User blog comment:Dorkpool/Are Some Stories Above Crtiticism?/@comment-5643552-20150406171636

Those pastas were all actually pretty good for their time. Not great, but at least decent.

To fully understand why these stories have aged as poorly as they have, you have to understand what creepypastas were originally supposed to be.

Early creepypasta (or "true creepypasta" as purists would put it) were much closer in spirit to the sort of quick scary stories you'd casually tell around the campfire with your friends, not the fully fleshed out, "professional-quality" amateur horror fiction people tend to expect today. Most of them were written on the spot in forum/image board posts, which is why a lot of the pastas housed in are so unpolished/poorly proofread/etc in comparison to more recent pastas.

And all this isn't even isn't taking into account the extreme saturation of certain subjects, esp. in regards to lost episode/video game pastas.

To answer the question, no, I do not think any story is above criticism, including the ones you mentioned. That said, I think a lot of the complaints leveled at old pastas are kind of redundant since almost all of them (sans the ever-present "too cliche") are basically just sweeping criticisms of old creepypasta in general.