Trollpasta Wiki:Genre Listing

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Specific Category Rules

Trollpasta	cannot be added together with Bad Creepypasta, Not Sure if Troll or Trying to Be Serious, Bad Fanfiction, Dronik Pastas, Ghastly Macaroni, or Pre-Trollpasta
Vidya games	cannot be added together with Pokemon, Mario, Minecrap, Sonic or Zel-DUUHHH.
Minecrap	Cannot be added together with File Extensions, and COMPUTERS AND INTERWEBZ
Benjamin	Cannot be added together with Zel-DUUHHH
Lost Episodes	Cannot be added together with TELAVISHUN
Pages with grammar that doesn't suck	Cannot be added together with English Class Failure, and ENGLISH, MUDDAFUGGA! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
Im died	Cannot be added together with Suicide, and Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies
Cliche Madness	Cannot be added together with I WAS AN INTERN AT, Hyper-realistic, Pointless Violence and YOU'RE NEXT
Loads of Characters	Cannot be added together with Jeff the Killer, PROOF DAT SLENDURMAN EXUSTS, Benjamin, and EVIL PATRIXXX
Ghetto Talk	Cannot be added with Blatant Ripoffs and Excessive Profanity
Well, that was pointless.	Cannot be added together with Well, that was anticlimactic.
Old Shit	Cannot be added together with Pre-Trollpasta, Dronik Pastas, Ghastly Macaroni, and Classics
MOTHER OF FUCK THIS PAGE IS LONG LIKE MY PAINIS	Can only be added to pastas that are around 20,000 bytes or more
ALL CAPS	Cannot be added together with Random Capitalization
Bad Creepypasta	Cannot be added together with Not Sure if Troll or Trying to Be Serious
Memes	Cannot be added together with Shrek, And then a skeleton popped out, Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, and WHO WAS PHONE?
Ghastly Macaroni	Cannot be added together with ALL CAPS or SUGGESTED READING. (Though there are a few exceptions).
Archive	Cannot be added together with Meta
PLZ DELETE THIS NOW KTHX	Do not add this category to pastas already tagged with DO NOT DELETE, or Dronik Pastas

Admin-Only Categories

These categories are only to be added by admins.

• Archive
• Classics
• DO NOT DELETE
• FOTM
• Meta
• Site maintenance
• TPOTM
• SUGGESTED READING
• Unfunny
• Unneeded

General Use Story Categories

• Animulz: For pastas featuring animals.
• Bad Fanfiction: Self-explanatory.
• BATTELS: For pastas with fights.
• Beings: For pastas with creatures.
  • Demins and Debbils: For pastas involving Satan, demons and/or devils.
  • EVIL FOOD: Haunted food, or food that comes to life.
  • Ghoooosts: For pastas with ghosts.
  • Skeletons: For when they aren't popping out.
• Blatant Ripoffs: For pastas that blatantly steal concepts and ideas from other stories.
  • Ghetto Talk: For pastas translated through the website Gizoogle.
• COMPUTERS AND INTERWEBZ: For pastas that involve computers or the internet.
  • File Extensions: For pastas about file extensions.
• Characters: Character bios.
  • Loads of Characters: If a pasta features loads of characters, tag it as this rather than any one character category.
  • Benjamin: For pastas featuring BEN.
  • EVIL PATRIXXX: For pastas that feature EVIL PATRIXXX.
  • Jeff the Killer: For pastas that feature Jeff the Killer.
  • PROOF DAT SLENDURMAN EXUSTS: For pastas featuring Slenderman.
• Cliches

• Cliche Madness: This should only be used in pastas featuring AS MANY CLICHÉS AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE (á la GOODBYE SPONGEBOB).
• I WAS AN INTERN AT: For pastas featuring the old "I was an intern at" creepypasta cliché.
• Hyper-realistic: For pastas that describe something as "hyper-realistic."
• Pointless Violence: For pastas that over-rely on violence at an attempt to be scary or funny.
• YOU'RE NEXT: For pastas that feature the cliché phrase "You're next!"

• Collab: For pastas that were made by more than one person.
• Death

• Im died: For pastas where the main character dies.
• Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies: For pastas where everyone in the story dies.
• Suicide: For pastas where someone kills themselves.

• DIALOGUE!: For pastas with bad, cheesy, and/or hammy dialogue.
• Deletion Log Refugees: For pastas removed from Creepypasta-related wikis.
• Endings

• Shok ending: For pastas that feature shocking or unexpected endings.
• Well, that was pointless.: Stories that don't really go anywhere plot-wise, they just sort of... end.
• Well, that was anticlimactic.: Pastas that end abruptly and without conflict, often leaving the reader underwhelmed and unsatisfied.

• Excessive Profanity: For pastas with lots of swearing.
• Formatting

• MOTHER OF FUCK THIS PAGE IS LONG LIKE MY PAINIS: For very long pages.
• One sentence: For stories that are one sentence long.
• Wall of Text: Exactly what it sounds like - a wall made out of text with no line breaks.

• Grammar and spelling

• ALL CAPS: For pastas that are written completely in capitals.
• English Class Failure: For pastas that have bad grammar/spelling/punctuation.
  • ENGLISH, MUDDAFUGGA! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!: For pastas that have terrible grammar and can be hard to read.
• I CAN HAZ TRANSLATION?: For pastas that are not written in English, or contain foreign languages.
• Pages with grammar that doesn't suck: For pastas with good grammar.
• Random Capitalization: For pastas where the words are randomly capitalized.

• Images

• Crappy ms paint drawings: For pastas that have crappy MS Paint drawings.
• Gallery: For galleries.
• SUPR SKAREY IMAG: For pastas with an image intended to be scary (sometimes ironically).

• Inside Jokes: Pastas based on in-jokes between users.
• Jornel: For pastas in the style of journals and diaries.
• Lists: For lists.
• Look at me! I'm SO EDGY!: For pastas that over-rely on being edgy or shocking in an attempt to be scary or funny.
• Lost Episodes: For pastas about a lost episode of a TV show.
  • Spongeboob: For pastas that involve SpongeBob.
• MARY SUE ALERT: For pastas that contain characters who are basically perfect and have little to no weakness.
• Memes: For pastas based on memes, or involve memes.
  • And then a skeleton popped out: For pastas in which a skeleton pops out.
  • Shrek: For pastas with Shrek in them.
  • Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air: For pastas that reference the TV show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • WHO WAS PHONE?: Pastas referencing the infamous "THEN WHO WAS PHONE?"
• NSFW: Pastas you really wouldn't want to be caught reading.
• Overused Running Gag: Any pasta relating to, in any way, a joke that is used over and over again.
• Pasta stuff

• Bad Creepypasta: Self-explanatory.
  • Not Sure if Troll or Trying to Be Serious: Creepypastas so horrible, that you can't even tell if they're creepypastas or not.
• Old Shit: Old trollpastas. Not iconic, but they're recognizable ones from December 2012 and before.
• Satire: Stories that make fun of Creepypasta clichés (and sometimes other things, too).
• Trollpasta: For Trollpastas.
• Pre-Trollpasta: For pastas that were made before the term "trollpasta" was coined.

• Potty Humor: Pastas whose humor is scatological in nature.
• Rants: For pastas that contain rants.
• Morons Attempting Poetry: Poetry.
• Rituwel: Pastas involving rituals.
• SMOKE WEED ERRYDAY: Pastas either involving drugs and/or drug consumption, or if the author sounds like they're on drugs.
• Stupid is as the main character does: For pastas which feature a dumb main character.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Self-explanatory.
• TELAVISHUN: For pastas that involve television, like TV shows.
• THERY: For theories.
• TOTALLY NOT UNFINISHED U GUIZE: For pastas that are clearly unfinished.
• TRUE STORY: For stories which the author insists actually happened, or are based on a true story.
• That just raises more questions!: For pastas that raise way more questions than answers.
• Titles

• LONG ASS TITLE: For pastas with really long titles.
• The Title Is A Lie: For pastas where the title doesn't match the story or are completely misleading.
• Title that makes babbies laugh: For pastas with immature/juvenile titles.

• Unnecessary Sequels: Sequels or prequels to stories that didn't need them.
• Vidya games: For video-game-related pastas.
  • Mario: For pastas that involve Super Mario.
  • Minecrap: For pastas about Minecraft.
  • Pokemon: For pastas about Pokémon.
  • Sonic: For pastas that involve Sonic.
  • Zel-DUUHHH: For pastas about The Legend of Zelda.
• WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT: Pastas that are especially confusing/bizarre/effed up.
• YT Readings: YouTube pasta readings.
  • Read by SOG: Pastas read on SOG's Shit Pasta segment.
  • Read by Yuriofwind: Pastas read on Yuriofwind's Bullshit Creepypasta Storytime.
  • Read by retsupurae: Pastas read by retsupurae on his Crappy Pasta segment.
  • Read by MichaelLeroi: Pastas read on MichaelLeroi's BAD CREEPYPASTA segment.

Special Categories

• General

• Classics: For classic/iconic pastas.
• DO NOT DELETE: Self-explanatory.
• FOTM: For pastas that were voted "Fail of the Month".
• TPOTM: For pastas that were voted "Trollpasta of the Month".
• SUGGESTED READING: A good start for those who are new to trollpasta.
  • Ghastly Macaroni: Stories written by John Wojcik, generally recognized to be one of the "fathers" of trollpastas.
• Unfunny: Examples of how not to write a trollpasta.
• Videos: Pastas with videos in them. If there is not a video on the page, it does not go in this category.

• Site maintenance

• Archive: For inactive/legacy pages.
• Meta: For important site-related pages.
  • Site maintenance: For general site maintenance.
• Unneeded: For unneeded categories.
• PLZ DELETE THIS NOW KTHX: Pages that need to be deleted.
• User: For users and user-related content on this wiki.

• Authors

• Dronik Pastas: Pastas written by Dronian.
• Dubiousdugong: Pastas written by plagiarist Dubiousdugong.
• Ghastly Macaroni: Stories written by John Wojcik, generally recognized to be one of the "fathers" of trollpastas.