User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/Top 10 Overrated Creepypastas/@comment-26284625-20150409190602

Tbh, Slenderman has never actually frightened me. I remember the other kids in highschool talking about how creepy it was, and cracking jokes about it. When I finally decided to see it for myself I was... unimpressed. I was reluctant at first because this was before I had really gotten into the horror genre at all, and was easily bothered by such things (I'm still bothered, but I actually enjoy and embrace it now, lol) When I read Slenderman, I mean, the concept is kind of frightening if you really think about it, but the presentation made it feel like more of a faraway thing, one that could have no impact on my life, so I kind of just shrugged my shoulders, said "well, that's weird then," and moved on, lol.

NPfNP was, honestly, more sickening than frightening. I became nauseous at the thought of what was supposedly going on, but it failed to produce an actual chill factor.

I do want to say this for BEN though... while yes, it is overly long and has a good deal of holes in it, it actually was, apart from my looking into Slenderman, my first introduction to Creepypasta. I read that whole thing from my lunch break into the evening, and was drawn in enough that, when I came home alone, my cat nearly scared the living crap out of me just walking around our island counter. Of course, I always thought the Link statue was incredibly creepy before that. Majora's Mask was, at the time, my favorite video game, and still ranks in the top, so it was only natural that, if I were going to randomly find a creepypasta during a web search, it would end up being BEN.

That being said, just because something was your "introduction" doesn't mean it was the greatest story ever. There's also the matter that, what scares one person, may not scare another and vice-versa. I'll agree though, plot-holes, flat characters and cliches have the potential ruin any story.

That being said, I'm left with just one question...

Why... do I type such long comments?