User blog comment:TheStarshipCommando/A little question.../@comment-25052433-20160510110250

I've mentioned it as a pet peeve several times. While it's not technically a terrible thing to do, it comes across to me at least as lazy writing. I find that if you simply must reference the genre, do so in a more vague manner, such as saying "internet horror site" instead of actually using the term creepypasta. That's just my opinion though. It's sort of like in a good zombie movie, they never actually use the term "zombie" instead refering to them as walkers or biters or whatever.