User blog comment:Dorkpool/A Rant On Red, Monsters, And Antagonists In General/@comment-25230922-20150704005401

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think the difference between Red and Jeff is that Red's story is effectively told through the images and screencaps. There are well over around 500 pictures on that story, IIRC. Jeff's story, however, was told more through text, making the text much more important than the picture as compared to NES Godzilla Creepypasta - which was primarily told through it's images.

As for my opinion, I think that Red being scary due to the information (or lack thereof) about him is primarily dependent upon the viewpoint of the individual. To some, nothing is scarier than something. To others, there needs to be some kind of justification. It's part of what makes the quality of a story and its plot such a broad scope - stylistic choices tend to make things more difficult to percieve objectively due to someone else disagreeing with you because of the same things you don't like. That said, there is an obvious difference between good quality and bad quality. It's just not as defined as, say, the quality of a car.