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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Behind the scenes (mostly) example: Jeff Jarrett and [[Vince McMahon]] came to foster a mutual loathing for each other during Jeff's last [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] run, to the point that, when [[WCW]] went under, neither Jeff nor Vince were at all interested in working with the other—Vince even announced, live and simulcast on ''[[WWF]] Monday Night Raw'' and ''[[WCW]] Monday Nitro'', that Jeff was "G-double-O-double-N-double-E... GOONNEE!" So Jeff (with the help of his father, long-time promoter Jerry Jarrett) started his own [[Professional Wrestling]] promotion, [[TNA]], which continues to thrive and grow to this day.
** On a side note, it should be noted that Jerry Jarrett is a long-time friend of the McMahon family; he personally delivered the wrestler who would become Vladimir Kozlov to the WWE.
* After David Otunga schemed to get [[Wade Barrett]] kicked out of [[The Nexus]] and [[CM Punk]] installed as leader in his place, Barrett went to [[Smack Down]] and formed The Corre instead. And two other founding members of The Corre, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater, walked out of [[The Nexus]] shortly after Barrett was deposed, unhappy with the way Punk was running things. Barrett is quick to point out that, unlike with [[The Nexus]], he is not the leader of The Corre, as it's a gathering of equals; then again, he said that about [[The Nexus]] at first too. It took a a few months, but Barrett's [[All About Me]] Attitude took over, and Gabriel and Slater promptly disbanded the group because of it.
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** Several users who were upset with the way that TV Tropes was run started [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708122647/http://tropesmirrorwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page their own version] with more concentration on the actual elements of storytelling, analysis of how they are used in works, and less concentration on Japanese media. According to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, however, this site seems to have shut down some time in 2013.
*** And now The Tropes Wiki has [http://editthis.info/tv_tropes/Main_Page its own example of] Start My Own. A user, disgruntled that the Admins at the Tropes Mirror wouldn't let him import pages upon pages of S&M porn to the wiki went and started his own... but unlike the Tropes Wiki, this one (which appears to be a one-man operation) makes no pretense about being anything but a copy-paste of TV Tropes.
*** In addition to the first Start My Own Trope Mirror, there is now the ''[http://tvtropesmirror.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Unofficial TV Tropes Mirror]'', which is being run by contributors to the original Tropes Wiki who are upset about the fact that the creators of the Tropes Wiki really meant it when they said that [[Anime]] would not be considered a [[Special Snowflake Syndrome|Unique and Special Snowflake]]
** [[All The Tropes|This very wiki]] was also a Start My Own created by several veteran tropers (including one who'd been a member of the site since its early days) who disagreed with the [[Think of the Advertisers!|major changes made to TV Tropes' policies in 2012]].
*** And there has been at least one fork from ATT, as well.
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* At one point in its history, the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' had a new referee who decided, without any consultation on the owners of the property, or with the other referees, that he was going to rewrite the history of the game world, and move the game to a new site out of the owner's control. When he was (justifiably) booted with extreme prejudice, he declared the old group lame and started up his own. It lasted about four months before folding.
* Happened with ''[[Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl]]''. Issa Rae, the creator, started the show because she was tired of the depiction of people like her as a [[Sassy Black Woman]], a [[Magical Negro]], or a sexy vixen.
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* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has an example of this. In 2018, there was a huge controversy when they temporarily changed their logo for Pride Month, and a user created a new site called RPC Authority. Several writers also moved their works there and ''deleted them from the original wiki''.
* In the wake of [[tumblr]]'s December 2018 [[Think of the Advertisers!|self-castration in a vain attempt to monetize its userbase]], several alternatives sprung up, created by former tumblr users -- most notably newTumbl, which attempts to be what tumblr was before its kiddification, but also including several sites explicitly designed as refuges for the adult content tumblr most eagerly shoved out the door.
== Western Animation ==
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** [[Telltale Games]] is another example, founded by ex-[[LucasArts]] employees after Lucasarts all but abandoned the [[Adventure Game]] genre.
** Ditto for Petroglyph Studios, formed by former Westwood employees after EA shut down Westwood.
** After expressing more than a little disappointment with the lackluster Nintendo [[Game Cube]] release [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[Wrestlemania]] X-8, Dave Wishnowski and a dedicated group began work on the PC-based wrestling title ''Pro Wrestling X''. Despite getting off to a strong start with an article in [[Game Informer]] magazine, then [[Development Hell|lengthy delays in development]] that threatened to send it to the ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' pile of [[Vaporware]], his company [[Wish Bone X]] managed to start bearing tangible fruit with the concept in 2009, and the [[Prequel]] to the game, ''Pro Wrestling X: Uprising'' is finally slated for release between 4Q 2010 and 1Q 2011. Its success will apparently determine the viability of the original (expandable) concept game he'd originally intended back in 2001.
** The [[Sony]] [[PlayStation]] began life as a CD add-on for [[Nintendo]]'s [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]] console. However, when Nintendo backed out of their contract with Sony during development<ref>because a buried clause would have given Sony perpetual rights to Nintendo's games</ref> and instead contracted with Philips for the add-on (which never materialized<ref>but did spawn the [[So Bad It's Good|infamous]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|The Legend of Zelda]]'' [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|CD-i Games]]</ref>), Sony turned the peripheral into a stand-alone console and entered the game market themselves, determined to teach Nintendo a lesson...which they did, displacing Nintendo's position at the top of the game industry with the [[PlayStation]], and then retaining their stranglehold on the market with the [[PlayStation 2]], forcing Nintendo to [[Take a Third Option|re-think gaming entirely]] in order to get back on top with the [[Wii]].
*** Similar to the above, [[Atari]] passed up an opportunity to distribute the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in the US, leaving Nintendo to market and distribute the NES on its own. You know what happened next...
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** Likewise, Intel's primary rival in desktop and laptop PC chips, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was founded by eight disgruntled Fairchild Semiconductor workers - in 1969.
* Huawei launched their own mobile services framework called Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) as a substitute for Google Play Services, as well as their own app store called AppGallery after Google stopped providing software support to Huawei due to US government sanctions; the AppGallery has existed prior to the company being sanctioned in 2019, though it was only available in China until 2018. For the remaining apps which couldn't be published to the AppGallery due to said sanctions or some other reason, they even came up with [https://www.huaweicentral.com/huawei-introduces-new-solution-to-install-third-party-apps-on-huawei-phones-with-open-source-android/ workarounds] such as directing users to download APK installation files from mirror sites such as APKPure, though compatibility may be hit-or-miss as some apps may require specific Google APIs to function correctly.
* When [https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/01/freenode_issues_help_irc_grow/ millionaire tech entrepreneur Andrew Lee bought the commercial entity behind the long-standing IRC network Freenode in early 2021 and made it his personal fiefdom] (possibly with an eye toward turning it into some manner of money-making engine), its all-volunteer staff abandoned the network ''en masse'' and started a new one called Libera.Chat.<ref>This so enraged Lee that he began banning anyone who even mentioned the new competitor and seizing control of any channel where it was mentioned, even those which said "we're not going to Libera.Chat, we're staying here", which [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|drove virtually all the remaining Freenode communities ''off'' Freenode and onto Libera.Chat anyway]] and left him with an empty IRC network devoid of both staff ''and'' users.</ref>
* [[Nikita Khrushchev]] [https://www.rbth.com/history/327869-soviet-disneyland-failed proposed building] the Soviet Union's very own [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] following a much-publicised incident where the Soviet Premier was barred from entering ostensibly due to security concerns. Wonderland, as it was called, was conceived as "the entire Soviet Union in miniature" instead of focusing on a fantasy world sprinkled with various fictional characters as is with Disneyland's, affording Soviet children the chance to appreciate the country's diversity. While the Wonderland idea never came to fruition due to Khrushchev's removal from power in 1964, the Moscow-based [https://dreamisland.ru/ Dream Island] [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/business/russia-dream-island.html picked up where Khrushchev's project left off], and offered its own takes on Disney's attractions, even adapting [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s ''[[The Snow Queen]]'' story in an effort to evoke Elsa from ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'', though a Russian mother named Nadya Soloyeva expressed her doubts as to whether the park and its takes on fairy tale characters will have the same level of brand recognition as Disneyland's.
* The author Samantha Hooker (this troper) has this mentality as an author.
** [[Dungeons & Dragons]] became too commercial with too editions, updating every few years? Let's make my own [https://www.amazon.com/New-Gaia-Earth-books/dp/B09QP3M8SH/ tabletop roleplaying game]! Just two problems. The game in question is impossible to search without having the address, and it's in [[Perpetual Beta]] due to constant rule changes.
** Couldn't find a religion that suited? [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRNSMPW Why not make one up]? [[Gratuitous Japanese|Aiken]] basically blends Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Shintoism. But once again, it's a mess.
** Rejected the book of Revelation, but every single other Bible (besides maybe the Jefferson Bible) seems to have it? Enter the ''Aiken Abridged Bible''. Not only does it have alot of footnotes re-analyzing things from the [[Writer on Board|perspective of Aiken]], but [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|any books of the Bible that aren't wanted get cut]].
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