Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24463000-20180304045957

The paranormal/creepypasta community can't be fixed and the problem isn't this site or /x/, it's the internet. Back in the 90s to 2000s the internet was full of "dark corners" that most people didn't really go to, so you'd be able to salvage some interesting cryptic shit out of it, craft spooks out of them and, generally, entertain your own fears pretty easily.

Now the internet is just way too general public, even former "cryptic" sites are known by all and every internet spook story is trying to rip off what another more popular one has been doing. Every since Bendrownedor the Godzilla pasta, every Videogame creepypasta has been trying to follow the same formula. Ever since the growing popularity of skinwalker stories, there is not a single innawoods spook that isn't about some form of fuckign skinwalker or the other.

the internet in general is suffering from the same disease that slwoly killed the chans: Lack of OC. Nobody cares about originality anymore, this is the age of instant memes. Find a funny picture or a funny trend, stick a label on it and you got yourself a prime order of Mcmemes to go.

It is completely unsalvageable. The only cure for this shit has been know since the very beginning of the internet: More fucking OC. We need more actually clever and talented creators to be making more funny, clever, scary or challenging and original content. No more of these 10 thousands of skinwalker pastas, no more SCP number one billion and sixty hundred thousand "We've heard it before" Keter class object/creature, no more spooky haunted electronic device. We need good writing, good writers and stories and trends that are different from what we keep seeing all the time. The sad thing is, you can't expect the mass to be able to produce OC, the vast majority of people want attention, but have no actual creative drive, so we'll keep seeing the same recycled content over and over again because there's too many people wanting a piece of the pie now. 