I always find it funny whenever I come across a take like "they ruined the backrooms/slenderman/some other subpar popular creepypasta when they added lore!" because like. the original is still there. you can ignore the stuff people make that you don't like. and you can make more in the style that you do like. It's a creepypasta not a TV or book series.

this is, admittedly, a pretty niche take to run across but I still somehow run across it regularly

slenderman was just a picture with a tall creepy dude. backrooms was a fairly mid idea to begin with. none of these are high art, they weren't ruined by anything and complaining that people changed what is an inherently communal form of storytelling is silly

"They"

As if any of these things is made by a single central entity

this take brought to you by the fact that I followed Trevor Henderson on twitter for a bit and now I randomly get hot takes about creepypastas from time to time

the creepypasta regulatory agency

which is really not doing its job because like 99% of creepypasta are boring as shit

I remember when Slenderman was new

there was always lore

and contradictory lore, at that

Like, I agree that communities tend to over develop these things to the point where they're not enjoyable for me or lose the experience of the original but also like

Who care

Zita : I feel like a lot of the people who overdevelop creepypastas really wanted to write an SCP article but their ideas kept getting rejected

like I actually enjoy some of the things that came out of creepy pastas being developed, like some of the ARGs, but ultimately it seems silly to complain about someone ruining a creepypasta

multiple different versions of things is how folklore is

wanting everything to have a neat table of contents entry is a sign video games have rotted your brain

but don't you know, there's an original myth for everything

look, i enjoy proto-indo-european reconstructionism as much as the next hopeless nerd

but divine cattle rustling is not particularly relevant to my lifestyle

Also lbr
A lot of it is kids

Lol