"trollfic" meaning in All languages combined

See trollfic on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: trollfics [plural]
Etymology: troll + fic Etymology templates: {{compound|en|troll|fic}} troll + fic Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} trollfic (countable and uncountable, plural trollfics)
  1. (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic deliberately written to troll or annoy readers. Tags: countable, slang
    Sense id: en-trollfic-en-noun-jgGlmHHP Topics: lifestyle
  2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively. Tags: slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Fan fiction
    Sense id: en-trollfic-en-noun-o321uXM6 Disambiguation of Fan fiction: 18 82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Topics: lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: badfic

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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."
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