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== 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.
** [[Terminator|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" -: [http://www.fanart-central.net/ Fanart Central], in its role as the fanart equivalent to Fanfiction.net.
* "Rapidshit" -: "Affectionate" nickname for the file-sharing <s> online dictatorship</s> 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. [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|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 herein 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 [[The Contributors|contributors]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828013352/http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=24212 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]]'' hashad a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030205837/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/ forum]. In one of its topic, the fans talk 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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731175157/http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4857 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: -[[Image Boards|2chan]]/[[4chan]].
* When flame wars/trolling get particularly bad, [[Star Trek|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.
 
== 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 -: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|A robot with a visor]]. Oddly enough, [[Sure Why Not|the series creators now actually refer to]] this robot as "Visor Robot".
* Linkin Ball Z -: Any of the Trillions of combinations of ''[[Dragonball Z|Dragon Ball Z]]'' and the band Linkin Park commonly seen in [[Fan Vid]]s.
** [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=linkin%20park%20dragonball&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1 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 [[Sure Why Not|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 '[[Metal Gear|Bocelot]]' due to performing an [[Offhand Backhand|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.
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** From The Program, the SotF Mini [[Alternate Universe]] game, Logan Sorenson is almost always referred to as [[Troll|Lolgan]].
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''
** iTex -: {{spoiler|1=When it was unclear when Tex exactly was a real person or not, Tex when she was definitely an AI was iTex}}
** iFrags -: AI programs {{spoiler|that are a piece of the alpha}}
** eFrags -: AI programs {{spoiler|that are pieces of the iFrag Epsilon}}
** {{spoiler|1=Alpha Church, aChurch, Robo Church}} -: {{spoiler|The name for the Alpha AI. To differentiate him from Dr. Church}}
** "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.
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** [[Yiddish as a Second Language|Bagel Nosh]] for [[Tales of Symphonia|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 "[[Ominous Latin Chanting|Random Chanting Asian Man]]" (Kaleed from "Time-Flight"), "[[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkles]]" (the Megara from "The Stones of Blood"), and "[[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|BDSM-man]]" (Sharaz Jek from "The Caves of Androzani").
* [[The Slender Man Mythos|The Slender Man]], paragon of nightmares and [[Paranoia Fuel|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".
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* In [[Rhett and Link|Rhett&Link]]'s "[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe07j8_epic-rap-battle_music 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 (film)|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 {{spoiler|the wolf inside Dolly. For [[Meaningful Name]] bonus points, it means "shield wolf".}}
 
 
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