Trollpasta Wiki:Trollpasta Clichés

Hello, new user. As you probably know, trollpasta 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. Making the story bad does not make it automatically funny.

General Clichés

1. Jeff the Killer spin-off parodies
2. Hyper-realistic (blood)
3. Sonic.exe and other tites ending in various file extensions
4. Shrek pastas, more specifically clones of the Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life greentext with a few words and names replaced
5. Crappy MS Paint drawings, especially if they have lots of blood
6. MLG humour
7. Potty humour
8. 'Random' humour
9. Use of characters like EVIL PATRIXXX
10. Putting 'YOU'RE NEXT' at the end of your story
11. Excessive swearing
12. Gizoogle pastas
13. Expand Dong
14. using "le"

Formatting Clichés

1. Making your story ALLCAPS
2. Making your story a big wall of text with no line breaks
3. Your story is one or two sentences long
4. Extremely poor English grammar and spelling
5. No punctuation and capitalisation at all
6. Excessive use of punctuation marks (especially !!!!11)
7. Excessive use of numbers, particularly 666, 13 and 420
8. Fake/bad 1337 leet

Satire Clichés

1. Making fun of the author (yourself) and the story itself within the story

Video Game Clichés

Video game trollpastas are basically a cliché on their own, but in particular:

1. The story is about a haunted video game cartridge
2. Five Nights at Freddy's pastas
3. Sonic pastas
4. Super Mario pastas
5. Pokémon pastas