SecretNegative said:
Ubiquitous Duck said:
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So he's some sort of modern day Bigfoot... who murders people?
If you go to the creepypasta website there is a statement on the front page in relation to this case and the media attention creepypasta has got from it.
Eh, sort of, only that some people actually believe in bigfoot.
He was basically created in (I think it was) the SomethingAwful forum when they a thread about creating your own fictional monster or something, and a user found/altered several photographs so that it would appear slenderman was in them all from different timeperiods. People thought this is pretty cool for some reason, and it latched on.
I do think the term "creepypasta" is weird thought, isn't it just a ghost story? Or is the difference that Ghost stories are retold, while creepypasta is copypasted? Or what?
Nowadays it's just a creepy story on the internet. Originally it came from people trying to start urban legends, where they would show up on some site and "tell everyone the truth" anonymously like you might expect someone to do in a horror movie after a horrible experience. Some of these stories were circulated around like chain letters and such and became a thing, and of course more and more people did I or got involved. The name is sort of a throwback to the origins of creepy stuff on the internet.
Some of the stuff is totally bogus, other stuff (the best stuff) has a grain of truth to it, probably by people who were inspired by actual events and simply added a fantastic motivation to them. A lot of it can't be proven either way, and some can become bona-fide urban legends, and like a lot of such stuff it spawns it's own area of conspiracy theories, both on specific stories, and on the whole genera itself, especially when combined with other trends as I pointed out.
Among the most "famous" creepypastas are things like the "Tails Doll" which could be brought up in one of the Sonic racing games and was totally creepy. There was a rumor for a while that if you used it, bad things could happen to you IRL. Then of course there is "Smiledog" which is basically a pic of an evil looking dog with a toothy grin photo shopped onto it, and a guys hand visible as if the photographer messed up somewhat in taking the pic. Basically if you see the "true" Smiledog picture it gets into your head and drives you insane in your dreams until you spread the photo to other people where the same thing happens, however once you pass it on you tend to die or disappear (though your misery presumably ends). There have been scads of photos fitting that description put all over the internet as part of the "joke", the basic gist of it is that if you see one and nothing happens it just means you didn't see the real ones. Personally if I had skill at shopping I always kind of wanted to make a picture of Slenderman taking Smiledog for a walk. Then of course you have "Abandoned By Disney" which talks about the ruins of one of their alleged parks they had to abandon and how it's haunted. A sequel of sorts to it however talks about the concept of "Gascots" which are mascots with gas mask features as part of the mascot head, and where you can see condensation inside the eye lenses if you look closely. Allegedly they roam Disneyland (I think it was) periodically, and don't actually do much. The background to them is that during the Atomic Warfare hysteria decades ago Disney built bomb shelters (like most people did), but due to not wanting to frighten children if an emergency happened they had special gas masks made in the form of iconic Disney characters. The idea being that if there was an emergency the siren would go off, the staff would distribute the less scary masks which would hopefully not frighten the children, and everyone would be lead into the prepared shelters. Not in of itself all that crazy, however allegedly there was a "false alarm" through the park (now covered up) where everyone who went into the shelters apparently disappeared, and a later attempt to look inside revealed weird voices and supernatural cold and darkness. Allegedly Disney covered up the incident and buried the shelter under tons of concrete, but ever since you occasionally see these Gascots wandering around in the crowds and then vanishing.... I'm rambling but all of these are "classics" that have gotten some following and the occasional person (Conspiracy Theorist) apparently taking them fairly seriously.... albeit to my knowledge nobody has ever been confirmed killed by a looking into/following a creepypasta until now... and you know, wierdos being weird, people have doubtlessly gone to Disney wearing "Gascot" costumes to be funny and amuse the occasional person who gets the joke and so on (just as many people have made Smiledog pics) but that's all fairly harmless.
