History Main / DancingBear

* ''Animation/NextGen'' has a decidedly mixed critical reception, but it's still praised, at least among independent animators that have seen it, as a glowing example of the quality of animation that [[Creator/BlenderFoundation Blender]] is capable of. It's a free and open source all-in-one 3D animation program that can handle essentially every aspect of animated film production, from sculpting, modeling, painting, animation, physics, and even video editing, and it's only gotten more feature-rich over the years.

* ''Anime/GhostStories'' became this when it was localized in the west. Due to the localizers having no set limitations for what they could or couldn't do, they let the voice actors improvise almost the entire performance while still following the basic story, leading to an officially licensed GagDub. The dub is the only reason anybody outside of Japan watches the series; the few people who bother to watch the original version tend to say that it's just [[SoOkayItsAverage a mediocre horror anime]].

* ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'' was well known not so much for its over 1 million words of written smut, but for its sheer amount of tags before it was removed from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ([[https://www.vox.com/culture/22299017/sexy-times-with-wangxian-ao3-archive-of-our-own-tagging-censorship-abuse it reportedly had over 1,700 tags]]). The tags took up so much space on people's screens that they made the work an accessibility hazard, and eventually led to [=Ao3=] implementing a 75-tag limit (not including tags for archive warnings and ratings) for newer works.

* ''Series/HomeMovieThePrincessBride'''s primary draw is watching an AllStarCast fool around at home reenacting a classic film like the rest of us with cheap costumes and props and filming on smartphones, without professional stylists or makeup artists, without CGI or Photoshop, away from red carpets and film sets and perfect lighting, all while still bringing their A-game and treating it as seriously as a "real" project. It's drawn comparisons to celebrities discovering Website/{{Vine}}s several years late, or old-school [=YouTube=] content from the mid/late 2000s.

* [[ThatWasTheLastEntry Social media accounts of murdered and/or missing people]], such as the [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] channel of [[https://youtube.com/user/catalinapby1 Zaharie Shah]], the captain of the infamous [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]], tend to be flooded afterwards - in an eerily [[Film/TheTrumanShow Truman Burbank]]-esque way - by comments completely unrelated to whatever was posted with condolences, or theories about what happened to them if the case is unsolved. Extra creepy points if the person attached was a [[TheEveryman complete nobody]] beforehand, [[ParanoiaFuel and is probably completely unaware of all the attention... or are they?]]

* ''WebVideo/UnusAnnus'' was a Website/YouTube channel that uploaded weird videos each day, with the gimmick that after one year, the channel and all its content would be deleted. Didn't watch it while it was active? Sorry, but you'll never get to see those videos (unless you disobey the creators' wishes and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes find some archive copies]]).

* What do ''FanFic/TheSubspaceEmissarysWorldsConquest'', ''Fanfic/AmbienceAFleetSymphony'', and ''Fanfic/TheLoudHouseRevamped'' all have in common? None of them would be well-known outside of their respective fandoms if it weren't for their [[{{Doorstopper}} sheer lengths]] -- all three have been considered the longest piece of literature in the English language at one point in time, only being outdone by each other.[[note]]As of November 13, 2021, ''Revamped'' is the longest of the three (and the only one still updating), followed by ''Ambience'' and ''World Conquest''.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SirBilli'' is notable for two things: first, it is the first CGI animated film to be made entirely in Scotland, and second, Creator/SeanConnery came out of retirement to voice the main character (reportedly, both because it was Scottish film and SoMyKidsCanWatch), which ended up being his final acting role. Other than that, it's considered pretty bad.

* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'' would be an entirely forgettable animated children's film, if not for a major RoleEndingMisdemeanor that was exposed in its later development, which led to the director, Dylan Brown, being taken off the project two months before its release and going uncredited as a result. Because no one else in the production was willing to take the chair (presumably not wanting to be known to the public as "the director of that movie directed by a sex pest"), this leaves ''Wonder Park'' in the odd position of being one of the few, if not only, wide-release films to have no credited director. Quite a few analysts, such as WebVideo/FoldingIdeas, pursued and analyzed the film specifically out of curiosity as to whether Brown's loss had left the film visibly affected.

* The casts of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', and ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'' are in ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero''. This is the only reason why anyone actually gets around to watching these series (or playing their visual novels).

* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'''s biggest draw is its reputation as the novel that inspired both ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' was revolutionary for not only being a wargame with a science fiction setting as opposed to something fantasy-themed or historical, but for being heavily influenced by the then-relatively new genre of mecha anime...made in ''North America'' no less. While it has languished in obscurity for several years, it has maintained its Dancing Bear status by the ingenuity of its [[VideoGame/MechWarrior video game spinoffs.]]

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' earns its Dancing Bear status from just how ''pitch-black'' it is in both setting and tone, coining the term "grimdark" and becoming the ''standard'' against which all [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Worlds]] are measured.

* ''Webcomic/BillyTheHeretic'''s ''intended'' gimmick was to be the comic of choice for [[ThoseWackyNazis white supremacists.]] What it got instead was the [[SarcasmMode coveted]] title of being the worst web comic '''ever.''' And that is going against some ''serious'' competition.

* The Bloody Board was a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' forum infamous for one thing: its 39,000 posts were posted by a single person, who happened to be the forum's owner themself. It stayed under the radar for 6 years [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html before its very existence was unearthed by]] Website/{{Cracked}}[[note]]And yes, we admit that the forum's kinda creepy.[[/note]]. This prompted [[Website/FourChan /b/]], ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast eBaum's World]]'' [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast and Encyclopedia Dramatica]] to [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/6/6b/Bloody_Board_newfag.png have some "fun"]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/b/b5/Bloody_Board_rules_1_%26_2.png on the]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/5/50/Bloody_Board_b-tards.png forum]], which ultimately led to the forum's closure.

* The usual selling point when viewers suggest the animated superhero show ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'' to newcomers is to wait for the FirstEpisodeTwist, which [[EstablishingSeriesMoment pretty much sets up what the show is ACTUALLY going to be like]]; a ComingOfAge story with [[{{Gorn}} extremely gory]], emotion-wrecking fight scenes.