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12 | -->''"Fables for the Internet Age"'' |
13 | -->''"Satirizing the Internet Since 1841."'' |
14 | -->''"Home of the Best HTTP Cookies in the Multiverse."'' |
15 | -->-- '''{{Tagline}}s''' on the /dev/null main page |
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18 | [[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 [[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 [[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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20 | Also occasionally contains [[CerebusSyndrome serious]] [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ stories]] when the author has delusions that he can actually write. |
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22 | Heavily inspired by ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. |
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24 | !!Tropes used by this website: |
25 | * AIIsACrapshoot: An [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/adsforyou/ ad-serving AI]] is very serious about increasing revenue. |
26 | * BlatantLies: "Satirizing the Internet Since 1841." |
27 | * BotheringByTheBook: The EU cookie notification gives the information necessary for the user to make the most informed decision. '''ALL''' the information. |
28 | * ButThouMust: [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/mobileapp/ A Torrid Martian Night]] is really pushy about its mobile app. |
29 | * 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. |
30 | %% * ClicheStorm: A common feature of [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/troperoulette1/ TropeRoulettes]] |
31 | * 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. |
32 | %% * HashtagForLaughs: Features prominently in the Aesop 2.0 stories. |
33 | %% * HardTruthAesop: What usually happens to the StockAesops from the classic stories when told in the modern day. |
34 | * 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 II. |
35 | %% * 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. |
36 | %% * NameAndName: In the titles for [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/makeastory/ Make-A-Story.]] |
37 | * NewTechnologyIsEvil: Certainly a common theme across multiple stories, but it's [[HardTruthAesop really people who are evil all along]]. |
38 | * NoFourthWall: They said you can never make cookie notifications or share buttons funny. Well, they were wrong. |
39 | * {{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]], [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/foxgrapes/ twitter]] and [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/goosegoldenegg/ techcrunch.com]] among others. |
40 | %% * RandomEventsPlot: What usually happens in a [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/troperoulette1/ TropeRoulette]] |
41 | * RotatingProtagonist: Ads For You follows 5 'protagonists' as it tells the story of an ad-serving AI. |
42 | * 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 (''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, Literature/RobotSeries, Film/TheMatrix'') |
43 | %% * SocialMediaBeforeReason: In The Boy Who Cried Wolf 2.0. |
44 | * StickFigureComic: Not quite a comic, but uses stick figures liberally. |
45 | %% * StockAesop: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] repeatedly, in the Aesop 2.0 stories. |
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