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[[TakeThat Aiming a jab]] at the audience, usually for being such losers that they'll [[SelfDeprecation waste their time watching/reading/playing this nonsense]], such moral degenerates that they'll [[YouBastard enjoy sleazy pandering to their base impulses]], and/or so dumb they'll pay good money for it. In {{pinball}}s, videogames, and other similar works, this extends to mocking the player's lack of skill.

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[[TakeThat Aiming a jab]] at the audience, usually for being such losers that they'll [[SelfDeprecation waste their time watching/reading/playing this nonsense]], such moral degenerates that they'll [[YouBastard enjoy sleazy pandering to their base impulses]], and/or so dumb they'll pay good money for it. In {{pinball}}s, videogames, video games, and other similar works, this extends to mocking the player's lack of skill.


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* ''VideoGame/SimCity4'': The loading screen message "Pixelating Nude Patch" is a jab at ''VideoGame/TheSims'' modders who remove the pixelation effect from nude Sims.

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** Many of the Pre-Scratch trolls are based on {{Memetic Personality Change}}s of their descendants.[[note]]Eridan hits on people a lot, so Cronus is a MemeticMolester with NoSenseOfPersonalSpace; Nepeta ships her friends, so Meulin is ''obsessed'' with shipping to the exclusion of all else.[[/note]]

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** Many of the Pre-Scratch trolls are based on fandom-specific {{Memetic Personality Change}}s of their descendants.descendants. [[note]]Eridan hits on people a lot, is insecure about his love life, so Cronus is a MemeticMolester sex pest with NoSenseOfPersonalSpace; Nepeta ships her friends, so Meulin is ''obsessed'' with shipping to the exclusion of all else.[[/note]][[/note]]
** The deliberately nonsensical nature of [[BizarreAlienReproduction leprechaun romance]] makes fun of fans for obsessing over troll romance above the story itself.

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