User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-36627132-20190305161421/@comment-38454773-20190306004213

Oh, I don't find it unpopular at all. In fact, I think it would be great if those categories returned. Personally, I don't play many video games. I can imagine there would be a slew of Fortnite and Undertale-based creepypasta that would be heading our way. Anyone remember Herobrine? But, I'd still like to see that.

One of the most pleasant surprises I got from this Wiki back in 2012 was seeing pasta written about a lost episode of El Chavo Del Ocho, a Mexican television sitcom from the 1970s which some members of my family happen to be fans of. When I saw that, I said to myself, "Wow! They have a pasta here for everything!"

It's still up to this day, so hey, who says the majority of these were terribly written, huh?

However, considering how high the standards have gone and pretty much everyone in this comment section reiterating over and over again how this Wiki/Fandom has strayed so far away from its "copypasta" origins and they're no longer "Creepypasta", I think these genres are just a memory now.

According to Wikipedia, some journalists argue that Creepypasta has its origins in old chain emails, internet forums, and Usenet groups throughout the 1990s while others argue that the very first Creepypasta-style story was "Ted the Caver" hosted on Angelfire in 2001. I remember being amused by that "Carmen Winstead" story on Myspace when I was little in the 2000s. And of course, let's not forget those silly Youtube comments that said some kind of dire warning or good fortune you'll receive if you repost something twenty times in twenty videos that were popular in the late 2000s.

It could be argued that Creepypasta predates the internet by decades with elements in it in urban legends like "The Hook" and "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" which traveled by word of mouth before scholars basically turned them into a field of study and converted them to print.

If you want my own humble opinion, I feel like Creepypasta's origins go as far back as modern humans first existed. People have just always loved to tell scary stories to one another.

To be honest, I've seen lots of people claim to have said the Lost Episode category to have been their favorite or among their favorites even back in 2013 when it was canned. So, maybe that was the one that drew a lot of attention to the Wiki? It's hard to say, I think. But I knew that that was one of the things that made me keep coming back here. It may be that those were the most believable.