Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-36572169-20180813133907/@comment-5101683-20180813144220

One thing: If you want to be pretentious, refer to Slenderman's lore as a "mythos" or "classic mythos", because it is.

Also, contrary to your belief, the vast majority of creepypasta have definite authorship, such as most of the stories on this site. Also, the vast majority of creepypasta are not multimedia works. The word seems to apply to Internet horror fiction unless used to stop people from posting things somewhere, in which case it works as you say it works. This is because the word "creepypasta" conveys a sense of amateurishness, though published authors have written creepypastas.

Ironically, your lack of knowledge on the subject has led you to conclude that putting a story in a "creepypasta format" is something more difficult than just putting it onto the Internet for free. For example, Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is an example of a written work put into a creepypasta format, because it's on the Internet for free. So is Frankenstein.

As such, creepypasta on its own is inherently related to literature, and so even if seen as a legitimate artform, it would be under the umbrella of literature. A creepypasta with a multimedia aspect is basically an ARG anyways, so the question you should be asking, which I do not know the answer to, is "What separates a creepypasta from an ARG?"