Fan Nickname/Web Original

Examples of in  works include:

Web Sites

 * "The Pit of Voles": Fanfiction.net. "The Pit" for short.
 * AKA "The Pit of Shrews"... although, confusingly enough, that name seems to also be applied to Quizilla.com.
 * Skynet is sometimes used to refer to the Pit's administrators.
 * "The Pit of Rabid Horny Weasels": AdultFanfiction.net
 * Sometimes also called "The Pit of Uber-Voles," "The Uber-Pit" for short.
 * "The Picture Pit": Fanart Central, in its role as the fanart equivalent to Fanfiction.net.
 * "Rapidshit": "Affectionate" nickname for the file-sharing online dictatorship site Rapidshare.
 * Ditto "Megafail" among others for Megaupload: though despite being more active in moderating what you can upload, at least non-member files don't have a 10-download limit like on Rapidshit. Though now that Megaupload has been shut down for good... Its sucessor service Mega hasn't inherited the nickname because of being better at file managing than its predecessor.
 * The Other Wiki: Used in trope wikis to refer to the one that's all Serious Business.
 * The Other Tropes Wiki: What we and other tropeswiki call TV Tropes.
 * "Moontube": Japanese streaming video site Niconico Douga ("Smile Video"). Inspired by the meme of referring to the Japanese language as "moonspeak", and Niconico's equivalence to Youtube.
 * The Hive Mind, Wiki-tachi, Critical Analysis Drones: Those would all be this wiki's contributors.
 * Dr. Fight: toonzone.net nickname for Joaquim Dos Santos, director of several episodes of Justice League Unlimited and in the later half of Avatar: The Last Airbender (including the last two of the Grand Finale).
 * The comedy site That Guy With The Glasses had a forum. In one of its topics, the fans talked about an episode of the Nostalgia Critic that slammed the Rob Reiner movie North. In this movie, there is a boy named Winchell who, later on in the review, becomes the villain. The Nostalgia Critic made a joke that he acts like Dick Cheney. Because of this, everyone in the North topic calls Winchell, you guessed it, Dick Cheney.
 * Teh Floodz. Bungie.net's Flood forum.
 * HuluTube: YouTube, after it began promoting full-length movies and TV shows on its site (Many of which are also available on Hulu. Usually in a derogatory manner by users who've had suspensions because of DMCA violations.
 * And presumably because of the ads on the those officially distributed videos.
 * Fans of Smogon call themselves Smogonites.
 * Hell: 2chan/4chan.
 * When flame wars/trolling get particularly bad, StarTrek.com (ST.com) is often referred to as STD.com.
 * Twitter posters who make dumb or annoying posts have picked up the nickname "Twittiots".
 * Almost On Line or AOHell: AOL nicknames given by frustrated users of it or AIM.
 * Yahell or Yahooey: Derogatory nickname of many a frustrated Yahoo mail, YIM and groups user.
 * Many of the trope names listed here and on The Other Tropes Wiki could ultimately be considered fan nicknames, or at least fan nicknames for literary conventions established elsewhere when applied to a specific show, genre, or situation.
 * The Blue Hell: applied to either Twitter or Tumblr, the level of derogatoriness depending on whenever is said by the users of said sites or by bystanders.
 * Crapatalk for Tapatalk, a bulletin board/forums hosting site which bought out and absorbed many other smaller, independent hosts like Yuku and ezBoard starting in the 2010s. They did this with the express intent of forcing advertising onto every page while making no more than a token, slapdash effort to translate the acquired boards into Tapatalk's native system (and often losing content from the imported boards in the process while disavowing any responsibility for losing data).  It was so bad that someone wrote a perl/sqlite utility to rescue content from a Tapatalk board and put it in a form that could be easily translated to another board host.

Other Web Original Works

 * Homestar Runner
 * Kidstar: 1-Up from the 20X6 universe. He's the anime equivalent of Homestar, and his idol Stinkoman dismisses him as being "just a kid". His name wasn't officially revealed until a year after he first appeared.
 * Marzichan: The 20X6 version of Marzipan who has so far only appeared in a Main Page.
 * Visor Robot: A robot with a visor. Oddly enough, the series creators now actually refer to this robot as "Visor Robot".
 * Linkin Ball Z: Any of the Trillions of combinations of Dragon Ball Z and the band Linkin Park commonly seen in Fan Vids.
 * Yah rly, and that's just on Youtube...
 * Fans of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series generally refer to Yami Bakura and Yami Marik as "Florence" and "Melvin", respectively. That may also be their 'canon' names.
 * "Melvin" was originally a mocking joke name from Yami "[We came here to fight] Marik! Not his imaginary friend Melvin!" "Florence" was the name Yami Bakura bitterly said his parents wanted to name him, and that same episode ends with him saying that "Florence is back." Both took off with fans and became recurring names shortly thereafter, though "Florence" at least still goes by Bakura most of the time, presumably because "real" Bakura isn't active enough for there to be much confusion anyway.
 * Lonelygirl15
 * BDJ: Bree, Daniel and Jonas collectively.
 * TAAG: Teen Angst Adventure Gang. All the main characters as a team.
 * The Creators: Always with capitalised initial letters. The executive producers of the show, who often use this name themselves.
 * Bambi: Nadia Dalton.
 * Pharma Guy: Ted McKinley.
 * Handlers occasionally give Survival of the Fittest characters nicknames based on their personality traits and the like, and occasionally a character gets a malicious nickname made for the purpose of mocking them. Prominent examples of fan nicknames in SOTF include Kenurton Larris for v3 character Ken Lawson, BB for Blood Boy (people tend to prefer calling him by the shorthand "BB" for whatever reason), and in the mocking sense "* charactername* v2" for characters that are obvious clones of previous SOTF characters. "Mariavel v2" = Melina, "Damien v2" = Eduardo, and "Oliver v2" = Gabe Theobaldt, for example.
 * A number of members (although it was sparked by the character's handler) have begun to refer to Bobby Jacks as 'Bocelot' due to performing an Offhand Backshoot on another character (and hitting him in the head). Members joke that soon he will be ricocheting bullets off walls, and that before long he will have one of his arms cut off.
 * Handlers sometimes give nicknames to characters who share the same first names to differentiate them. For example in V4, there's Happy!Nick (Nick LeMonde) and Sad!Nick (Nick Reid)
 * And Sarax, Stan and Seizure Girl for Sarah Xu, Sarah Tan and Sarah Atwell respectively.
 * From The Program, the SotF Mini Alternate Universe game, Logan Sorenson is almost always referred to as Lolgan.
 * Red vs. Blue
 * iTex:
 * iFrags: AI programs
 * eFrags: AI programs
 * "Shark Face": That one badass pyro mook from Season 9 that actually manages to give two Freelancers a decent fight.
 * Not a character, but the fans have nicknamed the authors of the Whateley Universe stories the 'Canon Cabal'. Occasionally in the forums the acronym TINCC shows up after mentioning this nickname: it stands for 'There Is No Canon Cabal'.
 * N. Bison from Kickassia as a result of him being the Nostalgia Critic dressed as M. Bison.
 * The Nostalgia Chick's Sarah Palin persona is known as "Nostalgia Palin".
 * The Critic's Japanese fandom (yes, it does exist) has nicknamed the Chick "Nosuko", combining a Japanese contraction of "Nostalgia" with a common Japanese female name ending.
 * The name "Ask That Guy" probably counts too, as to distinguish him from Doug's handle That Guy With The Glasses.
 * 'Meg the Magic Gun Girl' for the girl whose soul is inside Linkara's magic gun.
 * Also from Atop the Fourth Wall, Linkara's Power Rangers costume has earned the nickname "Pimpkara".
 * The Tipping Forties crew has come up with a few, most of them for Tales of Symphonia:
 * Rüsty for Titus.
 * Small Ronso for Kimahri.
 * Rad for Kratos.
 * Old Kentucky for summon spirit Corrine.
 * Bagel Nosh for Noishe.
 * In the original run of the Webcomic "Earthsong", vampire Tristram was occasionally referred to as "Vampy Mc Emopants" for his overly melodramatic backstory.
 * The Classic Doctor Who Twitter Blog likes using this trope when the proprietor doesn't know/can't spell a character's name. Examples include "Random Chanting Asian Man" (Kaleed from "Time-Flight"), "sparkles" (the Megara from "The Stones of Blood"), and "BDSM-man" (Sharaz Jek from "The Caves of Androzani").
 * The Slender Man, paragon of nightmares and source of paranoia, is affectionately referred to as "Slendy".
 * And in the Slendy-inspired web series Marble Hornets, totheark/Masked Man, a silent man in a creepy theatre mask who attacks, stalks, and watches the protoganist sleep at night, is generally referred to simply as "Masky".
 * The second Masky, introduced in Entry #41, has been frequently nicknamed either "Hoody" or "Blasky".
 * The boys of Marble Hornets themselves have become known in some circles as "the Wifers."
 * While Tim's sideburns are affectionately known as the Suttonchops.
 * The Minoto game Bread Girl was given a "Disturb Through" that gave the woman at the vegetable stand the name "Miami Mom" and painted her as a neglectful, domineering mother. It's actually just the alive-and-successful Little Match Girl, but the nickname stuck anyways.
 * Commenters on FSTDT have come up with a number of nicknames for some of the websites and people that are frequently quoted:
 * Rapture Ready is often referred to as "Ruptured Retards", and the its member "Raptards".
 * His4Life, a member of Rapture Ready forums who frequently comments on FSTDT is commonly referred to as "Troll4Life".
 * Andrew Schlafy is called "Assfly", thanks to his Conservapedia handle of "Aschlafy".
 * Supersport, someone often quoted on the site and considered incredibly stupid even by FSTDT standards, is sometimes referred to as "Stuporsport".
 * In Rhett&Link's "Epic Rap Battle," Rhett gives a guy a Half-Nelson, and Link gives the same guy a Full-Nelson. The fandom has decided to name him "Nelson."
 * The Downfall parody meme has a lot of these. Hitler himself is often called "Dolfy" by fans, Burgdorf has the fan nickname of "Burger-Dork", and Goebbels' nickname "Skeletor" probably started as one of these before actually becomming an In-Series Nickname.
 * Die Anstalt: Lyall for
 * Less a nickname than an alternate spelling, many Helluva Boss fans have taken to using "Blitzø" over "Blitzo" as a reminder that the "O" is silent.
 * Less a nickname than an alternate spelling, many Helluva Boss fans have taken to using "Blitzø" over "Blitzo" as a reminder that the "O" is silent.