User blog comment:MrDupin/Rant about Reddit Creepypasta Threads/@comment-7064562-20161211060804/@comment-7064562-20161211233243

Reddit is bad in general. Ive never used it but it's pretty much the a thumblr but instead of transgender kids who are overly edgy and sensative, it's the egotisc side where critastim isn't allowed because it casuses trolls to rage. It's just one of the big sites online that people know of but they normally stay away from because it's so toxic to anyone that doesn't "fit in".



Ya, They're not all bad. I'm just saying I personally do not enjoy them because the vast majority of them are simplistic, poorly wrote, and just bad in general. They're really easy to make, but they're very, very, hard if you actually want something good. Sadly, most people don't push themselves that far and it sticks out because the story is so short. You can't hide one bad line in a short story that only has 4 sentances.

I've seen a few good ones, but it's really rare. One that gets a ton of hype is the one where the guy looks through the door knob and sees that red eye thing, but I thought even that was rather boring and the shock value was kind of forced. I'm more of a depth and character person, over the fancy word play and shock value that you normally see in really long or really short stories, so I'm more into med long stories like the ones made by Michael whitehouse (even though I didn't know his story was a novel, so I ended up listening to many of the chapters randomly and being confused why they sounded like they were part of another pasta I listened to XD).

My fav med story would be "No face". Simply because while it wasn't amazingly scary, the ending was pretty creepy. I like when instead of making the monsters creepy based on looks, it's the actions and story that make them scary. Just talking about there sharp teeth and blood over them doesn't really come out as unsettling, but it's when they rip there teeth into a corpse or drag a person into a basement and cut them up that makes them something to be afraid of. Like come on, if jeff the killer didn't have that "Go to sleep" thing, he's just some angsty teen who if you saw, you would drop kick him down the stairs and take his wallet.

I pretty much only write short stories around 5-10 chapters long and only read manga or light novels, so It's more of a personal taste kind of thing. I ted to be unimpressed by short stories for lack of depth and bored of longer stories because the describing and word play makes me lose focus of the plot. With Creepypastas this is pretty much set in stone for me. I also just can't get into the stories with a bunch of psychological stuff put into it with the "It's in the darkness" kind of theme or when the shock value is really obivous and it's only made of internal diagolog. So, I'm pretty picky I guess.

Mothers call is a good example of why I don't like short pastas. In my mind I'm just not impressed by it. I'm more like, ok, big deal, write it out? What happens? What comes to mind is it's not the mother, obviouslly, but that's not scary, what's scary is what it really is or what happens next. Is it a monster? is what dragged her in the real mother? Why not write the story out like the who called her was really her mother, and the look alike is what dragged her in and pretends to be the mom, so the little girl ends up killing her mom, the one who locked her in the staircase for all these years and have it kill the girl after? I just can't get into the simplistiy, I get that it's the point, but there just not for me. I normally skip over all stories under 7min unlesss the theme is of interesting.

However what is really annoying, is when an "author" has a great idea, but goes for the cheap road. This is why I hate "I bought my dad on ebay" so much. Not only did it have many sins with the angsty teen on the deep web who somehow doesn't understand computers or logic, or realtionships, but buying parents on ebay could have been played out so well and intersting, but instead its just a simple kidnapping thing that makes no logical sense, even though he picked it to be a story you want to think could happen irl. This happens a lot on reddit from what I've seen. (Deep web stories and game stories get stale really fast.)