User blog comment:NedWolfkin/My Thoughts on Channel Zero's Cancelation/@comment-33904527-20190313193052/@comment-38454773-20190313224945

Exactly, Guy. Creepypastas (whenever I say this, I meant "classic" pastas) are kind of difficult to adapt into anything else besides a very small film project. They seem to get tired pretty quickly because they were meant to be quick-scare copypasta. Not long, elaborate novels or movies.

Besides, this is just my opinion, but Creepypasta was a lot creepier when it stayed stricty in text form. That's not to say, of course, that I didn't go on Youtube and look up videos on Candle Cove and Lavender Town Syndrome and what-not. And people are free to do their own projects surrounding it, but that's just how I feel.

I'd like to add this little thing, though.

One time I was watching a documentary on the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft some years back. One of the commentators was Lovecraftian specialist, Robert M. Price. Price stated how he felt that it was much more horrifying to envision Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" in your mind by reading the literature as opposed to seeing him(?) visually, like in a drawing or something.

I feel capturing the essence of fear is actually much more effective this way. The things your mind conjures up are infinitely scary than what a movie or game or show can produce, in my opinion.

As for Ned, yep. Imagine how outdated 2010s blockbusters will look in, say, five years? Did you ever see the Fantastic Four movie that was released in 2005? Good gravy, the insipidly-high amounts of advertisements in that film just make the age of the film ooze out of it, especially seeing the original Xbox console being plastered all over the place.

Let's not forget that ultra cringeworthy 2012 Youtube rewind with the featured "meme" being Gangnam Style and Minecraft. Mm, this is why art forms and "business" should never go together. Objectively, anyway.