spamfic

English

Etymology

spam +‎ fic, the implication being that such fanfics flood newsgroups or archives.

Noun

spamfic (plural spamfics)

  1. (fandom slang) A short or quickly-written fanfic.
    • 1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎ (Usenet):
      This was originally supposed to be just a quickie spamfic -- but as I wrote, many of the relationships expanded and took on lives of their own, as I started to almost believe that they were possible.
    • 1999 June 14, Mordaxy, “[Ranma][Fanfic] "It's Too Perilous..."”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎ (Usenet):
      Not that most of what I write ISN'T silly, but it's usually not this short. I generally refer to this as my spamfic.
    • 2000 March 27, Oliver Reyes, “[Ranma][FanFic] Secrets - Genma Saotome”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎ (Usenet):
      It's gonna be a series of short spamfics that add up to a bigger collection called "Confession".
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:spamfic.

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