Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31532017-20161112104144/@comment-2240864-20170101125630

Squidmanescape wrote: Ted the Caver was written in 2001, and the Slender Man was created in 2009. Even if there is something older than Ted the Caver that I forgot about, it is not the Slender Man.

Yeah, but Ted the Caver was written before the notion of copypasta, let alone creepypasta. To really understand the origins of creepypasta, you'd need to find out when the term copypasta came about because it definitively predates the notion of the genre.