copypasta and creepypasta
So what are creepypastas?
They are a genre of supposedly creepy memes from 4chan and associated sites such as Somethingawful etc. the creepypasta sites are created by the folks who started/run the chan and connected sites. 4chan is full of trolls and fangirl/boys.
'creepy' = 'copy' and 'pasta' = 'paste'. What do you think of when you hear 'copy paste'? If you said chain letters, you hit it bang on the nose!
This blog partly explains why they are so popular, but doesn't go quite far enough into the subject of virality and where creepy pastas actually come from.
Creepypastas are, and encourage belief in, and the spread of chain letters.
Creepypasta pictures are photoshop faked up hoaxing crap. Garbage. The people making them up are not above superimposing images of famous cartoon characters or part of a real image of a real person into a completely faked up setting. and, many love perversion. Their expression for this is "me gusta". One of their favourite things to do is take a kiddy show and make up disgusting stories about its characters. The "Cupcakes" meme is an example of that, being about My Little Pony characters cutting and eating each other alive. Suicide Mouse is a Youtube video and phoney backstory about Mickey Mouse driving someone to suicide.
The chan/creepypasta subcultures have more than one site, too, created for/by creepypasta fans: creepypasta.com, creepypasta.doomby.com, creepypastaindex.com, creepypasta.wikia.com, creepypastalegends.com, creepypastanetwork.com, creepypastaplanet.com, and crappypasta.com (that site doesn't dislike creepypasta, it's a place where fans review and decide which pastas are 'worthy' of being on the sites they admire.) Wikia has articles and sections dedicated to creepypasta as well. Slender Man has his own wiki over there for example.
The pastas have spilled out into other internet venues as well such as gaming, video and quizzes, all of them rigged in favour of any supposedly creepy character from a pasta or urban legend.. The results being you get killed, but you never get to kill them.
And yes, this crap does freak out and actually dupe some people into being genuinely scared of creepypasta characters and those from other chain letters. It's how I found out about this stuff from Yahoo Answers.
If that isn't bad enough, some of these pastas have fangirls who crush on extremely sadistic, violent killer characters. *Cough* Slender Man, Jeff The Killer, Laughing Jack. That has resulted in creepycrush fan fiction all over sites like Quotev and Wattpad.
Like bronyism and otakuism, there is very little opposition to this, and where there is, you can be sure that there is always going to be fandom people defending this stuff.
Majora’s Mask, Ben Drowned is another creepypasta by 4chan naturally, started on September 7, 2010, by some user calling itself Jadusable.
The big lie is that a Majora’s Mask cartridge for the Nintendo 64 video game console is haunted, and some favourite psych-out catchphrases used in the perpetuation of this meme are "You shouldn't have done that …”, “You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?”, “YOUR TURN” and “YOU’RE NEXT.”
Never satisfied with just telling campy ghost stories, the creepypasta people love to incorporate sites like Youtube and Cleverbot into their hoaxes, either as a means of perpetuation or as mentions in their bogus stories to make them sound creepier.
So Ben is a file on this cartridge, and he makes the game characters call the players "Ben" and then not at all when the Ben file is deleted.
All the stops are pulled out, the healing music in reverse, of course… The weird text displays, the missing textures, a town setting missing its usual characters, the bogus Youtube videos - if they were made at all, tales, the Cleverbot nonsense. The Youtube channel profile changing, the claim "I am everywhere" bunk, the weird forum behaviour, the haunted computer, this just gets ^^^Slender+Stories">hokier by the minute.
The Smile dog meme was spawned by that lot of fine folks down at 4chan/encyclopediadramatica in 2007. The same lot behind CreepyPasta. Chain letter originators extraordinaire.
The Smile dog is a ridiculous story that contains sexist stereotypes and claims an internet picture, which can't really be found on the internet, makes people go crazy and haunts their dreams until they die, unless they, you guessed it, spread the word.
The hoax goes on to claim that the "real" picture can't be found and only imitations of Smile.jpg or Smile Dog are seen on the web, and that when the "real" Smiley devil dog face shows up, it makes people mad and refuses to let itself actually be contained in a file, or something absurd like that.
The whole idea is to make this stupid picture sound like something that has a mind and a life of its own, so that people will be scared of something that doesn't actually exist.
The sexism comes in because the person going nutsy hysterical is a woman, while the men around her are calm, cool, collected, and calculating while seeming to quietly get a laugh at her expense.
There is no "real" Smile Dog. Every last picture is fake and so are the tales about the so-called "real" Smile Dog picture.
So what next? Haunted lolcats? Ugh! Banish that horrible thought!
These killers are not only hoaxes, but utterly repulsive. Their favourite hobby besides terrorizing their fellow fictional characters as well as a great deal of real people, is to torture and mess with other characters' bodies, especially their guts. Yes, innards.
Mr. Widemouth What an appropriate and goofy name. He and Laughing Jack the clown are imaginary friends, or rather, frenemies of five-year-old boys. Widemouth was developed by a five-year-old during delirium and loneliness brought about by a high fever. He has big features, especially his mouth, and he disappears when parents are around.
Laughing Jack barged into little James's head while the little boy was playing on his own in his backyard. Jack has long matted black hair that hangs to his shoulders, ghost-white plubber rastic (plastic&rubber) skin, white piercing eyes with Jeff-black raccoon rings around them, a weird looking large swirly cone for a nose, and arms that are too long. He dresses in a black and white clown outfit with baggy pants, striped sleeves and socks, and a stupid Jeff-like twisted permasmile, showing sharp, jagged teeth. Laughing Jack is a revolting combination of Mr. Widemouth and the Killer Clown Statue, Jeff and Jane the Killers and Slender Man. he makes Widemouth look like a choir boy.
Let's deal with Widemouth first.
The evil thing about Mr Widemouth is that he tries getting this kid to endanger, harm, or even kill himself.
First, Mr. Bigmouth - uh, I mean, Widemouth, tries to coax the kid to jump out a second story window to his death with the claim that jumping hard enough will make him bounce right back up like a feather. He calls it a "game". When the kid considers, and rationally declines, Mr. Widemouth is angry, and snarls for a moment, but tries to hide it, unable to help his disappointment. He pouts under the bed for the rest of that day and night.
The next day, Mr. Bigmouth - I mean Widemouth comes up with another rotten idea. Knife-juggling lessons. When he was refused again, his anger was intense enough for him to scowl and then go pouting under the bed again until the next morning.
The kid keeps getting his sleep interrupted by Mr Widemouth continuing to coax him to jump out that window with claims of having put a real trampoline down there to catch his fall, and that the reason it was invisible was because it was night time. These hallucinations continue with the sickness and the meds.
One day, the kid is allowed to go outside, but Mr. Widemouth meets him there, with another one of his evil plans. A path into a forest that he said he'd take the kid on when the time was right.
Two weeks later, the family moves, and the kid thinks the imaginary frienemy could be safely left behind, but of course, you don't get away from imaginary people simply by moving. Kid thinks he sees Mr. Widemouth standing in the bedroom window, waving pitifully and holding a stick knife in one hand.
Flashforward to years later…
Main character's grown up and decides to go visit the place where their old house once stood. The house is no more, the land is bare. Reason? The house had burned down. Wow, that's got to be some soreheadd imaginary frienemy.
Main character decides out of curiosity to follow the path Mr. Widemouth had shown back when main character was just a five-year-old cherub. That path ended at a cemetery which contained many children's graves. And Mr. Widemouth never reappeared.
Creepy pasta cooked, meme mangled!
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Now, Laughing Jack.
He's an evil toy clown that took on the personality of the boy he had been given to by some *cough* guardian angel who turned out to be worse than useless. Jack was your typical imaginary friend only the kids could see, and he ended up committing particularly sadistic murders, because it was all fun and games to him, and in the world of creepy pasta, anything associated with fun play time for little kids is really terribly sinister and even perverse, because creepy pastas are awesome like that. *Rolling eyes* Read more about this abomination here. Warning, I lose my cool when cooking this one.
Imaginary frienemies, who needs 'em?
Jeff The Killer was created by troll Sesseur in October, 2008, as a Youtube video, and eventually became a story on the 4chan CreepyPasta chain letter replicating site.
In the most popular/notorious story from 2011, Jeff is introduced via fictional eye-witness account as having long black hair, black rings around his eyes and the biggest smile ever seen. What you don't find out until later on in the story is he didn't always look that way.
The 2011 story goes like this.
Basically, Jef and family moved to a new location, Jeff got bullied, he bullied back.
The whole thing was filled with blockheaded oblivious adults and absolutely insane violent bloodlusting kids. Jeff is sadistic enough to mutilate himself and kill his parents, and attempt to kill his brother. That's where the original leaves off.
His favourite catch-phrase is "Go to sleep" or rather, "Go to slip." the way he says it in the video game.
Jeff's ringed eyes, along with eyes that are soulless or completely flaring over with utter blackness etc. are typical Mary Sue/Gary stu signs of insanity, shift in mood from nice to bad part of a character's fragmented personality etc. You know, all of that sort of thing, way over-used in fantasy-writing.…
Since when does fire give a person long black hair?
As for the huge smile, it isn't even a smile at all. It's a cut-out job. After Jeff's face was disfigured from the fire, he disfigured it even more by cutting out a big smile shape into his cheeks. He thought it would make him even more beautiful and more intimidating.
Jane The Killer is basically a female version of Jeff The Killer.
She kills to impress and out-do Jeff. She sees her victims as Jeff, and her killings are just as violent and gross as his. She pretends her victims are Jeff as she kills them.
Though Jeff has been creeping people out on Yahoo answers, he is just a fictional character. So neither he nor his many spinoffs nor any of their memes will kill you.
Info and mangling of many Jeff stories
There are two jacks in one, Candle Jack is a meme created by the lovelies down at 4chan/b/etc again, from some cartoon.
The meme goes that the hoaxers write a sentence with "Candle Jack" in it and are interrupted, terminated, as if Candle jack made them write his name and then snuffed them out, I guess.
*rolling eyes*
Eyeless Jack is a clawed, kidney-eating, leaky-eyed, violent stalker, and also a creepypasta, so another one from that illustrious lot of folks, and among some of the creepypastas featured on Scary4kids.
Mangled and terminated!
This is the most notorious creepypasta meme, being the one fangirls have actually tried to kill for.
According to Urbanlegends.about.com, The Daily Dot, and KnowYourMeme.com, Slender Man was spawned by alias Victor Surge, real name Eric Knudsen, on the Somethingawful site on June 8, or 10, 2009, as part of a photoshop contest. Loathed as I am to post a Somethingawful link, here's the proof via original thread.
Killing Slender Man My kind of post, loaded with details, and does not promote belief in the hoax.
Creepypasta stories were written about the tall, blank-faced man with crazy arms that shorten and lengthen at will, wearing a black suit, with tentacle-like things growing out his back, and tendrils extending his fingers and toes.
The story goes that Slender Man is a cannibalistic (if you want to call him human) child molester who lures little children away with his outstretched arms and by pretending to be their imaginary friend. He gets into the heads and dreams of his equally fictional prey and consumes them psychologically and eventually physically.
Slender Woman is some kind of spinoff/satire.
Contrary to what the creepy pasta backstories say or imply, the truth is, he's just photo-shopped and is featured in some fictional stories and games, he will not teleport to your house and give you the fictitious condition of Slender sickness, (coughing fits), memory loss, insomnia, paranoia, and he won't wreck your videos or photos.
The real Slender sickness is when fangirls actually believe in Slender Man and literally try to kill people to please him.
That's what happens when trolls and fandoms run amok. It isn't a question of if, but when someone will eventually get hurt in the real world by obsessed fans.
His name is Toby Aaron Rogers and he is a Slender man slave. They are called "proxies" but that's just their fancy term for slavish cult-follower of Slender Man.
Ticci has Tourette's syndrome plus some condition that makes him unable to register physical pain.
His father is the typical pasta/chain letter violent drunk, and his sister gets killed in a car accident, supposedly. This makes Toby a delicious new addition to Slender Man's ever-growing collection of slaves and worshipers. He plays with Toby's mind until Toby snaps and kills his father. Then when he escapes, a fire breaks out. It is implied Toby set it, but we all know Slender Man is the one behind all the trouble, and that car wreck was no accident either.
In a sequel, told as a kind of journal from an unnamed dead teenage girl, Toby goes all Jeff The Killer on her for no reason.
I could not include Ticci in meme-mangling or the NoodleHeads series because of the trouble his fandom caused for his creator, who just wants everyone to give Ticci a rest already.
Salt is a disgusting combination of Slender Man and Laughing Jack, not specifically a clown, he is this black humanoid thing with long sharp claws instead of normal fingernails. Why this feature? So he can rip kids stomachs open of course! *Scowl* He gets his jollies kidnapping and torturing and eventually eating children alive. He calls that love. *Glower*
This Man was created in 2009 by viral marketing specialist Andrea Natella, who runs Guerilla Marketing, an ad agency that makes up hoaxes and whacky art projects in advertising, politics, and porn.
In typical hoaxer fashion, she tries her best to make thisman look as if it is real.
Yahoo Answers has been hit with questions from people who were curious or even creeped out by this hoax.
The beady-eyed, thin-lipped man with the receding hairline is only an image, and does not haunt the dreams of massive numbers of people. The hoax is simply using the power of suggestion to get people believing in it. If we are told that some well known psychologist (who is not named) was told by a number of patients they all saw the same man in their dreams, and that people all over the world are reporting having the same dream, the power of suggestion might tell us that all those people couldn't be wrong.
What's the next step after belief?
Passing the story and the site along, of course!
Forget it. It never happened. This Man is not real, and has never invaded my dreams. Whether you dream about him or not, This Man is still a hoax.
h3>Conclusion
4chan is all about trolling, spamming, hoaxing, create malicious code and viruses/worms, malware, impersonate TV personalities, shows, and other celebrities in order to pull tasteless cancer hoaxes and try getting people to cut themselves for Justin Bieber, hack MIT, Twitter, or any other online sites they could manage. Oh I'm sure they would just fall over themselves laughing at the sight of water ways running red with blood due to Be-liebers cutting themselves, all because of a hoax they started.
Encyclopedia Dramatica is the very essence of 4chan in their trolldom They thrive on suffering and are contemptuous of decency and belief in God. They kick people who are already down, and kick them some more. They also have a pathological hatred of scientology.
They and anything coming from them - *thumbs down* Exceedingly uncool, but opposition to this stuff is extremely rare, almost to the point of non-existent.
This is where MTM comes in.
throw in one Slender Man, and Bring to a rage comic boil, then drain off the excess water.
Liquify a Drowned Ben before adding, and mix well.
Toss in one minced roasted Jeff The Killer for color and rich flavour.
add one minced Jane the Killer for just the right amount of saltiness.
Pop open a box of Laughing Jack and dump in for enhanced texture.
Add 1 Eyeless Jack, browned well beforehand, making sure it's one without kidneys or claws. If claws and anything resembling kidneys are found, remove them.
Add one Smile dog
Add one This Man, finely chopped, and mix well.
For a bit of spicy kick, Stir in some User66 to taste.
Let simmer, stirring occasionally with the rake until Slender Man's tentacles become the same color as the rest of the pasta.
Serve with Happy appy apple Candle Jack sauce on the side if desired.
the candle Jack Happy Appy sauce is also used in creepypasta salads.
Goes great with lame-arse TV pasta theories.
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