take in ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'', etc.
* Many of WebVideo/Jerma985's more ambitious streams allow the chat to participate in whatever he has going on. His carnival stream, for example, necessitated chat input to operate robots to perform a series of simple carnival games. The ''WebVideo/Jerma985Dollhouse'' streams were a more ambitious flavor of this, with chat dictating Jerma's clothing for the day, his activities, and where furniture would be placed.
* LetsPlay/{{Marriland}}, also known as Devin, did this at the end of his ''Yellow Sleeplocke''. After he (as Hello) [[spoiler:loses to Mewtwo,]] he ends up depositing two of his Pokémon but keeps the four mains used in the Sleeplocke in the party. Why? Because he has challenged his Twitch audience to a final battle, with the viewers controlling Hello, and Devin using his four main Pokémon from the old team from long ago, consisting of Pikachu, Pippi the Clefable, Zippy the Charizard, and Porkchop the Primeape. Devin has the audience vote on the moves and strategize. In the end, [[spoiler:Devin is defeated by the audience itself]].
* Prior to releasing the second season, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' parody ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' put out some teasers for said season, in which fans were encouraged to call a phone number and answer an automated survey. It turned out that the survey only asked the caller to state two things: their name and how many sexual partners they have had throughout their life. The results were included in the "Sex Survey Results" video which was released along with the rest of the second season.
* ''WebVideo/LostPause'': A significant part of Noble's content is his reaction videos. With his Try Not To Laugh challenges, he asks his fans to send him funny pics or clips.
* WebVideo/{{Jacksfilms}}:
** "Your Grammar Sucks," where Jack makes fun of incoherent Internet comments, has viewers screenshot the comments and send them to him on Twitter or Facebook.
** YIAY (Yesterday I Asked You) is a series where Jack asks his audience questions and shows off their best answers in his video. Sometimes he goes beyond straightforward questions and asks viewers to create photo manipulations, make valentines, or write lyrics for a song. YIAY led to a few {{Spin Off}}s like "Fix Your Pix," where Jack edits user-submitted photographs, and "Fake Facts" where Jack makes clickbait images out of fake trivia his fans create, then asks his audience to submit proof that it fooled their friends. Jack also runs a live Twitch game show based on YIAY where he competes with fans to have the funniest response to a question.
* Given that ''WebVideo/TheWhiskeyVault'' revolves around a deeply subjective topic (namely, sampling and reviewing all kinds of whiskey), hosts Daniel and Rex are not comfortable doing list episodes. The ones that they have done on ''The Whiskey Vault'' and its sister channel ''The Whiskey Tribe'' have all been based on feedback given by their fanbase which is collated together to create the list for each such episode.
* {{LetsPlay/Skawo}}'s Patreon Supporters can decide which playthrough will be up on Patreon early, regular viewers can decide what format some games will be displayed in (E.G. Whether Twilight Princess would be displayed on a Game Cube, a Game Cube hacked to have wide screen, or the Wii U remake).

* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'''s hit mechanic allows viewers to donate to streamers and tell them a player they want them to kill.

* ''Podcast/{{Psycomedia}}'' starts every episode with a feedback section known as backfeeding and [[BlatantLies will often tackle topics based on requests]]