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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'' could arguably be considered ''nothing'' but this trope, advertising comics outside of ''Countdown'' within ''Countdown''.
== Literature ==
* Scott Sigler freely admits that being a Shameless Self Promoter is what propelled him from an unknown, unpublished writer to an acclaimed [[Podiobook]] superstar to a New York Times Bestselling author.
** Also true of Sigler's arch-nemesis J.C. Hutchins who rode his self-promotion all the way to having his podcast novel trilogy 7th Son optioned by Warner Bros.
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== Meta ==
* Troping Wikis: This page.
* Later, the unendingly [[Entry Pimp]]'d ''[[Instrument of God]]'' [part of the ''In the Matter of:'' series!] page.
* There's even [[Troper Works|a page]] for cataloguing self-promotion!
* Unfortunately this creeps out of its home and into our [[Fan Fic Recommendations]]
* By the way, ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'' is mentioned [[Entry Pimp|(numerous times)]] in this wiki. You should check it out.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[D Generation X]]. ''Full. Tilt.'' Also, [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Mick Foley]] will often plug his most recent book upon release on whatever show he is currently a part of. Also [[Played for Laughs]] due to his signature ability to go for the [[Cheap Heat|cheap pop]].
== Radio ==
* The second-to-last episode of ''[[The Stan Freberg Show]]'', due to the lack of a corporate sponsor, was sponsored by [[Stan Freberg]] and filled with [[Parody Commercial]]s for himself.
== Video Games ==
* In the Crash Course DLC for [[Left 4 Dead]], Valve slips one of these in as a little [[Easter Egg]]. If the player was to gather all the survivors around a leaking steam pipe, a conversation like this might occur:
{{quote|'''Francis''': Hey, watch out for that goddamn steam pipe.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0oMeeVnCI&feature=player_embedded Aksys does this with style when] [[Atlus|Atlus USA]] asks a question to promote the [[Catherine]] trailer video. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|They instead promoted]] ''[[Record of Agarest War Zero]]''.
* Of all games, [[Thunder Force]] VI. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZ_abn22rI&feature=related The final boss] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXL5pIPKzyI&feature=related of the game] was designed after an [[Eldritch Abomination]] in a manga created by the director of the game.
* [[Toby Fox]] is probably ''still'' busy getting ''[[Undertale]]'', the (absolute "pop culture" ''behemoth'' of a) game for which he is most likely a [[One-Hit Wonder]], ported onto [[Port Overdosed|basically every system that it possibly ''can'' be ported onto]] (as if the game's title, not to mention its extremely excessive fame, wasn't already reminiscent enough of ''[[Cave Story]]'', mind you), in addition to the fact that the ''original'' version of ''Undertale'' was probably deliberately made (story-wise, at least) to cause/create the absolute largest number of Internet memes imaginable.
* In ''[[Street Fighter]]'', Dan Hibiki is an in-universe one; ''[[Street Fighter IV]]'' shows him appearing in a commercial about himself and bragging about himself so much that [[Epic Fail|he somehow causes himself to forget to mention the address of the dojo that he is supposed to be talking about in said commercial in the process]], while ''[[Street Fighter V]]'' shows him making an entire toy line (the Saikyo Boys) about himself.
== Web Comics ==
* Checkerboard Nightmare will do whatever it takes to make you read ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]''.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130809011807/http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/ Xawu]'', being a recently started, short, epic webcomic wannabe, has done a lot of this, in this very wiki. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809011807/http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/ Right now].
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== Web Original ==
* This trope is why many people (Nintendocaprisun, [[Josh Jepson]], Chuggaaconroy included) have disabled channel comments because people would not stop promoting their channel no matter how many times their comment was marked as spam. Hell, just take a look at [[Proton Jon]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/user/ProtonJonSA channel comments] and see how long you can go without seeing a SSP in action.
* Futaba-channel derived [[Image Board]] communities (4Chan, 7Chan, etc.) that use anonymous names as default entries take this to a humorous extreme, where anyone actually using a name is [[Ho Yay|teased]] or [[Cluster F-Bomb|insulted]].
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** Also, [[Fur Affinity]], and just about any [[Web Comic]] you've actually heard of.
* There is one of the many people "inspired" by the Angry Video Game Nerd to make reviews of video games for Youtube who shall not be named. The difference? Any forum related to video game "reviews" has been visited by him and several alternate accounts, each creating threads solely linking to his work. The [[That Guy With The Glasses]] forum once had four topics consisting of the same links to his material. If his name or Youtube username is mentioned on anywhere on any forum, he will immediately insult long-time members yet simultaneously set up a separate account to link others to his work. He is known to spam other popular "reviews" with links to his videos and responds to any messages directed at himself with anger and [[Small Name, Big Ego|self-righteous egoism]]. When another user made fun of him in a video, the amount of comments he made to the video infamously ''numbered more than the actual video's total views.'' Note that he once promoted himself [http://metokur.org/forum/index.php/topic,727.0.html in a forum thread created to point out his shamelessness.]
** And adding to his [[Small Name, Big Ego|self-righteous
*** So, he's essentially [[Candle Jack]], only he insults people
* Try reading the comments on a [[YouTube]] video sometime. Guaranteed, you will see someone either trying to shill either their own videos or another website.
* On the video game music podcast [[Nitro Game Injection]], Larry Oji never wastes an opportunity to mention [[OverClocked Remix]]. This isn't so surprising, considering he's the Head Submissions Evaluator of the site.
** This is [[Lampshaded]] in the website description for episode 118, in which it's suggested that the listener [[Drinking Game|takes a shot every time Larry mentions OCR.]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201019221238/https://horrible-music-and-songs.fandom.com/wiki/Submarine_Man Submarine Man], despite being a barely-even-existent SoundCloud joke artist who is easily one of ''the'' worst rappers (and most painfully unfunny music parodists, not to mention most utterly shameless copyright thieves) of all time, has made numerous [[So Bad It's Horrible|"songs"]] that basically do ''nothing'' but brag about [[Small Name, Big Ego|how "great" he is]] and [[Author Appeal|how sexy/smelly his (favorite types of) feet are]]. In fact, he eventually even went as far as to call himself a better rapper than (freaking) [[Eminem]] in "Go Dumb" (one of his many unbelievably terrible "songs").
* [https://satina.fandom.com/wiki/Hannah_Daigle Hannah Daigle]'s ''[[Satina (Wants a Glass of Water)]]'' series currently only has one actual episode and two pilot shorts, yet it already has its own merchandise and an incredibly large amount of fan art that (includes fan comics and) was made by Hannah herself.
* Back when SammyClassicSonicFan was a downright insane troll rather than being an actually normal (or, at least, relatively normal) YouTuber, he ''constantly'' bragged about how he was "the #1 Mario/Sonic fan"...
** ...then whined about how [[Hypocritical Humor|people needed to stop calling him a Nintendo fanboy]].
== Western
* [[John Kricfalusi]] is/was a ''completely''-[[Insufferable Genius|insufferably]] massive one of these for ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', to the point where he has quite-frequently belittled numerous cartoons that are blatantly superior to it in numerous ways (''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' when it comes to social satire and "all ages" appeal, ''[[Animaniacs]]'' when it comes to having [[Stylistic Suck|''actually'' good-looking]] animation, ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' when it comes to story-telling, ''[[South Park]]'' when it comes to ''not'' severely over-using [[Refuge in Vulgarity]], et cetera) just because said shows don't perfectly match the style of ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' like how ''R&S'' (not counting its ''APC'' spin-off) does. Sadly enough, his overall attitude about animation is basically a [[Logical Extreme]] of the one that many actual animation-criticizing specialists have about it.
* This is a rather minor example when compared to the John K one on this page, but [[Joe Murray]] once outright stated that ''every single episode'' of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' (including the numerous blatant duds in Season 4) was "top-notch".
** Not to mention the fact that said (generally [[Sacred Cow|''highly'' over-rated]]) show's theme song [[Title Scream|''very''-enthusiastically yells the title of the show itself]] three times in (basically) a row (in Season 1), followed by six times in (literally) a row (in Seasons 2-4).
* [[Nickelodeon]] and [[Viacom]] themselves are absolutely ''gargantuan'' SSPs for ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', in addition to the show itself having a theme song that [[Title Scream|''very''-loudly yells its main character's name]] eight times in (basically) a row.
** However, this example is actually somewhat justified by ''SBSP'' being big enough of a "pop culture" hit to actually pretty-closely rival how [[Seasonal Rot|(in)]]famous ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[The Simpsons]]'' are.
== Real Life ==
* Alec Fleming (discoverer of penicillium mold) was one of these. In fact he shared the 1945 Nobel prize with two others, Ernst Chain and Sir Howard Florey, who ended up doing almost all the real work after he gave up on it. Fleming was so charismatic that Chain and Florey have been largely forgotten.
** Chain and Florey perfected the large scale synthesis of the drug.
* Joel McHale is a big one. He's already got you watching ''The Soup'', but he will promote his show ''[[Community]]'' (Thursday nights at 8PM on NBC!) as well as his own stand up shows. Also his Twitter feed is nothing but urging people to watch ''[[Community]]'' and and to go to his shows. This can be forgiven as Joel Mchale is extremely funny.
* As the photo indicates, Jack Layton
* There is a reason you've heard a lot more about Thomas Edison and [[Isaac Newton]] than Nicola Tesla and Robert Hooke; the former were much better at self promotion.
* [[Dan Schneider|Danwarp]]
* The career of independent film producer Brian Flemming was arguably destroyed when he couldn't stop promoting his documentary ''The God Who Wasn't There'' and his atheism.
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