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== Web Comics ==

* According to the [[Word of God]] of ''[[Drowtales]]'' Syphile is "not meant to have much redeeming features, she lost them all over time. I wouldn't portray her as anything else." Guess who's treated as [[The Woobie]] by a good portion of the fandom? Given the [[Grey and Gray Morality]] of the world it's understandable to a point, but now that {{spoiler|Syphile's dead}} it'll probably get worse.

* Misaimed fandom is the point of [~~http~~://~~www~~.somethingpositive.net/sp02082008.shtml this] ''[[Something*Positive]]'' comic. For those who don't get the joke, the author had previously used "[[Catgirl|cat girls]]" to represent [[Straw Fan|annoying teenage anime fangirls]] who spout [[Gratuitous Japanese]].

* Misaimed fandom is the point of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130908133216/http://somethingpositive.net/sp02082008.shtml this] ''[[Something*Positive]]'' comic. For those who don't get the joke, the author had previously used "[[Catgirl|cat girls]]" to represent [[Straw Fan|annoying teenage anime fangirls]] who spout [[Gratuitous Japanese]].

* A rare ''positive'' example of this occurred during the fake "ending" in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/12/11/episode-1070-what-were-you-expecting/ this strip] of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''. As he claimed in the blog post for the following strip, Brian Clevinger made the strip to piss people off and was later astounded to receive several e-mails of people saying how it was a perfect way to end the strip and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|thanking him for a job well done (even the ones who hated the "ending")]].

* Someone once posted [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html this] ''[[Minus]]'' strip on a board, without any context nor any link to the comic. Immediately people saw it as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], an innocent child's dream of saving the world because nobody told her it was impossible (probably.), that no one should ever lose hope when faced with a [[The End of the World as We Know It]], etc. Of course, anybody who has read the comic knows that:

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* ''[http://www.newrem.com NewRem Comics]'' entire fanbase is misaimed. According to [[Word of God]], the main character is intended to be a deconstruction of an RPG Heroine's life after there's nothing left to save, not a cutesy nerd rage comic.

** It would probably help if the author gave any hint of this at all in the strip.

* [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027273/page-27-that-tingling-sensation-youre-experiencing-is-culture-shock/ Gright the Suicide Doll] in ''[[Far Out There]]'' was supposed to be offensive, unsettling, and an attack on the sort of people who would buy such things. Much to the author's horror, readers have demanded actual Gright merchandise ever since.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218142227/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027273/page-27-that-tingling-sensation-youre-experiencing-is-culture-shock/ Gright the Suicide Doll] in ''[[Far Out There]]'' was supposed to be offensive, unsettling, and an attack on the sort of people who would buy such things. Much to the author's horror, readers have demanded actual Gright merchandise ever since.

* [[Collar 6]]: Recently, some fans have suggested that Buttefly may simply be an "antagonist" and not a "villain." This comes with the claim that her torturing Trina for information on Sixx was consensual BDSM.

* Trollface. The meme originated from a [https://web.archive.org/web/20180123232328/https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/7/73/Trollface.png comic] lampooning Internet trolls, but the face was so awesome that the very same trolls had no problem making it the most recognizable icon of "the lulz" this side of [http://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/1/13/Awesome.png Awesome itself].