History Main / WallOfText

* This is a criticism often levelled at ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel''. In fact, Website/FourChan came up with something called "CAD Rule" -- the law that if you take the first panel and the last panel of a ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'' strip, remove the text from the last panel and post it, it will automatically be much funnier, as [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060331 this strip]] "shows". A similar device is the infamously named ''buckleybox'', a smaller but equally superfluous Wall Of Text used to reiterate something that ''should already appear in the actual comic'' visually, but may not due to odd dialogue placement, poor art not conveying it, or the assumption that ViewersAreMorons.

** It justifies its Walls of Text even further by introducing a [[KnowNothingKnowItAll pseudo-intellectual]] Website/{{Tumblr}} [[TakeThat parody]] who prefers textwalling at people in such a densely-packed, long-winded format that it becomes impossible to read due to the text shrinking down to 1pt size to fit it all. He even almost refers to basic conversations with people as "monologues". Said parody's first three pages of speech comprised ''one sentence''. There's a reason Kankri is TheFriendNobodyLikes.

* This is a common criticism of ''Webcomic/BetterDays'' ([[{{Series/Firefly}} No relation]]), made only worse when it turns up in the supplementary porn comics.

* In the early text-based game ''VideoGame/ColossalCave'', the description of the volcano.

* UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} manual pages. This eventually got so bad that a new system, ''info'', was invented. Then Unix documentation moved to the Web. And there was much rejoicing amongst the TTY jockeys.

* One of the many, ''MANY'' criticisms of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. To say that it's not so much a comic as it is wall after migraine-inducing wall of Comic Sans with the occasional illustration would be a more than accurate assessment of the visual onslaught on display here. It gets so bad that even the wiki [[http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/Chris_and_writing#Visual_clarity throws up their hands in despair]].

* Some of Creator/FranzKafka's paragraphs (especially in his unpublished stories) span pages. And that's just the English translations--one imagines they're quite a bit longer in [[UsefulNotes/GermanLanguage German]][[note]]This is a good enough example to be left in, but they aren't. This sort of style usually translates to a similar style, and as the other examples on this page show, there is nothing inherently brief about English nor long-winded about German. It is all a question of who the author is.[[/note]].

* ''VideoGame/BramTheToymaker'': After you've beaten the game, you're treated to a scrollable wall of text detailing [[spoiler:The PlayerCharacter's relationship with his grandparents, the discovery of an old {{Diary}} in their attic, the DarkAndTroubledPast of the titular toymaker's house, and the protagonist's decision to investigate it]].

* The ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'' page on [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Run-on_sentence Run-on sentence]], pretty obvious given [[SelfDemonstratingArticle the nature of the website.]] The longest sentence there is exactly ''2,531'' words long.

* Website/NobodyHere's home page is comprised of a tall wall of links to every other page on the site.

* The [[TheWikiRule Channel Awesome wiki]] page on "The WORST Movies Nostalgia Critic Has Reviewed". As the video it takes its transcript from contains few video clips, it would be this by default, but there is [[https://thatguywiththeglasses.fandom.com/wiki/The_WORST_Movies_Nostalgia_Critic%27s_Reviewed#.231:_Garbage_Pail_Kids a massive paragraph]] describing ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'', which goes on for over ''1300 words'' before giving a single indentation. It just emphasizes how much Creator/DougWalker '''really''' hates that movie.

* Creator/ScottMcCloud demonstrated the disadvantage of it in a strip about an UpperClassTwit: At first, he's enjoyed about making the Best Party Ever; then he gets confused about what the friend of him said; then he's shocked because said friend can't come to the party; then he's sad because the party is nothing without him. In one panel, you simply cannot demonstrate four different feelings; break it up, and it works.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "A Matter of Time" time traveling petty criminal Berlinghoff Rasmussen asks the senior staff of the ''Enterprise-D'' to fill out questionnaires and to be through in answering the questions. Data's answers to Rasmussen's questions were in total well over 50,000 words long, prompting the Professor to tell Data that he should have asked Data to limit himself to 50,000 words in answering his questions.

* The cover of the Music/{{Chumbawamba}} album whose full title is usually shortened to just ''The Boy Bands Have Won'' shows a LongTitle of ''865'' characters (156 words), granting it the Guinness World Record for the longest album title in history.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has a number of cards that are more text than card, but the biggest offenders are undoubtedly Pendulum Monsters. Why that is is because they have ''two'' blocks of text that describe what they do, one for their monster effect and the other for their Pendulum effect. Both can reach damn-near unreadable levels due to how tiny the text can get. For example, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Endymion,_the_Mighty_Master_of_Magic Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic.]]

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. After a chapter devoted to each of the current girlfriends telling Rentarou all the things they love about him, Rentarou fires back with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZdqeTD_INY massive page covering list of every single thing there is to love about them.]]