User:DryLuna

What is a Creepypasta?

A creepypasta isn’t a person, but merely a story written by a person, designed to scare nameless people. A creeypasta’s intention is to scare, but it is truly part of someone’s imagination. A creepypasta is a story, just a story with a complex, tense plot. It is written to frighten, but we, the readers, give it the power to scare. If only we looked at it in the eye like it looks at us in the guts and told it ‘no’, then it’s only purpose would be destroyed, and you would be the hero, and the story would be defeated.

Some people enjoy it, like you and me. Some people are brave, and some are not. And what we are does not limit us from doing things; it does not hold us back. I can say to you that, though I will not stand to hear someone call me a coward, I am not the bravest person. I, like the writers of the creepypastas, can be scared. And to show that, even though I get scared, I am not a coward, I am not the loser of the fight. So, instead, I frighten others, in turn for laughing at them. Because I made their fear. I am the creator of discord in their vulnerable minds.

And yes, we can tell ourselves and our children and our friends that it is ‘only a story’, but we don’t truly lose the sense of fear. And you can remind yourself that it is meant to scare you, and that you shouldn’t give into words and pictures drawn by hand and written by keyboard.

What frightens me is not an unexisting, lid-less man and his knife, but the fact that someone once had to think up of him, and his story, and his name, Jeff the Killer. And someone else had to create Jane the Killer, and clash them, and the fact that I am one of these people.

And the fact that I find no shame in it.