User blog comment:SOURCECODE01/Cliches/@comment-26054278-20150306001321

1. I really, really hate shock value in pastas that is used not to advance or tell part of the plot, but just in attempt to get some sort of reaction out of the audience. This makes Cry Baby Lane an absolute nightmare and Squidward's Suicide, as well the majority of Lost Episode pastas, rather annoying.

2. As "The Koromo" stated, stupid characters. I get that these characters have to do all these things in your pasta to try to make it "scary", but you can still make them at least kind of smart. The worst offender of this is probably "Sonic.exe" or "Sonic.exe/Round 2". These stories just have these terrible and idiotic characters in them that I really can not stand.

3. "This is a true story."/"You're next." This one is not really as bad as the other two, but they are very annoying. Saying the story is true is absolutely idiotic because we know it is a Creepypasta, and we knew that the story is false (unless, of course, it is about an actual event that we can research). "You're next" is just very poor because as a reader, we know we are not next, and we know that it is just a stupid thing in a story. Stories can be scary without trying to tell us that we are going to die or some nonsense.

Honorable Mention: Hyper-realism. This one is annoying not only because it was incredibly overused and annoying, but also because about 99% of the time, this term never made sense. Hyper-realism refers to painting or sculpture, not forms of animation or video.