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* This happens on the internet so often, they have a sarcastic meme just for it: "THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS"
* This happens on the internet so often, they have a sarcastic meme just for it: "THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS"
** [http://youtu.be/jCIFnmmnoSE This video. More specifically, at 1:30.] "Being a lawyer, as the internet says... IS SERIOUS BUSINESS."
** [http://youtu.be/jCIFnmmnoSE This video. More specifically, at 1:30.] "Being a lawyer, as the internet says... IS SERIOUS BUSINESS."
* In the [[YouTube]] series ''[[The Guild]]'', playing an [[MMORPG]] is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction.
* In the [[YouTube]] series ''[[The Guild]]'', playing an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction.
** It's based on [[Felicia Day]]'s two-year addiction to [[World of Warcraft]], so it's definitely [[Truth in Television]].
** It's based on [[Felicia Day]]'s two-year addiction to [[World of Warcraft]], so it's definitely [[Truth in Television]].
* An agent/subject of the [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]] has gotten his hands on a [DATA: THE EXPUNGING] card that ''makes'' card games a serious business: Said card can ''destroy'' the other player... or its user, if he loses.
* An agent/subject of the [[SCP Foundation]] has gotten his hands on a [DATA: THE EXPUNGING] card that ''makes'' card games a serious business: Said card can ''destroy'' the other player... or its user, if he loses.
** There's also SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.
** There's also SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.
* <s>Owning</s> ''Hiring'' a boat is Serious Business. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel_page Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends].
* <s>Owning</s> ''Hiring'' a boat is Serious Business. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel_page Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends].
* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest For Greatness With the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.
* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest For Greatness With the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.
* On [[Live Journal]] and its spinoffs, [[Journal Roleplay|roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[Troll|spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.
* On [[LiveJournal]] and its spinoffs, [[Journal Roleplay|roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[Troll|spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.
* A [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] on the Japanese Internet (a translated version of which is well-travelled on anonymous text boards) involves a somewhat lengthy rant about visits to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinoya Yoshinoya] being really serious business. [http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Yoshinoya_Rant Just read it.] Variations are popular for ranting about extremely petty things. The meme itself was actually referenced on [[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]], ''that's'' how widespread it is.
* A [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] on the Japanese Internet (a translated version of which is well-travelled on anonymous text boards) involves a somewhat lengthy rant about visits to [[wikipedia:Yoshinoya|Yoshinoya]] being really serious business. [http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Yoshinoya_Rant Just read it.] Variations are popular for ranting about extremely petty things. The meme itself was actually referenced on [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]], ''that's'' how widespread it is.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' regularly runs news stories about events whose only implausible aspect is that they're considered news stories, e.g. [http://www.theonion.com/articles/whaler-sandwich-not-sitting-too-good-with-area-man,987/ "Whaler Sandwich 'Not Sitting Too Good' With Area Man"].
* ''[[The Onion]]'' regularly runs news stories about events whose only implausible aspect is that they're considered news stories, e.g. [http://www.theonion.com/articles/whaler-sandwich-not-sitting-too-good-with-area-man,987/ "Whaler Sandwich 'Not Sitting Too Good' With Area Man"].
* [http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5825493270005637835# This] (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213091020/http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5825493270005637835 This] (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business.
** When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be [[The Loonie]].
** When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be [[The Loonie]].
* [[The Spoony Experiment|Bees are apparently serious enough business to completely shit all over relations with your friends and colleagues over.]]
* [[The Spoony Experiment|Bees are apparently serious enough business to completely shit all over relations with your friends and colleagues over.]]
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65lERfzNNE League Of Extraordinary Industrial Retards] go on a quest to kill Trent Reznor and Ronan Harris and prove to the world that [[Industrial]] music is serious business.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65lERfzNNE League Of Extraordinary Industrial Retards] go on a quest to kill Trent Reznor and Ronan Harris and prove to the world that [[Industrial]] music is serious business.
* [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/community/myvideos/74334-thebanjokid/video/4029-Banjo+Kid+Reviews%3A+Hell+Girl Cake is serious business!]
* [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/community/myvideos/74334-thebanjokid/video/4029-Banjo+Kid+Reviews%3A+Hell+Girl Cake is serious business!]{{Dead link}}
* Do ''not'' mess with the [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix] that [[Rhett and Link|Rhett's]] mom made!
* Do ''not'' mess with the [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix] that [[Rhett and Link|Rhett's]] mom made!
* [[True Capitalist (Radio)|Ghost]] is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:[[Troll|Trolls]]) [[Hilarity Ensues|seems to think otherwise]].
* [[True Capitalist|Ghost]] is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:[[Troll|Trolls]]) [[Hilarity Ensues|seems to think otherwise]].


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Latest revision as of 12:53, 8 October 2020


  • This happens on the internet so often, they have a sarcastic meme just for it: "THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS"
  • In the YouTube series The Guild, playing an MMORPG is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction.
  • An agent/subject of the SCP Foundation has gotten his hands on a [DATA: THE EXPUNGING] card that makes card games a serious business: Said card can destroy the other player... or its user, if he loses.
    • There's also SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.
  • Owning Hiring a boat is Serious Business. Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends.
  • In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: Kenny Bassender's Quest For Greatness With the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers) movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.
  • On LiveJournal and its spinoffs, roleplay is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to the size of their avatars. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more spammy) anonymous discussion. People have actually made death threats over pretendy funtime games on the internet.
  • A meme on the Japanese Internet (a translated version of which is well-travelled on anonymous text boards) involves a somewhat lengthy rant about visits to Yoshinoya being really serious business. Just read it. Variations are popular for ranting about extremely petty things. The meme itself was actually referenced on Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei, that's how widespread it is.
  • The Onion regularly runs news stories about events whose only implausible aspect is that they're considered news stories, e.g. "Whaler Sandwich 'Not Sitting Too Good' With Area Man".
  • This (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business.
    • When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be The Loonie.
  • Bees are apparently serious enough business to completely shit all over relations with your friends and colleagues over.
  • The League Of Extraordinary Industrial Retards go on a quest to kill Trent Reznor and Ronan Harris and prove to the world that Industrial music is serious business.
  • Cake is serious business! [dead link]
  • Do not mess with the trail mix that Rhett's mom made!
  • Ghost is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:Trolls) seems to think otherwise.
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