Faxlore
![An early example of a distributed warning about tattoo stickers allegedly laced with drugs. Collected by Jan Brunvand in his book The Choking Doberman.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Mickey_mouse_acid_warning0318.png")
Faxlore is a sort of folklore: humorous texts, folk poetry, folk art, and urban legends that are circulated, not by word of mouth, but by fax machine. Xeroxlore or photocopylore is similar material circulated by photocopying; compare samizdat in Soviet-bloc countries.