Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-36627132-20190412175855

This is a continuation of this thread because it was going off topic.

ArmadillooftheAges wrote:. Describing it as an art form that's evolving, to me, is looking at it in a more positive way.

I personally feel that calling it an evolving art form is pretty much admitting that it isn't what it used to be, and straying more and more as time goes on.

ArmadillooftheAges wrote: That's not necessarily a bad thing, but for old folks like Ned, Skelly, and myself, it kind of kills what we originally loved about them. If you ask me, Creepypasta moving from user-generated text stories on /x/ in the mid-to-late 2000s to Hollywood movies with million-dollar budgets is not really "evolving"; it's more like falling into the hands of corporate executives who want to make a quick buck. So I guess "popularity" would be a better word than evolving.

I agree. To those of us who were around during its earliest years Creepypasta bares very little resemblance to what made us fall in love with it. As you said we went from internet urban legends to corporation.

ArmadillooftheAges wrote:.

I suppose there exists an argument that, yeah, it's evolving because nowadays most pastas aren't so shoddily-written and tend to have more developed plots and characters. I guess if you want to consider that evolving then that's fine, but when I read Pastas back in the day, it wasn't so much to read an intricate piece of horror literature or like something I'd read in an actual novel. It was to read something cheap, short, and crude but really fun.

I'm going to pretty much repeat you here and say this.

I think this is where the problem lies. In a few short years we went from crudely written short stories to near novel quality stories with more detail than necessary. What was so great about Creepypasta was that most of them were short enough to finish reading within a few minutes, they went straight to the point, and their crudely written first hand account gave them a sense of realism.

To those of us who were around during its early years Creepypasta doesn't resemble what it used to. At this point it is better to just stick to reading horror novels. 