trollfic

== English == === Etymology === From troll +‎ fic. === Noun === trollfic (countable and uncountable, plural trollfics) (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic deliberately written to troll or annoy readers. 2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, pages 147-148: 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. (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively. 2017, Whitney Phillips, "'You're terrible, don't ever change!': How Identity, Rule Following, and Research Roadblocks Lend Meaning to Ambivalent Fan Engagement", in The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Melissa A. Click & Suzanne Scott), page 134: 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. ==== See also ==== badfic