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<p>Content pass: encyclopedic seed/expansion</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Internet folklore&#039;&#039;&#039; is the body of legends, rumours, chain stories, rituals, and shared myths that circulate primarily online—analogous to traditional folklore but adapted to forums, chats, and video platforms. It includes [[Creepypasta|creepypasta]], hoax screenshots, cursed-image lore, and some &quot;mystery&quot; megathreads.<br /> <br /> ==Charts as folklore indexes==<br /> An [[Iceberg chart|iceberg chart]] can function as a folk index: a community&#039;s graded map of which stories &quot;everyone knows&quot; versus which ones mark insider status. Folklorists and journalists studying digital legendry therefore sometimes treat charts and [[YouTube iceberg|explainer videos]] as secondary evidence of what a community &#039;&#039;believes is canonical&#039;&#039;, not as proof that ranked items are true.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Creepypasta]]<br /> * [[Lost media]]<br /> * [[Internet mystery]]<br /> * [[Submerged lore]]<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * Digital folklore scholarship (general); MEL Magazine and similar essays on icebergs as maps of hidden web culture.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Internet folklore]]<br /> [[Category:Internet culture]]</div>

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