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* Many times certain fandoms give a 10/10 score to a movie on its [[IMDb]] page before it even comes out.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' partially averts this. Almost everyone has seen it, but most people only watch it when they're kids or when they're ''with'' kids, and so can go many years without being exposed to it. It's common to watch it again after a long absence and being surprised by a sight gag, quip, or sequence that one had totally forgotten about.
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* ''[[Ico]]'' is widely praised as being a simple yet artistic, touching game. Finding people who actually played it, though, is not quite easy.
* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' has become insanely popular, but it is hard to tell whether people actually like the game itself or [[Watch It for the Meme|just listen to the memes the game created without even knowing a thing about the Companion Cube or how]] [[The Cake Is a Lie]].
* ''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels|Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' is sometimes praised because people who found out that it was the "real" sequel to ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'' instead of the [[Dolled-Up Installment]] released as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' in North America. Actually playing - [[Nintendo Hard|and]] [[Sequel Difficulty Spike|surviving]] - probably finishes the loving.
* ''[[Terraria]]'' had a community like this pre-release, with many people praising the game well before it came out and claiming it to be nothing like ''[[Minecraft]]'', despite only a limited number of them having played it at that point.
* A good number of ''[[Touhou Project]]'' fans [[Periphery Demographic|have not played the games proper]], and are only familiar with the games through fanart, doujins, remixes and other fan material.
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