Talk:Smile Dog/@comment-27731963-20160206090249

Honestly, this is probably my favorite creepypasta of all time. It's not even that the pasta itself is particularly amazing; it's a good story, but it stumbles at times. What really makes it fascinating is the legend it turned into, inspiring many people to quest for the supposed original image. It makes you wonder which came first - the image or the story? I believe that it is the idea that this original image may have exited that haunts people far more than any of the photoshopped simulacra could ever manage.

Where did this story originate? Does anyone even know anymore? That's another part of what makes this story fascinating - that we don't really know where it came from or who wrote it. People claim that the image has been around since the early 2000s but the story seems to have first appeared sometime around 2007. That's assuming anything anyone says about it at all can be believed.

This story is frightening in a psychological sort of way. It's the implications about the supposedly impossible to find original image that really get me. I am not a gullible person in the slightest, so for me to react this way to a story is rare. It's the only creepypasta that ever incited hours of research on my part to discover if there was more to it. And that, in my opinion, is what make this one of the best.