Talk:BEN Drowned/@comment-26268104-20151002191553/@comment-25685806-20151018214229

In all honesty the pasta is only really good because of its age. The story was one of the first to include video evidence, despite the fact that the video could be easily replicated, however at that time it was pretty creepy to actually SEE a creepypasta.

The simplicity of the story also helps. Having the ghost of a child haunt somebody was not nearly as cliche as it is now, and at the time was almost something out of a horror flick, with a twist of it haunting a favorite game of both the ghost and the protagonist.

When I first heard the story, I never really thought it was scary or creepy (probably because I first heard it from Yuriofwind) but I did think it was very interesting. I saw it more like a movie than a creepypasta, where you knew it was fake, and not very creepy, but it was so interesting like "what if this happened..."

But idk, i can definitely understand why you might not like it, and i agree that it often gets too much attention, and I personally think BEN himself was a lame character, especially because when I played majoras mask as a kid, I always laughed at that statue's face for looking so stupid.