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WatcherAzazel wrote: I doubt that viewership would be the issue. How many people read Green Arrow comics vs watch Arrow. The real issues would be getting a studio interested in making it, especially with Creative Commons attached. The whole reason why Arrow worked, is because interest for it was created with Smallville. Add the actors and actresses that CW gets from their "good looking people" farm and you have a show that appeals to their demographic.

Creepypastas would be a much harder sell. Anthologies in general do not do well (with a few notable exceptions) and the gore factor in most pastas would mean the series would have to be targeted to an older audience. Unfortunately, there are too many good shows to fulfill that niche right now such as Hannibal, The Strain, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, among others. Creepypastas with stories like JtK would not stand a chance. Not with with an older, more sophisticated audience.

Then there are some other pastas like a lot of the game and lost episodes which not only would be a legal nightmare due to all the prospective copyrights but would not translate well into a TV narrative.

For all of those reasons, TV producers would stay away from doing any series about Creepypastas. It just would not make financial sense, the risks would be too high, and because of the violence and gore it would have to be aimed and the wrong demographic.