To me, SCP is what creepypasta was always trying to be but done so much better in everyway. Some of the ideas in SCP are really fucked up in an existential kind of way.
I was literally about to say this. I feel like creepypastas could’ve been so much better if they were just written better and weren’t so cliche. So many times I’d read one and feel like I just reread the same thing but it’s a different bad guy.
@@microfighterz The one I'm thinking of is about these shapeshifting aliens who land on earth every so often and try really badly to pretend they're human. Don't ask me the number, i don't remember and have no idea how to find it lol.
If you say Vaush three times in the mirror in a dark room, the spirit of Vaush will appear and explain to you the issues with capitalism using an analogy involving two people crashing on an island of coconuts.
I recently started listening to creepypastas again and some of them are pretty good, I think like any genre they have a lot of bad especially since there's hardly any barrier to entry (which is not bad imo) But there are many good ones I have enjoyed recently and older ones I fondly remember.
Tru, it’s not like there’s any quality control so you’ll always get constant rip off BENdrowned’s or Jeff’s from kids wanting to get into writing Kinda cringe but also super wholesome in a way
Absolutely, lots and lots of terrible ones, but sometimes you get Tales From the Gas Station, or Lonely Broadcast Station, or Neverglades Mysteries. (If you havent checked those out, i highly reccomend all of them.) It's just horror writing, but you dont have to be a published author for people to read it.
The alt-right creep-line claims another one. And to anybody who is surprised to discover Slenderman is a Republican icon, remember that he has no soul and his “scary costume” includes a suit and tie. I mean it really should’ve been obvious.
yea i always prefered the character based creepypastas, or ones that feel like scp, because of the worldbuilding around it. eyeless jack isnt something that happened to you, but is instead a weird cult that this one guy got into, and it turned him into a demon type thing. or the diary formats, which does have the predictable ending of "ill update this blog tomorrow after i confront the scary noise outside" and that ends up being the last entry, but its still interesting to get into
SCP was cool before all of the interwoven stories, as well as the baseline for objects becoming more and more power crept. The nerf gun was excellent writing, hilarious (coke turning into Pepsi. Pepsi turning into coke. RC staying the same but going flat). Now all of the stories are “MUST BE CONTAINED IN 7 feet of steel!!!!! AND IT MUST BE FED HUMAN BABIES OR IT WILL KILL THE WORLD!!!!!!!!! Also there are these guys who totally aren’t neonazi self inserts, they just want to cleanse the world!!!!” I tried to publish a story about an anomalous cat that was relatively normal but would teleport in front of people’s feet and trip them if they were hyper aware of the way they were walking. I published my rough draft like you were supposed to and left multiple notes on how I was going to elaborate on why it was being contained, detailing the 4 accidental deaths caused by the teleporting and tripping cat. It was supposed to be a bit of a tragedy: everyone in the containment facility loved the cat and there were only ever 2 trippings that happened at the facility, but the cat also accidentally caused 4 deaths, and was supposed to be a bit of a “this is why we secure, contain and protect” type of story but nooooo, some dork thought it was too similar to the half-cat stories and banned me from postinf
@@thefatherinthecave943 Yeah, whenever I go to the SCP wiki and the article i click on is Keter class with a massive wall of text, my eyes glaze over. It's so overused that none of them really stick out anymore. I think the interwoven stories are fine if the individual stories are designed to stand on their own. One of my favourites is about social media posts from an alternate universe mid-2016 leak through where a swarm of all-consuming bugs has caused the end of the world. It worked so well on its own I never even realised it was part of a bigger story until months later lmao.
If you wanna read a diary format CP that has the “about to confront the creepy thing” as the SECOND to last chapter and doesn’t bitch out on the goods, Google “Memoirs of a Cam Girl”.
@@thefatherinthecave943 It's probably like looking at memes from non-English speaking countries - even if you understand the words you don't know what you're looking at because you don't have the cultural context.
I vaguely remember a story where a man living alone gets haunted by a ghost, and he just accepts that he must be insane, and goes barhopping and continues living in his place instead of doing anything about the haunting. I thought the scariest part of that story was how quickly he was willing to give up thinking he was sane, like he didn't even have the energy to resist or seek help or anything. Does anyone recognize that story?
I don't know, that's almost admirable in its way. A person like that would have to be completely unmoved by fear or almost psychotically courageous, even if you he did think he was just imagining things.
yeah. the thing is back when they were popular a lot of creepypastas shaped the nature of my delusions so I guess to at least one person creepypastas were actually scary?
him talking about spooky shit suddenly happening in pokemon reminding me of the lumiose ghost girl from x & y, who never did anything and was never referenced again
The one I remember most was one where a guy is wandering through a forest late at night, stumbles into a cabin to sleep in, looks at the walls and sees paintings staring at him angrily, only to realize when he wakes up that the "paintings" were actually windows. That, and another one called "Arizona".
Oh god. As a kid, I read some short horror story about a face in a window even though the MC had pulled the blinds down and it has messed me up for life. Being watched unknowingly and unwillingly is a horror trope guaranteed to work on me.
@@tropezando Same with me. I was like 8 when I stumbled upon scp-072 from typing random letters with the keyboard. This was my first scp and the writing format genuinely made me believe it was real. Made me wrap my blanket around my feet for years lol.
It was wierd when Vaush.exe turned towards the camera for 66.6 seconds and said "doG mA I" slowed down backwards and in reverse. I screamed, cried and wet my MLP blankets but assumed it was a glitch until I turned around and there was a Vaush plushie with blood eyes staring at me.
@@Sam_Guevenne I was thrown off cuz vaush hyper fixated on video game creepy pasta and I was like?? Pretty sure that was a small sub section of creepy pasta but maybe im remembering wrong
I feel like when most people complain about creepypastas, they're talking about the shitty 2010 one's. There's some really great modern creepypasta out there right now, but tbf I don't know if people still classify them as creepypastas anymore. Ig if you classify the 2010 OC stories as creepypastas and the modern stuff as just online scary stories, then I can see where this sentiment is coming from
This sentiment of separating creepypastas from “online horror stories” feels like the divide between comic books and graphic novels. It’s practically useless to separate the two but that separation comes from the what’s implied by the name
There's a man in my basement and every week he takes one step - or something like that. Author has entire mini universe and his story House we used to live in (or something like that) is going to be a Netflix show.
Creepypasta culture *gave us* the SCP project, so there's that. Or look at 4chans Backrooms. No point in denying the connection. There is a collective project with awesome/hillarious results that even got turned into shortfilms and webseries. And it is creepypasta in origin. Reducing Creepypasta to video games is like reducing Black Mirror to "phones bad". Creepypasta is campfire ghost stories gone modern.
@Suave Karl Marx It literally started as a creepypasta on /x/. You can say it's grown past that label and I'd agree, but there's no point in denying that we have the creepypasta scene to thank for it.
@@Colddirector yeah but vaush isn't saying "no good came from it" he's just saying "the format wasn't very effective", and things like SCP are definitely not that format
@@Cruxin I think he's taken an overly reductive view of creepypasta there. He seems to just be describing haunted game creepypastas, which I'll concede were very prominent but not the entirety of creepypasta.
No sleep is the top tier place for horror atm and you can’t change my mind, “creepypasta” has evolved so much past what people thought it used to be. Some of those stories have stuck with me much more than any show
Seriously! Creepypasta are just stories that are easily shared, are from a first person perspective, and have a narrative of supposedly having taken place (so the author is meant to respond to comments as if they were the narrator and stuff). That format is cool as balls, it's just that all the ones people know are ass.
''Ted the caver'' is very good, makes me never want to get in a cave. Doesn't relies on cheap ''blood'' shit. The reading of it by Dark Somium is probably the best one, but it's 2 hours long.
Just that description at the end of coming downstairs and everyone's staring at you before you even realize it sent chills down my spine. Something about it gives me an immediate "fight or flight" feeling
There are kinds of creepypastas that are actually really good at being creepy by adding more uncertainty such as SCP or The Backrooms. In my opinion, the latter does a really good job in getting the reader's attention with a simple concept.
Both of the are staurare by 14 years old If you play Roblox or Minecraft you will prob find a lot of this bs Or when you are watching a horror movie and someone point how said characters seems so much like SCP 5392t49474
As much as I respect the quality and cool worldbuilding of Kayne Pixels backrooms, hes started an internet phenomenon thats made the whole concept less scary. The original backrooms concept without all the complication was so effective.
Something Walks Whistling Past my House Every Night at 3:03 is legitimately scary to me. I originally listened to it when walking home from school and I actually started moving faster as the story moved along.
CreepyPastas went to shit the moment they started making most of the stories about a stupid haunted video game or some OP edgelord, self insert character that kills people. Jeff the Killer vs Slenderman is when I knew this shit had hit rock bottom.
I think my favorite Creepypasta thing to date is the Slenderverse, as in the shared universe of Slenderman TH-cam series that came out after Marble Hornets. It's given a lot of young people who were interested in telling stories through film an easy in to start experimenting when they're too young to come up with something original, myself included. I'd recommend going down the rabbit hole.
6:53 hey, that's one of Sanderson's laws: 1)An author's ability to solve conflict with magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic. 2) Weakneses, costs amd limits are more interesting than powers. 3) The author shoul expand on what is already a part of the magic system before something entirely new is added, as this may otherwise change entirely how the magic system fits into the fictional world.
@@hotbitch3978 They're are quite a few he writes himself. I think that's why he hasn't been uploading as consistently lately because he has been writing more of the narrations on his channel.
I feel like Vaush would really like the book The Ring (the one the movies were based on). It's actually highly philosophical and most of the characters' reactions are pretty realistic.
As somoene that used to listen to CreepsMcpasta and MrCreepypasta regularly, there's some good creepypastas (1999, Russian Sleep Experiment, No End House, Laughing Jack, Pirate Cove) but yeah a lot of them are pretty bad (Jeff the Killer is garbage). "1999" did legitimately creep me out though, probably because it did feel like it could be real.
Russian sleep experiment to me was absolutely not scary just because author clearly tried too hard. Like all that gore and zombie prisoners, it just kinda ruins the immersion and i can only laugh
Vaush, the FnaF book series is literally a novel with characters of wich the mc experienced childhood trauma from a exoskeleton and her dad dying soon after. Haven't read the second book and propably never will because i don't want to support someone who funds Mc Turtle
I like the left turn game, a lot of king creepypastas are way more gothic, even if they are a tad more mellow it’s much more experiential and sort of exhausting in that way life is more of
I don't know if it counts as creepypasta because it doesn't have any creature in it and doesn't have the same "fandom" phenomenon attached to it, but Ted The Caver is actually, genuinely, terrifying. (Also Slenderman was pretty good before the game came out in 2011 and made it into a meme, a bunch of video ARGs were made with Marble Hornets being the leading star there)
The main reason the NES Godzilla creepypasta is so loved is BECAUSE it's character based. Granted, the character is pretty generic, but they have a backstory and the horror is personal to them.
Mostly it hits everything Vaush is talking about, when weird things start happening he assumes it's a rom hack, when the guy on screen reacts to something he said, he dismisses it as a sheer coincidence, and when it get disturbingly personal he assumes it's his friend who gave him the cartridge's doing. Part of the reason it's so loved is because very few people ever played the game, so nobody knows when the author is fucking with you or not, but I think mostly it's because the protagonist behaves... like a rational human being.
I think another important part of SCPs that make them better than Creepypastas is that they don't necessarily have to be scary. I've read a number of funny or even heart-warming SCP entries. And there's stuff like Where the Dragons Went that are just good pieces of fiction.
And then a HYPER REALISTIC VAUSHVIDYA CAME FROM THE HYPER REALISTIC CURSED TH-cam VIDEO with HYPER REALISTIC EYES and HYPER REALISTIC BLOOD and then he was hyper realistically never heard from again
ghosts arent inteligent, they are the remains of a person, a huge pokemon fan could haunt pokemon ngames, or more specifically only a cartridge that belonged to him
One of the only interesting things that came out of creepypastas was Channel Zero on SyFy. Such an underrated show. I think it more or less addresses some of these criticisms by having character development and of course expands on the concepts over the course of several episodes. Not groundbreaking but really solid, even if you aren’t interested in creepypastas.
I feel you. A lot of the times I listen o them for background noise, but I don’t just want background noise, you hear? Generally, the longer ones are my favorites. It’s almost like the author was more willing to sink time and thought into their finished product.
@@awildnuisanceappears2784 I'm relistening to this 5 hour long one I really enjoyed. The Man In My Basement Takes One Step Closer Every Weel narrated by Lighthouse Horror. I have more recommendations if you're interested. I'm also open to recommendations myself.
"Is there any Creepypasta that you actually think is scary?" Godzilla NES, hands down in my eyes. Fun fact, I dunno if Vaush read it or not but it actually follows damn near everything Vaush talks about in terms of imagining a really good video-game based Creepypasta. Vaush, if you haven't seen this Creepypasta, go ahead and look it up for a read on the wiki or listen to it on TH-cam. Its really good.
godzilla nes is good until the whole "person stuck in the game" plot happens. its really goofy in the second half from what i remember. it gets developed way too much to the point where its not scary anymore
@@breadpirateroberts4946 I think it was good right up until the fight with RED, that's when it really jumped the shark. He really worked best as a vague but terrifying threat to escape from.
It's possible I read some different version, but Godzilla NES had me for a good while, then it started to lose me a bit when it turned towards the girl's spirit being in the game, then it REALLY turned me off when I got to the ending, where (SPOILER) it turns into like anime or something where some supersaiyan tiny godzilla thing shows up and fights the demon in the game. Again, maybe I read some weird alternate version or maybe the creator just felt like trolling everyone, but that was the point where I instantly doubted everything the story had been doing until that point.
I never thought Vaush would make a video about this but holy shit... yeah he's really right, character driven horror is so enthralling. I've wondered for quite a while what exactly a horror visual novel I fell in love with was gripping me, but watching this made it make sense. it's the characters and their relateability to it all that fucks me up, and boy am I all for it. The mix of interpersonal relationships and the drama that comes with that, with the mystery and trauma of what happens which is horrifying in it's own rite, but then compounds with the horror of the events of now! I really get the genius of it now, thank you!
I think a lot of criticism of the creepypasta formula comes from people who interacted a little with it years ago and haven't since. These days a lot of creepypastas fully take on the fact that they are fictional and drop all pretense of 'this really happened and it can happen to YOU', just to tell a nice spooky story (like Phycosis, my absolute favorite). Now you could get into the definitions weeds and say that those types of stories aren't creepypastas, just short horror stories, but idk about that. That's too advanced for me. I'm just going off what I see in the 'creepypasta' community spaces. But yes, the quality does vary wildly lol.
I think Vaush's conception of a creepypasta is just not the same kind of creepypasta that I've been listening to on youtube since 3 or 4 years ago. That stuff can be really good; nevermind the hour-long titles sometimes.
4:15 Not only does this stuff exist, but messing with a game in weird ways to fuck with the player used to be a very popular way of dealing with piracy among game devs back in the day
Here is amazing creepypasta: 1- tales from the gas station 2- finding vanessa 3- psychosis 4- i dared my best friend to ruin my life 5- 1999 6- starving dogs / the psychologist 7- Russian sleep experiment 8- penpals 9- scp universe 10- asylum series (sequel to psychosis) 11-the backrooms 12- lonely broadcast station And so much more
4:15 Not only does this stuff exist, but messing with a game in weird ways to fuck with the player used to be a very popular way of dealing with piracy among game devs back in the day.
My favorite creepy pasta was one called autopilot cuz it was about normal stuff a dad running on autopilot when he brings his kid to daycare but one day his autopilot glitches and he ends up forgetting his baby in the car all day and it dies. It was spooky af and extremely descriptive and engaging.
Have I been working under the wrong definition of creepy pasta I always assumed it was that short form internet horror stories stuff like “it only takes the good kids” or “three friends dinner”
Havent enjoyed a good new creepypasta in ages but I would HIGHLY recommend tales from the gas station as it has slowly become one of my favourite pieces of written and narrated media!
The Harbinger Experiment is what I think is a genuinely good and unnerving story. But since I first watched the readings of it when I was a child, I may have some bias.
There was one creepypasta on how a toy clown in a child's bedroom was actually a dwarf stalker who broke into the house and pretended to be a toy clown. That short story was scary af.
The Russian Sleep Experiment (and its sort of spiritual sequel Necrosleep), 1999, and ritual pastas like The Devil's Game genuinely did give me the creeps. As for gaming creepypastas I do really like Godzilla NES.
I don't feel like creepypastas have to be confined to their most repeated tropes, but given just how many go down that route it's understandable why someone would think otherwise.
I made a creepypasta story like that. It's of a VR mod for the original half life game, where at first the player just thinks its a fun elaborate mod with added voice acting added in. Going along like that for a few chapters. Until one of the characters in game says something so specific that there's no way even the most massive of dialogue trees would include it. (Specifically, saying it looked like the player was petting an invisible dog, because irl the players dog had woken up and was looking for attention, and the vr set was able to pick up the motion of the players hands.) After which shit hits the fan as the game can no longer hide behind plausible denyability as it had done up until that point.
The only creepypasta that disturbed me even a little was the Russian sleep experiment one, that didn't use a framing device based in the possibility that it could happen to you
I enjoy a good spooky tale every so often. I tend to like cosmic horror type stories. SCPs can be really fun. (really love the cthulhu/I have no mouth and I must scream inspired type stuff) the hidden web page, toter's maze, "There's a Gravitational Anomaly out past the orbit of Jupiter" There are a few matrix glitch stories that are also fun.
Creepy pasta where Aldens number is joked about one to many times and then the mysterious Alden is willed into existence and brutally murders the person in question.
1999 is easily my favourite creepypasta. Genuinely good story with a great read and interesting main character, and I live in Toronto so it still felt like I could relate to it.
Creepypastas didn't always base around the premise that the main entity in the story could haunt you. For example, one of my favorites was a simple story about a dude who lost his mother when he was a kid. Whenever he had a hard day and felt down he would sink beneath his bath tub and see his mother smiling at him for comfort. One day, he digs through old newspapers and finds out that his mom tried to drown him when he was a toddler. Straight forward, simple, eerie.
I made a horror story where people keep finding videos of themself from the day before and one day they turn out all their lights and notice that all their AC vents have this soft red pulse and all have small cameras in them. Then you remove them and stuff slowly gets more and more insane ending in the POV of the recordings all being taken from the POV of their friends and family, who they eventual attack,
i actually had a creepypasta pokemon moment using the same cartridge i had since i was a child, just randomly when entering the battle tower in crystal (now 22yo) they instantly took control and repeated the "we've been waiting for your return" line as they lead me up the elevator, repeating the line in random intervals, even when not present, once the battle starts, all opponents were level 0 and when they received any damage at all the hp would drain from 100 to past 0, continue off screen and loop back until i hit a failstate and the game returned to normal function after. was so upset that i had no one around to show this shit as i was just waiting for class to start
The one thing that single-handedly holds up the effectiveness of creepypasta is the images/media. The stories are terrible but the images are textbook examples of how to make pictures unsettling.
That’s true, I’ve never really read creepypastas but the few images I’ve seen stick with me until today and they’ll still pop into my head at night when I’m scared. A lot of them are very effective and I think that’s pretty interesting seeing how changing a few things about a picture can make it feel so unsettling
The NES Godzilla Creepypasta is something I definitely recommend checking out. There are TH-cam videos of it with animations and those are awesome but I recommend reading it in its original form first with just the text and images.
Creepypasta to me has always been a medium for kids - in the same way I would watch ghost videos as a kid and be genuinely freaked out - because kids haven't lost their imagination, so it truly feels real, in a way it doesn't to an adult - one of the things that sucks for us really. This is why horror is usually much scarier to children.
a lot of stories that call themselves creepypastas arent even creepypastas, theyre just horror stories. I read a good one a while ago that was about guy who grew up in a kind of secluded village with weird "rules", basically ramped up versions of "finish your plate to get good weather". 2 i remember were "if you have someone in your house you want to leave, little salt in their shoe should do the trick" and "dont leave a chair empty when going to bed because someone might take a seat" and then theres this whole story and it didnt have anything a "traditional" had
I've been writing horror stories my entire life (never published, either because I couldn't finish a story or because the only copies were lost or destroyed by some misfortune or other), but there was a period about ten years back where I began writing short horror fiction in a ritual creepypasta-style format, second person perspective stories that either gave detailed instructions for some dangerous ritual or operated like a text-based adventure game. It was common for me to end these sorts of stories with some sort of bizarre or "shocking" twist (my favorite ones being the "the fourth wall will not protect you" or "the author of this pasta is standing right behind you ready to kill you painfully once you finish reading this sentence" twist endings), which in a way was atypical from the usual way I wrote horror fiction, wherein the opening lines were usually something shocking and dramatic to hook the reader while the rest was largely straightforward or at the very least not startling enough to cause mental whiplash. There was a time in my life when writing was all I knew how to do. I was like a savant. I would get complimented by my peers for my ability to tell a story, but I never felt like I was any better than mediocre most of the time. I just did it because I knew nothing else, because I couldn't even fathom stopping much less force myself to stop. It's been about a year and a half since I wrote anything or worked on a story, and I no longer feel that compulsion like I once did. I think it's because my laptop (on which I'd stored about a hundred rough drafts) got sold for meth by someone I trusted, and the thumb drives where I stored the backup files went missing around the same time (although I'm 99% sure at least one or two of them were used by that same asshole tweaker to store the weird porn and Johnny Rebel songs he'd downloaded), and I think that just destroyed my morale and my will to create. I think that might be why I've gotten so into politics lately, because I'm searching for a new passion and a way to work out my anger and substitute some deep desire for personal justice that I know I'll never get by advocating for social justice instead. Why the fuck am I saying any of this?
Awwww, daddy Vaush rippin' on my favorite fandom. He's absolutely right, but still! Personally, I never really liked the video game or cartoon pastas, I always liked either the original ones or the pastas that are written outside the format Vaush mentioned here. Creepypasta is a HUGE genre so of course not everyone is going to fall inside the traditional pasta format. I always saw Creepypasta as a collection of avid writers submitting their short horror stories to be enjoyed by others. It just so happens that the most famous ones tend to suck all the ass. I know I got a few saved to my favorites. I could prolly share if anyone's interested.
I put in the nintendo cartridge then vaush appeared and started offering me coconuts
The coconut was filled with *hyper-realistic blood!* Spooky!
What is that? I'm hearing knocking on my door. It seems to be a coconut salesman. Strange
Man, I was having a mental breakdown and you made me laugh, thanks lol
okay im definitvley not going to sleep tonight thanks to you, hope youre happy 😒
@@dabading2860 Sorry for my behavior. Im Vautistic
Coconuts for you, my friend... but at a price.
The thumbnail is a replica. The real photo of Vaush kills you instantly upon seeing it.
Inside a mind? I never expected you to be here
To me, SCP is what creepypasta was always trying to be but done so much better in everyway. Some of the ideas in SCP are really fucked up in an existential kind of way.
It's surprising how creepy even some of the funnier ones can be
@@microfighterz One of my favourites starts off kind of funny and ends terrifying.
@@Colddirector the giant IKEA people get lost in?
I was literally about to say this. I feel like creepypastas could’ve been so much better if they were just written better and weren’t so cliche. So many times I’d read one and feel like I just reread the same thing but it’s a different bad guy.
@@microfighterz The one I'm thinking of is about these shapeshifting aliens who land on earth every so often and try really badly to pretend they're human. Don't ask me the number, i don't remember and have no idea how to find it lol.
If you say Vaush three times in the mirror in a dark room, the spirit of Vaush will appear and explain to you the issues with capitalism using an analogy involving two people crashing on an island of coconuts.
I can attest to this one, it’s true, I did it and he turned me into a socialist /s
Not an issue with capitalism. Market socialism would have the same issues as the "coconut analogy".
Like the the thumbnail with Vaush.exe with the "Hyper realistic blood" coming from the "Hyper realistic eyes"
SCP 1114513 “voosh.exe” debate room
Sargon's nightmare
The thumbnail for me just looks like Vaush, not sure what you're talking about.
Literally voosh
@@big_guy_of_leiden5688 Is that Alden's Number?
I bought a DVD from a garage sale that said "DO NOT PLAY" on it so I played it and it was a video of a hyper-realistic Vaush and he bled at me.
SCP-19524: The Coconut Collector
pretty sure its SCP-1984
XK Class "Coconut Island" Scenario
Nah, it's SCP 0416
@@javiernewsam8829 the numbers aren’t random
Are you sure about the number? I thought it was SCP-Alden
"How do I make it [the ghost] fuck off? What are its limits? How do I kill it?"
That's a very Winchester way of looking at the situation
I recently started listening to creepypastas again and some of them are pretty good, I think like any genre they have a lot of bad especially since there's hardly any barrier to entry (which is not bad imo) But there are many good ones I have enjoyed recently and older ones I fondly remember.
Tru, it’s not like there’s any quality control so you’ll always get constant rip off BENdrowned’s or Jeff’s from kids wanting to get into writing
Kinda cringe but also super wholesome in a way
@@myaxalienn cringe: kids writing
Wholesome: kids writing
Absolutely, lots and lots of terrible ones, but sometimes you get Tales From the Gas Station, or Lonely Broadcast Station, or Neverglades Mysteries. (If you havent checked those out, i highly reccomend all of them.) It's just horror writing, but you dont have to be a published author for people to read it.
Some are great. My favorite is the Afghanistan Giants lol
Even the not-so-good creepypastas are still entertaining to listen to
Slenderman is mediocre?! That's it, Vaush, you've lost me. I'm going centrist.
best part of this is that he was reading chat
Without marble hornets and such. It is pretty meh
Marble Hornets: Dope
Everything else: nah
@@ridori7376 I like some of the ARGs but sadly after TT had it's scandal it's pretty much a dead scene
The alt-right creep-line claims another one. And to anybody who is surprised to discover Slenderman is a Republican icon, remember that he has no soul and his “scary costume” includes a suit and tie.
I mean it really should’ve been obvious.
yea i always prefered the character based creepypastas, or ones that feel like scp, because of the worldbuilding around it. eyeless jack isnt something that happened to you, but is instead a weird cult that this one guy got into, and it turned him into a demon type thing. or the diary formats, which does have the predictable ending of "ill update this blog tomorrow after i confront the scary noise outside" and that ends up being the last entry, but its still interesting to get into
SCP was cool before all of the interwoven stories, as well as the baseline for objects becoming more and more power crept. The nerf gun was excellent writing, hilarious (coke turning into Pepsi. Pepsi turning into coke. RC staying the same but going flat). Now all of the stories are “MUST BE CONTAINED IN 7 feet of steel!!!!! AND IT MUST BE FED HUMAN BABIES OR IT WILL KILL THE WORLD!!!!!!!!! Also there are these guys who totally aren’t neonazi self inserts, they just want to cleanse the world!!!!”
I tried to publish a story about an anomalous cat that was relatively normal but would teleport in front of people’s feet and trip them if they were hyper aware of the way they were walking. I published my rough draft like you were supposed to and left multiple notes on how I was going to elaborate on why it was being contained, detailing the 4 accidental deaths caused by the teleporting and tripping cat. It was supposed to be a bit of a tragedy: everyone in the containment facility loved the cat and there were only ever 2 trippings that happened at the facility, but the cat also accidentally caused 4 deaths, and was supposed to be a bit of a “this is why we secure, contain and protect” type of story but nooooo, some dork thought it was too similar to the half-cat stories and banned me from postinf
@@thefatherinthecave943 Yeah, whenever I go to the SCP wiki and the article i click on is Keter class with a massive wall of text, my eyes glaze over. It's so overused that none of them really stick out anymore. I think the interwoven stories are fine if the individual stories are designed to stand on their own.
One of my favourites is about social media posts from an alternate universe mid-2016 leak through where a swarm of all-consuming bugs has caused the end of the world. It worked so well on its own I never even realised it was part of a bigger story until months later lmao.
If you wanna read a diary format CP that has the “about to confront the creepy thing” as the SECOND to last chapter and doesn’t bitch out on the goods, Google “Memoirs of a Cam Girl”.
@@Colddirector could you imagine alternate reality memes? Like everything is the same, just meme content is contextually different
@@thefatherinthecave943 It's probably like looking at memes from non-English speaking countries - even if you understand the words you don't know what you're looking at because you don't have the cultural context.
I vaguely remember a story where a man living alone gets haunted by a ghost, and he just accepts that he must be insane, and goes barhopping and continues living in his place instead of doing anything about the haunting. I thought the scariest part of that story was how quickly he was willing to give up thinking he was sane, like he didn't even have the energy to resist or seek help or anything. Does anyone recognize that story?
Sounds like something my bf would do
I don't know, that's almost admirable in its way. A person like that would have to be completely unmoved by fear or almost psychotically courageous, even if you he did think he was just imagining things.
Being insane is infinitely more likely than something that disobeys all known laws of physics though
I never thought I'd see Vaush talking about Creepypastas
I know, I saw it and was like 'what's going on here?'
"Is there any Creepypasta that you actually think is scary?"
Psychosis. Enough said.
that was cute. saw it coming tho
yeah. the thing is back when they were popular a lot of creepypastas shaped the nature of my delusions so I guess to at least one person creepypastas were actually scary?
The hidden web page is also up there
As a schizophrenic, psychosis is also my favorite creepy pasta. (I have no idea what it is I’ll read it later tho :D)
Ending of Penpal is def scary
Guys help Sam seder appeared in my bed room with hyper realistic blood and challenged me to a debate
Don't run away from him! You'll get a heart attack.
When are the doctors going to let you out of the hospital?
I think you just watched the latest of Aamon Animations
what a fucking nightmare
Creepypasta walked so SCP's could run.
SCP is basically the same
him talking about spooky shit suddenly happening in pokemon reminding me of the lumiose ghost girl from x & y, who never did anything and was never referenced again
Those gen 4 ghosts in the old-chateau used to freak me out lol.
The one I remember most was one where a guy is wandering through a forest late at night, stumbles into a cabin to sleep in, looks at the walls and sees paintings staring at him angrily, only to realize when he wakes up that the "paintings" were actually windows. That, and another one called "Arizona".
Oh god. As a kid, I read some short horror story about a face in a window even though the MC had pulled the blinds down and it has messed me up for life. Being watched unknowingly and unwillingly is a horror trope guaranteed to work on me.
That one’s pretty good. I sometimes tell it to other people, since it’s so short. Never fails to get some goosebumps.
@@tropezando Same with me. I was like 8 when I stumbled upon scp-072 from typing random letters with the keyboard. This was my first scp and the writing format genuinely made me believe it was real.
Made me wrap my blanket around my feet for years lol.
Secretly, this is just Vaush trying to have us creepypasta recommendations.
-the horror from the vault
-the devil game
-the wager game
-what if man
The horror from the vault is REALLY good!
The house without end is pretty good too along with arizona
My blood literally ran cold when I read the title of this video.
It was wierd when Vaush.exe turned towards the camera for 66.6 seconds and said "doG mA I" slowed down backwards and in reverse. I screamed, cried and wet my MLP blankets but assumed it was a glitch until I turned around and there was a Vaush plushie with blood eyes staring at me.
i thought they cancelled creepy pastas tho-
like in a hyperrealistic sort of way?
Was your blood hyper realistic? That's an important detail
Wasn’t the russian experiment story a creepy pasta , that one legit gave me goosebumps listening to someone read it
I don't watch them at all and usually I just wasn't interested but that one got me.
Yes it was
@@Sam_Guevenne I was thrown off cuz vaush hyper fixated on video game creepy pasta and I was like?? Pretty sure that was a small sub section of creepy pasta but maybe im remembering wrong
@@ultimatedespairgamer6722 I wouldnt say small but yeah there are other things in this genre
So was Ted the cave climber and that was legit frightening
I feel like when most people complain about creepypastas, they're talking about the shitty 2010 one's. There's some really great modern creepypasta out there right now, but tbf I don't know if people still classify them as creepypastas anymore. Ig if you classify the 2010 OC stories as creepypastas and the modern stuff as just online scary stories, then I can see where this sentiment is coming from
Would you mind recommending any good modern creepypasta?
This sentiment of separating creepypastas from “online horror stories” feels like the divide between comic books and graphic novels. It’s practically useless to separate the two but that separation comes from the what’s implied by the name
@@l_ndonmusic Pretty much every SCP is a creepypasta under a different name, and most of them are actually good.
@@calmkat9032 yeah scp in general is amazing
There's a man in my basement and every week he takes one step - or something like that. Author has entire mini universe and his story House we used to live in (or something like that) is going to be a Netflix show.
I’d love to read Vaush’s future writing
Creepypasta culture *gave us* the SCP project, so there's that. Or look at 4chans Backrooms. No point in denying the connection. There is a collective project with awesome/hillarious results that even got turned into shortfilms and webseries. And it is creepypasta in origin. Reducing Creepypasta to video games is like reducing Black Mirror to "phones bad".
Creepypasta is campfire ghost stories gone modern.
@Suave Karl Marx It literally started as a creepypasta on /x/. You can say it's grown past that label and I'd agree, but there's no point in denying that we have the creepypasta scene to thank for it.
@@Colddirector yeah but vaush isn't saying "no good came from it" he's just saying "the format wasn't very effective", and things like SCP are definitely not that format
@@Cruxin I think he's taken an overly reductive view of creepypasta there. He seems to just be describing haunted game creepypastas, which I'll concede were very prominent but not the entirety of creepypasta.
@@Colddirector ok then criticise that and not something he didn't say lol
@@Cruxin i was origionally responding to suave karl marx - not vaush.
No sleep is the top tier place for horror atm and you can’t change my mind, “creepypasta” has evolved so much past what people thought it used to be. Some of those stories have stuck with me much more than any show
Seriously! Creepypasta are just stories that are easily shared, are from a first person perspective, and have a narrative of supposedly having taken place (so the author is meant to respond to comments as if they were the narrator and stuff). That format is cool as balls, it's just that all the ones people know are ass.
''Ted the caver'' is very good, makes me never want to get in a cave. Doesn't relies on cheap ''blood'' shit. The reading of it by Dark Somium is probably the best one, but it's 2 hours long.
it would have been better if they cut out a few things imo but it was really good regardless
I feel Ted the Caver is less "creepypasta" and more "horror story that used the internet/early blog format to tell the story".
@@thecthuloser876 i mean isn't that what a creepy pasta is
@@thecthuloser876 that’s a sub genre of creepypasta
This remember me "My dad's long long legs"
Just that description at the end of coming downstairs and everyone's staring at you before you even realize it sent chills down my spine. Something about it gives me an immediate "fight or flight" feeling
There are kinds of creepypastas that are actually really good at being creepy by adding more uncertainty such as SCP or The Backrooms. In my opinion, the latter does a really good job in getting the reader's attention with a simple concept.
Both of the are staurare by 14 years old
If you play Roblox or Minecraft you will prob find a lot of this bs
Or when you are watching a horror movie and someone point how said characters seems so much like SCP 5392t49474
As much as I respect the quality and cool worldbuilding of Kayne Pixels backrooms, hes started an internet phenomenon thats made the whole concept less scary. The original backrooms concept without all the complication was so effective.
Such a weird thing seeing my early teenage years interests clash with my young adulthood interests
Definitely think part of it is that horror is more effective in the first person. Good creepypastas feel like a friend telling you a scary story.
Something Walks Whistling Past my House Every Night at 3:03 is legitimately scary to me. I originally listened to it when walking home from school and I actually started moving faster as the story moved along.
Marble Hornets was lit for teen horror and mystery. Truly the best of the creepypasta genre.
Anyone read the “NoEnd House” creepy pasta? I thought it was pretty good.
Alden's island is an SCP
No end house is an absolute classic
How about the one about riding the subway to the end of the line?
Candle Cove is a good one too.
Fuuuck. Just you mentioning the name gave me fucking chills. Instant classic.
CreepyPastas went to shit the moment they started making most of the stories about a stupid haunted video game or some OP edgelord, self insert character that kills people. Jeff the Killer vs Slenderman is when I knew this shit had hit rock bottom.
I think my favorite Creepypasta thing to date is the Slenderverse, as in the shared universe of Slenderman TH-cam series that came out after Marble Hornets. It's given a lot of young people who were interested in telling stories through film an easy in to start experimenting when they're too young to come up with something original, myself included. I'd recommend going down the rabbit hole.
I'm new with creepy pasta, so bear with me please. Ahem: A carpeted bathroom.
6:53 hey, that's one of Sanderson's laws:
1)An author's ability to solve conflict with magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic.
2) Weakneses, costs amd limits are more interesting than powers.
3) The author shoul expand on what is already a part of the magic system before something entirely new is added, as this may otherwise change entirely how the magic system fits into the fictional world.
Clancypasta writes some really amazing emotional stories that are based around mental health disorders.
I'm gonna be honest clancypastas writing doesn't impress me at all.
I thought he just did narration
@@hotbitch3978 They're are quite a few he writes himself. I think that's why he hasn't been uploading as consistently lately because he has been writing more of the narrations on his channel.
@@hotbitch3978 tons of pasta narrators decide to write they're own stories and they're usually not that good imo 💀
I feel like Vaush would really like the book The Ring (the one the movies were based on). It's actually highly philosophical and most of the characters' reactions are pretty realistic.
Careful Vaush you’re gonna rile me up
As somoene that used to listen to CreepsMcpasta and MrCreepypasta regularly, there's some good creepypastas (1999, Russian Sleep Experiment, No End House, Laughing Jack, Pirate Cove) but yeah a lot of them are pretty bad (Jeff the Killer is garbage). "1999" did legitimately creep me out though, probably because it did feel like it could be real.
Russian sleep experiment to me was absolutely not scary just because author clearly tried too hard. Like all that gore and zombie prisoners, it just kinda ruins the immersion and i can only laugh
Lol yeah, after internet historian did Jeff The Killer, I started to notice how bad it really is
To add to that list the story “ I work at a voodoo shop is really good it’s not scary per-say but it is a creepypasta that’s just good
A creepypasta where Destiny is slowly driven mad on stream by some supernatural entity
Vaush, the FnaF book series is literally a novel with characters of wich the mc experienced childhood trauma from a exoskeleton and her dad dying soon after. Haven't read the second book and propably never will because i don't want to support someone who funds Mc Turtle
My first thought would be "How do I record this in 4K to prove it is real and shake the foundations of Human belief?"
Well, you prob couldn't do it cause religious spiritual communication and videos about hautings are uploaded and everyday and nothing changed
Thanks Vaush, this was content I didn’t know I needed
Tales From the Gas Station is a great series that's technically considered "Creepypasta"
Idk but that one and my friend lived in an alt reality are 2 of my favorite stories on the internet
Yeah. I love it
I like the left turn game, a lot of king creepypastas are way more gothic, even if they are a tad more mellow it’s much more experiential and sort of exhausting in that way life is more of
*long creepypastas
I don't know if it counts as creepypasta because it doesn't have any creature in it and doesn't have the same "fandom" phenomenon attached to it, but Ted The Caver is actually, genuinely, terrifying. (Also Slenderman was pretty good before the game came out in 2011 and made it into a meme, a bunch of video ARGs were made with Marble Hornets being the leading star there)
The main reason the NES Godzilla creepypasta is so loved is BECAUSE it's character based. Granted, the character is pretty generic, but they have a backstory and the horror is personal to them.
I mostly liked it for the ambience and the art.
Mostly it hits everything Vaush is talking about, when weird things start happening he assumes it's a rom hack, when the guy on screen reacts to something he said, he dismisses it as a sheer coincidence, and when it get disturbingly personal he assumes it's his friend who gave him the cartridge's doing. Part of the reason it's so loved is because very few people ever played the game, so nobody knows when the author is fucking with you or not, but I think mostly it's because the protagonist behaves... like a rational human being.
I think another important part of SCPs that make them better than Creepypastas is that they don't necessarily have to be scary. I've read a number of funny or even heart-warming SCP entries. And there's stuff like Where the Dragons Went that are just good pieces of fiction.
I am way too baked to watch this, why is Vaush so passionately shitting on horror stories made by little kids lmfao
Red Mist vaush isn’t real, he can’t hurt you
Red Mist Vaush
Creepypastas don't all involve videogames as a framing device
And then a HYPER REALISTIC VAUSHVIDYA CAME FROM THE HYPER REALISTIC CURSED TH-cam VIDEO with HYPER REALISTIC EYES and HYPER REALISTIC BLOOD and then he was hyper realistically never heard from again
ghosts arent inteligent, they are the remains of a person, a huge pokemon fan could haunt pokemon ngames, or more specifically only a cartridge that belonged to him
Yeah, I think you're onto it. What makes ghosts scary is that they aren't rational. That's what makes "Mama" a fun ghost movie.
One of the only interesting things that came out of creepypastas was Channel Zero on SyFy. Such an underrated show.
I think it more or less addresses some of these criticisms by having character development and of course expands on the concepts over the course of several episodes. Not groundbreaking but really solid, even if you aren’t interested in creepypastas.
I listen to creepypasta all the time and my biggest lament is how hard it is to find anything good.
I feel you. A lot of the times I listen o them for background noise, but I don’t just want background noise, you hear? Generally, the longer ones are my favorites. It’s almost like the author was more willing to sink time and thought into their finished product.
@@awildnuisanceappears2784 I'm relistening to this 5 hour long one I really enjoyed. The Man In My Basement Takes One Step Closer Every Weel narrated by Lighthouse Horror. I have more recommendations if you're interested. I'm also open to recommendations myself.
Ironically his novel of the modded computer game stretching beyond the means of reality sounds a lot like the creepypasta ben drowned lol
He pretty much described Higurashi when he spoke about what he found scary, the 1st chapter is free and I highly recommend it
Cosmic horror basically
"Is there any Creepypasta that you actually think is scary?"
Godzilla NES, hands down in my eyes. Fun fact, I dunno if Vaush read it or not but it actually follows damn near everything Vaush talks about in terms of imagining a really good video-game based Creepypasta.
Vaush, if you haven't seen this Creepypasta, go ahead and look it up for a read on the wiki or listen to it on TH-cam. Its really good.
godzilla nes is good until the whole "person stuck in the game" plot happens. its really goofy in the second half from what i remember. it gets developed way too much to the point where its not scary anymore
I second this. RED is a fantastic character villain, and Solomon is a fun side character.
@@breadpirateroberts4946 I think it was good right up until the fight with RED, that's when it really jumped the shark. He really worked best as a vague but terrifying threat to escape from.
It's possible I read some different version, but Godzilla NES had me for a good while, then it started to lose me a bit when it turned towards the girl's spirit being in the game, then it REALLY turned me off when I got to the ending, where (SPOILER) it turns into like anime or something where some supersaiyan tiny godzilla thing shows up and fights the demon in the game. Again, maybe I read some weird alternate version or maybe the creator just felt like trolling everyone, but that was the point where I instantly doubted everything the story had been doing until that point.
@@jdjohnson1591 Yeah that's the one. The ending is pretty universally disliked. The author even made a joke parody ending afterwards because of it lol
The first thought I'd have if a spooky-modded game started getting personal, would probably be "damn, that's some dedicated stalking!!"
I never thought Vaush would make a video about this but holy shit... yeah he's really right, character driven horror is so enthralling.
I've wondered for quite a while what exactly a horror visual novel I fell in love with was gripping me, but watching this made it make sense. it's the characters and their relateability to it all that fucks me up, and boy am I all for it. The mix of interpersonal relationships and the drama that comes with that, with the mystery and trauma of what happens which is horrifying in it's own rite, but then compounds with the horror of the events of now! I really get the genius of it now, thank you!
I've listened to a few Creepypasta audio stories and they were really well done. Good stories, with high quality production. :)
There are some existential crisis ones like "Fear the Old Horns", and "I know where we go when we die" that I simply cannot watch in bed
Vaush describing the spooky thing at the end actually spooked me lmao
I have a feeling you'd really connect with CreepsMcPasta.
I think a lot of criticism of the creepypasta formula comes from people who interacted a little with it years ago and haven't since.
These days a lot of creepypastas fully take on the fact that they are fictional and drop all pretense of 'this really happened and it can happen to YOU', just to tell a nice spooky story (like Phycosis, my absolute favorite). Now you could get into the definitions weeds and say that those types of stories aren't creepypastas, just short horror stories, but idk about that. That's too advanced for me. I'm just going off what I see in the 'creepypasta' community spaces.
But yes, the quality does vary wildly lol.
A lovecraft-style telling of someone discovering a horrifying aspect to the nature of computing or the Internet.
I think Vaush's conception of a creepypasta is just not the same kind of creepypasta that I've been listening to on youtube since 3 or 4 years ago. That stuff can be really good; nevermind the hour-long titles sometimes.
That hyperrealistic vaush.exe thumbnail made me have nightmares for weeks and then I died!
4:15 Not only does this stuff exist, but messing with a game in weird ways to fuck with the player used to be a very popular way of dealing with piracy among game devs back in the day
Here is amazing creepypasta:
1- tales from the gas station
2- finding vanessa
3- psychosis
4- i dared my best friend to ruin my life
5- 1999
6- starving dogs / the psychologist
7- Russian sleep experiment
8- penpals
9- scp universe
10- asylum series (sequel to psychosis)
11-the backrooms
12- lonely broadcast station
And so much more
4:15 Not only does this stuff exist, but messing with a game in weird ways to fuck with the player used to be a very popular way of dealing with piracy among game devs back in the day.
The Russian sleep experiment also haunted me as a child
-Wakes up on island.-
"Ah... You're awake. The plane crashed and we got stuck here... So... want some coconuts."
My favorite creepy pasta was one called autopilot cuz it was about normal stuff a dad running on autopilot when he brings his kid to daycare but one day his autopilot glitches and he ends up forgetting his baby in the car all day and it dies. It was spooky af and extremely descriptive and engaging.
Have I been working under the wrong definition of creepy pasta I always assumed it was that short form internet horror stories stuff like “it only takes the good kids” or “three friends dinner”
Havent enjoyed a good new creepypasta in ages but I would HIGHLY recommend tales from the gas station as it has slowly become one of my favourite pieces of written and narrated media!
I actually got shivers when you described the people watching you too long but not sure why
The Harbinger Experiment is what I think is a genuinely good and unnerving story. But since I first watched the readings of it when I was a child, I may have some bias.
u literally uploaded this when i was falling asleep to creepypastas last night!!
There was one creepypasta on how a toy clown in a child's bedroom was actually a dwarf stalker who broke into the house and pretended to be a toy clown. That short story was scary af.
The Russian Sleep Experiment (and its sort of spiritual sequel Necrosleep), 1999, and ritual pastas like The Devil's Game genuinely did give me the creeps. As for gaming creepypastas I do really like Godzilla NES.
To me, Creepypasta was most certainly a massive upgrade from R.L.Stein's Goosebumps.
I don't feel like creepypastas have to be confined to their most repeated tropes, but given just how many go down that route it's understandable why someone would think otherwise.
I made a creepypasta story like that. It's of a VR mod for the original half life game, where at first the player just thinks its a fun elaborate mod with added voice acting added in. Going along like that for a few chapters. Until one of the characters in game says something so specific that there's no way even the most massive of dialogue trees would include it. (Specifically, saying it looked like the player was petting an invisible dog, because irl the players dog had woken up and was looking for attention, and the vr set was able to pick up the motion of the players hands.) After which shit hits the fan as the game can no longer hide behind plausible denyability as it had done up until that point.
The only creepypasta that disturbed me even a little was the Russian sleep experiment one, that didn't use a framing device based in the possibility that it could happen to you
I enjoy a good spooky tale every so often.
I tend to like cosmic horror type stories. SCPs can be really fun.
(really love the cthulhu/I have no mouth and I must scream inspired type stuff)
the hidden web page, toter's maze, "There's a Gravitational Anomaly out past the orbit of Jupiter"
There are a few matrix glitch stories that are also fun.
Feeling like a boomer as a millennial who never heard of "Creepypastas" and still don't know what they are after this video.
Creepy pasta where Aldens number is joked about one to many times and then the mysterious Alden is willed into existence and brutally murders the person in question.
1999 is easily my favourite creepypasta. Genuinely good story with a great read and interesting main character, and I live in Toronto so it still felt like I could relate to it.
Creepypastas didn't always base around the premise that the main entity in the story could haunt you. For example, one of my favorites was a simple story about a dude who lost his mother when he was a kid. Whenever he had a hard day and felt down he would sink beneath his bath tub and see his mother smiling at him for comfort. One day, he digs through old newspapers and finds out that his mom tried to drown him when he was a toddler.
Straight forward, simple, eerie.
I made a horror story where people keep finding videos of themself from the day before and one day they turn out all their lights and notice that all their AC vents have this soft red pulse and all have small cameras in them. Then you remove them and stuff slowly gets more and more insane ending in the POV of the recordings all being taken from the POV of their friends and family, who they eventual attack,
i actually had a creepypasta pokemon moment using the same cartridge i had since i was a child, just randomly when entering the battle tower in crystal (now 22yo) they instantly took control and repeated the "we've been waiting for your return" line as they lead me up the elevator, repeating the line in random intervals, even when not present, once the battle starts, all opponents were level 0 and when they received any damage at all the hp would drain from 100 to past 0, continue off screen and loop back until i hit a failstate and the game returned to normal function after.
was so upset that i had no one around to show this shit as i was just waiting for class to start
Just fetch a priest to perform an exorcism on your haunted pokemons; fair play
The one thing that single-handedly holds up the effectiveness of creepypasta is the images/media. The stories are terrible but the images are textbook examples of how to make pictures unsettling.
That’s true, I’ve never really read creepypastas but the few images I’ve seen stick with me until today and they’ll still pop into my head at night when I’m scared. A lot of them are very effective and I think that’s pretty interesting seeing how changing a few things about a picture can make it feel so unsettling
The NES Godzilla Creepypasta is something I definitely recommend checking out. There are TH-cam videos of it with animations and those are awesome but I recommend reading it in its original form first with just the text and images.
Creepypasta to me has always been a medium for kids - in the same way I would watch ghost videos as a kid and be genuinely freaked out - because kids haven't lost their imagination, so it truly feels real, in a way it doesn't to an adult - one of the things that sucks for us really. This is why horror is usually much scarier to children.
a lot of stories that call themselves creepypastas arent even creepypastas, theyre just horror stories. I read a good one a while ago that was about guy who grew up in a kind of secluded village with weird "rules", basically ramped up versions of "finish your plate to get good weather". 2 i remember were "if you have someone in your house you want to leave, little salt in their shoe should do the trick" and "dont leave a chair empty when going to bed because someone might take a seat" and then theres this whole story and it didnt have anything a "traditional" had
I've been writing horror stories my entire life (never published, either because I couldn't finish a story or because the only copies were lost or destroyed by some misfortune or other), but there was a period about ten years back where I began writing short horror fiction in a ritual creepypasta-style format, second person perspective stories that either gave detailed instructions for some dangerous ritual or operated like a text-based adventure game. It was common for me to end these sorts of stories with some sort of bizarre or "shocking" twist (my favorite ones being the "the fourth wall will not protect you" or "the author of this pasta is standing right behind you ready to kill you painfully once you finish reading this sentence" twist endings), which in a way was atypical from the usual way I wrote horror fiction, wherein the opening lines were usually something shocking and dramatic to hook the reader while the rest was largely straightforward or at the very least not startling enough to cause mental whiplash.
There was a time in my life when writing was all I knew how to do. I was like a savant. I would get complimented by my peers for my ability to tell a story, but I never felt like I was any better than mediocre most of the time. I just did it because I knew nothing else, because I couldn't even fathom stopping much less force myself to stop.
It's been about a year and a half since I wrote anything or worked on a story, and I no longer feel that compulsion like I once did. I think it's because my laptop (on which I'd stored about a hundred rough drafts) got sold for meth by someone I trusted, and the thumb drives where I stored the backup files went missing around the same time (although I'm 99% sure at least one or two of them were used by that same asshole tweaker to store the weird porn and Johnny Rebel songs he'd downloaded), and I think that just destroyed my morale and my will to create. I think that might be why I've gotten so into politics lately, because I'm searching for a new passion and a way to work out my anger and substitute some deep desire for personal justice that I know I'll never get by advocating for social justice instead.
Why the fuck am I saying any of this?
Awwww, daddy Vaush rippin' on my favorite fandom. He's absolutely right, but still! Personally, I never really liked the video game or cartoon pastas, I always liked either the original ones or the pastas that are written outside the format Vaush mentioned here. Creepypasta is a HUGE genre so of course not everyone is going to fall inside the traditional pasta format. I always saw Creepypasta as a collection of avid writers submitting their short horror stories to be enjoyed by others. It just so happens that the most famous ones tend to suck all the ass. I know I got a few saved to my favorites. I could prolly share if anyone's interested.