See trollfic on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000 November 25, pam, “Shaggy Dog Stories Re: use your keywords people!!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):",
"text": "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*. ;-(",
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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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