Shameless Self Promoter: Difference between revisions

{{quote| -- [[Rule of Three|Duckluck]], [[Small Name, Big Ego|prophet of the internet age.]]}}

"Once they've turned every available inch of their account into one big, obnoxious ad for themselves, the [[Shameless Self Promoter]] will then go on the offensive. They may go slowly at first, one piece of ego stoking [[Self -Insert Fic]] here, one link to their boring website there, but eventually they will get to the point where they'll be starting whole threads based on some piece of crappy Fan Art they drew or [[Emo]] poem they wrote. These threads will typically go on for several pages (with half the posts being by the self promoter) and will only end when the [[Shameless Self Promoter]] stops getting praise and goes off to advertise themselves in a thread that people actually care about."

"The shameless self promoter is almost always either a (really) [[Small Name, Big Ego]] or someone just looking to make a buck by pushing their wares wherever they can. Either way, the best thing to do is just ignore them. If they're doing it for attention, they'll lose interest and go somewhere else. If they're doing it to sell their crap, then all you have to do is not buy anything and they'll probably just start advertising elsewhere. The one thing you never want to do is give them the attention/business they're looking for, because once you feed them, they're yours forever."

Compare: [[Small Name, Big Ego]], [[Cam Whore]], [[Attention Whore]], [[The Shill]], and [[Single -Issue Wonk]] (where the issue is themselves).

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* The second-to-last episode of ''[[The Stan Freberg Show]]'', due to the lack of a corporate sponsor, was sponsored by [[Stan Freberg (Creator)]] and filled with [[Parody Commercial|Parody Commercials]] for himself.

* 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]].

* 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 egoism]], the man has recently discovered TV Tropes when he found his name mentioned in [[Horrible/Web Original|one article]] and predictably vandalized the said article in order to defend whatever he had of his "good name". That alone shall be the reason why we shall never ever mention his name directly here. [[Speak of the Devil]] indeed.