Small Reference Pools / Web Original

Examples:

• Even good ol' TV Tropes can fall foul of this sometimes where examples may be weighted towards a certain media even if the trope itself is common elsewhere.
• The Other Wiki has an issue with being too ethnocentrically "Western" which it terms "systemic bias".
• Whenever the internet is depicted in any medium, rest assured that it will be confined to either The Internet Is for Cats, The Internet Is for Porn or Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! (at least, when it's not being used for exposition or to make fun of social media).

Notable Played With examples from the web:

• Parodied by The Onion, with Four Or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance.
• Cracked will often bring up extremely obscure movies, TV programs, comic books, and other examples of pop culture if they are outlandish enough.
• Ultra Fast Pony: In an episode loaded with David Bowie references, Rarity refuses to allow her captors to make the most obvious one: "Who are you? And don't say Ziggy Stardust, or I'll be pissed."
• The Autobiography of Jane Eyre, "Critical Examinations of Art" (episode 5):
  • Subverted. Jane teaches Adele about modern art styles and important painters, and Adele made pictures in these styles with crayons. At first they are pretty standard like Pablo Picasso's cubism, abstract art, Gustav Klimt, or Vincent van Gogh, but she also painted her dog in pointillism, and her last picture looks like it was inspired by the painting The Son Of Man by surrealist René Magritte. It's a man whose face is obscured by an apple. Though in-universe, it's not sure Adele knows about that painting because it's presented as a picture of her father, which is rather disturbing.
  • Adele mentioned Tripolitan War to Jane and based her two abstract paintings on the events. Jane admit she now knows significantly more about it.
• Let's Read With Nella! begins her review of Tiger's Curse by discussing (or rather, ranting) about this:
  "The book opens with [William Blake's "The Tyger"] because of course it does. It’s the rules. If your book prominently features a tiger, this poem must begin the book. There is no other poem about tigers in the history of anything. This is the only one. The alpha and the omega of tiger-inspired verse. It’s the price of admission. Dare to think it overused and ignore it, and be ignored in turn. I have no mouth, and I must tiger."
• The podcast 80s All Over, hosted by Drew McWeeny and Scott Weinberg, is one of many that explores 1980s cinema. Having noticed that most discussion/celebration of 1980s movies online centers on only about 35-40 specific titles, they decided to avert this trope by watching and discussing every major and most of the minor U.S. theatrical releases of that decade (including foreign imports and reissues), with each episode covering a month of the decade in chronological order, to provide a comprehensive overview of the era.

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