2000 February 20, Mike Zeares, “Re: THIS YEARS GIRL(MAJOR SPOILERS)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[1] (Usenet):
And another old skiffy cliche gets Jossed.
2000 June 13, ebailey140 [username], “More Restless thoughts, this time from SunS”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[2] (Usenet):
I also hate Joss because he confirmed the extreme antiquity of Slayerdom, a concept that has been niggling at the back of my mind since "Beer Bad", without actually Jossing the nebulous zygote of possible fic that was conceived at that time.
2000 December 25, Shanna, “Holiday at the Hyperion (2/2)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[3] (Usenet):
Author's note part 2: I'm leaving it to the imagination of the reader what Cordelia saw of her future. Writing that out would be asking to be Jossed.
2001 February 16, Miriam Rocke, “Re: *~*~*~*~* abe Quiz Question VI *~*~*~*~*”, in alt.buffy.europe[4] (Usenet):
It's nice because I've got the rules and characters of the Buffyverse to work with, but aside from a few logic points -- characters that are alive / dead / vamped by the time of The Wish -- it's basically free reign for me, and very little chance of being Jossed.
2001 March 11, Mike Zeares, “Re: List of Known Slayers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[5] (Usenet):
There's absolutely no evidence for any of this, so we can happily debate it until we're Jossed.
2001 October 20, Sarah Trombley, “Re: Cut Scenes from Carpe Noctem Script”, in alt.tv.angel[6] (Usenet):
I have this pet theory which will no doubt be Jossed (Greenwalted?) sooner or later. That Wes's dad is not a Watcher, but someone wealthy and financially connected with the Council (if they have all that influence, at least some of the people involved must know who they are)--in short, some kind of profiteer in the war against the forces of evil.
2003 December 5, Paul Gadzikowski, “Re: best Jossed fics”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[7] (Usenet):
The element that got Jossed was that, in the first version I posted, Cordelia summered in Sunnydale. The third season premiere Jossed that element.
2005 December 5, heidi8 [username], “New Essay Archive at HPInkPot.com”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[8] (Usenet):
Even if your pet subject was "Jossed" by HBP (in other words, your theorizing was annihalated[sic] or impacted by a canon development) we'd love to have your archival works on HPInkPot - just select "pre-HBP" in the "when was this work written?" section.
2019, Dustin Dunaway, "Un-Warren-Ted: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Transgressive Fandom", in Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts (eds. Julie L. Hawk & Juliette C. Kitchens), page 27:
Characters were “Jossed” when they were killed off, but when creators write canon that countermands fanon, head canon, or even deuterocanon, the fan-canon is said to have been "Jossed."
