User blog comment:Blarble Blornets/Cliches and Cleeshays/@comment-25624120-20141207125747/@comment-21086298-20141211021231

Hmm. Avoidance of one cliche becoming another cliche unto iteslf. I know TvTropes has a name for this.

With the dream example, I guess that means that dream/hallucination creepypastas face the same problem as video game creepypasta. You can't write one without using a trope that's been done before, and authors just have to choose the lesser evil.