What Does Incorrect Quotes Mean?
Fandom CultureShort dialogue exchanges attributed to canon characters but never said in canon — usually comedic, often adapted from memes, sitcoms, and overheard absurdities. A whole micro-genre of fake quotations.
Incorrect Quotes in Practice
Incorrect quotes blogs are fandom's joke factories: a dialogue format ('Character A: ... Character B: ...') delivers exchanges the canon never contained, sourced from a shared pool of templates — vines, sitcom bits, tumblr posts — recast with whichever ensemble fits the bit. The form's genius is characterization-by-casting: the joke lands only when the line assignment feels true, so a great incorrect quote functions as a tiny characterization essay, and fandoms use the format to argue about voice as much as to laugh. Generator sites automate the template-recasting, and the form feeds back into fic, with chatfic and crack inheriting its rhythms. Whole dynamics — the unhinged one, the tired one, the one who enables — get codified through thousands of these exchanges into durable fanon.
Example usage
"The incorrect quotes account assigned the 'I have three liability waivers and a crossbow' line to exactly the right team member, which is the entire skill."
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