Trollfic

In this way, sincerity enables the practice of sporking the fic [My Immortal] since a trollfic is already self-aware and it thus diminishes the power of criticism leveled at it.

But any more unlabeled Scully/Doggett stories that seem to have *only* been written for the <yawn> "shock" value <yawn> may find themselves joining the trollfics in the trash bin -- even though I normally save *everything*. ;-(

Merissa's current persona is based on Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way of the legendary Harry Potter Mary Sue trollfic My Immortal.

The fact that “My Immortal” is so poorly written and so (apparently, possibly?) meta about its story-within-a-story frame, and furthermore features so many (apparently, possibly?) self-reflexive, self-implicating jokes (at one point in the narrative, Ebony pulls out a “Hot Topic Loyalty card”) (ibid), suggests that, perhaps, “My Immortal” isn’t “real” fan fiction at all, but instead is “trollfic” or “badfic”—deliberately and excruciatingly bad fan fiction created for the explicit purpose of messing with a given fan community, even if a person happens to be a member of that community.

Hmm. I always seem to be late to these threads... perhaps too much trollfic.. I mean, traffic?

Or it may be trollfic, designed to gross out the newsgroup.