User blog comment:Man's best friend/When will pastas on the end of Humanity vanish?/@comment-26399604-20160303200705

When will pastas on the end of humanity vanish? That's a good question but to ask that question would suggest others: when will pastas about games vanish? Haunted houses? Haunted dolls? Or any creepypastas, really?

It's kind of hard to speak on one genre of creepypasta without addressing the others because most or rather all have been overused. There are a few different areas untouched, but for the most part the reason for the overused genres is due to what plays on the author's fear, and most people fear the same things. Not to mention, it's at the author's discretion on the type of story they want to write. Personally, I don't mind overused genres as long they try something different with an approach never used. I wouldn't want to dismiss a genre in fear of missing out on a great depiction of one.

The end of humanity has always been one of the greatest fears because it would mean not only the end of you, but the end of humanity as a whole. That means everything we have ever accomplished or would accomplish would come to a standstill. If there isn't any other life as you have suggested, then there would be nothing to recall or witness the remnants of what we accomplished thus invalidating our progress as a whole. That's pretty frightening to know what chance (no matter how small for our universe) that no other intelligent being will ever know of our existence because they themselves never did either.

In regards to what intelligent life or race (if they existed) would do upon meeting us is all up for thought. If they do witness us, what would stop them from ending us seeing us as a threat with no hope of redemption? What if they never chose to interact with us because of our said actions? If they did elect to help then in what ways? These questions could help fuel a great story you could create and possible elect scenarios never thought of to prevent your earlier gripes stated with overly used type of genres.

I would look into creating stories that are not cliche and overly used, and choose directions never seen. You can alleviate the problem by opting other directions yourself - just a suggestion.