sometimes looking a bit closer reveals secrets to all. forced/ascended
Basically I'm thinking of a trope where the world is literally portrayed as a stage vis a vis Paper Mario, but All the Worlds Are a Stage already exists as a trope title, and nothing else occurs to me as a possible name to look up the trope (because I'm reasonably sure it exists here).
You have anything on that?
More questioning along that line: What would be used to describe a thing where someone tries to create a new catchphrase/meme/what-have-you in-universe or otherwise and it never catches on (on top of optionally not being all that funny to begin with), which serves as a joke in itself?
Think Team Three Star, BROOKLYN RAGE, "Milhouse is not a meme", etc.
Well, yeah, but I was thinking there was a subtrope where the fact that the meme was forced itself became a meme. Seems not. :B
In any case, thank you!
No worries, trying to fit pegs in holes here is always a task, especially lagging behind the other one.