[HN Gopher] List of Creepypastas ___________________________________________________________________ List of Creepypastas Author : luu Score : 38 points Date : 2022-08-29 07:40 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | planetsprite wrote: | >Order by Name | | >Order by Date | | >Order by Cringe | Unbeliever69 wrote: | We've all been down the Ted's Caving Page rabbit hole. | dvh wrote: | Surprisingly "then who was phone?" is not on the list | watercooler_guy wrote: | I've always been a big fan of creepypastas --- they can be really | well done and scary in novel ways. To some extent, I believed | some of them to be real when I was a kid. | | If creepypastas were "invented" today, would they have made as | big of a cultural splash? Or would they get lost in a sea of | other content, or be debunked and discarded too quickly? | | Edit: I re-read the list and noticed some more recent creations | on there, like The Backrooms. Maybe it's less about believability | and more about being a good story, which the Internet is still | great at facilitating. So I guess my question is, did anyone else | believe some of the earlier creepypastas, and was believability | important to the popularity back then? | pawelduda wrote: | Personally I've been felt a lot more scared by creepypastas (or | still images/photos of creepy places, entities or w/e) than | horror movies for instance. Especially when it comes to images | - some have such unnerving vibe to them that I find it | fascinating (smile.jpg anyone?). | | I was always skeptical (aka treated it as fantasy) of | supernatural things these stories are about, but I think the | mere fact of getting engaged into reading them and using your | imagination (suspending the disbelief) was enough. | bitwize wrote: | I don't think believability as in fooling you into thinking the | events were real are as important as verisimilitude, the | feeling that it _could_ happen. | | An example: In the late 90s, back in the days of pervasive | browser pop-ups, there was a Japanese creepypasta-equivalent | called "The Red Room", about a browser pop-up that read "Do you | like the red room?" Ignoring or closing the pop-up was said to | seal your doom. The most popular form of this story took the | form of a Flash animation which depicted a boy who saw the | popup appear on his computer. | | As a finale, after showing the boy meeting his grisly fate, the | Flash site caused the popup to appear on _your_ computer. | | Not really believable when you think about it. But scary, | because it gets you into a headspace of the fictional universe | and then breaks the fourth wall, giving you a fleeting feeling | that the Red Room curse is real. | | I think if creepypasta didn't exist we would have to invent it. | It's part of a horror tradition that encompasses Poe and | Lovecraft, and even before. Creepypasta comes from the same | place as primordial ghost stories told around a campfire, just | with updated media and sensibilities. | wsinks wrote: | Ha - how about "Bloody Mary"? I was 8 and that story scared the | shit out of me. I love reading creepypastas, and when I was | younger, I never knew if they were real or not. It was part of | learning how to trust information. They always had enough of a | disturbance in the story that made me feel odd. | | I JUST saw The Backrooms (the one where she puts the tape | measure down the portal) and... holy shit. This is the same | level of odd feeling. I can only imagine what sort of VR stuff | is out there... That Black Mirror episode has me wondering if | I'll actually do something like that. | | I think it's also the same sort of thing as the innocuous | conspiracy theories I've seen like "Did you know that Spongebob | characters are based on the seven deadly sins?" Could be true, | you'll never be able to fully verify it unless you know the | person who made the content, and ... sounds good and seems to | hold up. Why would you want to dispel the theory even if it is | untrue? It's kinda fun. | bentcorner wrote: | While it wasn't a creepypasta, The Blair Witch Project tried | really hard to convince movie-goers that it was found footage | and wasn't a scripted movie. I think it was certainly a product | of its time and a similar effort today wouldn't be nearly as | successful. | lelandfe wrote: | Right! And the marketing materials said the actors involved | were missing or dead. | | It kicked off an era of "found footage"-style horror movies, | with things like Paranormal Activity using security camera | tape, improv, and unknown actors to make the film seem more | real. Great call out - that's definitely the film equivalent | of a creepypasta. | actually_a_dog wrote: | Not exactly creepypasta, but I do believe the SCP Foundation | would make a cultural splash if it were invented today: | https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series | bpiche wrote: | Weird, I didn't see candleja | fferen wrote: | No doubt my favorite creepypasta is the Interface series: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 | devindotcom wrote: | I liked when it was appearing randomly in reddit threads but | ultimately the story kinda fizzled out. Creepypasta type | fiction tends to do that, big concept, scope expansion, then a | rushed ending. Actually it's kind of a hallmark of SF/F in | general... | bitwize wrote: | Build tension and then... man door hand hook car door | Liquix wrote: | BEN Drowned, smile.jpg, The Russian Sleep Experiment.. Some of | these were so well done and haunting. What a macabre thing to get | all nostalgic about! | | For further reading - this site has been up for over a decade and | is fairly comprehensive: | https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki | | A personal favorite: | https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-30 23:00 UTC)