User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/Top 10 Overrated Creepypastas/@comment-5643552-20150409032536

Lol, The Grifter wasn't ever really a creepypasta. More like a trolling technique on /x/ that was so successful it became a meme. The only reason it's a "creepypasta" meme today is because of its association with /x/, and of course the internet's endless supply of utterly gullible people.

Anyway. yeah, what you see on The Grifter page is not really a creepypasta. Just a crappy attempt at an article on the subject of the meme, only deliberately BS because that's spookier I guess. Someone should really go in and rewrite it with more factual information, like into an actual wiki article. I know we don't have many of those at the moment, but this subject is just too notable to /x/ and creepypasta history to not have a proper wiki page on it. Hell, I might even do it if I ever get around to it.

Also, I should really add more renditions of the "Babysittter" urban legend to The Statue page. There's several pretty famous ones that I think deserve mention, all of which I think predate the one that's actually on the page.