Talk:Creepypasta

Protected edit request on 26 April 2014

Can it be changed to redirect to #creepypasta? Ollieinc (talk) 04:42, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Done I set it to #Creepypasta - most browsers (Internet Explorer excepted) are case-sensitive on the URL fragment. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Petition to unprotect Creepypasta

Hello. I've written up a decent beginning to a new Creepypasta article for Wikipedia. I understand the previous ones were deleted for lack of notability, but that was several years before the Wisconsin Slenderman stabbings that brought the term "creepypasta" into mainstream media. Cultural relevance for creepypasta is significant and notable enough to give creepypasta its own page. My current sandbox has a rough draft (that is still being worked on) that could be used as the first page.

Thanks for reading this,

_{░ nozkrov ░}•^talk 03:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

@Nozkrov Perhaps you could add in the "lost" spongebob espisode that was about squidward, this type of story sounds a lot like that. --Jaitlin206 (talk) 22:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)Jaitlin206

I agree you have my signature Mattshea409 (talk) 19:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Mattshea409 (talk) 19:03, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Lead section

The lead sentence doesn't make grammatical sense.

Creepypasta are an Internet phenomena and meme that typically consist of short stories collected and shared across the Internet with the intent of frightening or spooking the reader

Is "creepypasta" plural or singular? If it's singular, then it should read:

Creepypasta is an Internet phenomenon or meme that...

or, if it's plural, it should read:

Creepypasta are Internet phenomena or memes that...

Ollieinc (talk) 03:38, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the grammatical error. Your suggestions were nice, but I came up with a better lead than all three of those. _{░ nozkrov ░}•^talk 02:54, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm a creepypasta fan, and i have seen many of these "killers" through my life. My friends gave me two nicknames: Angel, and EJ which stands for eyeless jack. They call me Angel cause i am very caring and nice when i am happy, but make me mad, and i could careless if your ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.170.47.242 (talk) 16:40, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

liamqc classroom review

Hey there! So it was mentioned above, and I agree, the lead section of your article seems awkward, I'm not sure how it should read, but it doesn't read well. Also, at the bottom of the article is a section dedicated to "External Links", It looks like there is some more information relevant to your article down there, but it seems to be formatted wrong, or maybe I'm just looking at it wrong. I'd offer help as to how to fix it, but I'm still learning as well. Good Luck! Liamqc (talk) 20:25, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2014

MythicToons (talk) 05:54, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 06:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Smile Dog & Candle Cove

Does anyone who knows how the hell Wikipedia works have any ideas on how to mention Smile Dog and Candle Cove on this page in a way that nobody will take umbridge at? Anyone who has spent any time in the creepypasta community knows that these are two of the most infamous and well-recieved examples of the phenomenon out there, but my additions of them to the page keep getting booted. Firstly because my citing of the creepypasta.wikia.com version of it "wasn't reliable", for some reason, then for some reason someone doesn't like my citing of the creepypasta.com version of it.

In any event, I think they deserve mentioning, but I'll leave it up to someone else to figure out how to do it from here on out. I'm done pulling my hair out while trying to circumnavigate Wikipedia politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.183.5 (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

It just needs a "reliable source" per WP:RS - some secondary press coverage, as is the case for the other examples in the article. --McGeddon (talk) 14:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Would this count?

Two things

1.) I removed this paragraph from the lead section

Creepypastas come in a variety of styles, but some are particularly common. "Haunted image" creepypastas are fictional stories that include a picture that is said to haunt and torment the reader. "Lost episode" creepypastas are fictional stories about discarded or unused episodes of real shows, usually cartoons. Lost episodes are intended to unnerve the reader by deviating from the normative behavior of characters, centering on death, and including "hyper-realistic" images of the characters in the show. "Ritual" creepypastas are fictional procedures to invoke entities or supernatural experiences.

Reason: unsourced and it seems to be a poorly-written version of something on this page.

I'm leaving this here because some of the information might be worth mentioning in the article if any of it can be cited properly. If anyone can find a way to incorporate it into the article that would be great.

(Feel free to revert if you feel this is an inappropriate change, but please at least slap a {{citation needed}} tag on it.)

2.) The examples section seriously needs a re-write. Almost every subsection is nothing but an overly-long plot summary of each story with very little factual information in between. I think this would be a better way to format the section (except § Slender Man, that should stay as it is):

Notable creepypasta #1

[One or two sentences which briefly summarize the plot]

Notable creepypasta #2

[One or two sentences which briefly summarize the plot]

Ect.

Also maybe add in more notable examples if possible. I would check these out and see if any of them have reliable sources which can be used. lurkaccount (talk) 20:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Major rewrite

I've rewritten the article per the feedback here and at the recent AfD. I've removed sources that were fringe and made only minor mention of the subject (some not at all). I've also removed trivia about different characters and stories associated with the genre as they were either trivia with no notable coverage or completely unsourced. I've given due weight to the reliable mainstream sources that gave the topic major weight in their articles. Most of the sources only made minor mentions or discussed details about Internet legends like Slender Man which were not exclusive to CP.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 18:46, 25 May 2015 (UTC)-- — Keithbob • Talk • 19:06, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Squidward's Suicide should be grouped with other Lost Episode tales

Squidward's Suicide is not unique as Creepypasta stories go. It is part of an extensive subgenre known as Lost Episode Creepypastas. Other noteworthy examples include Megan Griffin's Suicide, Dead Bart, and The Magic School Bus Original Pilot.

The entire subgenre is based on Candle Cove, where in 1971 hundreds of children around the world turned their household's television receiver to a blank channel full of static because they hallucinated of a non-existent children's show called Candle Cove. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 05:21, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, totally agree @The Mysterious El Willstro and Candle Cove is a real show hun. 9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 (talk) 21:52, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

There is a typo in the Squidward entry. In the sentence about the intern therd is an a which should be and. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariner82 (talk • contribs) 20:00, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Edit request on 12 March 2016

Please Add a List of Creepy-pastas on a separate page, Please add these below (if allowed)

• MARIO Creepypasta
  • Creepy Gaming - MARIO Creepypasta Explained!

— 2601:183:4000:D5BD:E404:EA86:FB4C:C7D8 (talk) 01:03, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

• Please propose things that are well sourced. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:16, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Jeff the Killer edit and citation request & editing dispute resolution proposal

On March 22, 2016, I edited the Jeff the Killer section of this page, updating it to add some crucial and not widely known information that could shed some new light on the history of Jeff the Killer (namely, a YouTuber named Sesseur being the original creator of Jeff, as well as an interview Sesseur had participated in). The three sources I cited were two YouTube videos and a Wayback Machine archive of the Jeff the Killer story as it appeared on the Creepypasta wiki. Needless to say, all of my edits were undone about three hours later.

While I understand why wikis would be considered unreliable (I'll confess I was just looking for the earliest piece of evidence I could find), there is overwhelming evidence pointing to the two YouTube sources being legitimate. The first YouTube source was original Jeff the Killer video; it is dated to October 3, 2008 and thus predates all other appearances of Jeff the Killer on the web. The second was an interview with Sesseur that contained vital information about the Katy Robinson story. Despite existing valid evidence pointing to the contrary, both of these sources were considered illegitimate simply because they were YouTube videos; and I quote the editor who undid my edits with the note: "Youtube and Wikis are not reliable sources." Furthermore, I have in the past found a page on this site that cited a YouTube video as a reliable source. (For those who are wondering, the page was Tim Cain and this YouTube video was the source used).

I didn't want to start an edit war. I just wanted to state that the two YouTube sources I found were the most reliable pieces of evidence that could be found pertaining to the history of Jeff the Killer. I'm just seeking a peaceful resolution and compromise to a possible editing dispute before it gets out of hand. — Jonny2126 (talk) 18:45, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

We need a reliable source, such as a newspaper, to identity the origins. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:20, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 May 2016

Could somebody change the "Machinima" to redirect to Machinima from the sentence, "In May 2015, Machinima announced plans for a live action web series curated by Clive Barker, titled Clive Barker's Creepy Pasta."

Since they were referring to the gaming company/website, not animation. --173.73.242.76 (talk) 10:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC) 173.73.242.76 (talk) 10:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

 Done although I have left Machinima Inc. in full without a pipe - Arjayay (talk) 10:46, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Short etymology explanation request

Most people don't know the origins of the term "pasta" in this context, being a memetic adaptation of the word "post". Most likely it originated on 4chan. I don't really know how this definition could be incorporated into the article smoothly though. Any suggestions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.34.98.32 (talk) 17:03, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

SONIC.exe

I've noticed that the SONIC.exe section was removed. I believe this should be undone. I think the writing should be improved, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobsburgers54 (talk • contribs) 10:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

It was removed for lacking coverage in reliable secondary sources - this would have to be addressed before it could be re-added. --McGeddon (talk) 11:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

I guess I can take a look through the usual places to see if they mention it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I did a WP:VG/RS Google custom search, but it didn't turn up much: [1] in The A.V. Club and [2] in GamesRadar. Neither of them call it "creepypasta", which makes them problematic to cite in an article about creepypasta. Sometimes popular stuff just doesn't get much coverage in reliable sources. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:48, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2016

I would like to edit this to add more facts DashTurbo780 (talk) 21:14, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — Andy W. (talk) 00:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

DashTurbo780's Answer: Oh, ok, I can do that

A New Section of Creepypastas

Hello, fellow Wikipedians,

On August 22, 2017, I created a new section of creepypastas called phone creepypastas. You may add new phone creepypastas, but content that's not notable and/or doesn't have any reliable sources will be deleted. Larsconks (talk) 13:48, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Larsconks, I removed this section as none of the content had reliable secondary sources. Cjhard (talk) 20:29, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Phone creepypastas

Ok, not sure what to say about this. Starting talk page discussion since I'll be at 3RR if I revert once more. JOEBRO64 17:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, they keep adding it despite the lack of verification. I'm watching the page and will revert. Cjhard (talk) 23:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 June 2018

The formatting of the Kotaku quote in § Petscop needs copyediting. 67.14.236.193 (talk) 22:45, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.--QueerFilmNerd (talk) 00:05, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

@QueerFilmNerd: There is missing punctuation immediately before the quote, the first letter of the full quoted sentence is the wrong letter case, and there is no closing quotation mark. Please correct these things and perform whatever other copyediting seems prudent. —151.132.206.26 (talk) 18:00, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

 Done clpo13_(talk) 18:29, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

@Clpo13: Thanks! —151.132.206.26 (talk) 20:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Herobrine

Perhaps Herobrine should be mentioned. Reputed to be the game creator's dead brother, Herobrine seems to be the subject of much lore, including fan fiction and published hardcover Minecraft story books. The Minecraft Wiki specifically refers to him as a creepypasta. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:36, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

The Daily Dot is a good website to check if you want to see if it's got coverage. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:19, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Why the removal of Polybius?

Polybius is at least as notable as Ben Drowned and Sonic.exe. At least. It already has its very own Article, let alone Section of this Article. As for sources outside Wikipedia, here is an article on a Website called Games Radar: https://www.gamesradar.com/top-7-creepiest-gaming-urban-legends. This article mentions Polybius, right alongside Lavender Town Syndrome, Ben Drowned, and NES Godzilla. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 21:22, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Blue Whale example

I'm not exactly certain what that's doing here. It doesn't seem to be related to creepypasta in any way, shape, or form. Would someone care to elaborate?2607:FCC8:FCA2:8100:ED9F:2784:2471:E336 (talk) 12:07, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

iT iSs.

Zezen (talk) 23:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9

l'm a fan of the “Interface series“, and witnessed it unfold on reddit. Highly appreciate it. But, it's certainly no creepypasta. The main article _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 states he also writes pastas; don't know about those.

Q: Does 9MOTHER belong in an article about creepypastas? --Gott (talk) 20:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 February 2019

creepypasta is sometimes fiction but sometimes they are based or are true events. it is very rare though. PeyDay (talk) 16:08, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 16:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Nonsense misreading of source

Could someone rewrite In 2013, posters on 4chan stated that the original image of Jeff the Killer is an extensively edited picture of a girl who committed suicide in the fall of 2008. to match what the source says? I would rather not touch this article directly at this time. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

I have done so. I followed the source and saw what article it was quoting. I used that article as the source and reworded the sentence. Also worth noting that I changed "committed" to "completed" since that is what's accepted as least biased these days. Obliviblob (talk) 21:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

In the last sentence of the last paragraph in Jeff the Killer,the word appeared is misspelled. appeared👍 vs appaeared👎 CircleRightEye (talk) 05:30, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Relevance of Game Theory's theory about Petscop?

"Newmaker appears to refer to the murder of Candace Newmaker during rebirthing therapy, according to Game Theory." First, there are many coïncidences with the Candace case, NOT ONLY the Newmaker name (for example the dates)

Secondly, even if I really like Game Theory, understand that it is a famous Youtube channel and that helped spreading the word about the series... what's the point? 1) If we were to treat the several references to Candace as a fact, it's not related to GT 2) This theory "is just a theory" (like all GT videos says) and is not confirmed 3) Game Theory reused findings from the Petscop subreddit, so it's not really the source

Game Theory is not directly involved with Petscop, so it's at best a case of "some famous people repeated a fan-made theory someone else said before" GT is neither the original author, neither confirming the theory is true

If tomorrow, Pewdiepie had a theory about GOT's finale (due to this month), would it be added in Wikipedia's plot section? I don't think so... EDIT: It's even more misleading when it's in the sentence just after the one saying the game's tone is shifiting, which is an obvious *fact*. 193.191.221.220 (talk) 08:54, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

I agree that it's not worth explicitly mentioning Game Theory. While he might be a famous person who's agreed that the Candice Newmaker story has a connection to the game, he's not the one who came up with it and the Candice Newmaker connection is not the only (or even the prominent) feature of the creepypasta. I think it's worth taking out explicit reference to Game Theory or attribution of the theory to that channel. Obliviblob (talk) 20:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I've changed it Obliviblob (talk) 17:53, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 July 2019

Hello, I'm requesting that the date of suicidemouse.avi's uploading be changed from 2013, as stated in the article currently, to 2009, the earliest date I could find it existing. The given source for that section states it was uploaded in 2009 as well -- the mention of 2013 is related to a fan-made recreation, not the original. It can be certain that suicidemouse.avi has existed prior to 2013. Thank you. 99.45.25.97 (talk) 01:27, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

 Done in this edit, but with the caveat that since there don't appear to be any mainstream reliable sources (news sites, magazines) that are interested in the meme, it could always wind up deleted. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:16, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

masky/hoodie

is their anyone out their that knows about hoodie or masky? it doesn't say anything about them in a Wikipedia page and i dont kmow much about them so i want to hear their story — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacoby ferguson (talk • contribs) 15:26, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

• Good example of parasitu to "Hug a hoodie day" a British meme developed in P.M. David Cameron's era (see ideas of house/press-time jovial moment culture). As soft disclosure in pop/meme culture of overlayed forgeting/media distraction/party politics dialectic vs false opposition/bread and circuses - to 666 channeling cults/sects hooded/cowled elites/gnostic/secret chiefs/luciferians/age of reason/post-enlightenment/illuminati in the psi-scape of fractal revelation vs democracy vs social engineering/control vs classical conditioning vs media vs military industrial complex vs hybrid vigour (BREXIT/Zeitgeist) vs london riots as trope (off the books/1000 year plans/occupy movement/soft cull) from hooded veiled magical figures in the night/grove/cavern/tower/glomeing where myth meets mirror. See: Socratic irony; Veiled language; Hiding in plain sight; Soft diclosure; Class privilege; Star chamber; Jargon/Lexicon/Legalese/Inside knowledge/Inside joke/Codes/Propaganda/Freemasonry/Secret Handshake/PsyOp/BlackOp/Deep state/Khazarian mafia/Kuru/New Model Army/New World Order/Continuation of Government/Diplock court/Them: Adventures with Extremists/They/"It"/The Secret Rulers of the World.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-13669826/david-cameron-and-hug-a-hoodie-phrase-history

• https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10512586

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(British_TV_series)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(2016_TV_series)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bxc4t4 (The Midnight Gang/David Walliams)

Text mdnp (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Should we split off the list of creepypasta into a separate article?

There are just way too many creepypastas listed in the main article and it would make far more sense for them to be split off into their own article. There are countless secondary sources discussing creepypasta as a set and even more "list of the top x creepypastas", so I am not concerned with WP:LISTN. Once a split has occurred, I think the "list of.. section" should be replaced with a handful of very succinct summaries of some of the most important creepypastas and sub-genres of creepypasta. (The Russian wiki already does this (English) and it looks a lot cleaner.) Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:02, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

I will be performing a split shortly. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 02:51, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Can anybody please put Max And Ruby 0004 on the Creepypasta list?

Please! FriendABoi (talk) 02:52, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 June 2020

71.29.176.133 (talk) 23:58, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:27, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Pronunciation

If the word comes from the verb "to paste", how is it pronounced then? I've always thought it was some kind of pasta/noodle. --2001:16B8:31F8:7800:F02B:7320:2C7E:B5F1 (talk) 07:33, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

It’s pronounced like it’s core words: creepy followed by pasta. (I really have no clue how paste turned into pasta; you can chalk that up your wonders of the Internet). By the way, I would recommend asking any future questions at Wikipedia:Reference desk. These talk pages are meant for discussions about the articles themselves. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 01:50, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 February 2021

add a link to the article "Russian Sleep Experiments" where it mentions Russian Sleep Experiments at the end. BlazetheGame (talk) 19:00, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

 Done. Volteer1 (talk) 19:28, 16 February 2021 (UTC)