User blog comment:JamesBloody/Creepypasta is dying because you guys been deleting too many stories./@comment-28266772-20160829110630

Is creepypasta dying?

Well like everything in the universe - yeah, probably. I'm at an age now where I'm starting to see that whole trends that were integral to my youth have come and gone. Ignoring the fucktard nature of this blog, I think it's worth some of us considering the finite nature of all trends, and where we might like to see this wikia and creepypasta as a whole go forward. Personally, I think creepypasta can die in one of two ways. The first is that it can evolve, and lead to a welcoming writing community that fosters feedback and functional criticism, along with higher standards, but will lose some of its larger 'mainstream' impact.

And the second is that it will drown in its own shit until no one can read a single thing with an ounce of quality. At the same time Slenderman, and some of the more prominent pastas , will inevitably be consumed by mainstream culture only to leave behind the likes of Sonic.exe and Jeff the Killer. After that a slowly dwindling fanbase will continue to furiously lose their shit that mainstream culture cherry-picked only certain parts of their favourite trend to take up into the light of big-budget tv shows and movies, and that they weren't given credit for being slightly ahead of the curve.

And then the sun will die.