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It's weird, but I think Disney based creepypastas are some of my favorite. The video of suicide mouse is just so god damn unnerving, just the way Mickey slowly goes from looking depressed to absolutely manic walking down an empty street with the off key piano music just makes me feel so creeped out. And then there's abandoned by Disney which is actually based on a real Disney resort that was suddenly closed down without an explanation. Maybe I'm just so creeped out by it all because I'm a big Mickey Mouse fan, I don't know.
 
The Disney creepypastas work better than the other media-based ones because there were already a lot of weird urban legends about Walt Disney and the theme parks, so they seem more plausible and less like some kid writing fanfiction.
 
The scariness of creepypastas is very subjective. It depends on your personal fears, interests, life experience, etc. As for me, gamepastas and lost episode pastas don't scare me at all. Pastas involving psychological horror and creatures fascinate me. The game Five Nights at Freddy's initially gave me the jibblies because of its atmosphere. What I can definitely say terrifies me are sociopathic, unstoppable murderers. For instance Johan Liebert from the anime/manga Monster scares the shit out of me, even years after watching the anime. I watched 11 episodes before I went NOPE.
 
ASoulMan said:
Video game scarynoodles are so predictable. It's always some haunted copy of -insert video game here- that contains HYP3R R3@L15T1C BL00D (which would be impossible for any game), reversed, distorted music, and the main character is some messed up version of the original. They're basically ROM hacks.
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Remember how in one of Retsupurae's creepypasta videos they had that guessing game?

"Three guesses on what colour the sky was."
"Red?"
"Um, more specific?"
"Blood red?"
"The sky was blood red!"


Speaking of, one of the pastas in those videos had a brilliant bit of anti-logic.
Like how the author made the connection of "Reswob" and "Reznor" which turned out to be correct...
Even though it was explicitly said the games weren't going with backwards names but that the author chose to
 
MayMay said:
Remember how in one of Retsupurae's creepypasta videos they had that guessing game?

"Three guesses on what colour the sky was."
"Red?"
"Um, more specific?"
"Blood red?"
"The sky was blood red!"


Speaking of, one of the pastas in those videos had a brilliant bit of anti-logic.
Like how the author made the connection of "Reswob" and "Reznor" which turned out to be correct...
Even though it was explicitly said the games weren't going with backwards names but that the author chose to
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I love Retsu. The day they did Sonic.exe I was so thrilled. I thought I was the only one who hated it until then.
 
ASoulMan said:
Video game scarynoodles are so predictable. It's always some haunted copy of -insert video game here- that contains HYP3R R3@L15T1C BL00D (which would be impossible for any game), reversed, distorted music, and the main character is some messed up version of the original. They're basically ROM hacks.
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I never understood the "hyper-realistic" thing: is it more realistic than realistic?
Anyway, here's a couple I like:
 
Hyperrealism is a specific art style that's basically realism, but even more so. If you've ever seen a drawing that you've mistaken for a photograph at first, you've seen hyperrealism.
 
Well since we are swappin creepypastas we like, as I believe "abandoned by disney" (and its sequel "room zero") have been mentioned, here is one which is less well known but still one I enjoy a lot

 
If I could chime in about something rather unimportant, I really wish more aspiring creepypasta writers (and aspiring writers in general) would take an introductory news writing class. I see a lot of creepypasta that include mock news articles, and as someone who's written and edited for several local papers, it just amazes me how inaccurate they are. I know, minor detail, but I even see this kind of thing in professionally published fiction from bestselling authors. Stuff that would get you a failing grade in a basic journalism course. I myself have zero interest in becoming a professional journalist (much prefer creative writing and copy editing), but I cannot tell you how much my experience with these papers has improved my writing. A lot of people don't seem to realize that journalism has its own strict writing guidelines, and even including words like "murdered" and "tragic" in a standard news article can get your ass sued for libel. Sorry for the TL;DR. Just a major pet peeve of mine, and it seems to be especially prevalent in creepypasta, due to their nature.
 
To me, the best pastas are the ones that are really vague, ones that make you ask questions. Like just not knowing everything behind the story freaks me out way more than the ones that go into great detail. Like having your mind fill in the blanks just brings out this weird subconscious fear. Like it makes your brain work itself into being afraid by thinking of things in ways you probably wouldn't.
For example, I honestly think Jeff the killer would be much much more terrifying if he were just some horribly scarred kid who mysteriously showed up into people's houses. While I guess it might weaken it a bit, it would make you wonder how he was disfigured, why he's such a violent person. It'd raise all sorts of questions and make people think, it'd allow them to pretty much twist him into whatever they find scary.
 
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More creepy stories I enjoy. I like Junji Ito's manga stories. He's the famed author of "The Enigma of Amigara Fault." He has detailed and unsettling artwork of body horror. My favorite stories of his are "The Long Dream" and his manga rendition of the original Frankenstein story.
 
My personal take on it - some of the creepypastas are legit disturbing, like Squidward's Suicide, The Russian Sleep Experiment, Abandoned By Disney, and some creepypasta I can't find.* But a lot of them are bound to be mediocre and cliched - its like literature in general. And like the rest of literature, it'll attract its' share of um... interesting fans.

*actual spoilers ahead:
It's this one where this guy is in an apartment in a virtual reality and the notion dawns on him, but he's really in an insane asylum or something. Over the course of the story he becomes more isolated and paranoid.
 
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Mourning Dove said:
I found this image in the horror images folder on my computer.

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I find it fitting in this discussion about fangirls fapping to characters they really shouldn't.

EDIT: I probably found that picture either here or here. Both are tumblr pages, so beware.
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Every time I return to this thread, I find more disturbing shit - but not in the good way :cryblood:.

Given this seems to be discussion on pastas themselves, and not content creators I must apologise but I still wanted to draw attention to one of my favorite narrating channels since I don't really have much lolworthy stuff. Pretty much everything uploaded here is extremely polished and professional, and they really cherrypick the works they choose to feature.

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

They also have a pretty crazy lineup of guest presenters; Tay Zonday reading "Mr Leaves"; Patrick Rothfuss reading "August Heat" or Markipiler reading "The Scarecrow Corpse" - to name a few who might be recognizable to your guys. This particular channel has received a lot of negative attention from some of the other people in this short horror narration gig, even though all my dealings with them have been friendly and professional.

Judge Holden said:
Well since we are swappin creepypastas we like, as I believe "abandoned by disney" (and its sequel "room zero") have been mentioned, here is one which is less well known but still one I enjoy a lot

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sluDd_dVAaYhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=M1fN1oqSB-8https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPKOlURSfVchttps://youtube.com/watch?v=i8vzt4hmgHg
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I really liked this series too. I really look up to the girl who wrote this, too. She's a brilliant artist and cosplayer also.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
My personal take on it - some of the creepypastas are legit disturbing, like Squidward's Suicide, The Russian Sleep Experiment, Abandoned By Disney, and some creepypasta I can't find.* But a lot of them are bound to be mediocre and cliched - its like literature in general. And like the rest of literature, it'll attract its' share of um... interesting fans.

*actual spoilers ahead:
It's this one where this guy is in an apartment in a virtual reality and the notion dawns on him, but he's really in an insane asylum or something. Over the course of the story he becomes more isolated and paranoid.
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That would be Psychosis. To this day I'm not sure what the hell happened in the end and I love it.

Have some "No Through Road", technically a video, and NOPE for the rest of your evenings:


I think we've gotten far too off-topic so does anyone know another notorious creepypasta author?
 
John Titor said:
I think we've gotten far too off-topic so does anyone know another notorious creepypasta author?
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Here, I remember one creepypasta author. I don't remember their name, but they wrote this: http://trollpasta.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_Rose_Adventure_DX, and they got really pissed when the story was moved to the trollpasta wiki for essentially being wish fulfillment. The page where that story is hosted used to detail what that author did when their story was moved to the trollpasta wiki, but that information has now been removed. In fact, there used to be a lot of pages detailing creepypasta drama(Such as one where Jane the Killer's creator gets pissed off when someone created a furry version of her), but they've now been all removed.
 
We have gone off-topic, but I need to add one last thing:
Mourning Dove said:
More creepy stories I enjoy. I like Junji Ito's manga stories. He's the famed author of "The Enigma of Amigara Fault." He has detailed and unsettling artwork of body horror. My favorite stories of his are "The Long Dream" and his manga rendition of the original Frankenstein story.
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YES, Junji Ito is so damn good. Nothing beats asian horror; creepypasta writers should really take note. Masaaki Nakayama's Fuan no Tane is a must-read. Short, disturbing stories with cliffhanger endings = dabes.
 
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To everyone who guessed "Psychosis," that's it - thanks!

Also, I guess the suicide one isn't _that_ great, but still, I found it to be legit disturbing. What makes for a good creepy story is where it's subtle, more realistic, and not really in your face "AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT" type events.

Surfing around on the wiki, you can find a lot of odd ones that really don't succeed in being creepy. There's one where a player falls in love with Gardevoir and then the Gardevoir comes alive in a very "yandere"* way, for example.

If there's people out there who take this stuff as srs business, I wouldn't be surprised.
*I _think_ that's the term for a girlfriend who's psychotically obsessed over you.
 
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