Basic Trope: A character's embarrassing moment goes viral online.
- Straight: Hal films Alpha Bitch Melissa being pied in the face, and everyone sees it after it's uploaded online.
- Exaggerated:
- Every character's embarrassing moments go viral right after they happen.
- Hal films Melissa dancing naked to Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks and uploads it online. It gets billions of views.
- Hal catches a moment that embarrasses every one of the other characters at the same time.
- Hal kidnaps Melissa, starts up a channel in her name, forces her to perform nude, films her, and posts her performances to the channel regularly.
- Downplayed:
- The video gets some views but never goes viral.
- It's shared as a meme, not a full video.
- The video shows Melissa doing or saying something that isn't that embarrassing.
- Melissa is seen doing a dance which some find hilarious, others endearing, and others impressive.
- Melissa doesn't do or say anything embarrassing, but people mock her voice or appearance.
- Justified:
- The video is revenge for a prank Melissa pulled on another character.
- This happened during an episode of Battling Families, which has embraced YouTube.
- Inverted:
- A non-humiliating video, or even one that would give Melissa justified pride (e.g., if she did something heroic), goes viral.
- A humiliating video gets no views at all.
- Melissa is proud of the video on the theory that there's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity.
- Subverted:
- The video gets taken down before anyone could watch it.
- Melissa is a comedian so her pie video isn't a huge deal.
- Melissa is a pornographic actress, or just a Shameless Fanservice Girl, who does a lot of weird stuff, so her nude video isn't that embarrassing.
- Double Subverted:
- But then it is re-uploaded and goes viral.
- Except she relies more on stand-up and doesn't do slapstick, so it's still embarrassing.
- Except she still looks stupid singing in the video and hates it.
- Parodied: The video goes viral because everyone is bored and wants something new to watch.
- Zig-Zagged:
- The video is alternately popular and never mentioned.
- Hal films Melissa several times in compromising situations and uploads the videos to YouTube, where they get varying numbers of videos.
- Averted:
- Nobody sees the video.
- Hal doesn't film Melissa being pied in the face.
- Hal films Melissa while she's fully clothed.
- Enforced: Melissa is generally a Karma Houdini, but this is one time where she gets comeuppance.
- Lampshaded: "This is the worst day of my life! Now it's gonna be on the web forever!"
- Invoked: Melissa releases a video of herself being pranked to get attention.
- Exploited:
- Alice and Bob do this to their friends to grow their social media pages.
- Emperor Evulz challenges Alice to a televised fight, during which he strips her naked.
- Defied:
- Melissa has the video taken down.
- Hal deletes the video.
- Hal uses the video to blackmail Melissa.
- Discussed: "Melissa always gets away with everything! We gotta punish her this time."
- Conversed: "About time that Alpha Bitch get what's coming to her."
- Implied: "Hey, Melissa, everyone saw your online debut!" We don't see what's in the video, but every time someone says this, Melissa blushes.
- Played for Laughs: Usually is, mainly Cringe Comedy.
- Played for Drama:
- Melissa's relatives see the video and disown her because of some vague family rule according to which she embarrassed them.
- Melissa commits suicide after the video is uploaded, devastating her relatives and friends.
- Played for Horror:
- The video involves Melissa being scared by an almost Deadly Prank, and watching it scares other people too.
- Hal records and uploads a video of Melissa being gang-raped.
- Melissa commits suicide after the video is uploaded. Her spirit haunts everyone who watched the video.
- Untwisted: Hal films Melissa being pied in the face and posts it to YouTube, where it's shown to get many, many views. Everyone except the people Melissa knows best seems to have seen it... until she thanks Bob and Alice for not watching it, whereupon they tell her that they've each watched and shared it dozens of times and laugh at her for thinking they hadn't.
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