User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-5643552-20190304154824/@comment-38454773-20190317185234

Sorry for my late response, everyone. Some stuff got in the way and I didn't have time to respond. I'm glad to see some lively conversation going on here.

If you want my sincere opinion, I don't think Dating Game should be removed. I'll be completely honest, I didn't read it when I was more active earlier in the decade and I just went ahead and read portions of it now. This type of pasta didn't interest me too much then and it still doesn't to this day.

But, reading what I did, all I can say is it reeked with that early 2010s "good pasta" scent.

To put it another way, it wasn't absolutely abysmal. But looking at it through a historical lens, it was actually very well-written and had an "interesting" idea for its time. Yeah, it's clunky and vapid nowadays, but again, look at it through a historical lens. That' should be a critical factor in determining whether these old pastas should remain or not.

I remember a lot of the hubbub surrounding the idea of deleting the original Jeff the Killer Pasta from this website. At the time, I wasn't for or against the idea. I read the original pasta many years ago (I only read it once) and, to be fair, I mainly enjoyed it for that eerie image that was affiliated with it and the "GO TO SLEEP" caption on it. Silly, I know, but hey, it was cool to me.

I scarcely remember anything about Jeff himself other than he killed people. The rewrite did not interest me at all, since I knew it would be cheesy and lead the author who wrote it to be marked as some sort of literary genius who rescued that run-down, thin classic Pasta from the belly of Hades. I recall an old friend of mine reading it and saying they hated how Jeff seemed to be so romanticized in it.

I don't think it's worth the trouble to make an entire thread and make everyone vote as to whether or not Dating Game should remain, though. The way I see it, most of the comments section on it show signs that the pasta's fate is sealed. But the historical relevance of it should protect it. Besides, it's categorized under PoTM, and to be fair, it was one at one point, so to delete it just because everyone wants it to be to would be denying the historicity of the entire category.