User blog comment:EtherBot/Jeff the Killer: Creepypasta as Creepypasta/@comment-25941663-20171009144500

That is a good analysis, great blog. I understand where you are coming from, but I have to disagree with you on a lot of points.

First and foremost, there is the issue of age. The great short horror stories (Lovecraft, Poe etc.) are hundreds of years old and they have defined short horror fiction. JtK is, what, 10 years old? Why should we have JtK define the genre of creepypasta? Do you think the classics of short horror fiction were the first to write in the genre? It would be naive to assume so. I bet there were hundreds of other writers (published or not) that just got forgotten because they weren't that good. Why should we hold JtK as the face of creepypasta just because it was the first? I have written a blog with the same sentiments if you want to read more on this opinion of mine.

Second, this place has evolved from a mere creepypasta archive to something bigger. We now want this place to be a first-step for amateurs in the world of writing (at least in the horror genre). If someone wants to be a horror writer, this is the place to come test their ideas, improve and receive feedback. The poster-child of this movement is Humboldt, who started off by writing stories here and now has a published novel. Of course, you don't need to have professional-aspirations to be part of the community, we will always be accepting of users who simply love horror and want to write good stories. But this is indicative of a movement towards greater standards.

This is how we have come to define creepypasta. Good short horror fiction written by amateurs. Internet fads come and go. Trying to preserve bad work simply because we can doesn't seem very intuitive to me.