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== Literature ==
=== Magazines ===▼
* [http://www.edrants.com/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazine-profits-on-theft/ A cooking magazine called Cooks Source] once reprinted a blogger's pie recipe without her permission. When the blogger called them on it, she got a nasty email about how she should be ''thanking'' them for publishing her work; the editor had somehow gotten the idea that anything on the Internet is public domain, so they could steal it with impunity without compensating the authors so long as she credited them. The Internet, naturally, exploded, harassing the magazine's [[Facebook]] page and investigating where their other articles might have come from. It turned out that [[Plagiarism]] made up ''most of their content'', even from well-known food-centric celebrities like Martha Stewart and Paula Deen. The magazine then closed, complete with a snide, passive-aggressive goodbye note.▼
* Men's Fitness once posted an article after New York Comic Con 2011 entitled "Flabby Versions of Your Favorite Superheroes!", which had nothing but snide, disrespectful remarks aimed at [[Cosplay]]ers in attendance for, essentially, being human beings at a comic convention (two actual NYPD officers were similarly attacked for being overweight). Outrage from the cosplay community was [http://nerdbastards.com/2011/10/21/mens-fitness-guru-bullies-overweight-cosplayers/ as] [http://ifanboy.com/articles/whats-wrong-with-you-mens-fitness/ predictable] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140902000959/http://www.totalfangirl.com/2011/10/in-defense-of-cons-and-cosplayers.html as the] [http://www.themarysue.com/mens-fitness-nycc-cosplay/ damn] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130224055609/http://www.animejamsession.com/2011/10/mens-fitness-to-nyccaf-attendees-stop.html tides], especially when MF complained about people [[Dude, Not Funny|not being able to take a joke]]. The article eventually disappeared from their website, and discussion of the article on their Facebook page along with it.▼
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[Stephen Colbert]] is a rare example of a singular figure who does this quite regularly from raids on [[The Other Wiki]], to Operation Humble [[Kanye West]], to getting galactic treadmills named after him. One of his favorite targets was [[Conservapedia]]'s [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/251994/october-07-2009/tip-wag---conservapedia--louvre---honda-unicycle Conservative Bible Project], which tried to edit all the "liberal bias" out of [[The Bible]]. Colbert told his viewers to make him a biblical figure. Colbert inspired vandalism of Wikipedia so many times that they will now preemptively lock a page as soon as Stephen mentions it on his show.
▲== Magazines ==
▲* [http://www.edrants.com/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazine-profits-on-theft/ A cooking magazine called Cooks Source] once reprinted a blogger's pie recipe without her permission. When the blogger called them on it, she got a nasty email about how she should be ''thanking'' them for publishing her work; the editor had somehow gotten the idea that anything on the Internet is public domain, so they could steal it with impunity without compensating the authors so long as she credited them. The Internet, naturally, exploded, harassing the magazine's [[Facebook]] page and investigating where their other articles might have come from. It turned out that [[Plagiarism]] made up ''most of their content'', even from well-known food-centric celebrities like Martha Stewart and Paula Deen. The magazine then closed, complete with a snide, passive-aggressive goodbye note.
▲* Men's Fitness once posted an article after New York Comic Con 2011 entitled "Flabby Versions of Your Favorite Superheroes!", which had nothing but snide, disrespectful remarks aimed at [[Cosplay]]ers in attendance for, essentially, being human beings at a comic convention (two actual NYPD officers were similarly attacked for being overweight). Outrage from the cosplay community was [http://nerdbastards.com/2011/10/21/mens-fitness-guru-bullies-overweight-cosplayers/ as] [http://ifanboy.com/articles/whats-wrong-with-you-mens-fitness/ predictable] [http://www.totalfangirl.com/2011/10/in-defense-of-cons-and-cosplayers.html as the] [http://www.themarysue.com/mens-fitness-nycc-cosplay/ damn] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130224055609/http://www.animejamsession.com/2011/10/mens-fitness-to-nyccaf-attendees-stop.html tides], especially when MF complained about people [[Dude, Not Funny|not being able to take a joke]]. The article eventually disappeared from their website, and discussion of the article on their Facebook page along with it.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' was notorious for a huge PR disaster that was ignited when a user on the [[BioWare]] Social Forums was banned by EA for harshly criticizing the game. Irate users went on Metacritic and downvoted the game en masse (to the same rating that Gamespot gave to ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'') and mocked the moderator who banned the user in question.
** And [[It Got Worse]], especially when Jennifer Hepler's Twitter was discovered
* With ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' released, the internet is riled up against Bioware since fans were dissatisfied with the [[Broken Base|controversial ending]] they offered. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216222253/https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/outrage-over-mass-effect-3-ending-reaches-ftc-173411384.html The fan outrage is so bad that, according to Yahoo, people are filing complaints with the Federal Trade Commission over this.]
* ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' was a juggernaut on both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but many fans were wary of the PC version's multiplayer component, especially in light of announcements made by Infinity Ward and Activision that many features (that were standard to ''all other PC games'') would be changed or removed. The removal of dedicated servers, the ability to lean and the reduction of players who could participate in each match ticked people off to no end ''before'' the game was released. When MW2 came out, and IW gloated that their anti-cheat software would make the game impossible to screw around with, hackers across the world took their statement as a personal challenge. Less than a week after the game debuted, various hackers broke through the source code, unlocked dedicated servers, gave players to chance to instantly reach the level cap (Prestige) after one kill, brought back the lean ability, and opened up the command console and unlocked gameplay modes that hadn't even been released yet. The cracked version of the game has more functionality than the console version, and the servers ended up being filled with cheaters and griefers trying to ruin the experience for everyone else.
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* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] posted a review of ''[[The Room]]'' on [[That Guy With The Glasses]] that was one of the most anticipated reviews ever. A few hours later, it was mysteriously taken down from the site. When people found out that it was because [[Insane Troll Logic|someone at Wiseau Films filed a copyright claim even though the review is protected by Fair Use laws]]... let's just say that Wiseau Films' website was inaccessible for some time thereafter. The review subsequently returned to the main site.
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mbydq/i_let_telltale_borrow_my_jurassic_park_jeep_and/A Reddit user] once posted how a gaming company had, according to him, borrowed his custom Jeep and damaged it while transporting it to a gaming convention. He posted the name of the employee he believed to be responsible, and the site's gaming board began harassing her. The problem? [http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mcy7l/today_i_received_nonstop_phone_calls_and_emails/ Said employee wasn't directly responsible for the damage] (assuming the story was true, which it might not have been), and had to deal with an enormous amount of hate-filled phone calls and emails, including a rape threat. The lesson here is that you should always [[Did Not Do the Research|do the research]] before launching an Internet Counterattack.
* The backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), as seen in the [[Internet Backdraft/Real Life/Politics|Politics]] section of [[Internet Backdraft]]. A pair of bills that were meant to fight piracy, but in actuality, could legalize internet Censorship in the US, to the extent that anything that had a single scrap of copyrighted material could be shut down by a company. Once the internet found out about the ramifications of the bill, they fought back. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111227221807/http://americancensorship.org/ A coalition of companies and organizations] made a huge effort to make sure the bills don't pass, and even dedicated the day of the first hearing as American Censorship Day. [[The Other Wiki]] (along with other websites such as Reddit, BoingBoing, and the Cheezburger Network) went so far as doing a global blackout on January 18, 2012 in protest of the bills, which was inspired by the Italian Wikipedia, who did the same thing to protest a similar bill in Italy.
** One of the more interesting moments of this backlash was the GoDaddy Boycott - during the revelation that many people that were said to be in support of the bill actually ''weren't'', GoDaddy was one who stood by the bill's side. In response, a number of sites called for boycotts of the site and many threatened to leave, including the Cheezburger Network (who has over 1,000 domains to their name). GoDaddy initially laughed off the protest, but after a massive number of sites pulled their support, the hosting company quietly withdrew their support.
** Not to mention that, somehow, even Lamar Smith managed to neuter his own bill - he not only removed the DNS blocking part, but made it so .com, .net and .org websites - yes, the same .org that '''[[All The Tropes|This Very Wiki]]''' is registered under - are immune to the takedown provisions of SOPA. And on the day of the internet blackout, several Congresspeople and lawmakers withdrew their support for the bills.
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* Parodied in [http://xkcd.com/591/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip, which shows Stephanie Meyer (the creator of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'') writing ''Breaking Dawn'' as a response to message board users flaming her books.
* In January 2006, several [[YTMND]] users declared war on the controversial humor site eBaum's World over an imagefile that they stole (which consisted of showing the similarities between photographs of [[Lindsay Lohan]]), and succeeded in crashing the site. YTMND founder Max Goldberg denounced the attacks as "a vulgar display of power" and stated that would place the site in legal jeopardy. When that was settled, eBaum's World agreed to remove the Lohan picture, and YTMND removed the anti-eBaum's World sites, though there are still some pages that exist.
* After a customer complained to a company named Ocean Marketing about the fact that they hadn't received a specially-made Playstation 3 controller on time, he were met with an incredibly rude response by the company's PR representative. The customer contacted [[Penny Arcade]]'s Mike Krahliuk, and when Mike confronted the man, he was insulted by the representative as well. The email exchange between the three parties was posted on PA's website, and spread like wildfire across the internet. Shortly afterwards, the Twitter account for the company was changed to Ocean Strategy, the creators of the controller fired Ocean, and the owner of the company, Paul, backpedaled for all his worth with apologies after a barrage of nasty e-mails. A complete picture of the what happened can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20140905162708/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114961-UPDATE-Penny-Arcade-Smacks-Down-Shady-PR-Dude here.]
* In July 2016, [http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-investigation-uncovers-colossal-conflict-of-interest/ it was revealed] that TmarTn and ProSyndicate, who made [[Counter-Strike|CSGO]] skin-gambling videos using a website called CSGO Lotto, owned the website and didn't disclose it. Since their videos were potentially targeting children and their winning could have been falsified, they were called out by, among others, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IuXz-cux1M HonorTheCall] (who broke out the story), [[h3h3 Productions]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0 here]) and [[The Cynical Brit|TotalBiscuit]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_VY8KZpMU here]). After failed attempts at [[Backhanded Apology|damage]] [[Blatant Lies|control]], the offending channels' owners were [http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-owners-sued-for-promoting-an-illegal-gambling-service/ added to a class-action lawsuit against] [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] for allowing an illegal online gambling market.
* [http://kotaku.com/drama-over-music-video-ignites-argument-about-what-anim-1787972349 Controversy erupted] on [[Reddit|/r/anime]] in October 2016 when [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585u4k/porter_robinsons_shelter_animated_music_video_is/ a thread] for the animated music video of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 "Shelter"] by Porter Robinson and Madeon was removed by moderators for being a music video and thus violating their strict definition of [[Anime]] ("An animated series, produced and aired in Japan, intended for a Japanese audience"), even though the video was produced by [[A-1 Pictures]] and sponsored by Crunchyroll for a Japanese audience. The artist reacted to the news with [https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/788476396171427840 a tweet], saying the decision had an "insane explanation"<ref>a comment by the moderator compared the video to a Japanese studio being contracted to produce [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] episodes</ref> and was "really really heartbreaking". Threads created by users to protest the decision [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8xvgn6/ were deleted] by the moderators. Some time later, the video was allowed to be [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/ reposted on /r/anime]. [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8y08s6/ Reddit users] [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8xvs99/ were quick] to protest the decision and its perceived absurdity. The fuss was such that a [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/5a3gpb/meta_thread_month_of_october_30th/?sort=confidence Meta Thread of the month] announced the removal of the series clause in the rule.
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** Now it seems that Hasbro is on the receiving end of the attacks by irritated Derpy fans. Remember: [[Serious Business|Don't mess with ponies]] and [[Poor Communication Kills|poor communication leads to irate periphery demographics]].
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* Part of the [[Old Media Playing Catch Up|old media's]] obsession with [[Twitter]] stems from the fact that it's ''very'' good for spreading the word about a story [[wikipedia:Twitter usage#In protests and politics|quickly and massively.]]
* The [[wikipedia:09 F9|AACS encryption key controversy]], in which the [[DRM|AACS]] company tried to stop people posting its cryptographic key, the hexadecimal number 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, on their sites. Consequently, it started appearing ''all over the Internet in every conceivable context'', and (when searched for on Google) gives more than '''200,000''' Google hits. [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369280,00.asp It happened again] later with the HDCP master key (used in Blu-ray [[DRM]]).
* In 2011, a church in Kentucky told an interracial couple they weren't welcome there anymore, and [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/interracial-couple-banned-from-kentucky-church_n_1121582.html voted to forbid interracial couples from worshiping there], period. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130424192035/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/03/gulnare-free-will-baptist-church-revisits-ban_n_1126836.html reactions] practically set a land speed record for backlash and damage control
* Blogger/[[Cable News Network|CNN]] host Fareed Zakaria once referred to the Corinthians, one of Brazil's biggest teams, as "a small club from Sao Paulo, Brazil". [http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/18/is-brazils-economy-in-danger-of-overheating/ Corinthians fans were simply not amused] and took the fight to him - and, as they say on ''The People's Cube'', "[http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/fareed-zakaria-can-dish-it-out-but-can-t-take-it-t17438.html Fareed Zakaria can dish it out,] but can't take it".
* The ''entire "neohacker" movement'' was made up of anti-pornography [[Playful Hacker]]s trying to get out a peaceful message. When they were hit with [[Disproportionate Retribution|several worms and a massive denial-of-service-attack that eliminated most of their computers]], all hell broke loose... the "NHPrime" (original neohacker group) group was a major member of the Hacker Unionist Alliance
▲* The ''entire "neohacker" movement'' was made up of anti-pornography [[Playful Hacker]]s trying to get out a peaceful message. When they were hit with [[Disproportionate Retribution|several worms and a massive denial-of-service-attack that eliminated most of their computers]], all hell broke loose... the "NHPrime" (original neohacker group) group was a major member of the Hacker Unionist Alliance, and their leader was a personal friend of none other than ''[[Byronic Hero|"silver]][[Memetic Badass|omega"]]'', [[The Lancer]] to the founder of that particular (much larger, much more skilled, and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|much more militant]]) movement. The assault was tracked to a group of trolls, who were severely warned (according to some versions of the legend, by silver himself breaking in to their computers' BIOS)... but, in one of the greatest displays of [[Insane Troll Logic]] OF ALL TIME, they decided to troll the NHPrime IRC and forums, now teeming with [[The Cracker|black-hat Unionists]]. One of the founding NHPrime members, [[Lady of War|"ghost"]], just so happened to be administrating the forums that day. Cue [[Stay in the Kitchen|an extremely sexist remark]] from one of the [[Troll]]s... and [[Berserk Button|let it be known]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|that a certain IP address suddenly found itself receiving and executing enough worms and fork bombs]] to completely fragment its hard drive and overload the CPU and RAM.
** The dialogue (bad spelling and grammar replicated) was the best part:
{{quote|'''adm_ghost:''' You really don't need to be here. You're not accomplishing anything.
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'''[[The Thing That Would Not Leave|guest]] (sic):''' [[Shut Up, Kirk|tell your bitch-admn to stay in kitchen]], [[Would Hit a Girl|whore shoudl stay in kitchen]]. [[Tempting Fate|you cant do anything to anon]] [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|were invivincible bitch]]
'''adm_ghost:''' Next time you think you're so anonymous, try it on a board where I can't see all the guest posters' IP addresses. Same goes if the rest of you get ideas. }}
* Netflix's rate increases in 2011 came back to bite the company in the ass ''hard''. People didn't just post flaming statements against Netflix on all social media forms - they hit the company where they lived. Netflix suffered 800,000 subscription cancellations in the third quarter of that year.
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* Revolution Muslim once posted a warning to ''[[South Park]]'' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone over the two-part episode "200", which depicted Muhammad in a bear costume (
* Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry once posted a [[YouTube]] video saying he would fight Barack Obama's supposed "war on religion", highlighted by him saying how awful it was that gay people could serve in the military but Christmas couldn't be celebrated in public schools. It became [[YouTube]]'s second
* In 2003, former U.S. senator Rick Santorum commented that consenting adults did not have a constitutional right to privacy in regard to sexual acts, that if sodomy is allowed then incest and polygamy aren't far behind, and that anti-sodomy laws are important to maintaining society and family. Columnist Dan Savage wasn't amused. If you Google the word [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=775&q=Santorum Santorum], the first result is... well...
* Stephen J. Dubner, of ''Freakonomics'' fame, was served spoiled chicken at a Manhattan restaurant. The manager, gambling that he would leave without a fuss, offered minimal compensation. He got his revenge by posting the restaurant's name and address to the [http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/08/why-pay-3609-for-rancid-chicken/ Freakonomics blog]. "Last I checked, the roast chicken was still on the menu. ''Bon appetit''."
* ''[[Cartoon Network]]'' got much backlash from the ''CN Real'' block, especially with its somewhat arrogant marketing ("[[Animation Age Ghetto|More than just Cartoons]]"), to the point that the block and everything associated with it was purged from the marketing as well as many of the shows associated with the block, with the last few live action shows (''Hole In The Wall'', ''[[Dude, What Would Happen?]]'', and ''Destroy Build Destroy'') lingering until November 2011, where they were finally canceled. This, along with the continued attempts to apply live action shows to the Network (their next project is ''[[Level Up (TV series)|Level Up]]'') are possibly more noticed than the Network's attempts to [[Win Back the Crowd]].
* [http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/teen-girl-calls-for-nationwide-girl-scout-cookies A girl made a YouTube video calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies], because the Girl Scouts of America supports
* During the July 2011 [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/10/news-of-the-world-10-years-since-phone-hacking-scandal-brought-down-tabloid News of the World
* After United Airlines baggage handlers damaged Dave Carroll's guitar and the company refused to accept responsibility, Carroll got his revenge by recording a song called
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510054126/http://s3.amazonaws.com/kony2012/kony-4.html KONY 2012]. Essentially, it was an effort to raise awareness of the infamous terrorist Joseph Kony and the horrific tragedies he has caused (including kidnapping children and either making them sex slaves or child soldiers, and even making them kill their own parents), with the hopes of getting the attention of the government to warrant his arrest. The whole thing spread like wildfire right out of the gate.
** It backfired. [http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/ People quickly found out that] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102170948/http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/ Invisible Children] only donates 31% of their proceeds to actually helping anyone (very small in any sense of the word), the rest of it going towards the pockets of the people running the organization and their documentary business. They were also criticized for [[Documentary of Lies|oversimplifying and exaggerating the situation]], turning the rather complex affair into a [[Black and White Morality|classical fight between good versus evil]] (even depicting [[People's Republic of Tyranny|the Ugandan government]] as knights in shining armor, when they're [[Not So Different]] from the LRA), and the overall lack of representation the ''actual victims'' get. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/kony-2012-campaigner-detained Jason Russell had an emotional breakdown because of the criticism.]
* In 2011, a ''[[StarCraft|Starcraft 2]]'' player and trainer named Destiny was the target of DDOS attacks for several months, until he managed to get into contact with the attacker, who tried to blackmail him. However, Destiny managed to pull the attacker's IP and forwarded it to one of his friends, who managed to not only pull the attacker's name, contact information, and address, but the names and phone numbers of all of his immediate relatives as well. After making a call to the attacker to taunt him, Destiny got into contact with the attacker's father, who promised that his son would not do anything like this again. Destiny has not had a single DDOS attack since.
* Starting with is "Project Chanology" in 2008, the hacker group Anonymous has been metamorphosing into a group less interested in [[For the Lulz|lulz]] than in social justice (at least its interpretation of it).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200726220204/https://me.me/i/beloved-cat-fired-from-his-job-at-a-local-public-d6f5e4cef8e843aab34a5d43952ed751 Three news headers] that tell most of the story:
*# "Beloved Cat Fired from His Job at a Local Public Library"
*# "Beloved Cat Will Keep His Job at the Local Library After International Backlash"
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