Creepypastas

A Creepypasta is a type of horror story that is posted on the internet made to tell an urban legend (or a pseudo-urban legend) that involves scary and supernatural events that never actually happened. This genre was used to be very popular in its heyday in the late 2000s to mid-2010s but after serious real-life accidents and defections due to the classic Creepypasta stories being exposed for their flaws. Nowadays, they become nothing but a joke, along treating the modern Creepypasta stories as undeniably fictional stories as a consequence, since after the mid-2010s.

Precursors/Proto-Creepypastas (pre-internet – late 2000s)

 * 1) Ong's Hat
 * 2) Polybius
 * 3) Zalgo
 * 4) SCP-173 and later SCP Foundation indie franchise

Classic Creepypastas (late 2000s – mid 2010s)

 * 1) Ben Drowned
 * 2) Squidward's Suicide (the most notable one)
 * 3) Laughing Jack
 * 4) Bart is Dead
 * 5) Sonic.EXE
 * 6) * Sonic.EXE round 2
 * 7) Tails Doll
 * 8) Lavender Town Syndrome
 * 9) Jeff the Killer (original)
 * 10) Slender Man
 * 11) Suicidemouse.avi
 * 12) Username 666
 * 13) NES Godzilla Creepypasta (which is actually really good, and worth checking out, unlike the rest)
 * 14) Eyeless Jack
 * 15) Abandoned by Disney
 * 16) The Russian Sleep Experiment
 * 17) Max & Ruby 004
 * 18) Jane the Killer
 * 19) Smile Dog
 * 20) Herobrine
 * 21) Possessed Naruto
 * 22) Sally.EXE
 * 23) MARIO
 * 24) Sally (Play With Me)

Modern Creepypastas (mid 2010s – present)

 * 1) Wario Apparition
 * 2) Momo
 * 3) Fake Anti-Piracy Screen
 * 4) Cartoon Cat
 * 5) Nina The Killer
 * 6) RTX Turned On (Super Mario 64 Creepypasta Video)
 * 7) Jeff the Killer (remake)
 * 8) Local 58
 * 9) Petscop
 * 10) Mandela Catalogue
 * 11) The Backrooms

Why They (Intentionally and/or Mostly) Are Anything But Creepy
Note: While some are meant to be creepy, some of them are possibly made as a joke (aka Trollpasta).
 * 1) The biggest problem of this genre, its follower fanbase, as originally creepypastas were meant for teen or young adult-specific horror/urban legend literary genre fans, instead due to the classic and modern Creepypastas are tended to have young or cartoon(-like) characters in these stories, this has developed a younger (6-14 years old of range) following, which has since spawned over hundreds to two thousand of stories, that is between mediocre to poorly written creepypasta stories. As well as other problems mentioned below this list, of bad examples.
 * 2) They are made just to try to be scary but fail miserably. People create them just to get attention. They're basically saying "Hey guys! Look how dark and edgy I can be!"
 * 3) Several of them barely qualify as stories, as they lack any real plot, lore, or message, and are nothing but pure shock value.
 * 4) Extremely poor grasp of the source material, depending on what the story is based on. Examples include: Suicidemouse.avi and Bart is Dead. The stories do not accurately portray what the series featured is about. The characters featured in many stories act very out of character.
 * 5) Overuse of extreme blood and gore, disturbing imagery, and religious or satanic references (possession, demons, and 666). Some are also downright exploitative like Sally (Play with Me).
 * 6) The monster characters are designed to be scary but end up as laughable in which they feel edgier with designs such as red eyes or a black void in the eyeholes, sharp teeth, and menacing smile with blood all over, and a red or black filtered background accompanying them.
 * 7) They try very hard to be scary only to end up failing miserably and feel like a horrible dark fanfiction. In fact, the majorly of all Creepypastas are basically utterly joyless fanfictions!
 * 8) They can ruin your childhood and anything good in the world because that was clearly the only reason a lot of them were made.
 * 9) They are mainly made to piss off fans of the source material just for fun.
 * 10) Lack of evidence and proof in a lot of them.
 * 11) For video game creepypastas, the creators usually put fake VHS filters, hack the game, change the game's code, claim that they work for the game developers, animate it, or use Photoshop.
 * 12) For the more dark creepypastas/theorypastas that are using cartoon or cartoonish-base video games as their basis, are usually keep repeating the same three "dark" theories without any new variations or twists like normal fan theories/urban legends would, which are usually the main character(s), like Ash's, Finn's Coma, or Anglica is insane theories being the notable offenders, is being dead all along, being in a coma state, or being mentally ill and everyone else that the main character meets is non-existent, with some or none backing itself up.
 * 13) The creators who make the stories are usually rude to people online and claim that they are telling the truth. They also try to be anonymous just to be scary.
 * 14) The stories claim that they are real but they're actually clickbait. What's worse is that many are completely unbelievable, like how in Eyeless Jack, the MC loses a kidney while asleep, even though realistically, he'd wake up screaming in pain.
 * 15) The characters in most stories act like total idiots:
 * 16) * For example, in Jeff the Killer, Randy, Troy and Keith are bullies who do nothing but pick on kids around the neighborhood, though this is most likely intentional.
 * 17) Usage of horror cliches that make the stories very predictable such as the plot elements being linked to religion or dead person, destroying scary object but it comes back, creepy stares directed at the protagonist, distorted imagery or music, the item having a curse or tragic backstory behind it.
 * 18) There's even a blatant ripoff of It called "the real Pennywise". First off, the original book is a beloved classic and it was only made to capitalize on the remake movies, and secondly, Pennywise is literally explained in the original book itself, which makes the story a massive middle finger to Stephen King, one of the most well known horror novels of all time, and horror literature itself.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The majorly of these stories can be considered "so bad, it's good".
 * 2) There are some good or decent creepypastas that can actually have genuine plots, lore, and morals, such as Slender Man, Zalgo, Cartoon Cat, Bead Dice Sky, Autopilot, Atuk, Baby Shower, The Wanderer, The Lion King Sega Game, The Puppeteer, Ben's Drowned, Polybius, Lavender Town Syndrome, Killswitch, Smile Dog, Pokemon Strangled Red, Persuaded, The Russian Sleep Experiments, the remake of Jeff the Killer (vastly superior to the original), Local 58, and Mandela Catalogue. As to name several creepypasta stories, that can work as a believable urban myth.
 * 3) * Some creepypastas actually could have some interesting backstories that could make the viewer think if the story is real or not. For example, it is believed that the "Russian Sleep Experiment" was a real thing taking place after World War 2. Which is fairly interesting.
 * 4) ** Another great example is the Lavender Town Syndrome which even to this day, many people think is true, especially considering that a similar incident happened in real life with an episode from the Pokémon anime called Dennō Senshi Porygon .
 * 5) * The Jeff the Killer remake pretty much started over from the ground up, turning Jeff from a stereotypical psycho into someone who's got some good parts, and certain morals, and is turned that way through constant abuse and hatred rather than just a couple incidents, as well as having a personal aspect to his actions rather than just killing indiscriminately, making his story actually quite sad and bizarrely believable.
 * 6) "NES Godzilla Creepypasta" is surprisingly well-made since the creepypasta actually uses real pixelated art that actually looks like it came from the game itself. In particular, it also replicates "screenshots" the narrator took while playing the game, giving off a sense of realism. RED is actually really scary, and is the perfect villain for this type of story, making it one of the better ones. In fact, you can listen to the reading of this pasta, thanks to the help of Goji73.
 * 7) * NES Godzilla Creepypasta currently has an upcoming sequel titled "NES Godzilla Replay".

Trivia

 * Squidward's Suicide was directly referenced in Several official SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. Most notably in the episode "Spongebob and Squidward in Randomland" where Red Mist Squidward's Face can be seen in a portal to Squidward's bedroom. The reference was later removed in later airings.
 * The Tails Doll creepypasta has been parodied by Sega from time to time.

Videos
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Notable Creepypastas
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