Will creepypastas return?
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Skinwalker greentexts were the next evolution. I wonder what comes next.
No everyone lost creativity and skinwalker/goatman became a fad.
God this
Every skinwalker story ever :
>in wilderness
>see unexplained animal or person that is strange
>later find out it’s likely skin walker
With an occasional
>my friend showed up but he acted obviously weird but I brushed it off
>friend later said he never showed up
>SO WHO WAS FRIEND
As a r/nosleep contributor (acclaimed) who’s had a creepy pasta YouTuber narrate my shit, frick skin walkers, and frick the back rooms (what it’s turned into).
I want to go back so bad anons
You forgot about the coppery smell of rotten blood.
There was a pretty decent one I remember about a group hiking. It was more subtle and relied more on social assumptions like extra travelers in the group assumed to be the friend of someone else.
I miss the very first threads about the Backrooms. It got really cancer when they started added monsters and other shit ocs.
FNF zoomies ruin everything.
you can't sustain a mystery forever, "it has already heard you" in the original image pretty much guaranteed where it was headed
I hate the fake deer skull wendigo too. Super fricking lame.
They are boring as frick. Once you've read a couple, you've read them all. I kind of miss the variety with creepypastas and when we created/popularized at least a dozen of them on this site. Last relevant one we made was the backrooms.
this board isnt even creative enough to LARP well, much less write a good story
creepypastas became shitty and lame as they evolved from a few short paragraph length posts into full on ARG's, multi chapter subreddit posts, and eventually text to speech youtube videos
and retvrn to greatness would have to come from some spark of minimalist originality; some word smith who understands that creepiness is found more often in less than more
they will never come back for a variety of reasons that could be summed up as: the world is fricking trash now
a good creepypasta would never take off today
Kinda funny how so many entertainment types and mediums have become oversimplified to appeal to wider audiences, except for the one where simplification would actually be helpful
This.
I remember back when I watched Creepypastas on Youtube and most were 5-15 minutes long.
Now I look after the same ones and they are 30-60 minutes long.
Here's my 10 minutes. Show yours.
The pen stared at me from the barren oaken table, the bright sheen of the cheap glossy varnish adding weight to its malevolent derision of my soul. Beside it, the blank paper did nothing to assuage my self loathing. My muse had long since left me, making way for all the agonies and torments of a life without escape. No more from my mind sprang great tales of kings and princes, fables of noble adventures in the forest, stories of the most epic quests nor the most sordid affairs. I was as barren as the soulless husk of the house I called my own. Neutral coloured walls with inoffensive carpets, clean and new flat pack furniture decorated inconsistently with trinkets and reminders of a life long forgotten. “Is this really it?” I thought, “do I simply exist alone, waking each day to pass the time until the next, occupying space for the sake of existence?”
My muse had left me, and for it all I had embraced modernity. The schedules, the pretence, the vacuity of the material. Unsteadily, I poured a silken measure of brandy. As the light outside my unopened curtains faded that unnatural glare remained, that unnatural glare above my head, that unnatural glare on the cheap side table, that unnatural glare from the doorway to the kitchen. Sirens wailed somewhere in the distance, speeding closer, closer until the bright blue light penetrated my abode. “How intrusive,” I thought, “unnatural.”
“Rail! Rail!” I screamed. “Rail against this existence, this purposeless existence, oh curse your hollow facade, your emptiness, your persistence!” In truth I was talking to no-one. My muse had left me. Righteous indignation flowed free in my words, in my thoughts, in my belly. My muse had left me. In anger the pen was drawn, and a title came. On to the now thoroughly alcohol soaked paper I scribbled, a title, it came to me, “A Boring Dystopia.”
kinda meta
It's what my muse came up with.
really wish we could get shit like marble hornets and everymanhybrid again
No, the average user is much dumber and shittier by several orders of magnitude. Also most of the good ones later ended up being people who adopted a name to write other stories with or were actually /r/nosleep stories actually and not pastas.
Off the top of my head the only decent ones with an anonymous writer are Jvk1166z.esp and Dogs Don't Talk
This Dogs Don't Talk is it, this was completely perverse and dark.
Why did you think this was good at all?
It's not scary just horrible.
Creepypastas give that "don't look behind you" feeling/don't go outside at night feeling.
Sorry MrCreepypasta I forgot you get to say what is or isn't a real creepypasta
Dude this was like reading a really fricked up grotesque, furry porno.
It was worse than rape.
Why aren't you seeing how this isn't good it's just evil and sick?
What's the matter? Horror no good when it's actually horror?
I don't think you know what horror is.
That story was base, it never evoked fear.
Only revulsion which is easy to play upon.
I think you don't, moron.
he's actually right, just being disgusting and having an air of menace doesn't a good horror make
>moving the goalposts
He said it's not horror at all. You're now qualifying as not "good horror"
I didn't mean to upset you guys, I was being insensitive.
It's definitely a creepypasta, like I might go on creepypasta.wikia, hit random article and end up reading "Dogs Don't Speak" and it's definitely a horror story, it's memorable, good OC.
Personally I just didn't like it as a creepypasta.
The best creepypastas in my opinion are ones that make me so scared at 3 am that I have my back against the wall and all the lights on and I can't do anything because that creepypasta was so fricking scary.
>The best creepypastas in my opinion are ones that make me so scared at 3 am that I have my back against the wall and all the lights on and I can't do anything because that creepypasta was so fricking scary.
What creepypasta does that?
Congratulations, your post is officially the dumbest fricking thing on all of /x/. You sir are mentally moronic.
Dumb piece of dog shit homosexual
I almost cried when the dog died and there was no happy ending.
Frick that story.
The circumstances that created creepypasta no longer exist. It was the early days of broadband where lots of younger people had easy access and loading images or big threads like we have here could be done smoothly but video was still kind of a crappy and slow experience, and what video content did exist was mostly just weird skits or a train crashing or something equally dumb instead of the highly produced content that's the norm now. Add to this that the internet wasn't really seen as something for commerce at the level of a regular home user, obviously other sectors and userbases were always 100% that but there wasn't this idea that you'd become a famous "content creator" like we have now, that was FAR into the future in the early 00s and was even seen as a joke to the extent that people sold shirts saying "I'm famous on the internet". This is also the era of flash cartoons and games, where people really would put in commendable amounts of effort to make things that the default was allowing free access with no expectation of anything back except maybe some recognition if you were extremely good. It was always viewed as something for shut ins with "too much time on their hands" and kids/teens, not the big business it is today.
So, creepypastas arose out of this environment where making your own fun was the default, and everyone felt free to write whatever weird or gross shit and take risks. Now that the track into becoming a creative professional is practically tied to your "portfolio" that you post online creative people just aren't going to put in the time or effort to write something for the amusement of a few buttholes on here when that could be better spent elsewhere, and while it's unlikely for this to actually matter I think there's a strong chilling effect now that your online presence is so tied to your professional life, and there isn't that free "nobody will ever see this anyway" vibe there was back then.
creepypastas started in like 2009 the frick are you on about "early days of broadband" kek
ted the caver is from 1998
creative professionals do not exist
This system is about to be purged
I hope not
No, the world has become too cynical and serious. The magic is gone.
We have just grown up, Anon.
We became too cynical and serious.
I wish I could go back to the way I was.
There are too many phone posters for good OC to be as common as it was
ANYTHING that gets posted is attacked, not very conducive to creativity.
Hopefully not
Tbh op's pic kinda showcases the problem with creepypasta
>Will creepypastas return?
2 more weeks
???
I unironically actively believe that slender man is trying to kill me
I did too. I was 9 years old though
I hope not. I don't want campfire stories, I want real shit that happened to real people.
Well, there’s this series. They’re basically /x/ creepypastas in novel form. I think they’re more known on EerieWeb than here though.
Are you new? Almost every single notable creepypasta series has roots here; including SCP. This place is literally the home of creepypastas and has been for ages.
I think he’s talking about Call of the Crocodile.
The womb of creepypastas is more accurate, as none live here anymore
I would rather have Asami Yamazaki return, she is a brilliant character who we really needed to see more of. She is much more worthy of a return than any creepy pasta trash
brainlet
How does that make me a brainlet?
You didn't watch the movie or you didn't understand it. Typical phoneposting zoomer.
I have watched it many times and I understand very well. I am not a zoomer (thankfully). Would you mind telling me how I have not understood the film? Because I think I have a pretty good understanding of the character of Asami Yamazaki.
1. she's fricking dead
2. the entire point of her story is that she fricking dies
1. She only broke her neck and countless characters have recovered from that.
2. If we can bring back Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Cucky, Ghostface, Karl the Butcher shitter and about a thousand other generic serial killers after they have been put through much worse then why not Asami Yamazaki?
3. This was really a weak way to kill such a great character by having Aoyama’s Dino obsessed brat push her down the stairs. Asami deserved better than that.
4. There is so much more that could be done with her character in general.
You got filtered
Filtered? Explain
What if the schizo babble we witnessed were the results of people who got scared by traditional creepypasta?
And so the cycle continues
why return? the "design" of it may change over time, but creative non-fiction storytelling was always a thing. at it always will be. but sure, the creators will adjust their medium of choice in order of their targeted audience.
>guys I'm sad we don't have agrarian tribal societies anymore 🙁
>um so? societies have always existed, you can just live in a post-industrial shithole society now lol
more like:
>19 reasons why agrarian tribal societies where the best and 16 reasons why they were replaced
and also
>like this comment if u gave ur shit to keep agrarian tribal societies alive #neverforget
idk anon.. you're not supposed to be sad about something which is in your control.
The other night I went to take out the trash and I thought I saw a guy in a white hoodie running backwards surprisingly fast and my first thought was that it sounded like some shitty creepypasta/SCP bullshit. It was probably a guy running forwards, but I saw it at a stupid angle and from far enough away that I just thought he was running backwards.
No. Most of the "golden age" creepypastas are poorly written and in retrospect not very spooky.
The new ones are soulless and predictable.
My bet is ARGs and nosleep stuff will likely reign supreme in the long end.
The frick is Uboa doing there?