Some moderators on forums are known for emboldening and changing the colour of their text to indicate seriousness (as in, keep-that-shit-up-and-you-get-banned serious).
The third part of the intermission has a lot of this. As Nine and Ten move right, their text spaces eventually follow suit; Ten interrupts Nine's ramblings with a literal Big "WHY?!"; and when they start to drift upwards, the conversation has to be read from the bottom up (which Nine quickly lampshades).
In Chapter 20, Ed's dialogue is on the left, and Tim's on the right. When Ed Breaks the Fourth Wall to warn the reader about Eleven Jones Cave, he first asks Tim to come closer to "get in the shot". This is depicted by decreasing the indentation on Tim's dialogue. After the fourth wall break, Tim's dialogue moves away, going back to its normal position.
Ed: So you're standing next to the south fork of Beargrass Creek, which runs all around Louisville. I'm sitting in what would be called Eleven Jones Cave, if anyone remembered it was here, which nobody does.
Tim: Okay ... I'm gonna go off-script for Question Three. Why is it called Eleven Jones Cave?
Ed: I'll answer that, but before I do, there's something we need to do. Here. Come over here.
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Tim: Here?
Ed: Closer, closer. Just for a second. Get in the shot.
Tim: Here?
Ed: That'll work.
AIIM is delivered as if it were on AIM, complete with sounds and Windows XP backdrop, and actions the characters perform are controlled by the reader.
In the beginning of the eleventh episode of The Escapist's home webseries Apocalypse Arcade, the heroes meet a wizard who pretends he can stop time. After one of the heroes make a sigh of incredulity, the loading icon appears for a few seconds before being pushed aside by the incredulous protagonist.
Whenever some sad, sad person thinks they're being funny on a wiki or message board by using the tired joke of mentioning Candle Jack and then not
During Chorocojo's Let's Play of Pokémon FireRed, he forgoes the use of Flash to light up the Rock Tunnel. The entire Rock Tunnel segment is presented in MP3 format.
Britanick from Cracked plays with the convention of cross-cutting in tv & film here.
On the Creepypasta wiki, there was a (seldom-used) trick in which the story you were reading would display your username. This would usually be used to show that The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You.
Simon is the only character who's written in first-person, as opposed to the third-person of everyone else. This allows a better understanding of the split personality that exists in his head. Said personality also has his text written out in a red colour.
Zia's thoughts, and the thoughts that she hears as a result of her telepathy, are shown in a purple font.
Open Blue has Kukulu, one of the Powers That Be, as an admin account made to smite God Modders and add unforeseen elements to an RP thread. The account always posts with green text as opposed to the forum standard.
The Pokémon Black creepypasta was turned into a visual novel, playable on Nintendo DSes with homebrew-running devices. The last line is "GHOST cursed you, [DS owner]!"note It uses the name entered on the DS profile screen as the final word.
The web novel Sailor Nothing is, of course, not content to mess only with genre and storytelling conventions. The color and font of headers reflects the mood of a particular section; Chapter 5 is split into four subpages, presented in a random order that changes on refreshing the page, each written in first person from a different character's perspective; Shin's journal entry uses a monospace font; the title for Cobalt's entry is the periodic table cell for cobalt; and Chapter 7 is rendered entirely as an Interactive Fiction game with sprites, although the author has provided a text-only "walkthrough FAQ" version. Even in the "normal" chapters, the narration switches between first person, third person, diary entries, et cetera. The little divider graphics between sections of a chapter contain one-liners if you squint just right.
Survival of the Fittest v4's Maria Graham does this at one point, starting with a flashback where she and another character are having a conversation, with their lines in blue and orange respectively to clarify who's saying what. After the flashback, Maria's still talking and thinking in blue text until she finally goes "Wait, why am I still thinking in blue?" and promptly stops.
The web story Ted the Caver is presented as a caving log with dated daily entries, and as the story continues it gets progressively weirder and scarier, ending with the protagonist acting oddly and against all logic planning another trip to the cave, but he promises several times that as soon as he returns, he'll write up everything that happened on his final journey. He states it won't be more than a few days. This is, of course, the last entry, dated sometime in 2001. Clicking on the link for "Next Entry" brings the reader to a 404 error. (The ending is told in the lack of an ending!)
In Twitch Plays Pokémon Prism, the player character is whisked away to a glitched world mimicking Glitch City whilst on the hunt for "Phancero", a Fakemon that is basically Missingno. made physical. As the chat stumbled through the messed-up world, the chat overlay displaying their Pokemon and other stats becomes more and more unstable and glitchy as if the corruptive effect is spreading outside of the game. Levels jump up and down, health reduces and regenerates, and move names become incomprehensible.
Dream Machine: When pitching idea for the new TV show in 1.02, Requiem For a Dreamer, Josie appears on location and in costume as she might as if she were in that show.
It happens similarly in 1.04, The Opposite of People, when Josie and Tom are reading as their Offcomer characters Katrina and Duncan, people in the 18th Century Scottish Highlands.
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