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I'm going to play devil's advocate or whatever and say that Creepypasta isn't inherently bad as a concept.

The stories that kickeoff the whole thing made use of the more detached, anonymous nature of the early internet to tell creepy, enigmatic stories. Stuff like Ted The Cav and the stories posted on /x/ back in the day never made the monster the focus of the attention. The focus of early creepypastas was the narrator and the reader, the story being used to draw the reader into a dark place where shit isn't what it seems and every part of human society had a greasy underbelly. The main themes were paranoia, fear of the unknown, and hapless everymen trying to make sense of the surreal horrors before them.

And then it became a big fandom and it all turned to SHIT.
 
Happens all the time in genres of all sorts. The Difference Engine begets steampunk. A novel about if computer technology was invented a century or two ahead of schedule, the plot hinging on an advanced mathematical theorum being discovered likewise way ahead of schedule, turns into "dress like a rich dude fell into a pile of sticky gears and pilot steam-powered brass robots." Halloween begets the (modern template of the) slasher. A horror story about innocent teenagers hunted and slain by an inscrutable, almost inhuman terror turns into "let's watch dumb kids get torn apart in creative ways."

In this case, I think creepypasta can be traced back to the RPG Unknown Armies, which prefaces each of its three sections with a few pages of "rumors." They help players get into the mindset of the game, where obsession about anything (money, alcohol, drugs, cutting yourself, living an archetypal role in everything you do) creates magick and the people who are crazy enough to use sorcery are also uptight enough to insist it's spelled with a 'k," and dangerous enough that you go along with it. The official website had a repository of rumors, some of which became early creepypasta--including one of mine! The one about Halloween specials concealing frames from a secret movie about a moving corpse. It's edited to be more specific (the corpse is 'dancing' instead of just 'obviously moving'--I always imagined a corpse sprawled along the ground, but each frame shows that it's struggling to breathe and trying to crawl into a seated position) and to remove a reference to Videomancers (which is understandable if you're trying to pass it off as a real rumor).

Creepypasta had a similar genre drift to slasher flicks. "Weird shit upsets perceptions of normality" becomes "weird shit spooks people out by haunting things you like" becomes "weird monsters happen" becomes "self-insertion serial killers happen" becomes "my OC wants to bang your OC. Also blood."
 
Bungleboy said:
I'm going to play devil's advocate or whatever and say that Creepypasta isn't inherently bad as a concept.
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That's because it isn't. I wasn't a mod of the Creepypasta wiki for nothing.

Bungleboy said:
The stories that kickedoff the whole thing made use of the more detached, anonymous nature of the early internet to tell creepy, enigmatic stories. Stuff like Ted The Caver and the stories posted on /x/ back in the day never made the monster the focus of the attention. The focus of early creepypastas was the narrator and the reader, the story being used to draw the reader into a dark place where shit isn't what it seems and every part of human society had a greasy underbelly.
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Well, that depends on the pasta. For the most part, stories were told exclusively from a first-person perspective, and had to do with mostly everyday events, and oddities that the character experienced (i.e. "Strangest Security Tape", "An Egg", "Evaporation", etc.). This had more to do with the format of /x/, rather than a lack of variety. Once pastas took off, there was many more stories that dealt with past events, and third person narratives (i.e. "Russian Sleep Experiment", "Gateway to The Mind", "The House That Death Forgot", etc.).

In all these cases, however, it was the events in the story, rather than the antagonist, that made the stories great. A sense of ominousness was derived from every sentence, rather than the current 2spook mentality of writers.

Bungleboy said:
The main themes were paranoia, fear of the unknown, and hapless everymen trying to make sense of the surreal horrors before them.
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Not really, but you're on the right track. Themes could be really anything, as long as it was relatable. Babysitting, fear of public places, the desire for love, anything, really. As long as one could connect with the story, it would generally work out.

Bungleboy said:
And then it became a big fandom and it all turned to SHIT.
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Here, here. Once again, 10-year olds and vocal minorities ruin everything for everyone.
 
I dunno if this has been mentioned before in this thread, but a while ago two little girls stabbed their friend and left her to die because they thought this was how you summon the slenderman. Of course nothing in the slenderman mythos involves stabbing people to summon ol' slendy and also why would you want to summon him because he'll just stalk you and kill you
 
Bugaboo said:
I dunno if this has been mentioned before in this thread, but a while ago two little girls stabbed their friend and left her to die because they thought this was how you summon the slenderman. Of course nothing in the slenderman mythos involves stabbing people to summon ol' slendy and also why would you want to summon him because he'll just stalk you and kill you
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Thank goodness, a post that's on topic.

Yes, we all heard about it and it has been mentioned. I even mentioned an idea I had to send the girls a fake denied application letter from Slenderman, which I still haven't done because for one, I have no idea where I would have to mail it to. It's still an amazing idea.
 
Bugaboo said:
I dunno if this has been mentioned before in this thread, but a while ago two little girls stabbed their friend and left her to die because they thought this was how you summon the slenderman. Of course nothing in the slenderman mythos involves stabbing people to summon ol' slendy and also why would you want to summon him because he'll just stalk you and kill you
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thanks for the reminder on that, there has been an update on the case recently. These girls are being charged as adults.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-old-wisconsin-girls-will-be-tried-as-adults/

The girls really believed in slenderman.
Shortly after the stabbing, authorities found Geyser and Weier walking toward Nicolet National Forest, where they said they hoped to join Slender Man in his mansion. One of the girls had a five-inch blade knife in her backpack, according to the criminal complaint.
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Geyser was diagnosed with early onset schizophrenia during court competency evaluations, and she still believes in the existence of the mythological Slender Man and fictional characters such as Harry Potter. She is opposed to taking medication because she believes it would stop her ability to talk with these “friends,” the Journal Sentinel reported.
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Experts testified during a May hearing that Weier had a delusional disorder in 2014, that she is remorseful and that she wants to get better. Both the stabbing victim and Weier told authorities that Geyser did the stabbing, the Journal Sentinel reported.
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Bugaboo said:
I dunno if this has been mentioned before in this thread, but a while ago two little girls stabbed their friend and left her to die because they thought this was how you summon the slenderman. Of course nothing in the slenderman mythos involves stabbing people to summon ol' slendy and also why would you want to summon him because he'll just stalk you and kill you
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Zorceror44 said:
Thank goodness, a post that's on topic.

Yes, we all heard about it and it has been mentioned. I even mentioned an idea I had to send the girls a fake denied application letter from Slenderman, which I still haven't done because for one, I have no idea where I would have to mail it to. It's still an amazing idea.
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Red_Rager said:
thanks for the reminder on that, there has been an update on the case recently. These girls are being charged as adults.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-old-wisconsin-girls-will-be-tried-as-adults/

The girls really believed in slenderman.
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It's old hat on the wiki. For a while, discussion of it could get you banned, since it brought HUNDREDS of new users to the site, most of which were news outlets trying to get info. It was really a giant pain, since it pushed back quality control about three months.

Anyway, we all came to the conclusion that the girls were nuts to begin with, and came to the website without making accounts. When we were questioned about it, that's what we said. I guess the info disappointed them, because none of the outlets followed up with our information, instead using "experts" in "techoparanormal" issues.

I ain't making it up, and I'm surprised nobody has uploaded anything about it on youtube or whatever. There was even one of them on a radio station when I was driving to school. Funny stuff, personally.
 
So a bunch of tenth-rate creepypasta writers tried to make their own 'mythos' of creepypasta. And jesus christ what a load of utter pigshit it is.

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Every single monster has its own realm, superpowers, and legions of minions, all with aspergian ammounts of detail because more information is more spoopy.


The main 'verse is this one. About a big conflict that is simultaenously obscenely detailed and completely incoherent


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Has anyone discussed the SCP Foundation fandom here before? I haven't seen their community, and they just seem to be full of kids, so I wonder just how bad they are. They write pseudo-realistic fiction about an organization named SCP, who capture, contain, and study things that have effects that are unexplainable by modern science[DATA EXPUNGED]. So naturally children would believe it's real and they repeatedly state it's not real in their own F.A.Q.s. They've been around since like 2008. Daily Dot summed them up as like a mix of creepypasta and wikia autism so [REDACTED].
 
Conrix said:
Has anyone discussed the SCP Foundation fandom here before? I haven't seen their community, and they just seem to be full of kids, so I wonder just how bad they are. They write pseudo-realistic fiction about an organization named SCP, who capture, contain, and study things that have effects that are unexplainable by modern science[DATA EXPUNGED]. So naturally children would believe it's real and they repeatedly state it's not real in their own F.A.Q.s. They've been around since like 2008. Daily Dot summed them up as like a mix of creepypasta and wikia autism so [REDACTED].
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Some of the SCPs are really good, like the vending machine one. All they really need is some form of stricter quality control to keep the shitposters away.

It's probably too late for the creepypasta fandom.
 
Conrix said:
Has anyone discussed the SCP Foundation fandom here before? I haven't seen their community, and they just seem to be full of kids, so I wonder just how bad they are. They write pseudo-realistic fiction about an organization named SCP, who capture, contain, and study things that have effects that are unexplainable by modern science[DATA EXPUNGED]. So naturally children would believe it's real and they repeatedly state it's not real in their own F.A.Q.s. They've been around since like 2008. Daily Dot summed them up as like a mix of creepypasta and wikia autism so [REDACTED].
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We talked about it earlier. They're already as strict as can be. So they don't fit well into the autism spectrum.
 
So I guess creepy pasta fangirls who are into being tortured by damaged bad boys now have something to look forward to?

I'm so confused, that trailer was just awful... *sigh*
 
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