User blog comment:Whitix/My Concerns with the Jeff Formula/@comment-24101790-20150224011648

We've actually seen a bit of a drop off of these types of stories since we moved JtK (to Spinpasta and later to Trollpasta.), which has been nice as I personally find someone taking a formulaic approach to any story as problematic. ("The bullied kid who has some cartoonishly unjust thing happen to them and snaps" just seems lackluster with the sheer amount of renditions. I think it's the re-hashing of plot points where you could literally sub out the protagonist's name and have the story be identical to someone else's story. As is the issue with some Lost Episode and Haunted Gaming creepypastas.)

I think Guy sums this up perfectly in his blog which I used earlier today as a reason why it is better to avoid OC/creepypasta characters where the story comes off more as an introductory vehicle than an attempt at story-telling