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Creepypasta is the modern evolution of humanity's storytelling by oral tradition, but how did it go from the biggest topic in online horror to a declining record of the 2010s?

GO TO SLEEP. In 2001 an Angelfire blog called "Ted the Caver" captured the imagination of internet audiences with its series of diary-like updates from an ambitious cave explorer haunted by the mysteries of his adventures into a passage called Floyd's Tomb. It was the first in a phenomenon that would eventually take the internet by storm – creepypasta – the digital evolution of campfire tales and urban legends.

Named for their ability to be creepy tales that are copy and pasted around the internet, these stories came to define horror for an entire generation in the 2010s, but how did creepypasta rise from seemingly nowhere and fall from grace so dramatically?

In this video I'll go over the entire history, from the early phenomena that set the stage before creepypasta; to the explosion in the genre's early days; to the rise to mainstream popularity with recognizable mascots; to the world of creepypasta narrations; to mainstream media adoption; to crime and controversy and eventually the fall from grace.

Along the way I'll go over some of the most culturally relevant creepypasta stories, cover important subgenres like haunted game creepypastas, lost episode creepypasta and ritual pastas, and discuss the legacy and future of this unique storytelling medium.

Chapters
0:00 "Ted The Caver" | The First Creepypasta
2:39 Intro
4:44 Usenet Horror | Before Creepypasta
6:48 Black Eyed Children | An Early Viral Sensation
9:01 Dreadnot and Fright.com
10:26 The Blair Witch Project's Impact
12:21 The Rise of Copypasta
14:26 "The Dionaea House"
16:11 The Infancy of Creepypasta
18:47 "Jeff the Killer"
20:33 Launch of Creepypasta.com
21:06 "Smile.jpg"
22:57 "Candle Cove"
24:53 "The Rake"
26:47 The Slender Man
31:04 Rise of Creepypasta Wiki
31:41 "The Russian Sleep Experiment"
32:58 "BEN Drowned"
35:44 "Red Mist"
36:35 "Normal Porn for Normal People"
38:26 "Lavender Town Syndrome"
39:21 "Masterpiece"
40:17 Eyeless Jack
41:41 Laughing Jack
43:27 "Ticcy Toby"
45:23 The Era of Creepypasta Narrators
47:52 "Borrasca"
49:37 Al Dente Creepypasta
51:14 Ritual Pastas
52:34 The Slender Man Stabbing
55:37 Creepypasta's Downfall
56:25 The Laughing Jack Stabbing
57:40 Slender Man (2018) Movie
1:00:17 Other Creepypasta Film Adaptations
1:01:16 The Legacy of Creepypasta Today

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