User blog comment:Dorkpool/FearFic and the Creepypasta Land Wiki/@comment-10502460-20180407041216

I've always disagreed with Slimebeast on quality standards being problematic, but I do honestly like the idea of a site intended to act as a repository for all things creepypasta. And to be fair, it's not just this wiki he has that problem with, he has also mentioned NoSleep and other sites (although NoSleep's QS seem to be considerably lower than ours).

That said, I am a little more optimistic about FearFic than you, for the following reasons:

'''1. Creepypasta Land Wiki competes with Creepypasta Wiki. FearFic's main competition would probably be Creepypasta.com'''

And as we all know, Creepypasta.com is going down the tubes fast since the latest buyout. In fact, Slimebeast may have intended FearFic to be a sort of replacement for Creepypasta.com more than an alternative to this wiki.

2. Slimebeast is using a domain he paid money for (Trollpasta.com) and had a crowdfuding campaign (can't remember which crowdfunding site) to get the ball rolling on this.

Meaning he's much less likely to just abandon it out of lack of interest, especially since I don't think he's the only Sysop.

3. Like you said, Slimebeast is not MAD.

But it's more than just the difference in writing talent. MAD sounds like a clueless teenager with no future in writing or internet use. Slimebeast, on the other hand, actually has some experience running websites under his belt, and he seems to take his projects seriously.

4. Times are a'chaning in the creepypasta world.

It's a good thing you prefaced this with the caveat that you know your prediction could be wrong, because there are any number of wild cards that could make FearFic popular or possibly even propel it to the forefront of creepypasta. The name may not have as much recognition as "creepypasta", but there was a time when the same could be said about NoSleep or SCP. In fact, NoSleep sort of halfway revitalized gaming pastas and lost episode pastas, although many such stories from NoSleep are still pretty bad, but the point is that we live in a time where I think much of the creepypasta community realizes creepypasta has gone a little stagnant and are more willing to try new things.

Geoshea's Lost Episode Wiki is a perfect example. I don't know how long it's been around, but I never heard about it until the past few months. Then all of a sudden it starts getting some reads on Youtube by big narrators, and now suddenly people are interested in the lost episode genre again. Totally unexpected, and most of the stories out of that wiki are still pretty terrible, but I take it as a sign that the winds of creepypasta are changing, just that no one knows the direction yet.

Add all that to the fact that Slimebeast has his own Youtube channel to help with promotion (I don't think many would be interested in a channel by the guy who wrote Jane the Killer), not to mention that he's part of Midnight Marina, and I think the site has more than a chance.

Furthermore, I think there is a need for something that bring together the different corners of the creepypasta world (this wiki, spinpasta, NoSleep, SCP, whatever) under one umbrella, and this site might fill that niche. The infamous unscrupulous creepypasta profiteer himself, Mr. Creepypasta, has recognized this void, and created his stupid Creepypasta Amino app. Between that and FearFic, I think FearFic has a better chance, and it would certainly be better for FearFic to be successful.