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{{quote|'''Ned''': So how'd the fight go?<br />
'''Mark''': Oh you know, it was pretty even, basically a draw...<br />
'''Ned''': Really? On [[YouTube]] it looked like you got your ass kicked.|''[[Seventeen17 Again]]''}}
 
In modern fiction, characters will post embarrassing videos of each other on [[YouTube]] ([[Bland-Name Product|or something eerily similar]]). This functions just like public humiliation, but instead of just their friends and family, it's everyone in the entire world.
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== Film ==
 
* In ''[[Zack and Miri Make Aa Porno]]'', a video of Miri in her "granny panties" becomes an instant sensation, inspiring the characters to try and make a movie.
* In ''[[Hellboy II the Golden Army]]'', one of Tom Manning's jobs is to deny the existence of Hellboy and the BPRD. So the fact that videos of Hellboy keep popping up on [[YouTube]] is indirectly embarrassing for him.
{{quote| '''Tom Manning''': I suppress each photo, cell phone videos, they cost me a fortune, and then they show up on Youtube... God, I hate Youtube.}}
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{{quote| '''Hancock:''' I don't even remember that.<br />
'''Ray:''' Greenpeace does. Walter [the whale] does. }}
* In ''[[Seventeen17 Again]]'', the main character gets in a fight at school, which he loses badly. He tries to tell his "father", Ned, <ref>actually his friend, who is acting as his father due to his [[Time Travel]]; [[It Makes Sense in Context]]</ref> that it was a draw, but Ned says he saw it on [[YouTube]].
* In Brazilian film ''Cilada.com'', the starting point is [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|a sexual failure]] of the protagonist being put on Youtube and turning him into a local mockery.
* This seems to be the entire plot of ''[[Never Back Down]]''.
* Near the beginning of ''[[Iron Man 2 (Filmfilm)|Iron Man 2]]'', Tony is [[Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee]] because he refuses to share his signature [[Powered Armor]] with the US government. Thing is, Tony not only hacks into the Senate computers to reveal surveillance footage of other nations/organizations trying to make their own versions of the Iron Man armor (and failing) but goes on to say things like being forced to share Iron Man means being forced to share himself (since he's Iron Man) which equals "indentured servitude and/or prostitution, come on!" and that he did a world a big favor by successfully privatizing world peace (he actually said this to the audience, [[No Hero to His Valet|receiving a massive applause in return]]). By the time he got home, his antics causing the subcommittee to make a complete ass of themselves is already on Youtube with '''''1,890,873 views''''', much to Tony's amusement.
 
== Literature ==
 
* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'' does this to one of the main villains in one book.
* Vampire Mine by Kerrelyn Sparks has this. One of the villains uploads a video to youtube showing one of the vampires turning to dust upon dying to prove that vampires exist and, essentially, ruin their existance.
* In ''[[Troy Rising]]'', [[Ace Pilot|Comet]] earns her callsign by [[Coming in Hot|shooting the gap of a closing bay door and surviving a "hard landing" against the back wall of the bay with zero passenger casualties.]] This happened to be the main bay of Troy, the largest battle station in the solar system ''with a kilometer-thick door made of solid nickel-iron''. Video footage of her (heroic, life-saving, incredibly necessary) stunt goes viral. The evening news considers it to be more exciting than the subsequent battle against the alien fleet that forced her to do it in the first place.
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** Played straight again in "The Kiss That Missed" humiliation at Nationals and the "Mercedes Inferno" performance of Disco Inferno.
* On ''[[Men of a Certain Age]]'', an [[Old Shame|embarrassing commercial]] Terry was in from the 80's is posted on [[YouTube]]. It gets millions of viewers, [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|inspires remixes]], and becomes so popular that the company wants Terry and the original actress to reprise their roles.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a one-off (so far) [[Show Within a Show]] "I Didn't Ask for This," where people with embarassing videos posted to youtube came on and said "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|I Didn't Ask for This]]." One of them did something embarassing on the show and the others took cellphone videos of it and posted it.
* While apparently falling in a clip on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', Stephen shouted "Please nobody post this on Youtube!"
* ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'': In "Killer App", Cal leaks an audio clip of Zach being an ass onto the Internet. Cal trying to be hip by using the latest buzzword announces that it went viral.
* One episode of ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'' shows the 1-900 sex line advertisement Liz did early in her career. It's ... special.
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' uses this in season 5's opener. Manny's drunk, and she strips off her top and bra and says "I'm going to be an actress, Academy Award winning, and you can sell this for a million dollars because [[This Is Sparta|I. Am. Going to be. FAMOUS!!!!]]" in front of [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|P]][[Yandere|e]][[Blond Guys Are Evil|t]][[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|e]][[Draco in Leather Pants|r]].
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall discovers that there's a video of him interrupting a college news report by running in naked and drunk, calling himself Beercules. He finds the guy who posted it and tried to get him to take it down, but it ends up happening again. There are also Robin's old videos as Canadian teen pop idol Robin Sparkles. Videos of Ted breaking down while giving speeches at weddings are a minor [[YouTube]] hit.
* Discussed briefly in [[QI]]. The panel were discussing the folding of paper, and what was needed to fold a piece of paper in half X number of times. [[Stephen Fry]] said "[[Accidental Innuendo|What you need is length and thickness]]", to which Alan eventually replied:
{{quote| '''Alan:''' That's gonna be snipped out, straight on [[YouTube]].<ref>It was, the very next day.</ref>}}
* In [[Noob (TV series)|Noob]], one of the players gets his avatar stuck in dancing mode by a hacker on regular basis and a guildmate that hates him films every single occurrence to post it on her blog.
 
 
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** In "Information Stupor Highway", Timmy stumbles across the scene of Crocker being forced to try on a red dress by his mother and records it for future humiliation. [[Chekhov's Gun|The file]] (instead of video evidence of Timmy's fairies) is eventually uploaded to every media outlet in the world and the entire planet gets a laugh out of it, much to Crocker's embarrassment.
** In the Wishology movie, Timmy uploads a cartoon of Dark Laser making farting noises (with the help of a woopie cushion) to get him to come down to Earth so they could use his spaceship.
* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', "World Wide Wabbit": a video of Mr. Herriman doing his "Funny Bunny" routine for Madame Foster gets posted on the internet and becomes a hit.
* Happens to Dr. Doofenshmirtz in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Tip of the Day", when an old video he made in high school of him roller-skating in his underwear and getting his head stuck in a toilet wound up on the Internet. "Always check the box, Perry the Platypus..."
** Candace sees the [[Instant Web Hit]] that the boys put on their website in "Lights, Candace, Action" as this-- it wasn't malicious in any way, though; [[The Stinger]] from that episode showed that others thought she was really cool for playing the "Swamp Monster of Danville".
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