Talk:Squidward's Suicide/@comment-26054278-20150228223236/@comment-26054278-20150301011741

Wow, what an excellent point that I didn't bring up at all- Oh wait.

"I know this was one of the earlier stories to use these cliches, but it doesn't matter because the cliches were not scary then. If they weren't scary then, they sure as hell are not scary now."

It doesn't matter if they were not cliches back then, they still were not scary, this pasta still relied on pure shock value, and this pasta shouldn't get a free pass for doing that.

No, I'm not counting this story slack for inspiring countless writers because of two main reasons. First off, the pastas it inspired are crap. Like I said, in all my time that I have read Lost Episode stories, there has been no Lost Episode pastas (unless you count Candle Cove, and that clearly was not inspired by this story) that have actually been good.

Secondly, ignoring the problems just because it was famous and influential shouldn't happen. I am an honest critic, and I'm not going to change my opinion on anything just because it has historical significance. If it influenced stories that I actually liked, I could have a little bit of respect for the story being made, but that would change nothing about the quality of the story.

The same thing goes for "Jeff The Killer" and "Sonic.exe". Both of those pastas are pure and utter garbage (in my opinion, as well as apparently a large amount of this wiki), and while they were influential, I have yet to find any good story that was influenced by either of them. Influence can go both ways, and this story, as well as the other two I mentioned, influenced some terrible pastas.