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* HelloInsertNameHere : The whole point of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story]], but for ALL the characters. See [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=kungfu-hoganT this story]], where Mr. T and Hulk Hogan fight Anne Frank with help from Queen Elizabeth III.

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* HelloInsertNameHere : The whole point of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story]], but for ALL the characters. See [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=kungfu-hoganT this story]], where Mr. T and Hulk Hogan fight kung-fu master Anne Frank with help from Queen Elizabeth III.
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* CrossOver : Highly encouraged in [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story.]] See [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=forest-spongebob this]], [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=mystery-kingkong this]], and [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=scifi-tripleH this]] for examples.


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* HelloInsertNameHere : The whole point of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story]], but for ALL the characters. See [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/#preset=kungfu-hoganT this story]], where Mr. T and Hulk Hogan fight Anne Frank with help from Queen Elizabeth III.
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* NameAndName : In the titles for [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story.]]

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* ButThouMust : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] is really pushy about its mobile app.



* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: It's a joke. And not main joke either.]]

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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ in A Torrid Martian Night]] Night [[spoiler: It's a joke. And not main joke either.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: It's a joke. And not the only one.]]

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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: It's a joke. And not the only one.main joke either.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: It's a joke]]

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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: It's a joke]]joke. And not the only one.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: it's the joke]]

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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: it's the It's a joke]]

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* ShoutOut : All the character names in [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ Ads For You]] are taken from works where the AI goes bad ({{Literature/Neuromancer}}, Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, Literature/RobotSeries, Film/TheMatrix)

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* ShoutOut : All the character names in [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ Ads For You]] are taken from works where the AI goes bad ({{Literature/Neuromancer}}, Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, (Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, Literature/RobotSeries, Film/TheMatrix)


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* UnresolvedSexualTension : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] [[spoiler: it's the joke]]
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* AnAesop : the Aesop 2.0 stories end in one (in big gold letters too), but not the one you'd expect.

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* AnAesop : the Aesop 2.0 stories end in one (in big gold letters too), but [[SubvertedTrope not the one you'd expect.expect]].
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* MoodWhiplash : changes between every section of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/late/ Late (A Writing Exercise)]]. Especially between the 4th and 5th.

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* MoodWhiplash : drastic changes between every section of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/late/ Late (A Writing Exercise)]]. Especially between the 4th and 5th.
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* MoodWhiplash : changes between every section of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/late/ Late (A Writing Exercise)]]. Especially between the 4th and 5th.
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* WebTwoPointOh : Um, it has Javascript it in. That's Web 2.0, right?

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* WebTwoPointOh UsefulNotes/WebTwoPointOh : Um, it has Javascript it in. That's Web 2.0, right?
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* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly, in the Aesop 2.0 stories.

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* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly, in the Aesop 2.0 stories.stories.
* WebTwoPointOh : Um, it has Javascript it in. That's Web 2.0, right?
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* SocialMediaBeforeReason : In The Boy Who Cried Wolf 2.0.
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* HashtagForLaughs : features prominently in the Aesop 2.0 stories.
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* NewTechnologyIsEvil : Certainly a common theme across multiple stories, but it's really people who are evil all along.

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* NewTechnologyIsEvil : Certainly a common theme across multiple stories, but it's [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop really people who are evil all along.along]].
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* NewTechnologyIsEvil : Certainly a common theme across multiple stories, but it's really people who are evil all along.
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* RotatingProtagonist : Ads For You follows 5 'protagonists' as it tells the story of the ad-serving AI.

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* RotatingProtagonist : Ads For You follows 5 'protagonists' as it tells the story of the an ad-serving AI.
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* RotatingProtagonist : Ads For You follows 5 'protagonists' as it tells the story of the ad-serving AI.
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* CerebusSyndrome : Occasionally has serious [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ articles]]. Fortunately, it gives a gigantic red warning when you're about to read one.
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* StickFigureComic : Not quite a comic, but uses stick figures liberally.
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* NoFourthWall : They said you can never make cookie notifications funny. Well, they were wrong.

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* NoFourthWall : They said you can never make cookie notifications or share buttons funny. Well, they were wrong.
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Also occasionally contains [[CerebusSyndrome serious]] stories when the author has delusions that he can actually write.

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Also occasionally contains [[CerebusSyndrome serious]] stories [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ stories]] when the author has delusions that he can actually write.
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* ClicheStorm : A common feature of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/troperoulette1/ TropeRoulettes]]
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[[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/ Tales from /dev/null]] is a (mostly) humor {{website}} that tells [[StockAesop classic stories]] in the modern age. Stories like, 'What would TheBoyWhoCriedWolf do if he had access to social media?' and 'How can you make the most money as fast as possible if you had WesternAnimation/TheGooseThatLaidTheGoldenEgg?' It also tries to integrate common features of the internet in unexpected ways (see the cookie notification pictured above).

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[[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/ Tales from /dev/null]] is a (mostly) humor {{website}} that tells [[StockAesop classic stories]] in the modern age. Stories like, 'What would TheBoyWhoCriedWolf [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/crywolf/ The Boy Who Cried Wolf]] do if he had access to social media?' and 'How can you make the most money as fast as possible if you had WesternAnimation/TheGooseThatLaidTheGoldenEgg?' [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/goosegoldenegg/ The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg]]?' It also tries to integrate common features of the internet in unexpected ways (see the cookie notification pictured above).
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* AnAesop : the 2.0 stories end in one (in big gold letters too), but not the one you'd expect.

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* AnAesop : the Aesop 2.0 stories end in one (in big gold letters too), but not the one you'd expect.



* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly, in the 2.0 Aesop stories.

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* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly, in the 2.0 Aesop 2.0 stories.
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* AnAesop : the 2.0 stories end in one (in big gold letters too), but not the one you'd expect.


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* ShoutOut : All the character names in [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ Ads For You]] are taken from works where the AI goes bad ({{Literature/Neuromancer}}, Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, Literature/RobotSeries, Film/TheMatrix)
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* BlatantLies : "Satirizing the Internet Since 1841."

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* AIIsACrapshoot : an [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ ad-serving AI]] is very serious about increasing revenue.



* RandomEventsPlot : What usually happens in a TropeRoulette
* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly.

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* RandomEventsPlot : What usually happens in a TropeRoulette
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* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly.repeatedly, in the 2.0 Aesop stories.
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[[caption-width-right:350:We're very serious about our cookies.]]

-->''"Fables for the Internet Age"''
-->''"Satirizing the Internet Since 1841."''
-->''"Home of the Best HTTP Cookies in the Multiverse."''
-->-- {{Tagline}}s on the /dev/null main page


[[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/ Tales from /dev/null]] is a (mostly) humor {{website}} that tells [[StockAesop classic stories]] in the modern age. Stories like, 'What would TheBoyWhoCriedWolf do if he had access to social media?' and 'How can you make the most money as fast as possible if you had WesternAnimation/TheGooseThatLaidTheGoldenEgg?' It also tries to integrate common features of the internet in unexpected ways (see the cookie notification pictured above).

Also occasionally contains [[CerebusSyndrome serious]] stories when the author has delusions that he can actually write.

Heavily inspired by {{Webcomic/xkcd}}.

!!Tropes used by this website:
* BotheringByTheBook : The EU cookie notification gives the information necessary for the user to make the most informed decision. '''ALL''' the information.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop : What usually happens to the StockAesops from the classic stories when told in the modern day.
* NoFourthWall : They said you can never make cookie notifications funny. Well, they were wrong.
* {{Parody}} : [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/crywolf/ Instagram]], [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/wagoner/ reddit]], [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ Google Ads]] and [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/goosegoldenegg/ techcrunch.com]] among others.
* RandomEventsPlot : What usually happens in a TropeRoulette
* StockAesop : [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly.

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