#The 4chan serial killer video series

Early creepypastas were usually written anonymously and routinely re-posted, making the history of the genre difficult to study. The exact origins of creepypasta are unknown. Copypasta denotes viral, copied and pasted text the term was coined on 4chan around 2006. Д¬reepypasta is a portmanteau of the words creepy and copypasta the term was coined on the imageboard 4chan around 2007. Other notable creepypasta stories include ' Ben Drowned', 'Jeff the Killer', 'Ted the Caver' and 'Sonic.exe'. After the murder attempt, some creepypasta website administrators made statements reminding readers of the 'line between fiction and reality'. In the mainstream media, creepypastas relating to the fictitious Slender Man character came to public attention after the 2014 ' Slender Man stabbing', in which a 12-year-old girl was stabbed by two of her friends the perpetrators claimed they 'wanted to prove the Slender Man skeptics' wrong.

#The 4chan serial killer video series

Creepypastas range in length from a single paragraph to lengthy, multi-part series that can span multiple media types. The subject matter of creepypasta varies widely and can include topics such as ghosts, murder, zombies, and haunted television shows and video games. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. Creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the internet. Creepypastas are horror-related legends that have been copied and pasted around the Internet.