creepypasta

Maybe they're making it up as part of an insanity defense.

Is Whiney calling Treeship a pearl-clutcher sexist??

Yeah i agree, Whiney. I work as an assistant teacher at a middle school and the kids I've dealt with seem to live in reality, for the most part, and have a degree of critical thinking skills. But the prospect that these kids were actually that "out there" in their thinking is still disturbing. The police etc seem to be treating that as a possibility.

Adults can get trapped inside their own heads and focus on something so much that it affects their perceptions of reality, so I don't see why it couldn't happen to a 12 year old.

how might these girls be different from other junior high girls

Beautiful creatures was one of the first things I thought of too even though it's different.

Also, God that's a great movie.

An article I read really made it sound like one of the two was definitely the leader and the other sort of went along with it not thinking it would really happen until it was too late.

enbb otm

i swear this was posted to ilx recently but i can't remember which of our rolling threads about fucked up shit it might have been on

Why is that site called creepypasta? Am I missing something? That's the least creepy name ever and it's been annoying me. Get a better site name, dorks.

sad that i know this, but (deep breath)

i think on sites like 4chan easily copied blocks of text turn into memes ie "copypasta". since people post anonymously it was part of the joke? i think? like, you'd recognize the same story over and over again eventually.

a subgenre of these that were supposedly first-person accounts of horror type stuff were called creepypasta

then someone made a website for them?

ok look id really k

i swear this was posted to ilx recently but i can't remember which of our rolling threads about fucked up shit it might have been on

― goole, Thursday, June 5, 2014 1:02 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

am0n posted it to Lame Meme Reemerging a couple hours after I posted it here.

lol it's ok HL, we know you were first with the breaking story ;)

Goole - Ah! I think that sort of makes sense. I had no idea.

lol, I'm not like, trying to claim cred for this national news story or anything.

I know, I'm just busting your balls for the "a couple hours after I did" bit.

Copypasta is internet slang for any block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again, typically disseminated by individuals through online discussion forums and social networking sites. Although it shares some characteristics with spam in the sense they’re both unsolicited (and often considered a nuisance), copypastas are mainly spread through human operators whereas the latter is automatically generated by electronic messaging systems.

Slenderman is a pretty good scary looking thing. My own son brought up 'slenders' about six months ago after binging on god knows what youtube videos about whatever stupid games. However, he has a good grasp on what's real and what isn't. I think a deeper investigation into these children's homelife, the importance of myth (there were a lot of creepy drawings posted to the dad's instagram, for instance) will be revealing.

I think my kid got into it by watching pewdiepie videos.

do u pronounce is pasta - like the food - or paste-a like copy/paste(+a)?

Oh! That might change everything. I was reading it as the food and picturing ghost shaped noodles.

copy/paste
copypasta
creepypasta

crappoprasta

this one always gets me

lol @ whiney

yes the internet has truly eradicated the age-old problem of teenagers having impressionable underdeveloped minds

it's been years since i've read any creepypasta, but i still treasure that period of time in 2010 when people started re-writing the most overexposed stories as grim parables from communist russia.

i remember being at 6th grade science camp trying to talk a kid out of sneaking out of his cabin in the middle in the night to go out in to the woods and whisper "six six six" (which would mean satan would immediately swallow him in to hell for eternity)

we talked him out of it

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nevada-tan

http://imgur.com/gallery/Xseur

That's far better than most. A thunderstorm is rolling in and I am sitting by an open window, so a cold breeze actually and factually ran up my neck as I was reading that, which definitely added to the experience.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/29kd1x/my_dead_girlfriend_keeps_messaging_me_on_facebook/

are the people giving advice just playing along with the story?

Some people will be playing along like it's an ARG, some people are just stupid.

i don't think i've ever posted this one here b4 but it's a fave:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/NoEnd_House

lol
http://jezebel.com/dead-girlfriends-fb-messages-from-beyond-the-grave-will-1599900589

even if it's a hoax

IT'S A GHOST STORY.

Like, unless that Jezebel author has gone *deep ARG* I really want to smash something right now.

i don't think i've ever posted this one here b4 but it's a fave:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/NoEnd_House

really? this was a p boring & pointless, maybe creepypasta just isn't for me

that's the urban legend at the heart of the film "Toad Road" which I liked but has never been mentioned here

this stuff is like, if you like horror but like it best in an environment where people are constantly goin "fake!" or "not scary!"

op delivered

this was kinda my bible when i was eight; no need to return tho
http://www.verbicidemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/scary-stories-to-tell-in-th.jpg

yeah those books were the illest when i was a kid

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html

people that believe in a singularity have been reading too many of Karl Malone's works on polynomial theory

lol @ tech libertarians

I think the phrase "referendum on autism", although nasty, is not far wrong.

seems a bit like Pascal's wager but with a supercomputer.

I, for one, welcome our new hypothetical future AI overlord.

yea I'm impressed by how far out it goes...I read it all like a year ago and a lot of it has stayed with me

I noticed my 5 yo named a ghost “momi” apropros of nothing an hour after I read the Momo thing above.

“Momo” means “peach” in Japanese for those who don’t know

Long, but worth reading:

The Haunting of 657 Boulevard

audio on yt is here

creepy but mostly infuriating that some jackass LARPer can ruin a family's life w/ just some anonymous letters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfu39l0kxg

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related:
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/Content?oid=871084