Trollpasta Wiki:Trollpasta Clichés: Difference between revisions

Hello, new user. As you probably know, trollpastaTrollpasta is meant to be a parody of scary stories. However, lately a few of the other admins and I have noticed that some people don't seem to quite grasp that concept. Most of the time this is because these new users fail to avoid a bunch of painfully overused '''clichés''' which pretty much kill any potential funniness your story may have. Having one or two of these things in your pasta isn't that bad, it depends on how you use them and your pasta won't be deleted just because it has a cliché in it, but if your story incorporates many, it is likely of poor quality. '''Do not rely on nothing else but clichés for comedic value.'''

Just because this is trollpasta doesn't mean that you can automatically make your story funny or a good parody/satire by making it incredibly bad and hard to read.  Nor does it mean it is impossible to have clichés in Trollpasta. Remember that trollpastasTrollpasta, regardless of how terrible they may be, still must have the basic elements of an actual story and should not be just an incoherent pile of clichés. '''Making the story bad does not make it automatically funny.'''

#''[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:Jeffery|Jeff the Killer]]'' spin-off parodies. We have hundreds of these already. When things like ''[[JEFF TURNS INTO A GIRAFFE!!!!]]'' and ''[[JEFF THE KILLER BECOMES WILE E. COYOTE]]'' popspop up, it might be time to stop with these...

#[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:Hyper-Realistic|Hyper-realistic]] (blood). Just plain overused, and it's hardly used in actual creepypastasCreepypasta anymore these days, so why still use it here?

#''Sonic.exe'' and other titestitles ending in various [[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:File Extensions|file extensions]].

#Anything related to the ''Shrek'' films, especially ''[[The Tale of Shrek|Shrek Isis Love, Shrek is Life]]'' ripoffs. This isn't 2013.

#[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:Crappy ms paint drawings|Crappy MS Paint drawings]], especially if they have lots of "blood".

#MLG humourhumor. Things like "xXx_W4ckY_MLG_n4m3s_xXx", Mountain Dew, Doritos, "420 BLAZE IT", etc. and creating '"MLG versions'" of existing stories. The whole MLG thing got old a while ago anyway.

#Random humourhumor. Just because your story makes no sense doesn't mean it's funny.

#Putting "[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:YOU'RE NEXT|YOU'RE NEXT]]" at the end of your story. This is one of those old Creepypasta clichés.

#Putting a serious story in gizoogle.netGizoogle.

#"Expand Dong" and BonziBuddy. Even Joel from Vinesauce wanted these jokes to die out after seeing how much people spammed them.

#Using "le", "teh", "hte", "de", or "da".

#[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:ALL CAPS|Making your story ALL CAPS.]].

#[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:LONG ASS TITLE|Giving your story an overly long title]].

#[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:English Class Failure|Extremely poor English grammar and spelling. done intentionally to be funny]].

#No punctuation and capitalisationcapitalization at all.

#Bashing the author of the story you're satirisingsatirizing. That's not satire, that's harassment. (It's okay if you're just lightly bantering himthem though).)

#Overreacting to stuff that happens in the story you're satirisingsatirizing. This can be funny if done correctly.

#Making the satire [[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:One sentence|one sentence]] long. A'À la ''[[Sanic.exe.exe]]''.

# Saying you bought the game from some random guy isn't funny anymore, it's just overused.

And pretty much everything else in "[[w:c:Trollpasta:Category:Unfunny|Category:Unfunny]]".

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