History PaintingTheMedium / WebOriginal

* ''WebOriginal/{{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.

* ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', the Wiki/TVTropes webseries, is premised on this. It's about Tropers trying to make a vlog for [=TVTropes=]. We can only see what [[CloudCuckooLander the cameraman, Zack]], films. Most of the action isn't in the vlog itself, and therefore [[TheDitz Zack]] [[ThrowItIn should really have turned the camera off]]. Zack is frequently [[LampshadeHanging given excuses]] to be present at times when, really, he shouldn't be there. He [[YourDoorWasOpen hides in Tom's closet]] and tags along on a date with Tom, severely creeping out Tom's date.

* In ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism'', 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. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKCACH4X9I Levels jump up and down, health reduces and regenerates, and move names become incomprehensible.]]

* In the Speck arc of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the narration begins to use a number of deliberate misspellings because [[spoiler:Taylor is losing her ability to comprehend language.]]

* [[Website/{{Cracked}} Britanick]] plays with the convention of cross-cutting in tv & film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu6xnR9kuYE here]].

* During his "LetsPlay" of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'', [=DeceasedCrab=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcTBp8gpNM starts sounding]] [[spoiler:like someone is chipping away at his SanityMeter. "'''[[DarthWiki/{{Eversion}} Stop your cheery lies]]!'''" Even the ''video description'' descends into madness.]]

* ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' has [[EldritchAbomination Kukulu]], one of the PowersThatBe, as an admin account made to smite GodModders and add unforseen elements to an RP thread. The account always posts with green text as opposed to the forum standard.
* 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.
* The web story ''Ted the Caver'' is presented as a caving log with dated daily entries, and as the story continues it gets progressively [[CosmicHorror 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!)
* Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest v4's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} 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 "[[color:blue:Wait, why am I still thinking in blue?]]" and promptly stops.
* Whenever some sad, sad person thinks they're being funny on a wiki or message board by using the tired joke of mentioning JustForFun/CandleJack and then not
* The "Pokemon Black" creepypasta was [[http://kotaku.com/5619302/creepy-pokemon-story-now-a-visual-novel-for-the-ds turned into a visual novel]], playable on Nintendo [=DSes=] with homebrew-running devices. The last line is [[spoiler:"GHOST cursed you, [DS owner]!"[[note]]It uses the name entered on the DS profile screen as the final word.[[/note]]]]
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* In the Speck arc of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the narration begins to use a number of deliberate misspellings because [[spoiler:Taylor is losing her ability to comprehend language.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', chapter 6.11 is skipped entirely because [[spoiler: [[MissingTime Blake has no memory of the events of that chapter]]]].

* In LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism, 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. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKCACH4X9I Levels jump up and down, health reduces and regenerates, and move names become incomprehensible.]]
* 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 TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
* ''WebOriginal/{{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.

* 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 TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou

* [[http://www.youtube.com/wariolandshakeit2008 This]] ''VideoGame/WarioLand: Shake'' Website/YouTube video causes the entire page to shake up.

* During his "LetsPlay" of ''{{Eversion}}'', [=DeceasedCrab=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcTBp8gpNM starts sounding]] [[spoiler:like someone is chipping away at his SanityMeter. "'''[[DarthWiki/{{Eversion}} Stop your cheery lies]]!'''" Even the ''video description'' descends into madness.]]

* ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', the TVTropes webseries, is premised on this. It's about Tropers trying to make a vlog for TVTropes. We can only see what [[CloudCuckooLander the cameraman, Zack]], films. Most of the action isn't in the vlog itself, and therefore [[TheDitz Zack]] [[ThrowItIn should really have turned the camera off]]. Zack is frequently [[LampshadeHanging given excuses]] to be present at times when, really, he shouldn't be there. He [[YourDoorWasOpen hides in Tom's closet]] and tags along on a date with Tom, severely creeping out Tom's date.

* ''OpenBlue'' has [[EldritchAbomination Kukulu]], one of the PowersThatBe, as an admin account made to smite GodModders and add unforseen elements to an RP thread. The account always posts with green text as opposed to the forum standard.