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{{quote|<poem>''You're so much better and you're so different,<br />

''you don't believe in what they do.<br />

''I know you are one of us.''</poem>|'''[[Blutengel (Music)|Blutengel]]''', "Angels of the Dark"}}

* [[Stan Lee]] often plays with this in his addresses to Marvel Comics readers as "True Believers!"

* One of the best examples of the Bubblegum Pop era is one the [[Backstreet Boys]]' most well-known [[Ear Worm|earworms]], "Larger Than Life"; despite the video having been some trippy space opera theme, the song itself is nothing more than one gigantic [[Shout -Out]] to their fans. For example, this is the chorus... in its '''entirety''': ''All you people can't you see, can't you see / How your love's affecting our reality / Every time we're down / You can make it right / And that makes you [[Title Drop|larger than life]]''. The opening verse even all but apologizes for being completely terrified when girls went screaming after them.

* [[Lady Gaga]] arguably has a bit of this in "Born This Way"; possibly a bit of a [[Justified Trope]] in that case though, as the song is about [[I Just Want to Be Normal|accepting yourself]] for [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|who you are]] instead of [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|trying to conform]] to [[No Bisexuals|society's]] [[Hide Your Gays|restrictive]] [[Double Standards|ideals]]. ''Definitely'' [[Played Straight|played straight]] in her Monster Ball tour though, and probably [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|genuinely meant]], when she declared the event was to be a [[Freaky Is Cool|celebration]] of, basically, all of them being [[True Companions|freaks together]].

* [[Blutengel (Music)|Blutengel]]: Our goths are better, obviously. See page quote.

* [[X Japan]]: The [[Shout -Out]] to fans in the band's song "X", "You know you are the best!"

{{quote| What is in this column, however, is in one sense privileged. It is assumed that the readers are all special, more knowledgeable, in some measure because they are readers.}}

* After the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNnftq744I Spy&Pyro]'' video came out, the ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress]]'' blog linked to it, along with this message: "We've decided this is final proof that TF2 fans are smarter, more creative, and much better looking than fans of all other video games."

* ''[[Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]''