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I remember when creepypastas on 4chan were just a paragraph long and they were far more creepier thanks to the brevity and anonymity.

Once they started becoming long form stories or even novellas, it got more and more tl;dr.
 
Dom Cruise said:
I remember when creepypastas on 4chan were just a paragraph long and they were far more creepier thanks to the brevity and anonymity.

Once they started becoming long form stories or even novellas, it got more and more tl;dr.
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Yep especially with shit like subreddits like r/nosleep and video game pastas.


Rundown on the former


 
Sinners Sandwich said:
Mr. Creeps has a horrible boring monotone voice.
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It amazes me that he even has a sizeable following at all, if nothing else it must be out of desperation for some fans to find someone who hasn't uploaded the Russian sleep experiment for the hundredth time.

Was gonna ask as well? did anyone on here ever cover the so-called "creepyleaks"?
 
Freddy Freaker said:
I dont even know what that is my nigga
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It happened last year, there was a bunch of leaks on one of the biggest youtube narrators called mrcreepypasta, it has a whole host of allegations ranging from misusing money donated by fans, scamming writers and cheating on his wife with fans. I've linked the whole document, its definitely worth a read, especially because of the serious ops that the guy in question allegedly pulled to try and get this shit silenced.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P5MudbZIQq54H55ltSynqvEdg17eQn7Sx05DV6ev3vg/edit
 
Creepypasta is kind of like one of the best and worst things to ever happen to the internet. A bunch of people wrote horror stories that otherwise would have never gotten into the field, and some of the best fiction in recent history has been published on the internet.

Three problems arose. 1. Since the stories could be reposted anonymously, you had a bunch of stolen work showing up all over the place and nobody knows what the fuck belongs to whoever. 2. Edgelording. 3. Actual lunatics who suffered some kind of psychotic break and started thinking this shit was real, like those two girls who stabbed the shit out of a friend to summon slenderman.

I recall having to explain that fucking madness to older people since I had used the term maybe once in conversation and then they started wondering if I was part of some cult when some toddler got shredded in the woods.
 
Internet horror fiction seems to be advancing more in the audio-visual front in the form of ARGs than it is through text. I only wish we could get something like the Dionaea House back in the day, which very much used the medium of the internet to its advantage to tell a story through text.
 
Meowthkip said:
Internet horror fiction seems to be advancing more in the audio-visual front in the form of ARGs than it is through text. I only wish we could get something like the Dionaea House back in the day, which very much used the medium of the internet to its advantage to tell a story through text.
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I think Year Zero was probably the original Creepypasta, let alone how it was the original ARG. I see a ton of Year Zero influence in the older Creepypastas. I'm not even a big Nine Inch Nails fan either, but Trent Reznor invented the most ingenious marketing campaign ever and both ARGs and Creepypasta are its exceptional bastard children.
 
Meowthkip said:
Internet horror fiction seems to be advancing more in the audio-visual front in the form of ARGs than it is through text. I only wish we could get something like the Dionaea House back in the day, which very much used the medium of the internet to its advantage to tell a story through text.
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Woah a staticy video that has a hexadecimal number string that spells out “I am dead”. I’ve never found args scary though as format makes the stories often nonsensical and overwrought along with just being a pain to find out.
 
Cool kitties club said:
Woah a staticy video that has a hexadecimal number string that spells out “I am dead”. I’ve never found args scary though as format makes the stories often nonsensical and overwrought along with just being a pain to find out.
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They are also absolutely not future-proof, as changes in things like webpage code and text formatting makes some of them really difficult to dig up even when using archival tools and dicking around with the element finder. There are a bunch of classic ARGs that are essentially unreadable now unless you have legacy software and the requisite autistic patience to sift through the details and reassemble it properly.
 
Cool kitties club said:
Woah a staticy video that has a hexadecimal number string that spells out “I am dead”. I’ve never found args scary though as format makes the stories often nonsensical and overwrought along with just being a pain to find out.
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Those ARGs are a dime a dozen. There's some really good ones that are a lot more intricate and interesting. Unfortunately, a lot of the really good ones don't seem to reach a satisfying conclusion.

But I have more admiration for somebody making a crappy ARG more than I will for somebody writing crappypasta.
 
Meowthkip said:
Those ARGs are a dime a dozen. There's some really good ones that are a lot more intricate and interesting. Unfortunately, a lot of the really good ones don't seem to reach a satisfying conclusion.

But I have more admiration for somebody making a crappy ARG more than I will for somebody writing crappypasta.
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Crappypastas are atleast funny to read though crappy args are just dull.
 
Cool kitties club said:
Crappypastas are atleast funny to read though crappy args are just dull.
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Every ARG I've run across now a days has ended with, and it was a demon all a long in the tapes grrrrrrrrrrrr. There are still a few good creepypastas out there, usually ones that haven't been found yet.
 
Locomotive Derangement said:
I think Year Zero was probably the original Creepypasta, let alone how it was the original ARG. I see a ton of Year Zero influence in the older Creepypastas. I'm not even a big Nine Inch Nails fan either, but Trent Reznor invented the most ingenious marketing campaign ever and both ARGs and Creepypasta are its exceptional bastard children.
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all of this is correct. Some of the YZ stuff was fucking scary, too, especially the Star Room recordings and the Red Horse Vector shit.
 
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