The Creepypasta Collection: Modern Urban Legends You Can't Unread, by "Mr. Creepypasta"
(I read the ugly intro about shelving the book to save myself from the terrors within, shelving a DIGITAL book, I see the name of the author, and I'm already scared)
Prologue: Creepypasta is an internet phenomenon that happened a tad before my time, as I was barely nine years old when it began.
By the time it got popular and reached me, I was about thirteen or so, when the infamous game "Slender: The Eight Pages" came out.
The game was pretty trashy; it didn't have much lore other than a tall alien dude in a suit kidnapping children for no reason (how does he eat them with no mouth?). My elder brother liked to play it because it was popular. My sister got called out a lot for "looking too much at the floor, as if she could step on dog shit." That was my first contact, and I wasn't very impressed.
A few years later, it hit peak popularity, and I knew a bit more about it, such as that it's an online format where unknown and often anonymous authors present their stories, often leveraging that anonymity to sound more legitimate, similar to "The Blair Witch Project."
Not much unlike the movie, what little reached me was about as poorly written, and at the time, I was possibly a bit snobbish with the whole "I only read classic literature" thing. After reading a few issues of "The Holders," I thought this mainstream event was beneath me.
Now, it's 2024, and teens have become absolute idiots. Okay, maybe they always were idiots; I was about as tuned into the youth as you'd expect from a kid reading Shakespeare during school breaks. Now, they don't know who The Beatles are, much less what Creepypasta is. Some have heard of Jeff or Slender thanks to some videogame, but will never refer to the source.
Now that the phenomenon has officially ceased to be mainstream, I can scrutinize it at leisure. While this "Creepy-pasta collection" might not be the most comprehensive, it's as good a place to start as any. Funny enough, unlike most retrospectives, I'm more likely to have a positive view of Creepypasta now than I was at the time.
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