User blog comment:Umbrello/This is NOT whatever/@comment-3999760-20140817062808

Pictures should add to the story and help the reader visualize what is going on in the story, or give a greater description of a place, object, animal, monster/being/ghost, etc. Pictures could be used as a powerful component in telling the narrative. Of course, many users don't fully utilize or fully understand how to use it properly. This leads to users posting irrelevant, poor quality, and overall visually distracting pictures (i.e crappy MS Paint edits and 'OMGZ scary monsters' pictures).

Good pastas that does utilize the full extend of pictures are NES_Godzilla_Creepypasta and Little_Pink_Backpack. These pastas use the visual illustrations to add depth and believability, that otherwise, words couldn't do.

As they say, a picture says a thousand words.