History Main / GISSyndrome

Note that GIS Syndrome isn't limited to Google Images as lazy creators also use Bing Image Search and DuckDuckGo Image search.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system Geographic Information Systems,]] which aren't used by artists nearly as much.

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Used pervasively in ''VisualNovel/{{Psycholonials}}''. All the backgrounds in the game are real photographs, with heavy pixelation and color filters applied, and only the characters actually drawn. One scene featuring a character traveling outside even uses a Google Maps satellite street map from a real place as the backdrop.
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* One video game had faux advertisements in it; unfortunately, the 'faux' adverts were really GIS results with some text changed or taken out. Fortunately for the game, this was noticed during testing and changed.

* Stock images make up many of the backgrounds in the VisualNovel-style Creator/{{Charon}} VideoGame/RPGMaker games.

!! Examples:

Not to be confused with a PhotoComic, which uses photographs as the art instead of an embellishment. See also PhotographicBackground and RealPlaceBackground.

* The banner ads for ''VideoGame/{{Evony}}'' (and others that have [[FollowTheLeader followed its example]]) oft included [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame scantily clad women who never appear in game]], chiefly because many of those images were lifted from various other sources, from uncredited artists to copyrighted material

Not to be confused with a PhotoComic, which uses photographs as the art instead of an embellishment. See also PhotographicBackground.

[[folder: FanWorks]]

* Some of the backgrounds used in the Pokemon anime/movies may look like this at first sight until you understand them more clearly.

* Stock images make up many of the backgrounds in the VisualNovel style Creator/{{Charon}} VideoGame/RPGMaker games.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' had an infamous example where the cover of the Wii version was pulled from a search engine. If you look carefully at the cover, you will see an IGN watermark. This was, of all things, because they had ''lost the original image file''.

* A lot of unnoticeable examples in the Pokemon animes and movies.

* Apparently, the art of ''VideoGame/CivilizationV'' had been redesigned shortly before release, forcing the developers to rely on this technique for their button graphics, which [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422219 drew some ridicule from the community.]]

* Apparently, the art of ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' had been redesigned shortly before release, forcing the developers to rely on this technique for their button graphics, which [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422219 drew some ridicule from the community.]]

* Stock images make up many of the backgrounds in the VisualNovel style [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Charon Charon]] VideoGame/RPGMaker games.

* ''[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'': Early comics used a combination of [[StylisticSuck original but very low-quality digital art]] and [[SpriteComic sprites]], but it eventually transitioned to using image-search backgrounds in almost every comic.

* The cover of many [[VanityPublishing Vanity Published]] books. The cover often has nothing whatsoever to do with the book contents!

-->-- '''Creator/AndrewHussie''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

[[IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system Geographic Information Systems,]] which aren't used by artists nearly as much.

** Likely the cause of [[https://forums.serebii.net/threads/serebii-net-pok%C3%A9mon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire-discovery-thread.637946/page-9#post-17524236 a map of the world from serebii.net ending up on the wall of a house]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]''. Hilariously, the devs tried to disguise the fact by flipping the pic horizontally.