Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 31

Front page of GAFF when it was housed at internettrash.com.

Godawful Fan Fiction (GAFF) was a controversial website devoted to mocking badfic. It was founded on October 15, 1998 - the same day as Fanfiction.net - and was closed by 2009.

The website had two primary purposes: 1) to mock fanworks for the humor value, and 2) to supposedly help writers improve their future creations. Most fans tended to focus on the first purpose, and there was vigorous debate about the existence of the site itself, as well as the nature of the comments posted there.