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'''Dartz:''' We'll have our own evil council, and ours will be much better. And we'll have pizza! Pizza is better than tacos. }}

* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' game "Strong Badia the Free", Strong Bad gets everybody to secede from the King of Town's domain. He thinks everybody is going to join the now-autonomous Strong Badia, but instead they all go off and create their own countries. The rest of the game is him trying to convince everyone to band together to overthrow the King.

* Also, [[The Wiki Rule|Wikis]]. Many are started because they have focused subject matter, but many others are founded because [[Wikipedia]]'s standards of notability and citation somehow exclude them, or they think there's something biased about it. For instance, [[Conservapedia]] was created by a group who decried Wikipedia's "evidence" and "objectivity", and made their own online encyclopedia with their ''own'' bias. [[TV Tropes|Another example]] specializes in covering the tropes of popular culture.

** Since various wiki farms allow anyone to start a Wiki, this happens often with those who don't like the guidelines or procedures of an existing project. It often doesn't end well, since most of these people are neither suited to be admins nor have the ability to gather followers to their new wiki. [[Wikia]] (now FANDOM) is prone to host this sort of content fork; Wikia is in turn also prone to [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis a long list of communities] leaving or attempting to leave because of [[Executive Meddling]] by staff in the project's content, endless [[Ad Nauseam]] reskins to crowd out content with paid advertising and [[Think of the Advertisers!]] censorship as the author or reader isn't Wikia's client... the advertiser is. Once the disgruntled authors leave to Start My Own, the old wiki is left online as a direct competitor and is usually censored by staff to remove mention of the new project. This harms communities like [[Uncyclopedia]], where the existence of multiple forks of the same project leads to a [[Broken Base]].