User blog comment:Elephalcon/Has it been overdone?/@comment-24532164-20150710154835

They are everywhere, yes, but the question is have they gone stale?

I recently contributed to the genre with my story "Dr. Stoker", so maybe I'm biased, but I think the genre is anything but stale. As long as new ideas and good stories are being put out the genre can't die.

The thing with the Science/Experiment pastas is there is SO much to be done. I've rarely seen two that are the same. Tulpa, Russian Sleep Experiment, Harbinger Experiment, and Gateway to the Mind are all from the same genre but each is SO different than the others. Video Game pastas were blacklisted because there was no originiality given. Every one revolved around "person receives haunted game disc" and then lots of blood and gore. Sometimes they do something different, but fall flat for other reasons. I found that Pokemone: Dead Channel had a lot of potential, and BRVR was a great protagonist, but the story was hurt badly by grammar and an overabundance of gore. Until someone does something new in the genre to revitalize it, that one will stay blacklisted.

But experiment pastas haven't reached that yet. There's a LOT that can be explored there, and a lot more chills to have. Check out my story if you want, I wrote it keeping in mind your exact concern. I only submitted it because I felt it was different enough to pass, and it did. I have another idea swimming around right now that I also think can be pretty different if I execute it right, but the same could be said for any story in any genre.

Short answer? No, I don't think the genre is dying anytime soon.