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 On the internet, information is little more than a click away. Unfortunately, so is a sea of misinformation.
-==  Web Animation ==
-* In the 2009 edition of the calendar ''The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said'', one contributor attributes the phrase [[Your Head Asplode|YOUR HEAD A SPLODE]] to "the video game [[Homestar Runner]]" (as opposed to being from a game based on the online animated series ''Homestar Runner'' entitled StrongBadZone), not to mention that the silliness of this choice of words was a [[Intentional Engrish for Funny|deliberate]] [[Stylistic Suck|parody]].
-==  Webcomics ==
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120713173817/http://www.net4tv.com/VOICE/Story.cfm?storyID=1517 Is Oasis lying to] [[Sluggy Freelance|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<ref>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.</ref>
-** A recent [http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-16/local/30303666_1_costumes-dynamic-duo-proton-pack 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.
-* [http://mobile.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/08/02/the_new_webcomic_entrepreneurs/ This article] profiling notable self-sufficient [[Web Comics|web-cartoonists]] falls into this trap more than a few times. [[Questionable Content|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]] [[Artifact Title|is a more understandable mistake]], but MS Paint [[Non-Indicative Name|hasn't been used for it at all]] since the very first page in 2006, and the site's FAQ makes that quite clear.
 ==  Web Original ==
-* i think [[Halo]] [[I Am Not Shazam|is a]] [[Memetic Mutation/Video Games|pretty cool guy]]. [[Did Not Do the Research|eh]] kills [[Aliens and Monsters|aliens]] and [[Badass|doesn't afraid of anything]].
+* i think [[Halo]] [[I Am Not Shazam|is a]] [[Memetic Mutation/Video Games|pretty cool guy]]. [[Did Not Do the Research|eh]] kills [[Aliens and Monsters|aliens]] and [[Badass|doesn't afraid of anything]].{{context}}
 * In [http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2008/12/sorry-what-was-that-i-coudnt-hear-you-over-your-name this blog post], baby-name expert Laura Wittenberg explains how distracting names that reveal that authors [[Did Not Do the Research]] (''e.g.'', a [[Work Com]] with an entire office full of men in their 30s who have names that are popular ''now'' but not so much in [[The Seventies]]) have become to her.
 ** The above example pretty much only fits the trope to said expert alone, since people have been giving themselves and their children odd or out of place names for millennia, and fictional media ain't exactly a bastion of reality in the first place.