Never Live It Down / Web Original

• Homestar Runner:
  • Strong Bad became so associated with the word "crap" and using the phrase "Holy crap!" that fans began sending him emails signed "Crapfully yours" or a variant when Strong Bad Email began. Strong Bad demanded that people stop doing it at the end of one episode, and he calls out any sender who still does.
  • 1-up (Homestar's 20X6 counterpart) loves pudding, due to one line in a cartoon saying "I want pudding!" after Stinkoman offered to share a pile of pudding he found.
• Somewhat toeing the line between this and Flanderization is Open Blue's Espartano unit. Originally, it was supposed to be of all ages and both genders, but due to the fact that one RPer kept on cranking out badass young girls, the idea that it is an Amazon Brigade has stuck to the other regulars. Consequently, this has resulted in one regular creating an entire squad of them, as opposed to the usual single independent operatives. The line blurs between this and flanderization because each new character/group of characters added technically counts as canon unless declared otherwise.
• Many Happy Tree Friends fans will never let Shifty live down leaving his own brother to die in favor of himself.
• Hazbin Hotel: Due to his actions in the pilot, Angel Dust is remembered as constantly talking about sex and making sex jokes non-stop, even though while his character is very sexually charged, he really only cranks this up to the imagined level during his fight with Sir Pentious as a way to confuse and distract him, and even then Pentious is feeding him verbal ammunition.
  • Similarly, Katy Killjoy is almost exclusively remembered for saying "I don't touch the Gays, I have standards" (immediately before poking a bisexual woman in the breast) in fanworks, to the point where you'd think being homophobic was her defining character trait.
• To viewers of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Kaiba is known as the guy who says "Screw the Rules, I Have Money!!" In entirety, Kaiba said that in episode 1. He used variants on many episodes ("Screw the rules, I have green hair!" and such), but does not use the catchphrase on every single episode as some would say.
  • Lampshaded in Episode 44 - After Ishizu calls out various characters for being vessels for catchphrases, Kaiba for the aforementioned one, he responds "Haven't said that in years".
• Several for the current and past members of Channel Awesome.
  • In lighter examples, even though she's been knocked unconscious more often, The Nostalgia Chick will always be known for chloroforming the Critic and the Critic himself will never be able to forget wearing Guyliner.
  • Also, for Doug, Melvin, Melvin, Brother of The Joker. The whole thing came across as Narm to more than a few people, leading to the Nostalgia Critic being reminded of it with terror.
    • The Nostalgia Critic's panning of Mako in TMNT got him a lot of flak from Mako's fans. It didn't help that the Critic said Mako's voice sounded like he smoked too many cigarettes, when Mako died of lung cancer. Walker even invented a running gag out of it where Mako is a great and worthy figure who must never be dissed, for any reason.
  • Spoony has that time when he told people to go out and murder any fans of Final Fantasy X before stating he would do it himself. While it was just a joke and he expressed regret for saying this on a livestream over the game (even admitting he deserved rebuke for it), there are still a lot of people who aren't about to forgive that gaffe anytime soon.
    • Some like to bring up Spoony's yelling of "BETRAYAL!" at X-Com 2010.
  • Oancitizen has his "I really fucking hate Rants" (Rants being the former owner of a post-secret style blog for TGWTG) line in the Sh*t TGWTG Fans Say video (which was removed after the backlash caused by the comment). He did apologise repeatedly to Rants for the video afterwards, though.
    • He also has his accidentally misogynistic review of The Girlfriend Experience (which was again removed after the backlash towards the episode). This one becomes an Old Shame as his commentary shows how embarrased he is over the video.
    • A far lighter example would be his IMDb page erroneously naming him as "Ralph Oancitizen", which Phelous, Obscurus Lupa and Sad Panda have turned into a Running Gag.
  • A lighter example would be Phelous' Running Gag of dying in his videos. Despite him retiring the joke after fifty episodes and avoiding it ever since, it's arguably his best-known joke, to the extent it was the main hook for his character in To Boldly Flee.
  • During an unboxing video with his fiance Viga Gadson, Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug recorded a three-hour video—without the microphone being on. In the 30 minute one that he uploaded that did have sound, it opens with Viga coming up with different ways to tell Lewis "Fuck you" for forgetting and the following videos have a running gag with letters telling Lewis to check the mic to see that it's on.
• In Slate Magazine's Culture Gabfest podcast, the Enforced Plug(s) for sponsor Carbonite.com almost always involve a reference to movie critic Dana Stevens spilling chai or coffee on someone's laptop.
• ProtonJon said "MOVE FASTER, POKEY!!" in his Let's Play of Kaizo Mario World all of once. Look around the internet and This Very Wiki and you'd think he shouted it out all the time. Even he's gotten a bit tired of it.
  • Similarly, Chuggaaconroy regretted bringing Steve the Trooper into the world of Pikmin since the fans decided to make a Facebook fan page for him. He had originally only singled out Steve as "the one we were not going to like", only calling him a trooper once in a later episode.
    • He probably isn't going to forget the Calibrary Cuff incident anytime soon.
    • Or the Runaway Guys playthrough of the Mario Party 6 board where he innocently made a huge stream of innuendos about Daisy. It started with 'Should we do Daisy on hard (difficulty)?' and got worse from there.
  • In the context of Retsupurae, it seems slowbeef and Diabetus will never let ProtonJon forget that he was once tricked into doing a Super Mario World romhack LP by an author pretending to be dying of leukemia. Every wrongpurae video on King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride in which he guest starred has included a joke about it, and two of them (so far) consist only of the duo pranking him with one.
• Andy Zaltzman, Chris, Tom, and... let's say everyone on earth will never let John Oliver forget that he was in The Love Guru.
  • Now their teasing has expanded to include John's role as Vanity Smurf in The Smurfs, although he defends himself by citing how popular the film actually was.
• No matter how "original" he tries to be, there will always be someone to remind Chris Bores of The Irate Gamer that he outright stole from The Angry Video Game Nerd.
• Noah of Tribe Twelve fame is known for stabbing bushes. He did it exactly once, for approximately two seconds of screentime.
• "The Trololo Guy" (Eduard Khil) says "trololo" once in a song that lasts almost three minutes - this is because he first gained his popularity from the short, cut-out clip featuring that phrase. And for many people, his career begins and ends with that three minute song, despite having been a performer for over 40 years.
• Dylan Guptill, better known online as Guptill89, is a modestly popular commentary channel who became famous for having some rather controversial opinions for the late 2000s, especially in regards to angry video game reviewers like The Angry Video Game Nerd. What is he known for nowadays? His joke video on the "Top 10 Hottest Female Sonic Characters", which was torn to shreds almost immediately upon release due to being mistaken as genuine. It did not help that some of the characters on the list were canonically underage. To his credit, Guptill has stated that he was unaware that the characters in question were minors, which contributed to him taking down the video (as well as videos talking about it, which triggered a Streisand Effect for both the video itself and the critiques). Nowadays, a reupload of the video is the first result when searching up his channel name on YouTube (beating out both the channel itself and its videos), and quotes from the video (namely "The size of an average human mother" and "Hot chick heaven") have become memetic.
• Caboose in Red vs. Blue won't live down accidentally killing Church with a tank he couldn't control. Church himself at least has a reason to not let him forget it, but when Flanderization kicked in, this incident mutated into Caboose being a trigger happy Team Killer in general. It's way funnier than it sounds.
• RWBY:
  • Weiss calls Ruby a dolt once, very early in the first volume. The fandom has made it her catch-phrase and go-to insult whenever anyone, but especially Ruby, annoys her.
  • Jaune is initially introduced as a character who struggles to do anything right, from throwing up in his first introduction because of travel sickness to bumbling through his very first lesson. He only attempts to hit on Weiss a couple of times in the first two volumes but has been defined by the fandom because of his hopeless crush and his terrible attempts to woo her. The fandom portrays him as hitting on her on a daily basis, something that sometimes overlaps with parts of the fandom who prefer portraying the two characters in different ships.
  • Nora eagerly suggests breaking Cardin's legs only once in the entire series as a response to the fact her friend and team-leader, Jaune, is being bullied by Cardin. However, this line is the reason why fanfic writers commonly make Nora comically violent in ways that far exceed her canon character. For the same reason, Cardin is popularly portrayed as having his legs broken in various ways as karmic retribution for his bullying.
  • Yang's voice actor is (in)famous for her pun-making skills and Yang's appearance and personality are similar to her. The fandom, therefore, jokes that Yang is a relentless pun-maker. However, Yang's first pun occurs in Volume 2's first episode, and her total number of puns can be counted with one hand.
  • In Volume 8, Ruby's team is confined to Schnee Manor while they deal with critical injuries and try to cope with how overwhelmed they feel by the scale of the crisis. Although only one scene involves them drinking tea as they discuss Nora's condition and how they can help the entire kingdom survive, the fandom exaggerates and jokes about them doing nothing but drink tea while other characters are on the front lines trying to save lives.
• Poor Frogman will never be forgiven for 9gag trying to turn his face into a rageface. It wasn't even his fault, yet he is now always referred to as that forced-meme guy.
• Two Best Friends Play:
  • Pat will never let Matt forget that, during their Silent Hill: Downpour LP, he accidentally threw the Fire Axe down a Bottomless Pit. Neither will the series's animators.
  • Woolie apparently turned down sex with two hot bisexual girls so that he could get to his local Gamestop to buy Marvel vs. Capcom 3. His friends occasionally needle him about this, long after the aforementioned game came out.
• This is the end result of any sort of bad transgression in a Journal Roleplay at the Dreamwidth anon journal "Wankgate": if you flounced a game, made a fool of yourself on the comms, made yourself look like a creeper or play a character Out of Character, then the anons there will keep record of it and will make sure that you aren't forgotten.
• Smiffy of Hat Films has "ghosted" ^note talked about the events of the game while dead, thus revealing something to alive players that they should not know on rare occasions when playing games with his teammates, or the rest of the Yogscast, yet the reasonable and understanding fans have, through Flanderisation, turned him into a constantly ghosting asshole that rarely stops doing it.
• Turpster is probably not going to be allowed to forget his Old Shame "Turpstervision" introduction that he used for an old show of his. This is (largely) because Sips and Hat Films installed it as a taunt for Prop Hunt. Despite his efforts to take the original video down, reuploads exist and videos with the taunt are almost impossible to remove, since Hat Films basically use their server for every Garry's Mod video the Yogscast make.
• Sjin, according to a story Sips and Turps told, bought a plush of Maximus from Tangled while in America and had to throw out a pair of jeans in order to make it fit. This is something no one else in the Yogscast will let him forget. Ever. Sjin claims this isn't true, for what it's worth.
• In the Vinesauce Tomodachi Life series, this happens a lot to the islanders, where their entire character becomes defined by some minor event. This is partially because Tomodachi Life doesn't leave much room for characterization, so interpreting small events is a must. Some prominent examples:
  • Walrus is a ridiculously nice guy, doesn't cause trouble for the most part, and has helped Alpaca (who's always struggled with romance) find love in Bonzi Buddy. Does Vinny (and the viewers, to a lesser degree) remember him for that? No, he remembers him for "stealing" Two-Faced from his own Mii, Vinesauce, causing him to have an extremely long-held grudge for him. Fortunately, this doesn't last forever, because Vinny sees him get dumped coldly in Episode 37, and starts treating him nicely.
    • By extension, given the amount of votes she gets during the Survivor Edition, nobody's going to forget that Two-Faced cheated on Walrus for DK, which is the reason Walrus got redeemed.
  • Isaac, for the most part, is an uninteresting islander. Or at least he would have been, but while he was being added, the game crashed, causing everything that was done for the first half of Episode 28 to be lost. This is Isaac's most memorable moment, and despite the fact that it's never happened again, Vinny still turns to him whenever things go wrong, asking him to reset the island again.
  • Ask fans about Groose and Karl, and they'll probably mention that they are the "Sloppy Seconds Brothers", a Love Hungry duo that interrupts love confessions to confess their own love, and always failing at it. This is based off of two separate events in Episode 36, and it has never happened again, but the prominence of it means that many people think of the two as love failures, which really only fits Karl.
  • A non-islander example; Captain Southbird, a Promoted Fanboy who condenses the streams, is considered to be the reason why Cling On, an formerly-ignored islander, rose to fame and became a Breakout Character. This has led to him becoming associated with Cling On, and questions fans ask him tend to be related to her. He doesn't seem to mind, though.
• Movie Fights
  • In one of the earlier episodes, Hal screwed a Speed Round question really badly by calling out the same answer that his opponent, Tiffany, had already clearly called out first, despite having more than a few seconds to think. From then on, Andy would call such the "Hal Rudnick move", and would warn the contestants to not "pull a Hal Rudnick" before the speed rounds. This stopped when they change their speed round rules, however.
  • Many fans of the show would fondly recall Kristian Harloff as "the writer of Nightfalls" after he argued for the completely made up title in one of the Speed Round questions. He managed to fool his opponents, the judge and even the fact checker into thinking that such a movie exist, and his bold attempt at doing so remains as one of the best moments in the series.
• The YouTube series PokéSins loves to hammer one point. In Episode 3 of Pokémon: The Original Series, Ash resists using more than one Pokémon at a time against Team Rocket, citing the rules of the Kanto Pokémon League. In future episodes where Ash subverts it, Gar1onriva cites that scene and gives it a Minun.
• Numberphile: The infamous "Parker Square," Matt's rather terrible quasi-solution (reusing two numbers and with one diagonal wrong) to the problem of whether a Magic Square Puzzle can be made of square numbers. Since then, it's been brought up whenever a flawed solution is mentioned, especially in Matt's videos.
• TFS at the Table:
  • Ezra Lockwood will never live down the time he accidentally shot his own teammate in the back of the head with a crossbow.
• Rich Evans from RedLetterMedia once posted a parody of various YouTubers' over-the-top reactions to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer by going even more over the top, culminating in him putting on a Darth Vader helmet and jerking off a toy astromech droid while yelling "I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS!" The other RLM members have since repeatedly dragged this clip back out to make fun of him.
• Te Lo Resumo Así Nomás: The video "The 3 worse films of Keanu Reeves" starts with Johnny Mnemonic, and the narrator mocks a scene where Keanu is having some weird yoga at a public bathroom. He follows with "The Lake House" and "The Gift", and when the plot becomes too convoluted, the narrator says "Argh! This is too much! Keanu needs some yoga!". And when the video ends, he invites the people to like the video, subscribe to the channel, share it in social media... and upload videos having Yoga, Keanu Reeves-style.
• Tanigo "YAGOO" Motoaki, the president and CEO of hololive, is never able to live down saying that "We run an idol group like AKB48", in that that is how hololive is supposedly meant to be seen as. This is a running joke that has been taken out of context as has mentioned that this "idol dream" he spoke of was less about replicating existing agencies but rather giving aspiring talent that may not have made it as a traditional idol the opportunity to fulfill their own dreams in a new medium. The talent and fandom both know this, but regularly make jokes about it for fun, which he just rolls with.
• The Pokémon Challenge Gamer community will likely never let Alpharad nor Captain Kidd forget that they tried to take on Lorelei's Jynx with an Onix in the former's FireRed Nuzlocke run, which died to a single Ice Punch before it had the chance to do anything. Alpharad also likes to bring up the incident himself in his later Pokémon challenge runs, both as Self-Deprecation and as a jab towards Kidd for insisting that it would work.
• UrinatingTree practically invented the sports subgenre of the Angry Internet Reviewer with videos that may actually go into better detail than much of what you might see on Sports Center today. But many people will mainly associate him with: "STILLERS GAHNTA SHUPER BOWL!!"
• Fans of Yo-kai Watch will always remember Did You Know Gaming's Shane Gill for his infamous (now deleted) comment on Jimmy Whetzel's review, where he says that Jimmy "angered all 70 fans of Yo-Kai Watch."
• Game Theory's Matthew Patrick has a fair share of oft-mocked theories, but one especially infamous one is his "Sans is Ness" video, which was so roundly mocked for its absurdity by everyone (including himself!) that even his cameo in the Five Nights at Freddy's movie subtly makes fun of him for it.

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