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On the internet, information is little more than a click away. Unfortunately, so is a sea of [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|misinformation]].
== Web Animation ==
* In the 2009 edition of the calendar ''The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said'', one contributor attributes the phrase [[Your Head Asplode|YOUR HEAD A SPLODE]] to "the video game [[Homestar Runner]]" (as opposed to being from a game based on the online animated series ''Homestar Runner'' entitled StrongBadZone), not to mention that the silliness of this choice of words was a [[Intentional Engrish for Funny|deliberate]] [[Stylistic Suck|parody]].
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** There was also a recent article in which the author interviewed a Homestuck cosplayer. When they said that they were cosplaying Eridan Ampora, the interviewer took that to mean that all of the trolls were named Eridan Ampora.
* [http://mobile.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/08/02/the_new_webcomic_entrepreneurs/ This article] profiling notable self-sufficient [[Web Comics|web-cartoonists]] falls into this trap more than a few times. [[Questionable Content|Marten]] has never worked at a coffee shop, and Pintsize can't really be considered a pet; Jeph Jacques later joked about making Marten work at Coffee of Doom to make the article accurate. Mistaking ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' as being made in [[MS Paint]] [[Artifact Title|is a more understandable mistake]], but MS Paint [[Non-Indicative Name|hasn't been used for it at all]] since the very first page in 2006, and the site's FAQ makes that quite clear.
== Web Original ==
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** An article on Japanese versions of Western characters claimed that Luke chopped Vader's head off. Which he did. In the cave on Dagobah where, if you recall the scene from the movie, he chopped Vader's head off. It also claimed that ''[[Hellsing]]'' using the name Alucard was a clumsy way to avoid copyright issues over using Dracula, despite the fact that 1. Dracula is in the public domain and 2. in ''Hellsing'' Alucard is Dracula, which is explicitly confirmed when he reveals his true form and how he came to serve the Hellsing organization.
* The Agony Booth's recap of ''[[High School Musical]]'' made an error [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/High_School_Musical_2006.aspx?Page=3 by saying that] Ashley Tisdale basically played an identical [[Alpha Bitch]] character on that "awful sitcom ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''". If you're not familiar enough with the show to know that Ashley Tisdale plays the [[Foil|exact opposite character type]] on that show, you obviously haven't even seen a commercial for it, and [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|probably shouldn't be making judgments about it.]]
* X-Entertainment liked to play on this trope when it still published articles, particularly for franchises that the author isn't interested in. Example: [http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0747/ Behold!], an article on the Strawberry Shortcake cereal getting the names of Apricot and Hopsalot Bunny wrong, even though the correct names were mentioned in the commercial that's available for download from the same page!▼
* When a school shooting rekindled discussions in Germany about [[Murder Simulators|video games being responsible for real life violence]], the news broadcast Focus TV showed the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0 infamous clip of the "Angry German Kid"], claiming that the footage was secretly recorded by Leopold's father while he got mad playing on his computer. (If you didn't know by now, the clip was staged and recorded by the 'kid himself for the lulz.)▼
* An image for the "[[Bleach]] Has No Backgrounds!" [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] had a shot of ''Bleach'' compared to a shot from ''[[Naruto]]'' and ''[[One Piece]]'' respectively. While this isn't a problem if you want to make a point, the problem is that the pictures from the other two were of cities, while the picture from Bleach was of...Hueco Mundo, a statedly empty and barren desert.▼
** Arguably, the real issue is that Naruto had a visibly bigger animation budget (possibly because the original manga's art style was inspired by [[Akira]] and they wanted to do it justice), and One Piece's art style (being more cartoony) works better with a smaller budget than Bleach's does.▼
* ''[http://animatedviews.com/ Animated Views]'' has so many of these it's not even funny. A few of the examples include:
** An [http://animatedviews.com/2010/rudolph-frosty-santa-claus-the-original-christmas-classics/ assumption] that ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'' began airing with "Fame and Fortune" instead of "We're a Couple of Misfits" in 1998 as opposed to 1965 (1998 is actually the year "We're a Couple of Misfits" '''returned''' to ''Rudolph'', a fact the reviewer could have confirmed simply by watching the previous year's broadcast!).
** A [http://animatedviews.com/2010/toy-story-3-blu-ray-dvd-combo/ lament] that the "Recommended Features" box on the ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' Blu-Ray does not include a link to ''Day and Night'' even though the link is randomized, and ''could'' link to that short on certain viewings
** An [http://animatedviews.com/2009/watchmen-director-cut-blu-ray/ assumption] that in the ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' graphic novel, Dr. Manhattan and the squid were the same being (a site devoted to animation probably shouldn't review ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' in the first place!).
== Web Video ==
▲* When a school shooting rekindled discussions in Germany about [[Murder Simulators|video games being responsible for real life violence]], the news broadcast Focus TV showed the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0 infamous clip of the "Angry German Kid"], claiming that the footage was secretly recorded by Leopold's father while he got mad playing on his computer. (If you didn't know by now, the clip was staged and recorded by the
* When [[The Nostalgia Critic]] announced [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|his appearance in the]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Entrepreneur]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|magazine]], we all went straight to or searched for [http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/december/204086.html the article online!] But here's the thing: Mike Ellis and Mike Michaud have been mislabeled in the article.
** Plus, Doug and the Mikes are listed as co-founders and runners of Channel Awesome...but not even a mention of Bhargav?
** Moreover, the article actually goes into detail in another Channel Awesome website, the much less popular Chicago nightlife review site [http://thatguywiththeglasses.wikia.com/wiki/Barfiesta Barfiesta] instead of mentioning Bhargav, when that site is actually ''Bhargav's pet project''. Weird, huh?
* [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony's]] ''Deadliest Character: [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Megazord]] VS [[Godzilla|Mechagodzilla]]'' video was chock full of
▲* X-Entertainment liked to play on this trope when it still published articles, particularly for franchises that the author isn't interested in. Example: [http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0747/ Behold!], an article on the Strawberry Shortcake cereal getting the names of Apricot and Hopsalot Bunny wrong, even though the correct names were mentioned in the commercial that's available for download from the same page!
**
▲* An image for the "[[Bleach]] Has No Backgrounds!" [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] had a shot of ''Bleach'' compared to a shot from ''[[Naruto]]'' and ''[[One Piece]]'' respectively. While this isn't a problem if you want to make a point, the problem is that the pictures from the other two were of cities, while the picture from Bleach was of...Hueco Mundo, a statedly empty and barren desert.
**
▲** Arguably, the real issue is that Naruto had a visibly bigger animation budget (possibly because the original manga's art style was inspired by [[Akira]] and they wanted to do it justice), and One Piece's art style (being more cartoony) works better with a smaller budget than Bleach's does.
**
▲* [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony's]] ''Deadliest Character: [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Megazord]] VS [[Godzilla|Mechagodzilla]]'' video was chock full of innacurate discriptions and blatant [[Critical Research Failure]] including-
▲** 1.) Talking about the Showa (1974) Mechagodzilla while showing clips of ''Kiryu''. While Kiryu ''is'' an incarnation of Mechagodzilla, it is '''not''' the same monster (The original Mechagodzilla is a robot built by aliens to take over the world and Kiryu is a cyborg version of the original Godzilla).
▲** 2.) Saying that Mechagodzilla was unable to defeat a single monster (IE: Godzilla). In reality, Mechagodzilla is one of the few Kaiju that Godzilla is unable to defeat on his own. The Showa Mechagodzilla required the aid of King Caesar (''Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla'') and humanity (''Terror Of Mechagodzilla'') to defeat.
▲** 3.) Completely ignoring (or simply not knowing about) the fact that Mechagodzilla ''also'' has an ally in the form of Titanosaurus.
▲*** Yes but the that was an intentional parody.
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