Failed A Spot Check / Web Videos

• Let's Play hosts in particular, especially blind Let's Plays, have a tendency to miss things that their viewers catch immediately. It could be the result of being distracted by continuing to focus on other things longer than players normally would in order to finish commenting on them. It could be that it happens to everyone once in a while, but of course there's no one to notice it if you don't have an audience. It's probably a little of both. Either way, it's been dubbed the "LP tax" and jokingly treated as a curse.
• 7-Second Riddles: Many crime-based riddles involve the culprits lying about impossible scenarios, claiming things that fly against what they should know to be true- like the time of day something happened, or where it took place. In other instances, they'll send pictures of themselves claiming to be in one location, but miss an obvious detail in the picture that proves them a liar; for example, a palm-tree in the background of a supposedly cold area.
• During Achievement Hunter's Let's Play Minecraft series, it's not uncommon to have one of the guys totally spaz out and forget where something went.
  • One of their largest instances of this was in the very first episode. After losing their original house (as everyone had died since building it) Ray set out to build a replacement house, walking past the original house and starting construction of the new house about 6 feet away.
  • Among these were Geoff not realizing he turned his blocks of wood into sticks and Jack diving down a hole in an attempt to ambush Gavin.
  • Probably the longest case of this involves a picture of two guys performing karate. Back in episode 15, Michael had heard Ray making stereotypical karate noises and told him to shut up. Flash forward to episode 28 when Michael finally discovers it and exclaims "How long have we had this?!"
• This video on War Thunder uploaded by Bo Time Gaming, a player somehow manages to miss a T95, a 14-foot wide 100-ton superheavy tank, sitting right in the middle of the street (and taking up most of it) in broad daylight.
• The Game Grumps often struggle a lot more with video games than they should not because they're bad at said games, but because they miss crucial Plot Points and instructions any normal gamer would see because they're somewhat distracted trying to put on a show and be entertaining to their own audience. This is lampshaded countless times during the course of their show. Arin has even mocked NPCs that begin talking, and in the same sentenced acknowledged that he should be paying attention because said NPC is probably telling him something important.
• Freddiew's Lightbulb Assassin features a particularly egregious case of a security guard unable to notice the man shooting out lights from 2 feet behind him. See it here.
• Jon, the host of Many A True Nerd, is memetic for his "-1 Perception," leading him to overlook information right in front of him, to his later detriment. One good example comes from his Stellaris: Apocalypse playthrough, where it takes him ten minutes to realize he hasn't conquered a star system yet because he ordered his Colossus to crack the wrong planet.
• Played for Laughs in the last moments of The Music Video Show's 75th episode
  "What body?"
• In Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions, Sparadrap returns to a location he visited before and fails to notice an unnaturally large tree appearing in it since last time until someone else points it out.
• Outside Xbox: While playing Among Us, Mike claims to suffer from an ailment known as "corpse blindness" that causes him to not notice bodies strewn around the ship, leading to some easily avoidable excusions resulting from him casually strolling past bodies. (Eurogamer's Aoife Wilson, who is often in the same streams, has it too; at one point she walks past Johnny Chiodini's body and mistakes it for Johnny's fully healthy spaceman despite the bone sticking out of one end.)
• Party Crashers: In "Mario Party but it's 1 vs 3...", Nick uses his Custom Dice to land on Chance Time in an attempt to steal a Star. He's initially excited when he manages to get himself on the roulette... only to start screaming in despair immediately afterward upon realizing that the arrow was pointing away from him, resulting in him losing a Star rather than gaining one.
• Many people featured on Retsupurae make it painfully obvious that their videos were directly uploaded to YouTube without them going over it first (that or just having extremely low standards).
  • Kayin (of I Wanna Be the Guy fame) not noticing the giant mouse cursor in "Let's Point at Super Metroid".
  • WHO IS A POKEMON IN THIS CRAZY WORLD, where only 2/3s of the game is shown due to the LPer zooming in the screen.
  • Choose from: watching an LP, a lamp, or some Mario figures . The title says it all.
  • ZeldaAAaaAAAGH. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time becomes a terribly glitchy mess.
  • GAK, where roughly two fifths of the video consist of a solid green rectangle due to an encoding error.
  • "Colonel, I didn't manage to avoid drowning!" has a non-technical variant: DarksydePhil is confused by an "M9 Bullet Full" message because he thinks he doesn't have the M9 — when it's clearly visible in the weapon menu. Both riffers are astonished.
• Secret Life SMP: Exploited. Grian manages to escape the server-wide Zombie Apocalypse on Day 7 by hiding in a direction no one cares to look: up, on the platform built on top of a pillar built by another player a few episodes prior near Spawn. Not even his fellow Survivors are aware of his location for the latter half of the session; the only one who is remotely aware of his position for the entire ordeal is Etho, who refuses to rat his ally out despite becoming infected.
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  • During the Let's Play of Fallout 3, Shamus admits to having completely missed Liberty Prime until the big battle in during his first play-through, despite having passed through the room it's stored in several times during the course of the play-through. Liberty Prime is a 50-feet-tall Humongous Mecha.
  • This is the same man who only discovered that a new sofa had been delivered and was in the next room after seeing a tweet from his wife.
• Team Four Star:
  • Lampshaded during their Let's Play of Halo: Reach when a giant Covenant capitol ship destroys a human ship idly floating below it.
    "Sorry, guys, I thought the planet had a ceiling for a minute!"
  • There are countless instances of them making a mistake during a playthrough because they neglected to pay attention to very obvious details. They have also acknowledged the frequency with which their viewers will call them idiots for it in the comments of any given video.
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  • Bayden spends a lot of time driving and doesn't believe the meeting place is at McDonald's before re-checking the email that says to meet at the building with a large yellow M sign.
  • Bayden is shocked that that his sister owns Arcanoth Industries, before being told that she's said so a week ago, and he knows her Twitch name is Arcanoth.
  • Cameron is absent in the third episode because of the doctor appointment. Cameron later can only remember him meeting a "Magic Man".
• Used as a plot point in To Boldly Flee, where the fact that nobody notices continuity errors or the fact that Linkara has quite obviously been replaced by his evil robot counterpart are due to an in-universe plot hole sucking up continuity and sense like the black hole it resembles.

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