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Poor, innocent, hapless newbie wanders into a forum and wonders aloud if that guy in that show should be with that girl in that show. The forum erupts into flames, igniting all the boards that deal with the show, which ignites whole sections of the Internet into a blazing Inferno.
The poor, innocent, hapless newbie has opened the door, causing an Internet [[:wikipedia:Backdraft|Backdraft]].
It works like this: Controversial Event X occurs, resulting in [[Flame War|flamewars]], including ones spanning multiple forums. Internet vigilantes occur who muck up the issue even more into a morass of rumors. Eventually it gets to the point where people are so sick of [[Flame War|flamewars]] about Event X, that this in turns causes [[Flame War|flamewars]] conducted by those who want it to just die. Which it [eventually] does, sort of, in a smoldering-ember sort of way. Then some [[Noob|n00b]] gives it enough oxygen to make it flare up all over again.
This is also known as [http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/holy-wars.html "Holy Wars"]. [[Troll]]s and [[Fan Dumb]] are drawn to to them like flies to a carcass. Mike Reed's Flame Warriors refers to this, when the metaphorical "door" is opened on purpose, as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602083850/http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/grenade.htm Grenade].
The single item in common for these is that people outside the involved communities are astounded that anyone could care enough about the issue to get in any kind of argument about it at all, much less a ''big'' argument.
It sometimes leads to people saying "[[Pass the Popcorn]]." Here's a [http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/04/flame-war-video.html video] [[We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies|setting the whole concept to a Billy Joel song.]]
Not to be confused with [[Internet Counterattack]] - That's when the internet acts as one to make someone in real life pay.
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== Related Tropes ==
* [[Award Snub]]
* [[Base Breaker]]
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