User blog comment:Dragonlord247/what is the FIRST creepypasta..../@comment-1186783-20140711154959

I seriously doubt there's any easy way to answer that, because the way internet terms like that evolve is more gradual. "Creepypasta" is derived from "copypasta." So, was the first spooky copypasta ever posted in the history of the net a creepypasta?

My guess is at some point some people were posting a large number of creepy copypastas, and the name was retroactively applied to all of them at once as a pun, so there would be no "first." I would be astounded to find that someone posted the first creepypasta with a note attached saying "I HAVE CREATED A NEW GENRE!  BEHOLD, THE CREEPYPASTA!" If it worked that way Milhouse would be a meme.