Media Research Failure/Web Comics

Is Oasis lying to Sluggy? As the article is attributed to the author, it has to be parody.
Reportedly, one website describing Homestuck early into the comic's run referred to the post-apocalyptic nomad advising John as the Wandering Vagrant. The comic exclusively calls him the Wayward Vagabond^[1]
- A recent NY Daily News article put the trolls as the main characters when describing Homestuck. While minor, long-time fans of the series will skip aprrox 6.12 beats after reading it.
- There was also a recent article in which the author interviewed a Homestuck cosplayer. When they said that they were cosplaying Eridan Ampora, the interviewer took that to mean that all of the trolls were named Eridan Ampora.
This article profiling notable self-sufficient web-cartoonists falls into this trap more than a few times. Marten has never worked at a coffee shop, and Pintsize can't really be considered a pet; Jeph Jacques later joked about making Marten work at Coffee of Doom to make the article accurate. Mistaking MS Paint Adventures as being made in MS Paint is a more understandable mistake, but MS Paint hasn't been used for it at all since the very first page in 2006, and the site's FAQ makes that quite clear.

↑ Technically the comic has also referred to him as Warweary Villein, Wizardly Vassal, and Wastelandic Vindicator, but only one of those has been used more than once, and none of these terms had been used at the time, since the character had hardly debuted.