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Referential Mania

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 Do you see the text on this page? All the silly, innocent tropes listed one after another, wasting your time and occasionally making reference to Firefly and xkcd. It's just a bunch of bored guys on the internet flaunting their cultural prowess, right? It's all in the name of entertainment, right?
WRONG!
In each word spelled out on the page, there is a message for you, and only you! And that's not all. The message is printed everywhere: the last novel you read, the dying tree in your front yard, the storm clouds over the Netherlands... they all know your secret! They have something to tell you... but what is it? WHAT IS IT?!
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })They say this a trope under The Index Is Watching You - and possibly the symbolism of Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory taken way too far. They say it's when a character believes that innocent or totally irrelevant phenomena conveys a special personal message which no-one else which understand, but I know better! It's really an Ancient Conspiracy! Of course!
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 One of the symptoms the main character suffered in A Beautiful Mind was seeing government conspiracies everywhere. He posted them on the wall in his Shed Full of Crazy.
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 The Simpsons:
An episode has Homer discovering messages sent to him through newspaper articles. Subverted in that it turns out he's right.
Similarly when Bart thinks Major League Baseball has been spying on him after getting addicted to a Bland-Name Product version of Ritalin.
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 Pretty much the plot of The Number 23.
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 In Control Alt Delete, Ethan insists that his spam emails are Zeke trying to contact him after he leaves.
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 In Going Bovine Cameron is suppose to look at various kinds of advertisements and find clues for where to go next in a manner similar to this.
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 Sonichu is a webcomic that is actually written by one of these people.
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 In the Australian film Angel Baby, schizophrenic Kate believes that messages are being sent to her via Wheel of Fortune.
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 In the Doctor Who episode "Blink", this is done with DVD Easter eggs. Note that on this occasion, it really is a message, and it's not particularly subtle; it quite clearly consists of the Doctor having a conversation with someone, but only his side of it can be heard. Many in-universe film nerds found it and tried to decipher it, but couldn't without the relevant context.
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