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Cyanwrites wrote: snip I actually think that stories like Squidward's Suicide and Ben Drowned aren't that bad. A lot of people dislike them for being cliche, but that doesn't make much sense. Those pastas are older than cliches.

But I don't agree with your analogy of flintlock pistols. The thing is, creepypasta is such a new thing that it's hard to put it into perspective. I believe that creepypastas have been around for about ten years. Handguns have been around for about 500 years. I doubt that in museums are the very first models, probably because they were too crap to be preserved. History forgot them.

In the current age of the internet, though, that is impossible. Everything online is preserved. In the future, the internet will remember us as the guys who liked to read Dead Bart and what not, because we chose to preserve those pastas over other ones.

What I want to say is, I find it peculiar that we have an historical archive for stories written a handful of years ago.