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Tends to be most popular in webcomics, since they're one of the few remaining mediums that can genuinely be kept under wraps, spoiler-free.
[[Ship Tease]] is a specific variety of this trope, as is [[The Walrus Was Paul]]. Differs from [[Shrug of God]] since there is definitely a deliberate tactic being employed, and it isn't always in response to fans' questions - in fact, you get the feeling the the fans are being ''provoked'' into asking questions. Compare [[Lying Creator]] for when the author is deliberately misleading fans, and [[Trolling Creator]], when this gets outright malicious.
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* Tom Siddell, of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', is very good at this, and can be rather acerbic with it as well. The recent ''City Face'' short demonstrates this rather nicely.
* Fred Gallagher of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' does this from time to time. Miho in particular was a figure of mystery for a long time.
* Randy K. Milholland of ''[[Something*Positive]]'' is known to do this. An example is his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510182936/http://somethingpositive.net/sp05312009.shtml admittance] that the continual [[Ship Tease]] between characters Davan and Pee Jee would never actually lead to anything, the result of an early promise he made to the woman that Pee Jee was based on, but he decided to "play with" the readership concerning the pairing.
* Brian Clevinger, creator of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' and ''[[Atomic Robo]]'' is one of those few Teasing Creators who actually ''are'' unfairly toying with their readership, but is still pretty beloved because he makes it funny. In this case, it's less [[Ship Tease|Ship Teasing]] and more 'changing the plot if you even try to guess what's going on, and hell why not have an [[Anticlimax]] instead of an awesome fight'. His most common quote is this:
{{quote|"My favourite joke is the one played on the reader."}}
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