CYOA

Texting & Internet Slang abbreviation · Fandom and Fan Fiction

CYOA stands for Choose your own adventure, a fandom and fan fiction abbreviation.

Interactive story in which the reader makes choices that determine how the plot unfolds, such as turning to different pages or picking options online. Also used for forum and Tumblr quests.

Example: Writing a CYOA story on my blog where readers vote on each chapter.

Usage notes

Named after the Choose Your Own Adventure book series published by Bantam beginning in 1979, known for multiple endings, many of them abrupt. The format influenced text adventures, gamebooks, visual novels and Netflix's interactive film "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" (2018).

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