User blog comment:Banned In CP/Ramble: What the hell is a Creepypasta anyways?/@comment-4849011-20190202153438

I agree. There are people who think a story must have blood and guts and gore, but that's not what it's about. There's plenty of room here for psychological horror (which I love because that's one of my favorite genres). Shoot, there are even stories with positive endings, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Here's a story. In addition to being on this site, I'm an active member of the Horror tales wiki. Good Tails Doll, the founder, created a contest in which the challenge was to write a scary Tails doll creepypasta, and a visitor to the site griped, "Why are you advocating for a creepypasta, when this isn’t a creepypasta site?" So, yeah, in addition to using an unnecessary comma, this person thought that a creepypasta had to be on a site called Creepypasta. Tails and I both had to explain that a creepypasta was an internet horror story (basically), that there were stories on the site which matched that definition, and that something could be called a creepypasta even if it wasn't on the Creepypasta wiki. I asked the user why they didn't think the site was a creepypasta site and he never answered. The kicker? The guy who complained about the Horror tales wiki having a creepypasta contest is the same guy who comes back here every couple of years to brag about how he's created a new horror wiki which is so much better than everyone else's, and all the other sites will be buried beneath his, and nonny-nonny-boo-boo! The guy makes websites with his own creepypastas, calls them something else (such as "scarypastas" or "anglers") to make himself seem special, and then has the nerve to attack Good Tails Doll for using the term creepypasta to describe creepy stories. He probably considered the use of the term to be a personal insult or something.