Talk:Creepypasta
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Back rooms edit
Is a real scary and murder zombies and ghost 2A02:C7F:44DC:B100:CC16:FCB8:C22F:82A (talk) 10:24, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- The backrooms should have a separate article. It might already have one. It is not a creepypasta, so it would not fit on this page. BlazetheGame (talk) 19:11, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- Whats wrong with it 2600:1014:B132:E358:0:B:1D50:CD01 (talk) 20:32, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
The Final Post . . . edit
Isn't it a little redundant to observe that "Ted the Caver" "has not been updated since the final post"? Isn't that the definition of "final"? I mean, if somebody updates Ted the Caver at 11:43, as of 11:44, no one will have updated the story since the final post. 65.51.145.131 (talk) 15:44, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
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The "A Parallel Life / Awoken By A Lamp" story edit
A story has been shared frequently on reddit, originating here, that can certainly be considered a creepypasta, and in my opinion is notable enough to be included on the page, however it doesn't have an official title, and I don't know what to do in that case
some other places it has been shared, showing its spread https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alunlx_FKAA Voball the wiki man (talk) 14:29, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Should there be a page (or at least a section) dedicated to trollpastas? edit
Trollpastas are distinct from creepypastas, and I'd love to read an article about them. Unfortunately, Trollpasta redirects to Creepypasta. Can someone make an article (or a section) about trollpastas? Ideally, it'd be an article, but if you can't do that, do a section. ExplodingCreeper14 (talk) 21:51, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
11 miles ritual edit
I don't know if there is more info about this creepypasta if there is I haven't seen it but I think there should be more info about this. 24.30.145.183 (talk) 18:13, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Corrections edit
Current text (proposed change Bold+underlined)
Anti-legends are similar to legends except that they seek to purposely subvert the legends of the era by challenging the audience's exceptions of what constitutes a contemporary legend.
Proposed text:
Anti-legends are similar to legends except that they seek to purposely subvert the legends of the era by challenging the audience's expectations of what constitutes a contemporary legend. Kirkers95 (talk) 15:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Pizzagate, QAnon, and creepypastas -- any connections? edit
This is a reach, I admit, but something tugs at my intuition when I see the term "creepypastas" (and "copypastas") that emerged in the mid-to-late 2000s, and the rise of QAnon's urban myth roughly a decade later about child abuse taking place in the basement of pizza parlours. This fed the further development of what was later termed "Pizzagate".
The bit tying it all together could be ... pasta! Did the terms copypasta and particularly creepypasta generate a focus on Italian food that fed (excuse the pun) the QAnon/Pizzagate trope?
I haven't found any similar discussion on the Internet, so I thought it might be worth addressing here. Kirkers95 (talk) 15:19, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- There is not much of a focus on food in creepypastas. Like with other examples of horror fiction, the stories depict intentionally disturbing scenarios of bullying, insanity, supernatural creatures, and haunted houses (or oher locations). They are recycling age-old collective fears for the Intenet era. Meanwhile, Pizzagate was reusing elements from the Satanic panic of the 1980s. Basically, a moral panic that there was a vast conspiracy that profited from the sexual exploitatation and the ritual murder of children, and urging the public to take immediate action. The perfect scenario for the creation of lynch mobs which will attack whatever folk devil is available. Some things have not changed since the 1980s. Dimadick (talk) 17:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC)