Being Affected by It (られる)

起こす becomes 起こされる, 揶揄う becomes 揶揄われる. The person acted upon becomes the subject, は or が, and the person doing the action takes に, exactly flipping the roles from the plain, active sentence.

This second kind, sometimes called the adversity passive, describes something happening that inconveniences the speaker, even though the speaker isn’t literally the object of the verb. 連れて来る has no direct object marked with を belonging to the speaker, yet the passive still frames it as something done to them, which is why it always carries a note of “and that’s a hassle for me.”

によって replaces に when crediting the creator of something, a book, a film, a building, standard in formal or written descriptions of who made what, distinct from the plain に used for everyday passive sentences.