Keit-Ai has been referenced by the following.
- Keit-Ai's popularity first peaked on January 2016, leading to the creation of its Know Your Meme
page soon after on February 2016. - There's even an IMDb entry for Keit-Ai for good measure.
- Keit-Ai was added as a starter then bench player to the /a/ team for the 4chan Cup.
- Hilarity Ensues when during the /a/ vs. /an/ match, the AI-controlled player for Keit-Ai scored a goal for the other team by accident.
- Hilarity Ensues when during the /a/ vs. /an/
- Keit-Ai was also featured in at least two fake or troll seasonal anime charts.
- First in Spring 2016◊.
- Second in Fall 2019◊.
- First in Spring 2016
- The breakdown to this July 2016 /a/ Sings CRY note video features the Keit-Ai copypasta.
- In December 2016, Reddit points out how /a/ eerily predicted the plot of Your Name through memeing Keit-Ai.
- The resemblances were so uncanny that some users (jokingly) claim that Makoto Shinkai himself did some viral marketing his film on 4chan through the copypasta.
- The resemblances were so uncanny that some users
- The April 2017 Your Name and KanColle fan fiction work known as Kimi No Na Iowa references Keit-Ai as Makoto Shinkai's seventh work in that fictional world.
- Shaggy from Scooby-Doo dramatically reads the Keit-Ai copypasta in this July 2017 fan video, complete with music from the original cartoon.
- The Mangadex description for the Quirky Work and fetish manga Ureshon is actually a stealth Keit-Ai copypasta reference.
- Star Wars finds a way to reference Keit-Ai on January 2018.
- On April Fools' Day in 2021, Harper Anime Reviews talked about a familiar yet forgotten masterpiece known as Keit Ai. This time, the boy and the girl are named Takumi Naramura and Sakura Hanazuki respectively.
