Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-30871070-20180608001055/@comment-10502460-20180608030020

I don't think it's against the rules exactly, but you will have a difficult time making a pasta based on Elsagate that will meet quality standards. For one thing, Elsagate is inside baseball to a lot of people, so I don't think many would connect with the story. And in general stories based off real-life web drama don't turn out well.

My advice: don't make it about Elsagate per se. You could try coming up with a fictional Youtube scandal like Elsagate and then have more freedom to make a story people will connect with while not being limited by the actual facts of Elsagate.

Look at this story by Slimebeast. Notice how it's not directly based on any one Youtube scandal, but instead is just inspired by the general dark side of Youtube and video streaming. If you want to make a story about the dark side of Youtube, go for it, but I don't recommend basing it directly off a real scandal or channel.

Here's another story centered around the dark side of Youtube that isn't based on a real event but believably could be: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5j6p8x/a_package_marked_return_to_sender/