Unperson / Web Original

• Looking up The Best Page in the Universe on a computer that's on display in an Apple store will net you a redirect to a MacBook Pro ad or a 404 error. Maddox had a field day with this, making the guess that the ban is due to his anti-Apple posts (especially his anti-iPhone post).
  "Yes, the company that once alluded to an Orwellian future with controlled media, is now controlling media."
• Speaking of Maddox, the final episode of his abruptly cancelled podcast "The Biggest Problem in the Universe" was recorded without his co-host, Dick Masterson, who is also not mentioned once throughout the episode, including the ending where Maddox thanks every single person who's contributed to the show. Over the next few months, it was revealed that personal issues that had been brewing for many months had come to a head and resulted in an ongoing public feud.
• Channel Awesome isn't in the habit of keeping its former producers' content on their web site, so really anyone who leaves automatically becomes this. However, there have been several occasions where the site did this purposefully:
  • Daniel Rizzo, a.k.a. That Aussie Guy, was an early personality at Channel Awesome who was fired after slutshaming Lindsay Ellis during the filming of the TGWTG Year One Brawl and inappropriately editing pages on Channel Awesome's Wikia site, among other "issues, ill-advised actions, and other various events." As a result, Rizzo's videos were abruptly taken down from Channel Awesome without much fanfare and the wiki only briefly mentions him.
  • Brad Jones was forced to do this to Jerrid Foiles, first in 2012 (under circumstances similar to Rizzo's dismissal from Channel Awesome) and again in 2014. Despite making limited appearances between those dates, Jerrid disappeared again and his characters have either vanished or have been killed off. However, Brad has clarified that he is still friends with Jerrid, he has just stopped making appearances. It ultimately ended in 2017, as Jerrid eventually started appearing in the Midnight Screenings again.
  • Brad also did this to "Angry Jake" Norvell in early 2015 after Jake made a move on a girl Brad had been interested in. Jake's characters were either discontinued or replaced, while Brad and the rest of Team Snob cut ties with him.
    Brad: [announcing Jake's firing on Facebook] The term "dead to me" may be overused, but it serves a purpose sometimes.
  • Allison Pregler AKA Obscurus Lupa was fired rather controversially in early 2015 from the site (allegedly over being out of the house while CA management was trying to contact her), which caused her boyfriend Phelous and Andrew Dickman to quit in protest. Within five minutes all of their content was removed from the site (in Phelous' case, videos that dated all the way back to 2008) with the exception of a few crossover appearances. Made worse by the fact that fellow long-time contributors Lindsay Ellis, Kyle Kallgren and Smarty also left around the same time and were all given a "farewell" period to say their goodbyes to the site. Allison was the first of many ex-Channel Awesome employees to state her case against the site in this document which calls the management out on how they operated. Later on in 2019, Allison announced that she would be removing crossover reviews that she did with Brad Jones and cutting his cameos from her other videos after the disintegration of their friendship.
  • In 2018, four years after his suicide, it was revealed that Justin "JewWario" Carmical was a sexual predator who assaulted at least two women, and that one of those attacks was the previously undisclosed reason he had been let go from Channel Awesome shortly before his passing. After these crimes came to light, former Channel Awesome producers took down Crossover collaborations with Justin, excised or replaced his Celebrity Cameos in their videos, and removed JewWario hats that had been prominently placed on their sets in tribute to him (this even extended to creators not affiliated with Channel Awesome - Smeghead, for instance, took down his review of The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, which had been made in tribute to JewWario, after the allegations came out). MarzGurl, who had made the movie Farewell, FamiKamen Rider in Justin's memory, averted this by deciding to keep that movie online for "historical purposes", while stating she would have never made it if she was told about Justin's true nature and adding a disclaimer to the movie making it clear that it no longer reflected her opinion of him. Diamanda Hagan also kept her reviews featuring him, but closed the comments and noted that she was keeping them because otherwise "that'd be like denying I made it", and she never wants to see any of those videos again.
• In his video about TV censorship, Diamondbolt makes a joke about 4Kids enacting a top-secret government cover up that Japan doesn't exist, by erasing just about everything Japanese in their distributed animes.
• Dream SMP: An In-Universe example occurs in the episode "The Lost City of Mizu" of the spin-off series Tales From the SMP, where four fishermen in the future discover the titular underwater lost city, supposedly dedicated to preserving the legacy of the characters of the Dream SMP. Unfortunately for them, not only do everyone remembered in the city have their characterizations horrifically butchered, but one of the most prominent characters of the series, Wilbur Soot, former President and founder of L'Manburg, is not mentioned in the city at all, and the country he founded is practically only a footnote in the history "documented and displayed" in the city.
• Fine Structure has "informational weapons" that can destroy specific kinds of knowledge, both in living brains and in recorded form. That could prevent everyone from ever remembering or perceiving a person again, even if he were standing right in front of them. This was done to Thomas Muoka. The effect was so strong that it even encompasses the guy who did it, and the reader of the story, so it's even impossible for us to learn what he did to deserve it.
• Game Grumps:
  • Following his departure, JonTron was not mentioned by Arin or any of the new Grumps — all of whom were apparently good friends with him — in their newer videos, and almost any mention of him was done so in a roundabout way so as to not say his name or include his involvement. While speculation abounds as to whether he had a falling out with the rest of the cast or not, Arin's only official mention of Jon was to say that it's not out of disrespect or to ignore his contribution, but because Arin feels talking about Jon on the show unintentionally drags him back to it and stops all of them from moving on. As of Episode 109 of Arin & Danny's Pokémon FireRed series, however, Jon has been mentioned occasionally by name, more than a year and a half after his departure.
  • After ProJared's wife publicly accused him of having an affair with Ross's ex-wife Holly Conrad and Jared was found to be soliciting nude pictures from his followers on Tumblr, every episode where he appeared was removed from the channel.
• In Season 2 of The Guild Bladezz deletes Tink's online gaming character Tinkerballa, removing permanently from existence her gold, reputation and "two years of [her] life". She even phrases it as "I don't exist anymore."
• The meme "Hatsune Miku Created X" is an invoked version of this, where the famous synthesiser is credited with inventing a particular piece of media in the place of a controversial (usually homophobic) figure; the caveat behind this being that as a blank slate character, she hasn't done and never will do anything wrong, and any bad elements are because the figures in question (never referred to by name to keep the illusion) stole the glory and mucked up Miku's vision with their additions. Among other things she's been credited for "creating" are Minecraft and the Harry Potter franchise.
• History Matters sometimes has backgrounds for their credit screens that feature HM-style renderings of famous works of art or photographs. If the subject is the Soviet Union or Josef Stalin, for example in "Collectivisation and the Ukrainian Famine", it will show the act of someone getting wiped off a photograph that features Stalin.
• Noob:
  • The first Wham Episode can be summed up as this trope happening to one of the top players as part of what seems to be a Revealing Cover-Up. The webseries and novel versions make it quite clear that anything done by the player's avatar never happened, up to having a character actually say something along the lines of "[That avatar] no longer exists. Actually, it has never existed.".
  • The webseries all but confirmed that this happened to Spectre's first avatar after he retired, probably thanks to the hacker trying to drive people off MMORPG in the present day being his former teammate.
  • According to the novel version, the Fictional Video Game's gods did this to the Syrial continent in addition to freezing it in time and surrounding it with a Perpetual Storm. This is the reason for which no version of the story ever mentions the people who became the Order before the installment introducing the faction.
• RedLetterMedia:
  • The channel unlisted all of their videos featuring Max Landis after several women accused him of sexual abuse in June of 2019. This included their at-the-time most popular Best of the Worst video ever, with over 2 million views.
  • Mike Stoklasa's girlfriend Jesse appeared in many early videos on the channel, but suddenly stopped appearing completely. The hosts have avoided giving a concrete answer to why, saying only that she doesn't appear in videos anymore because she's not in front of the camera when they're recording. The most common rumor is that she decided to halt her involvement after receiving unwanted attention from some stalkery viewers.
• Played for Laughs with Rooster Teeth. After Ray Narvaez Jr left Achievement Hunter, they go out of their way to act weird around Ray's name being used for kicks, usually playing him off as some no-named wanna-be or mysterious player they have friended. In all honesty, he's still on good terms with the group and shows up from time to time on their podcasts.
  • In October 2020, it was for real after explicit and compromising material of fan favorite personalities Ryan Haywood and Funhaus's Adam Kovic leaked online. It became a scandal when some of Adam's images were sussed out to be taken inside the Funhaus offices and that both of them were sexting people who were not their wives. In Ryan's case, he was being sexually inappropriate with fans, with more than one having been 17 at the time. As a result, Ryan announced his departure to repair his family life and Adam blacked out his social media after issuing a brief statement, while Rooster Teeth quietly scrubbed any scheduled content that would have featured them. While it's unclear how much of Adam's content will be removed, Achievement Hunter has since declared that they will be removing all traces of Ryan from content and refuse to acknowledge him in light of the extent of his very inappropriate transgressions. This also led to a Schedule Slip on the Red vs. Blue season that would premiere that month, as the producers decided to push the release forward and recast a character voiced by Ryan.
• SF Debris has as a Running Gag the idea that Jonathan Archer was considered such an embarrassment that he was wiped from Starfleet's history books. For unknown reasons, he was also wiped from the Klingon history books, and those who know the truth flatly refuse to speak about him. ^note This of course ends up being contradicted, as Discovery and Lower Decks mention Archer.
• TomSka had done this with one of his earliest and most frequent collaborators, Christopher "Bing" Bingham, in 2014, removing his name from credits, subtitles, and video titles after a falling out. It was later revealed on Tom's Tumblr page that this had been Bing's request, as he no longer wanted to be associated with Tom or his channel after their falling out a year prior, and after a talk with Tom in 2018 where they addressed this, the credits and subtitles were restored.
• The Hyacintho Mental Collective from Void of the Stars will wipe the memory of any citizen who wants to leave it. Finding someone in the Triarian Collective who hasn't had their memory wiped or altered is all but impossible.
• When Blip went under, Nash Bozard moved most of his videos to Youtube... except those featuring his former partner JesuOtaku, leading to the number 21 being skipped in the prerecorded episodes, orphaned references in MAGfest specials to a review of the Wonder Woman (2011 pilot), and the loss of one the late Jew Wario's guest appearances, though Nash would also remove every live show that featured Jew Wario after the revelations came out about him.
• Fans of The Try Guys first noticed Ned Fulmer's initially quiet ousting from the group by picking up on signs that he had been completely edited out of recent videos at the time, ranging from barely visible hints of a third person in a two-person group to usage of stock footage to replace what were previously interactions with him. This, combined with rumors about him having an extramarital affair with an employee, led the group to confirm these rumors and announce that he had been terminated from the company and was no longer a member in September 2022. The November/December 2022 season of "Without a Recipe", which was filmed before Ned's ousting, used a Running Gag of covering him up with CGI animals such as a pink elephant.
• Riding off the "Mario dies on March 31" jokes in early 2021, the Super Mario Wiki purged any and all mentions of Mario's name for their April Fool's Day joke that year, leading to such article names as "vs. Donkey Kong", "Super Kart", "is Missing!", and "Paper : The Thousand-Year Door".

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