Creepypasta

Creepypasta is a portmanteau of "creepy" and "copypasta": horror legends, short stories, and multimedia hoaxes written to be pasted across forums and chats. Famous examples (as cultural works) include Slender Man-related fiction and numerous board-originated tales; quality and intent vary from deliberate fiction to ARG-like performances.

Icebergs and horror explainers

Creepypasta, "cursed" websites, and related internet folklore are frequent subjects of iceberg charts and narrated internet mystery videos. Coverage on this wiki is cultural-historical: describe circulation and documentation practices; do not present fictional pasta as literal events.

See also

• Internet folklore
• Internet mystery
• YouTube iceberg
• Imageboard

Sources

• Journalistic and folkloristic writing on creepypasta as online legendry.
• Know Your Meme / tertiary catalogues of major pasta (verify primary threads).