People who really like creepypastas and enjoy making good stories, are you mad or frustrated at the children who ruin or taint the fandom by making it their whole personality and life?
People who really like creepypastas and enjoy making good stories, are you mad or frustrated at the children who ruin or taint the fandom by making it their whole personality and life?
Yes, yes i do get irritated :^ creepy pasta is not a lifestyle or a personality
That's true.
Also apologies if I talk about myself too often it's a bad habit I need to break, so please correct any self absorbed posts.
I'm pretty new to the community (but have since dived in headfirst), and have only written one story, but I haven't really found those kinds of people to be too 'in your face'. I don't think it's too difficult to ignore them, if they bother you.
I'm also a firm believer that greatness could come from the most unlikely of places, so perhaps they could end up contributing excellent content down the line.
Scrolling through the discussions page and seeing nothing but cringey preteens obsessing over a collection of decade-old stories does get pretty irritating. Though at least discussions effectively separates the roleplaying, OC-obsessed side of creepypasta from the mature, short-fiction side. That and the QS, which manages to ensure that none of the half-baked drivel produced by these people ever ends up on as a page on the main site.
The definition of 'creepypasta' has changed over the years. Though it will always be associated with stories like Jeff the Killer, BEN Drowned, et cetera, the term has been broadened to the point where practically any horror story uploaded on the internet can be considered a creepypasta, even if it's decades or centuries old. The thing about this is that most people still associate the word with those older stories and the fanbase that surrounds them. This is what annoys me the most about these people; the fact that they make up the main 'face' of creepypasta to anyone new to or unfamiliar with the genre.
I still think jeff the killer is timeless.
and the older stories are better that's why alot of us obsess. (ocs are still cringey, )
i ran into fans who say their fav pasta is unbeatable
oh boy do i like to prove them wrong
Yeah, lately I've been seeing a flood of pre-teens on here who are all like "Look at my new OC uwu" or something like that. It makes me roll my eyes -- I don't mean to be mean about it or judge anyone who does that, it's just that some of these kids have been turning creepypasta into a sort of "weeb" culture and lifestyle and that really isn't what creepypasta is supposed to be about. Creepypasta is supposed to be scary -- not a place for a bunch of 12 year olds to gush about their art.
What do you think?