Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5564808-20131226192356/@comment-24077689-20140114195900

Creepypasta seems more defined by the nature of the medium than by those guides. The mark of any good horror story is getting the reader immersed in that universe, to depict something that the reader could believe in. Creepypasta has more or less always been horror stories spread and copypasta'd across the net. Certainly we see things on /x/ and Something Awful that were spread with the sole intent of being a "believable phenomenon" such as The Grifter but overall early creepypasta is just bad horror stories.

And we're here talking about the quality, so lets talk about that. It's not just vocabulary and grammar we're also talking about development. Lets face it, early examples of creepypasta are often filled with holes and the development of plot and character is mediocre at best. A style can evolve.

Which Creepypasta can be described as such. A style of a story, like noir is a style unto itself. It's not a genre, it's a style, a mode of storytelling.