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* Rick Perry's "Strong" ad has launched a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rick-perrys-strong-ad meme] based on making fun of it.
* Political ads in general are prone to this, since they seldom have the slightest hint of subtlety. Attack ads in particular have a tendency to be so melodramatic in their negativity that it leads to [[Narm]].
** One such example is that of veteran Filipino politician Juan Ponce Enrile who made a bid for re-election well into his nineties. In an effort to appeal to the millenial voting public, his recent campaign ads made use of slang terms such as "lodi" (an anagram of "idol") or "petmalu" (a corruption of the word "malupet" which roughly translates to "awesome" or "cool"). Unsurprisingly, some found it more hammy than appealing especially given the dubious reputation Filipino politicians have.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200904090439/https://politics.com.ph/politikoad-ftw-or-epic-fail-lodi-petmalu-enrile-still-wants-you-to-be-happy/ #PolitikoAd FTW or epic fail? ‘Lodi’ ‘petmalu’ Enrile still wants you to be happy]</ref> And it didn't help that his "Petmalu" campaign ads were peppered by dislikes and negative comments from those who are understandably burned out by the crooked nature of Philippine politics.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ctyNR7e3I Gusto ni Manong Johnny, Happy Ka!]</ref>
* The "Head On" commercials. How can you not make fun of a commercial that consists of nothing but "Head On: Apply directly to the forehead" repeated ''over and over''?
* A series of commercials for Italian children's footwear brand Lelli Kelly became this as youths in the UK were subjected to said commercials in the late 2000s and early 2010s with their [[Tastes Like Diabetes|overly girly]] theme and [[Ear Worm|ear-grating jingle]]. Unsurprisingly, said youths who were understandably annoyed by the ads' [[Narm]]y presentation later ended up making parodies of the commercials.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZiPz8VxTY This is America Meme Lelli Kelly]</ref>
* Ads for mobile games from various obscure or fly-by-night developers, usually from Asia, end up becoming fodder for ridicule and ironic commentary since the late 2010s either for its overly hammy, cringe-worthy presentation, or in the case of some like ''Kiss of War'', over-reliance on [[Fanservice]] or hyper-sexualised portrayals of women in a low-brow, vain bid to attract gamers.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlgQY6ztcs All Kiss of War Ads #2 - (2020)]</ref> At least some YouTube users remarked that the latter ads are either too misogynistic or are borderline PornHub material, something which may fall afoul of ad standards despite the games being rated Mature by the ESRB.
** The most well-known example of these cringe ads is that of ''Mafia City'' whose [[Narm]] status became [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] in recent years.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymobilegameads/comments/f2v08s/the_mafia_city_ads_are_back/ Mafia City ads are back]</ref>
== Anime and Manga ==
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** Pretty much the same thing can be said about ''[[Naruto]]''.
** And the shipping fandoms for both of the above. The [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] and the fans involved have become pure jokes to those not involved.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Kämpfer]]'' can be considered as this due to the fact that no matter how much [[Oblivious to Love|dense]] Natsuru is to the point it's already irritating, viewers still couldn't stop watching the show week after week.
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* [[Chick Tracts|Comics by Jack Chick]]. Here, [http://imgur.com/LBt4E.png look] (possibly [[NSFW]]). Those, sadly, become much less funny when a ten-year-old girl, with fervent earnestness, gives you one.
** In the interests of full disclosure, we should note the excerpt in that link ''is'' a [[Gag Dub]].
** Well, anything from Jack Chick is a guaranteed Snark Bait, given its fire-and-brimstone, "repent-or-burn-in-hell" rhetoric as well as attacks towards Muslims, the LGBT community and even other Christian sects such as Catholics whom Chick somehow views as corrupt and demonic.
* Chris Sims has [http://www.the-isb.com/?cat=91 more than a few words to say] about the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' comics.
*
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* Fanfiction in general falls into this. Many people refer to it as "the proof of [[Sturgeon's Law]]", and few will deny that the vast majority of fanfiction consists of reprehensible [[Mary Sue]] wanking, paint-by-numbers romance with no real purpose other than a desire to [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|attack another pairing]]/[[Author Appeal|write about characters screwing]], idiotic LOLRANDOM [[Crack Fic]], [[Dead Fic|potentially decent stories that last updated around the invention of fire]], and [[Rouge Angles of Satin|unreadable vomit that could possibly have been written by banging one's head against a keyboard]]. Of course, that really just makes the good stuff all the better.
* Many online communities are devoted to the sporking and mocking of bad [[fanfic]]s (especially [[Mary Sue]] fics).
* ''[[Celebrian]]'', a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic consisting of lots of [[Gorn|torture porn]] and little else, continues to get circulated in spite of being both [[squick]]y and dull because of the hilarity many people find in both it and the reactions it generates. It's sort of similar to ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'' in that regard.
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' is probably the single most widely circulated fanfic ever created specifically ''because'' of this trope. It's probably more [[Bile Fascination]] and [[So Bad It's Good]] than Snark Bait, but both still apply.
* Completely and utterly averted by ''[[Agony in Pink]]'', which is so unpleasant that it is nearly unreadable.
* ''[[My Inner Life]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]''. [[So Bad It's Good]], with lots and lots of [[Rouge Angles of Satin]], not to mention a [[Mary Sue]] as [[The Hero]], it makes for a good platform for a snarky review.
* Pornographic
* ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''; for the same reasons as the previously mentioned ''My Immortal'', ''My Inner Life'', and ''Starkits Prophecy''.
== Film ==
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** This is probably what Boll would like to believe, but his [[Hatedom]] really isn't big enough to put his profits into the positive. Not that he's motivated by the revenue at the box office end, so his works have become an [[Acceptable Target]] for piracy—people less often pay to trash them, they (allegedly) simply steal them to trash them.
* ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'' has a cult following in the video game culture dedicated to tearing it apart for its [[Pac-Man Fever|laughable inaccuracies]] and blatantly [[Merchandise-Driven]] nature.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040705234011/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118261/usercomments Asteroid]'' movie. Probably worth watching - if you have bile deficiency and readily available can of [[Brain Bleach]]... or properly perverted sense of humor.
* ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' starts off as [[Bile Fascination]], but becomes Snark Bait on repeated viewings.
* The same goes with ''[[Gigli]]'', if only to see the lack of chemistry between then-star couple [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Ben Affleck]] (and J-Lo's infamous and strangely prophetic "[[Narm|It's turkey time...]]" line).
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* Almost any film that was ever covered on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', but perhaps most especially ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' and ''[[Puma Man]]''.
* Movies such as ''[[Freedom Writers]]'' and ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'' are often parodied because of their predictable [[Save Our Students]] plots (''Lean on Me'' gets a pass because A: It's [[Morgan Freeman]], and B: he inspires students by being a completely unforgiving hard-ass).
* Almost any entry for the [[Metro Manila Film Festival]], especially from the likes of [[Vice Ganda]] and [[Vic Sotto]]. While they do serve their purpose of giving "masa" (read: masses or common folk) audiences some cheap laughs for them to forget their troubles during Christmastime, professional reviewers and the more refined Filipino crowd savage said films due to what they see as [[Christmas Rushed]] sell-out trash meant more to make money and with reckless disregard to artistic or even moral and cultural merits. Spoken-word artist and television presenter Lourd De Veyra once stated in an open letter<ref>[https://www.spot.ph/this-is-a-crazy-planets/55300/an-open-letter-to-vic-sotto An Open Letter to Vic Sotto]</ref> that he used to admire Sotto for his satirical and at times subversive comedy, but has since lost his respect as Sotto's later output reeked more of star vehicles driven by [[Product Placement]]s and disjointed plots. Such was the cringe with the aforementioned films that a group of filmmakers and scholars came up with a [[The Moral Substitute|a more reasonable substitute]] called the "Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino" (lit. "Feast of Filipino Films") with the aim of promoting locally-produced films that are more worth taking pride in the world stage.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'' is possibly the worst fantasy short story ever written ''ever''. Terrible in the extreme, only readable with the help of the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] crew heckling it... yet somehow, impossible not to read (at least once). In places, it has become tradition to stage competitions of how much people could read with a straight face and expressive voice. Three quarters of a page is considered doing extremely well.
* ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''. It looks like a less-than-shiny book assembled from moldy pieces of cryptohistory is ''not'' going to be less of a target if advertised as a daring innovative idea and (whispering) maybe even ''really'' relevant theory.
* Tyra Banks is writing a fantasy novel about models. No, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130313012333/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100637-Tyra-Banks-Fancies-Herself-the-Next-J-R-R-Tolkien really].
** The book trilogy in question is titled ''Modelland'', and ends up practically snarking itself. For example SM-ize is an actual word. Really.
* As far as [[Mark Twain]] was concerned, the entire body of Fenimore Cooper's work, and especially ''Deerslayer''. This resulted in "[[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]]," a hilarious [[Take That]] and early example of what [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary|we call]] [[Books on Trope]].
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* ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]''. Common gags include her up and down weight and her cultlike following.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. Which is incidentally This Troper's favorite show, it's just so scientifically inaccurate, and then there are things like [[Red Shirts]] and how Kirk always gets away with flirting even the time she was already married, and just all kinds of stuff.
* Any "reality" show especially with participants whose outcome is certain to be rigged or at least manipulated to skew in the favour of those whom the show's producers see as marketable.
== Music ==
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== Mythology and Religion ==
* The [[Church of Happyology]] has its own trope about specific examples for that particular [[Cult|Cu]]... [[Last-Second Word Swap|ool religion]], whose real name we cannot print because doing so in this page would constitute slander.
* As major religions, [[Christianity]], [[Islam]] and [[Judaism]] are all subjected to varying degrees of this.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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* Armond White's movie reviews, as can be found on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100913050834/http://www.nypress.com/flex-10-armond-white.html The New York Press Website] and [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author/author-2725/ Rotten Tomatoes], constantly bring vitriol upon those who read them. Seriously, just look at the individual moviepages at [[Rotten Tomatoes]] - his will, almost without fail, rack up the most comments. He's gained a reputation for being a completely predictable [[Commander Contrarian|contrarian]], and many suspect he's only looking to gain controversy and thus [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|gain attention for himself]] ([[Roger Ebert]] even called him a [[Troll]]). Ironically, his reviews have actually become arguably the most reliable prediction of how good or bad a movie is; if he slams it, it's a good movie, and if he kisses up to it, it's a bad movie.
** Remember that [[Roger Ebert]] initially defended White, pointing out that not only is there nothing wrong with challenging consensus position, but White even agrees with the Tomatometer 50% of the time which he considered to be ideal. The biggest problem most people have with White is that the reasons he gives often go above and beyond [[Epic Fail]] - to the point that people question whether or not he actually saw the movies he reviewed. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120115005351/http://www.nypress.com/article-21903-twisted-tale.html he complained about the length of Rapunzel's hair] in ''[[Tangled]]'' and comments that her hair never becomes a problem for her, which is flat out ''wrong'' (in the ''opening song,'' for example, she laments the length of time she has to spend brushing it).
* ''[[Microsoft]]'''s Zune player [http://youtu.be/V5ENLm0JsQw gets this] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130413062940/http://www.cracked.com/funny-1856-mp3-players/ all the time].
* Modern art ''as a whole'', particularly due to [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]].
* [http://goodmenproject.com/arts/p-t-barnum-honey-boo-boo-and-trolling-as-a-business-model/ An article] by Noah Brand traces this marketing strategy to at least 1842 (P.T. Barnum’s American Museum).
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* This trope most likely accounts for the ''entirety'' of [[Philips CD-i]] systems that were purchased at any time during the past ten years.
* ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', the script moreso than the actual gameplay. "You were almost a Jill Sandwich" anyone? What about a gun that's "good against living things"? or "master of unlocking". Don't forget "Wow! What a mansion!", especially with the [[Fridge Brilliance]] of {{spoiler|Wesker's}} role later in the game.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)
* ''[[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]]'', which gained infamy when gamers discovered just how [[So Bad It's Good|hilarious broken it is.]]
* [[RuneScape]] gets this from a lot of people who view it as a poor man's [[World of Warcraft]] or [[EverQuest]].
== Webcomics ==
* This trope is so prevalent in regards to ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', sometimes you have to wonder if most of the fanbase is just reading it to make fun of it.
* Most of the "fanbase" for [[David Gonterman]] is based on this.
* A double team of ''[[The Wotch]]'' and ''[[Abstract Gender]]'' is the perfect bait for snarking, especially from ''Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad'' and the ''Bad Comics Wiki''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130504164357/http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/the-wotch Here's the BCW review of the Wotch for starters...]
* A general rule amongst regulars of [[Image Boards]] is that nearly any ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' comic ever made can be made up to 500% funnier by removing the second and third panels. Likewise, this is often done in reverse to other comics by [[Wall of Text|padding the dialogue out into enormous balloons]] by meticulously explaining every single detail, [[Don't Explain the Joke|including the joke]], and manipulating all the characters' faces into the same [[Dull Surprise|bland expression]] used by Buckley in his comics.
* Quite possibly the only reason why anyone would willingly read ''[[Sonichu]]''.
* There are a lot of people who seemingly read ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' in order to bash on the creator suffering from [[The Chris Carter Effect]] and a massive [[Kudzu Plot]], as well as mock the [[Furry Fandom]].
* Many people only read ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' for this reason. A site that collects rewrites of the various arcs can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003170724/http://kate-comics.tumblr.com/ here].
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' is prone to this. Remix comics are [https://web.archive.org/web/20130520081434/http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?showtopic=1287 very] [http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?s=0f99a537c4c0208e3471ef22eb96fa25&showtopic=1736949 popular.]
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Life Me]]'': A [[Flash Animation]] cartoon done in [[Animesque]] style starring a [[Occidental Otaku
* ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'' can be considered this, especially when its runaway success turned it into a [[Cash Cow Franchise]] shortly after its release, and the leagues of youngsters since 2013 who have either owned the countless merchandise, wore costumes based on Anna and Elsa, or subjected people to "Let It Go" on replay much to the consternation of others who are burned out by it. Not to mention parts of the [[Periphery Demographic|adult fandom]] who'd either come up with lesbian fanfics involving Elsa with Honeymaren or some other female character, or worse yet, in an [[Squick|incestuous relationship]] with her younger sister Anna.
* The ''[[Disney Princess]]'' franchise gets a lot of undeserved hate in recent years largely because of the [[Girl Show Ghetto]] and what is often viewed as an idealised, saccharine portrayals of the main characters especially with [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs|Snow White]] and [[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]], who were viewed as too meek or passive to be viewed as role models for young girls.
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