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* Website/{{Twitter}} account [[https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt fanfiction_txt]] finds particularly bad lines from fanfiction of all media, and presents them without comment. Website/{{Tumblr}} account [[http://fanfictionimg.tumblr.com/ fanfictionimg]] then periodically takes some of the cream of ''that'' crop and creates little comics out of it, lampooning just how absurd the lines are if taken at face value.

* The fivers over at Website/FiveMinuteDotNet have some elements of an MST combined with an Abridged Series. It's a bit complicated; read the examples at the works page.

The term "MST" was derived from the show ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (often called "[=MST3K=]"), which did this to SoBadItsGood [[BMovie B-movies]], but was coined and popularized by [[{{Fanfic}} fan fiction]] writers, who applied it to an [=MST3K=]-style treatment of other fanfics. [=MSTers=] often targeted SBIG fics, though sometimes they chose genuinely good stories either as a personal challenge or [[ItAmusedMe just to have a laugh]]. And while [=MSTs=] weren't limited to fanfics (one of the earliest known text-based [=MSTs=] is of a UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}} group post), they did become--and still remain--the primary target.