Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and now these two. It’s not the video games, the rap music, or the creepypasta. No, I’m afraid the connection is even worse … Wisconsin.
glares eastward, shakes fist
R rated movies do allow kids, accompanied by an adult. The Web as a whole should not be freely available to 12-year-olds. Parents who give their kid a laptop and let them use it in their bedroom are stupid, stupid parents. It’s not a website’s problem that kids aren’t supervised enough to access it. You do know there’s plenty of porn just a click away, no paywall or age verification needed?
I’m quite comfortable with it. If the charges are accurate these are terrible people.
OK, someone tune me in here. I’ve never heard of “creepypasta.” Is this a pretty well-known site/meme/whateveritis on the internet? Just trying to figure out how out-of-touch I am.
I would say it’s a little far out there. I’ve never seen it mentioned, say, on Facebook by my 30-something or 20-something friends. Never saw it on Buzzfeed (like I see “doge” or “Yaaaaas” or Hey Girl or Grumpy Cat).
And actually while I’ve heard of and read about Slenderman and I’ve heard of copy-pasta I think I stop caring by the time “creepy pasta” turned in to a Web site. I heard about Slenderman on the SDMB.
IMO I wouldn’t think anyone was out-of-touch for not knowing creepypasta. Grumpy Cat, yes. But not creepypasta.
They’re terrible minors. They’re fully one-third of their lives away from adulthood.
This is bass ackwards.
Not knowing Grumpy Cat? Not unexpected. It’s one cat, and a lame meme to boot.
Not knowing an entire genre which exists in multiple languages? Totally out of touch.
For heaven’s sake. Slender man is from Marble Hornets. Which for the life of me I never understood why anybody ever thought it was so cool or creepy, but there it is.
I have to respectfully disagree. If you go “digging” on the internet, you’ll find a lot of Creepypasta references, but I don’t think Slenderman has ever been part of a video taken at Disneyland or been on American Idol.
Poll 100 random people and I’d be willing to put dollars to doughnuts that more people have heard of Grumpy Cat than Creepypasta.
There are no Japanese Grumpy Cat blogs.
Grumpy Cat doesn’t have multiple wikis related to him.
Grumpy Cat isn’t the subject of multiple web-series and video games.
Grumpy Cat is a single meme, creepypasta is a genre.
Being unaware of Creepypasta is like being unaware of LOLcats or Advice Animals. Being unaware of Grumpy Cat is like being unaware of Jeff the Killer.
OK. Well, I know Grumpy Cat. So there’s one data point. I know LOLCats, but never heard of Advice Animals.
So where does one hang out to hear of these things? Is it like a reddit or fark thing? (Two places I’ve never visited, but understand have some sway in internet culture.)
You left out Joe McCarthy and Scott Walker…
A genre that is relatively obscure to most people. Believe it or not, there are whole swathes of humanity that do not delve deeper than facebook when it comes to the internet. They might go to reddit. They might go to somethingawful. Almost none of them have heard of /b/. They don’t read creepypasta.
Three clicks from that news item can take you to three more stabbings by children of their friends/family, with nary a pasta in sight, creepy or otherwise. There are some screwed-up people out there, and sadly some of them are very young screwed-up people. Blaming the fiction they read makes zero sense, although I’m sure that won’t stop people trying.
It’s totally just subjective and depends on what kind of circles you run in. Around here, in my little dot of the world, Grumpy Cat has helped raise money for our shelter. So yeah, to me, everyone knows about Grumpy Cat and attend events advertised with her as an honored guest, including a local morning news appearance, shilling her own merchandise.
Google “creepypasta” and I get 3.89 million hits. Google “grumpy cat” and I get 17.7 million hits.
I had never heard of creepypasta until it was mentioned in some threads on here. I’ve still never looked at the site or read any of the stories.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705645
Incorrect, Slenderman is the from “create a paranormal image” thread on Something Awful. Ce Gars (Troy) was a Something Awful user at the time and made Marble Hornets based on the images Victor Surge and others in the thread made.
I have no idea why anyone who has ever read a Slenderman story would worship him though. It’s like worshipping Cthulhu. 1. It wouldn’t even do anything; 2. Are you a moron?
I’m calling sociopaths with a lame excuse, unless the other girl secretly killed their pets or something, in which case they’re rage-induced idiots with a lame excuse.
Just to be clear. Creepypasta is a silly way of saying “short horror stories written by random people and posted on message boards”… That’s all there is to it. Short stories. It’s not a satanic sect, or some form of experimental mind controlling hypnosis or anything but the sort of scary tales that are mostly not even as insanely brutal as your average story from the Grimm brothers. Really.
This. The only difference between creepypasta and the spooky campfire stories of your youth is the medium.
Absolutely. This is like claiming that the girls did it to impress “The escaped madman with a hook”. In fact, it’s even sillier, since at least the hook guy’s been a legend for decades, and Slenderman is a waning fad from a couple of years back.