User blog:ScrewYouDinkleberg/Blood is boring, but still popular...

I still don't get it why many think blood is such a big deal in a creepypasta. It seems like even with the old Jeffs around the internet and in the wiki, people still try to add blood as the main element in their stories, and that's a bad thing in my opinion. Why is blood such a big deal?

It seems like every new person that joins the wiki or anyone outside the wiki have blood in tehir minds when they think about creepypastas in general. It's sad to see that many people who try to publish a story here often result in bad indirect JtK spinoffs that are deleted everyday. When will the population think about other ways to scare the reader? I tried writing a story with blood by myself, and the result was a boring, long and chliche story, but when I made something different, it worked.

I know that this is just random ranting, but I'm really sick of searching for creepypastas and 70% of them have something related to blood.