# So it seems creepypasta has hit the big time... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949 "2014-06-03T18:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/1 "2014-06-03T18:58:23Z")
[In, like, the worst possible way.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) Now, we all know that most of this is the same kind of reaction we got to heavy metal, first person shooters, and rap. But not being part of that community, I’m curious as to the reaction within those who write creepypastas. Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/2 "2014-06-03T19:04:52Z")
Ya beat me to it. I give it about two weeks before [creepypasta.com](http://creepypasta.com) has a placeholder screen: “Currently experiencing legal troubles”. I’m far from holding them responsible, but I think this is going to shake up the 'net quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/3 "2014-06-03T19:09:49Z")
just adding some piercing realism to their writing. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/4 "2014-06-03T19:12:44Z")
Hold up, I’m really curious. Could the complaint shed any light on this situation? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/5 "2014-06-03T19:27:21Z")
I’ve seen the idea put forward in other places that the creepypasta/slenderman story is just a cover to give them some kind of insanity defense down the road, that the girls were just smart enough to do some research for some cover excuse and really did this out of sheer jealousy/rage/whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/6 "2014-06-03T19:34:01Z")
this is no different than blaming Friday the 13th movies if you killed someone in the 80’s. only the mentally unsound would do such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/7 "2014-06-03T19:53:42Z")
Two \*twelve year old girls \*are being charged as adults? What a fucking travesty. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/8 "2014-06-03T20:01:26Z")
I dunno. I don’t care how old you are, if you have the mental stamina to stab someone 19 times, _I do not want you around me_. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/9 "2014-06-03T20:05:06Z")
Aw, Slender Man just wanted [hugs!](http://youtu.be/5hYi350ap_M) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/10 "2014-06-03T20:06:33Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Two \*twelve year old girls \*are being charged as adults? What a fucking travesty. Did you read the details of this horror story? They had three scenarios to carry out the murder, concocted over several months, so premeditation was obvious. They brought in accomplices and acted on the premeditation by trying to stab another girl to death and had a plan to then flee the scene. At least one of them has stated that she “[have] no remorse.” While most 12-year olds don’t yet have well-developed brains, there are exceptions. I’d say that at least one of them has a sociopathic personality and should be tried as an adult, although it’s likely she’ll end up in a mental facility. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/11 "2014-06-03T20:08:35Z")
I have no problem with them being charged as adults, even though the parents of these girls clearly share in the blame. According to the Milwaukee _Journal-Sentinel_ the girls’ attorneys will likely try to waive the case back into juvenile court. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up in juvenile court after things settle down a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/12 "2014-06-03T23:08:15Z")
Apparently, the main site has a statement out for obvious reasons. If I were them, I would emphasize as much as possible that they are a “collaborative horror fiction website.” That’s a very accurate and succinct description that people can understand and doesn’t sound, or make them sound, like they’re weird or out there somehow. That can be important at a time like this. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/13 "2014-06-03T23:54:11Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > I’ve seen the idea put forward in other places that the creepypasta/slenderman story is just a cover to give them some kind of insanity defense down the road, that the girls were just smart enough to do some research for some cover excuse and really did this out of sheer jealousy/rage/whatever. I hope so. Unfortunately, creepypasta has already been dragged into it. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by creepypasta > Of course, only a small minority of people (mostly newcomers) on the wiki (and the Internet) truly believe what they read here. And for most people, they will not attempt to replicate atrocities presented in some of the literature on the wiki. Something like this was bound to happen, considering the size of the Creepypasta community. All it takes is one person to do something insane and radical in the name of someone or something. > > This is an isolated incident, and does not represent or attribute the Creepypasta community as a whole. This wiki does not endorse or advocate for the killing, worship, and otherwise replication of rituals of fictional works. There is a line of between fiction and reality, and it is up to you to realize where the line is. We are a literature site, not a crazy satanic cult. I have no vested interest in creepypasta, but I’d hate to see any site shut down just because people need a scapegoat. D&D was blamed for a suicide, Ozzy for a double suicide, and Marilyn Manson for Columbine (at least at first), but there was no way to really close them down. I really hope c-p doesn’t get hounded out of existence, because if they are, dominoes will start falling. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/14 "2014-06-04T00:13:34Z")
Why is this adult content freely available to kids? Slasher movies are R rated and kids aren’t allowed in the theater. this site should be behind a pay wall. Adult verification through a cc. > [@](#): > > What is “Creepypasta”? In short, a creepypasta is a short story posted on the Internet that is designed to unnerve and shock the reader. > > This wiki is primarily a database of various creepypasta. The goal is to have a fairly well stocked library of well-written creepypasta, including very obscure and rarely posted, to user-created original content. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/15 "2014-06-04T00:20:48Z")
I had never heard of Slender man before this news story. He looks like [The Silents](http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110424132237/tardis/images/d/df/Shocker.jpg)from Dr Who. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/16 "2014-06-04T00:26:01Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Why is this adult content freely available to kids? Slasher movies are R rated and kids aren’t allowed in the theater. You can see similar on YouTube. I read horrible stuff via my town’s public library as a kid. And I haven’t murdered anyone, because I am not a sociopath and have a well-formed sense of right and wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/17 "2014-06-04T00:33:51Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > You can see similar on YouTube. I read horrible stuff via my town’s public library as a kid. And I haven’t murdered anyone, because I am not a sociopath and have a well-formed sense of right and wrong. Hear, hear. There’s nothing on any of these sites that wouldn’t be out of place in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, or even Goosebumps. You cannot hold artists responsible for what deranged people do in response to their works. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/18 "2014-06-04T00:49:55Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I had never heard of Slender man before this news story. He looks like [The Silents](http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110424132237/tardis/images/d/df/Shocker.jpg)from Dr Who. Or the Gentlemen from Buffy. It’s an old trope: guy who looks conservative and incapable of giving harm, except for his evil face/head. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/19 "2014-06-04T01:02:50Z")
I’ve always wondered about the headline writing in cases like this. Read the dictionary. If someone stabs you 19 times, they are NOT your friend. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949/20 "2014-06-04T01:19:15Z")
Sounds to me like the 2 girls are psychos and are using the Slenderman/Creepypasta as an excuse. Or are seriously fucked in the head. (Well, in my book anyone who can stab someone else 19 times is by definition fucked in the head). Sucks that this will may end up being mainstream America’s introduction to Slenderman. My then 12-year-old son made an awesome Slenderman costume for Halloween in 2012. We had fun scouring thrift shops for a kid size business suit, red tie and gloves. Used a white morphsuit mask for the head. He even won “scariest” in his middle school costume contest. Now these asshats have to ruin it. Plus they completely miss the modus operandi of Slenderman. He’s one of the most passive horror figures ever. He materializes in proximity to his victims and just stands there. If he’s close enough and you don’t look away, you go insane from fear. That’s it. No stabbing, no realm to enter, no desire for disciples. I must say I’m extremely glad the victim survived. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-it-seems-creepypasta-has-hit-the-big-time/689949.md?page=2)