Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140210140502/@comment-17758905-20140210233654

"Creepypasta are essentially internet horror stories, passed around on forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers"

That is the literally definition on the site, not: "creepypastas are supposed to exploit the un-explainable, to give you that feeling that something isn't right. They are supposed to make the reader paranoid, to make them scared of what really lurks in the corners of their vision. Scary stories on the other hand are meant to elicit terror or fear from the reader. They use tactics such as jump scares or gore in order to pull out the FOF (fight or flight) response in a person. They are made to give readers the "shakes" (the trembling feeling your body makes when you have been scared)."