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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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