Our research focuses on the creation and reinforcement of overgeneralized and inaccurate depictions of language behavior on the Internet. Misrepresentation of language behavior spreads easily by exposure to unchallenged depictions. We posit that such stereotypes have already influenced our students, consumers of the Internet, by introducing, reinforcing, and perpetuating linguistically ungrounded views of language behavior. We believe that scholarly research serves as a reality-check to overgeneralized misinformation, and that both students and teachers in developmental education need more valid sources of linguistic information. [Additional assistance in writing this article was provided by Rosangela Catalano, Jennifer Perez, Kaitlyn Clark, and Latoya Chisholm.]