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* There's a certain Youtube channel that warps photographs of poets to look like they're mouthing readings of their poems and creates [http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryreincarnations these abominations].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtSgWZbL_kE The Hand Thing], god! What is that?
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]''
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** Everything in [http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html
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** In a similar vein - [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-real-robots-built-to-love-you-to-death/ 5 Real Robots Built to Love you to Death]. The final example is completely deliberate and was built to study the [[Uncanny Valley]] effect.
* The Nico Nico Douga "[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7936045 Home Haruka]" meme is aaaall about this trope. (You'll need a Nico Nico account to see that video. If you don't have one... ''lucky you''.)
** A lot of things made with the [[Vocaloid|MikuMikuDance]] software straddles the line between awesome and awesomely disturbing. What's especially fun is that the software can be used to make a model of just about anything. Case in point: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-b9eD7YDGs this], a such video featuring [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Seto Kaiba]]. And if you're feeling especially brave, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxUUFar63KU here's the same model, dancing to Black Rock Shooter]. The creator even apologizes that ''she couldn't get the model's eyes to stop rolling back into its skull.''
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* The picture on the right at about 4:40 in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGEdp__nmk this video.] Buh...
* The new improved nightmare of new [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpg6FLerzM Bratz Webisodes]
▲* Everything in [http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html this article.]
* [http://www.cubo.cc/creepygirl/ This animation.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XpkEzJZZpI Dancing Baby]. Just...Dancing Baby.
▲* Cracked.com's [http://www.cracked.com/article_18867_5-creepy-ways-humans-are-plunging-into-uncanny-valley.html 5 Creepy Ways Humans Are Plunging Into The Uncanny Valley].
* [[media:farmerama_5246.png|OH GAWD THEY'RE COMING TO EAT ME!!!]]
* The name of this tumblr [http://muppetswithpeopleeyes.tumblr.com speaks for itself], and ought to warn you of the [[Schmuck Bait|horrors to come]].
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* [http://squickygameart.tumblr.com/ Squicky Game Art] blog. "...SGA brings relief from an onslaught of [[Tits and Ass Pose|broken spines]] and [[Chainmail Bikini|boob windows]]."
* So you want to hear an actual recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading his famous ''Charge of the Light Brigade''? Well, okay, but you'll have to sit through the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqUq26z1CE horrible face-warp video that the uploader apparently thought necessary].
▲* [[Cracked]] has [http://www.cracked.com/article_16462_7-creepiest-real-life-robots.html a list] of some real-world androids that dwell in the darkest depths of the [[Uncanny Valley]]. They even mention the trope by name. In a similar vein - [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-real-robots-built-to-love-you-to-death/ 5 Real Robots Built to Love you to Death]. The final example is completely deliberate and was built to study the [[Uncanny Valley]] effect.
* ''[[Extra Credits]]'' has mentioned the [[Uncanny Valley]] several times. First in an episode specifically about it, then revisited in a Halloween episode and again in a recent episode about Kinect.
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