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** Also, [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=121 the First Treatise] ''could'' be considered a straightforward motivational poster [[Bilingual Bonus|for those who know Latin]]: "Pray, read, read again, work, and you shall find."
*** And the page is also a [[Genius Bonus|spiffy reference for those who know alchemy]]: it's from the Mutus Liber, a 17th century Huguenot alchemy text, Latin and all.
* ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'' had a [[Story Arc]] (beginning [https://web.archive.org/web/20080625053233/http://www.starslip.com/2005/10/31/starslip-598/ here]) in which curator-snob Vanderbeam sees the "Hang In There" cat poster on Jovia's wall, and becomes obsessed with finding out what a fellow lover of [[True Art]] could [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?|possibly see]] in such a piece of obvious shlock.
* [http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=QOW3001 This] appears to be a literacy poster showing Kestrel from ''Queen Of Wands'' sitting in a beanbag chair with a book to illustrate the slogan "READ". On closer inspection, the book she's reading turns out to be titled "Porn".
* Fauxtivational posters are one of the most popular subjects on the [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49314 twin] [[Remix Comic|art-remix]] [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49479 threads] on the ''[[Erfworld]]'' forum.
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* [http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/index.html An index of RPG and Geek-culture-inspired posters.]
** See also [http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/index.html this collection of RPG Motivational Posters].
* Made ''especially'' famous by [[Television Without Pity]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813105822/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3142036 Here's a link.]
* Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday once commissioned [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/motivational-posters.php a number of these].
* ''[[Forum Warz]]'' has a whole minigame dedicated to creating these.
* ''Worth1000'', a site which organizes daily photoshop, photography and other contests, has also run some contests where people had to [http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=13238&display=photoshop create posters with photoshopped images].
* [http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Demotivators Encyclopedia Dramatica] has a whole bunch, some that are hilarious, but after some you'll probably need to [[Brain Bleach|scrub your eyes]] (and those two types aren't mutually exclusive). You have been warned.
* This is a popular game over at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120629230551/http://boards.9thwonders.com/index.php?showtopic=56084 9th Wonders] ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' forum.
* [http://www.halolz.com/category/motivational/ Halolz.com] also has some of these. While not as bad as the 4chan example above, there's still some [[NSFW]] things there.
* [http://www.motifake.com/ Even more of them].
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== Real Life ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080919000843/http://www.successories.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/dir_product.group_brand/product_group_id/e429709c-250d-488d-a7bb-90f537107324/Motivational-Framed-Prints.cfm Successories]
* [http://www.allposters.com/-st/Motivational-Posters_c12920_.htm AllPosters.com's top-selling motivators.] - One of the few places where real motivational posters are located.
* [http://despair.com/viewall.html Despair, Inc.]
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** And the inevitable [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/3427210378/ parody].
** And a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/ response].
* The American Library Association (ALA)'s famous [https://web.archive.org/web/20120625052144/http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=160 "READ" posters].
** ...and the inevitable parody (see ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' above).
* A painful example of wildly inappropriate (and probably sadistically ironic) Straight Lesson in the wrong environment would be the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes [you] free) at the entrance of Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps.
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