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* [[Orbital]]'s second album, ''Orbital 2'', opens with a quote sampled from ''[[Star Trek]]''--the same quote that opened their first album, ''Orbital''. This was done to make folks listening to the second album think, briefly, that they had somehow bought a mispressing of the first album. The intro on the very next track is muffled, scratchy, and repetitive--so that people listening to the album on vinyl would think that their brand-new copy is already damaged.

* [[Sound Horizon]]'s Revo has [http://sh-whitecrow.com/magazine/anisongmate01/ gone on record] saying that he sometimes puts something in a song simply because he knows that the fans will drive themselves crazy trying to figure out what it means.

 

== Toys ==

* [[Square Enix]] and the much anticipated ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' remake. SE loves to tease the idea of the remake only to debunk again and again.

** ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]'' is their latest game they love to do this for. Imposing questions about the game will elicit a response completely unrelated to ''Versus XIII''.

'''Motomu Toriyama''': ''“First, please enjoy XIII-2 while you wait for additional information.”'' }}

* Ed Boon, co-creator and current executive producer of the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series, seems to be this [http://twitter.com/#!/noobde if one checks his Twitter updates.] For example, several fans wonder why the latest game (''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat (2011)]]'') doesn't include the [[Prince|purple]] [[In Name Only|ninja]] [[Mortal Kombat 3|Rain]] (the game almost exclusively includes the characters from the original trilogy). One fan proclaims, "RAIN!!!!" on Boon's Twitter, requesting Rain to be added as [[Downloadable Content|DLC]]. Boon's reply? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGA_rZxIV0 This.] Klassic.

* Randy K. Milholland of ''[[Something Positive]]'' is known to do this. An example is his [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 (Webcomic)|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:

** Once, he attempted what was perhaps his biggest joke on the readers at the time, when he appeared to end the ''entire comic'' on a [[All Just a Dream|horrible anticlimax]], expecting to get a ton of hate mail and rile up his fans. This backfired when he got a ton of mail sincerely ''thanking'' him for the years of great comics, and assuring him that the anticlamix was horrible, and thus, the perfect ending for the particular comic. He appreciated the irony; his favorite joke, a joke on the reader, [[Insult Backfire|whipped right back around]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and became a joke on HIM.]]

* Aeire, author of ''[[Queen of Wands]]'', was notorious for this. Mostly avoiding regular boyfriends for Kestrel (the main character), the strip introduced many handsome, charming or interesting male characters for the sole purpose of getting the fanbase to Ship them with her.

** He probably delegates fitting these [[Epileptic Tree|Epileptic Trees]] in the weave of Creation to Pattern Spiders. He has been known to employ them at least on one account to retroactively vanish an Essence Cannon from the character, so...

* [[MS Paint Adventures|Andrew Hussie]] has something of a widespread reputation with this, especially the farther things get in ''[[Homestuck]]''.

* ''[[Misfile]]'' has been having this bad, lately. There are numerous places where we get a big build up to the resolution of a major subplot or the potential for some character development, when either someone barges in and interrupts the moment (Book ten was full of this), Emily drops the conversation (Can't remember any other character doing this), or the conversation suddenly changes. When [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1550 this scene] ended, a lot of fans were not happy.