Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25020361-20140603232736/@comment-24813279-20140604000354

Creepypastas are not dangerous, fatal, or any other adjective the media is now throwing at the genre of horror literature. Just because two dumbass 12 year olds took the fictious world of Slenderman as murderous fact, that doesn't mean the entire community is full of serial killers. Horror literature is meant to scare and thrill us, but at the end of the day, we all come away knowing none of it i s true. It's an art form that evokes emotion and makes the reader think, often times teaching a moral lesson (try reading "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark": they're cheesy but always have a good message). I'm sorry that someone suffered at the hands of a bunch of pre-teens who got a bit too hyper about a story, but don't let this damage the entire genre.