soooo i was just thinking about creepypastas, where did they go? i get that they wouldnt scare us or have a effect like they did when we were kids but why dont people like take a picture of a tree and edit it to look demonic or something and it gains a whole fanbase and lore behind it? also i feel like people on the internet were more "dedicated" to things like that back then if that makes sense? but i feel like we should bring them back or something like it
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nowadays people just debunk shit and the fun is over xD let us have FUN
I used to love the shit outta creepypasta from 7-12, it's one of the things that got me into writing. Looking back, I see it kinda along the lines of pulp fiction. Because some stories (to me) still hold up decently, but a lot definitely don't. Every now and then I'll take a trip down memory lane and ones like Jeff the Killer or Ticci Toby just aren't good to me anymore. That, and nobody really reads anymore, not even online, so the medium died down. Short horror stories can be some good ass reads though, so I agree it's not a bad idea to try and bring it back.
Kinda unrelated, I don't know what this story is called anymore, but I remember reading one where a father and son get attacked by a creature out on their land if anyone remembers. It was this pale creature with long bear like hands I think. My memory is really faded, but I remember the ending where the main protagonist is back on his family's land, his father's dead and the thing is still out there in the woods waiting for him. That one, I'd really like to read again if I can ever find it and see if that one holds up, because I remember really liking that one while I still had the video of someone reading it out loud.
Truth is, creepypastas were used as a springboard by loads of aspiring film/TV people or just writers. That video of the girl getting ready in front of the mirror is a good example (AND THE PLOT OF THAT VIDEO IS LITERALLY THE SAME AS US) made by a guy who was studying film, unless I'm mistaken. Creepypastas were scarier because of their imagery and as other ways of putting stuff out there popped up, the trend got forgotten, but it reinvented itself as analog horror
They haven't really gone anywhere, they've just changed names. ARGs and no sleep stories are just the modern equivalent of creepypasta.
@SteadmanSlick This exactly. Today’s ARGs were founded by old internet creepypasta stories. It never died, people just stopped calling it creepypasta.
@SteadmanSlick Exactly, I mean, what exactly are things like Siren Head, Glendale Archives, the Backrooms, and SCP Foundation if not creepypasta? (I actually just discovered a pretty neat one a few weeks ago called 'Weird Birds')
It's weird, because creepypasta still feels like a 'new gen' thing to me (maybe because it's so youth-driven), guess I'm just old now.
I mean they're still kinda there but like anything, they've just evolved and changed over time. You can still pretty easily find things like ARG's and whatnot but I guess they're just not gonna have the same effect as they did when we were all kids and much more impressionable.
i am thinking that maybe the lack of recent creepypasta have to deal with the online culture shift when it comes to the new generation of kids. maybe since social media in recent times shifted to prioritizing a speedy algorithm and quickly jumping to the next content to the next, that hindered the attention span kids have to really get curious about reading written horror or writing horror themselves. i feel like creepypasta are just too slow for the modern internet, hence it evolved into horror games for kids/with child-like elements like mascot horror for kids to watch and into args & "unfiction" for older teens & younger adults (which sometimes branches off older written creepypasta)
the written (perhaps with edited photos attached), passed-around, horror for "mature" kids by them that represents creepypasta derived from a time fourms and emails were more popular and continued just when they were slowly fading out. the social media industry in recent times have shifted to prioritizing videos (mainly short-form content), which also probably influenced kids' lack of interest in creepypastas in its most notable, recognizable written form. plus, is probably why fourms like reddit (on r/nosleep or r/TalesFromTheCreeps) is a huge host for modern creepypasta (for well, adults mostly i think).
I guess as people started to lose faith in religion and became more technologically advanced, scary stories were no longer necessary. Because religious people tend to believe in these kinds of creatures more. People used to gather around a fire (or in similar settings) and tell each other scary stories. And apparently, they used to do this to test soldiers' courage. We don't need that anymore.
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