Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31736782-20170414095009

So I've not really been involved with the whole creepypasta thing all that long (I mean I've read the classics because they're such a big part of internet culture and a few others because I am a horror fan, but after seeing some memes in a facebook group I got curious and started trying to understand the phenomenon) but like one thing I've noticed is a lot of young women getting *ahem* very... attached to some of the better known male characters, and in many cases drawing them in quite romanticized fashion.

And like... teenage girls gonna teenage girl, but like... what I'm curious about I guess is, how did they end up here? Like back in my day, of course we prettied up male characters who were described as unattractive for dubious purposes (and by dubious purposes I mean obscene fanfiction) but like... Snape was played by the fairly attractive Alan Rickman, and wasn't y' know... literally a monster and there were other things to attract a young woman interested in that sort of thing to that particular fandom, whereas with the creepypasta fandom... I'm not really seeing how the whole thing started?

When did it become a thing? 