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BlackFaithStar lmao (Rule of Three)
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Mar 4th 2024 at 3:38:38 PM •••

For those unaware, there's a cleanup thread for creepypasta. To quote Tropes Needing TRS:

  • Creepypasta: As briefly discussed here, the page is very oddly used - it's simultaneously trying to be a genre page and a works page, complete with subpages. Some pages for subgenres list tropes associated with the genre, but troping individual, unrelated works (as creepypasta is currently doing) seems out of line. The genre description could also use reassessment to make sure it lines up with how the word "creepypasta" is used outside the wiki these days.

So one of the pressing issues that I'm tackling bit by bit is this page's troping of individual, related works. But I'd like others to be aware of this issue and hopefully help move individual examples to their own pages as well. I'm making this post to request for feedback on one sentence that I'd like to add to the end of the page's description. Thank you.

Please move examples for specific stories to their respective work pages where possible.

Edited by BlackFaithStar
Kuruni (Long Runner)
Jul 18th 2021 at 1:11:21 PM •••

Moved from the page itself, feel free to made article for them.

BinaryStep Since: Dec, 2012
Aug 28th 2019 at 2:56:34 PM •••

There should really be a rule that entries have to link to the stories they're referencing. Some of these can be legitimately tricky to find...

MP-Lily Just Some Dog on the Internet (Troper Apprentice)
Just Some Dog on the Internet
Jun 25th 2019 at 6:10:31 AM •••

Uh, that one about “the patient that nearly made me quit medicine” has been deleted. Do any of you know if it’s archived anywhere? It was one of my favourites, too.

Raygunguy Since: Dec, 2013
Mar 19th 2019 at 11:37:23 AM •••

I tried to find the "Blue Shell" creepypasta. However, I cannot find it. Does it actually exist?

dvorak The World's Least Powerful Man (Elder Troper)
The World's Least Powerful Man
Oct 15th 2018 at 10:18:31 AM •••

Can I ask why the page is edit-locked?

Now everyone pat me on the back and tell me how clever I am!
angelthread1w9 The Infinitely Curious Since: Aug, 2013
The Infinitely Curious
Jun 25th 2014 at 9:50:06 AM •••

Can a Creepypasta be mixed in with Tearjerker and still be good? I'm surprised there's no tab for that.

I think there's at least one famous story that might have even been a Creepypasta of the Month about some ghost or something, and the comments section was actually filled with people who liked it but thought it was more sad than creepy.

Ironically, there was a Regular Show one where at least one person commented that a dark story that's more than sad than creepy shouldn't be posted on the site, but whatever. :p

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angelthread1w9 Since: Aug, 2013
Jun 25th 2014 at 10:19:30 AM •••

Ah nevermind, they were moved to the Heartwarming section instead.

Shouldn't Doors be sadder than heartwarming though?

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SchizoTechnician Since: Nov, 2009
Jan 13th 2013 at 8:46:30 PM •••

The name comes from "Copypasta". Okay then.

Anyone care to share with dumb ol' me what this "copypasta" thing is and how copying something is related to noodles?

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Kuruni (Long Runner)
Jan 13th 2013 at 10:15:31 PM •••

It just sound cooler than Copy & Paste.

illegalcheese Since: Apr, 2010
Jan 31st 2013 at 4:18:55 PM •••

And I think Copy & Paste/ Copypasta refers to Memetic Mutation of the kind where you send mass emails about a funny quote or cool picure. Just general passing around of stuff.

angelthread1w9 Since: Aug, 2013
Jun 25th 2014 at 9:47:27 AM •••

So then Creepypasta means Creepy C&P? Makes sense. A lot of stories start off with saying they just had to write the story down somewhere which they might have already done beforehand somewhere else, and many creepypastas are not OP.

I didn't really get it either. ^^;

So paste sounds like pasta...? Alright then. :p

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DLAbaoaqu Since: Apr, 2011
Oct 21st 2013 at 10:29:52 AM •••

Hmmm... what would the opposite of Creepypasta be?

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angelthread1w9 Since: Aug, 2013
Jun 25th 2014 at 9:45:29 AM •••

Eh, I'm not sure, but Creepypasta is meant to be Nightmare Fuel and some of those are Dark Fics, right?

I guess the opposite of that would just be a Sweet Dreams Fuel thing instead, probably a WAFF (Warm and Fuzzy Feeling) fic. :p

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Zuxtron BerserkButton: misusing NightmareFuel (On A Trope Odyssey)
BerserkButton: misusing NightmareFuel
May 23rd 2014 at 2:43:34 PM •••

I deleted "Cupcakes" and "Story of the Blanks" because they're just plain old DarkFics. A creepypasta has to at least TRY to pass itself as real or plausible.

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angelthread1w9 Since: Aug, 2013
Jun 25th 2014 at 9:44:19 AM •••

Those two things are different? :?

To me, a Dark Fic may or may not be a subsection of Creepypasta. The wiki itself at least has all sorts of categories, various types of shows and video games being used for Dark Fic.

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Trialman Since: Jul, 2011
Aug 7th 2013 at 9:42:59 PM •••

The link to the Lost Silver game is down.

shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
Feb 26th 2013 at 1:41:37 PM •••

Can I remove Cherrilee's Garden from the works list? It's good and all, but I don't we can start just calling all Grimdark fics Creepypasta.

shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
Feb 26th 2013 at 1:38:47 PM •••

Wow, looks like one of the admins of the Pasta wiki in One Of Us, Fur Bearing Brick has made 139 edits to the page.

JProllz Professional Newbie Since: Oct, 2009
Professional Newbie
Feb 20th 2013 at 6:35:03 AM •••

Can we please have a "Worm Jeff Saga" series page? When is "critical mass to deserve its own works page" reached?

There's so many tropes with single examples referring only to the Worm Jeff Saga that it looks bad. There's literally tons of creepypasta out there, so either we add some examples from others or we just move those to their own page.

Worm Jeff Saga IS a work and not a genre/category, so giving it its own page would be fine.

Edited by JProllz Specialty: Laser Guided Spellchecks on blatant misspellings. No that's not a trope.
AwesomeBlackGuy Sammy Davis. Jr. III Since: Jun, 2012
Sammy Davis. Jr. III
Sep 22nd 2012 at 9:24:03 PM •••

Can whoever keeps listing this as a work please quit? Lord Of The Rings is a work. Literature is not a work. Candle Cove is a work. Creepypasta is not a work. Get it?

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shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
Oct 29th 2012 at 7:19:23 PM •••

It's being treated as a genre, like Country Music or Metal so it gets listed as a work.

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shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
Sep 18th 2012 at 1:53:48 PM •••

Can we add the now defunct Monolith Forums as a Wretched hive on the YMMV tab? They got so bad the site owner themselves jumped ship and let them die.

Edited by shoboni
cyclopsman Cyclopsman Since: May, 2011
Cyclopsman
Sep 16th 2012 at 12:16:30 PM •••

What's the deal with this page? the Nightmare Fuel page doesn't link to it anymore. And there's no YMMV page, either.

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Telcontar MOD Since: Feb, 2012
Sep 16th 2012 at 1:06:54 PM •••

The page type was changed from "work" to "trope". I've reverted that, since there is a trope list rather than an example one. Should be fixed now.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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