Whenever Iโm sad I think about the fact that Michael Myers does have a sense of humor because this fucker absolutely put on a sheet and some glasses and was like โthis will be the greatest prank on planet earth just u fuckin waitโ
AND IT WORKED SHE HAD NO FUCKIN CLUE
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Ok hereโs my two cents that no one asked for on the current (sort of?) debate going on in the Creepypasta fandom on here rn.
For starters, I grew up with Creepypasta. I also grew up mentally ill. I am also autistic. So I know my way around good and bad mental health rep at this point. And to be honest? A lot of the original stories DID suck balls at representation or just horror writing in general.
However, nowadays I see other people on here, often mentally ill or any other social outcast, taking these characters and reshaping them as their own to fit their own feelings and experiences, and I donโt think anyone has the authority to criticize things like that. Cringe culture is supposed to be dead anyways, nevermind the fact itโs inherently ableist at its core.
We also need to take into account kids still exist in the fandom. Pre teens who got tired of shit like scooby doo and wanted something more โmatureโ or โedgyโ to get into without fully going off the deep end into full blown horror movies. At least thatโs how it was for me. Not everyone, especially someone whoโs younger, is gonna be comfortable with the grit and gore a lot of Creepypasta โpuristsโ are pushing for these days, and thatโs okay! When a fandom gets popular itโs always inevitable and unavoidable to have the popular characters get two dimensionalized.
Thereโs also the whole mascot horror thing that I donโt wanna get into, but Iโm 90% sure that also plays a part in the old favorites like Jeff and slenderman being brought up again. They were and still are recognizable characters. Recognizable characters arenโt a bad thing. Making horror more approachable for younger audiences isnโt a bad thing. People having their own interpretations based out of their own experiences isnโt a bad thing.
Some of us grew up and wanted the more edgy and reality based content, and thatโs also not a bad thing! But neither side should be dictating or policing how the other enjoys content in this fandom. If you personally donโt like the way something is written, characterized, depicted, or drawn, no oneโs forcing you to look at it. No oneโs claiming it as canon. No oneโs asking for you to accept it as the end all be all.
At the end of the day this fandom was built on OCs and personal depictions of stuff. I canโt name a single character or story in this community that was created by some outside party like a movie or TV studio FIRST (because I know some got so popular they breached the fandom and got their own shows/movies/comics/etc). Everything here was created by someone who wanted an outlet for their creativity, or their pain, or their coping, or whatever else.
Realism and dark headcanons arenโt bad, and neither are any of the headcanons out there who just wanna make a goofy found family of social rejects as a form of escapism.
A 13 year old drawing a fictional layout of a fictional mansion where these fictional characters live isnโt going to suddenly invalidate the horror, I promise, itโs not that deep and it never was.
A 22 year old making a dark comic on the realistic origins of Jeff who is a fictional character in a fictional world isnโt going to suddenly invalidate the more softhearted side of the fandom.
Sure, there can still be a split if people are so adamant about that, but as someone who personally enjoys both the brutal horror side and the โhaha Jeff is 15 and gayโ sides equally, yโall need to at least learn to be civil to anyone who has a different headcanon than you. And if that seems like too much still, the block button exists for a reason.
TL:DR this fandom is based entirely off OCs and headcanons and people can do whatever the fuck they want because none of it is real and horror comes in many shapes and sizes and intensities and no one should be bashing anyone on their headcanons or views or rewrites or whatever else.
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Actually wait I think I have more to say-
Horror, like any genre, has NO AGE LIMIT. And by that I mean, if someone younger wants to delve into scary stuff, they should be allowed to do so without criticism. I personally grew up on โchild friendlyโ horror media like Scooby-Doo, and the older I got the more horror I wanted to experience.
Thereโs no right or wrong way to โunderstandโ horror, and I frankly think itโs ignorant and stupid to say if you donโt fully โunderstandโ something, then you shouldnโt be involved in it at all. Horror isnโt always about gore and unspeakable violence and the eldritch entity that wants everyoneโs skin inside out. Thatโs why horror has sub genres for fucks sake. Gut wrenching brutality against innocent people isnโt everyoneโs cup of tea and thatโs okay!
However, bashing anyoneโs tamer headcanons, or calling anything anyone interprets differently than you โstupidโ, thatโs not okay. God, I feel like an exhausted parent giving this lecture to fellow adults, but this really needs to be said and stressed.
I am an adult. I like when stuff in the fandom takes a dark turn. But for nostalgiaโs sake, I also love the fanon so much, because thatโs what I was exposed to.
And for fucks sake if it comes down to picking sides, I would rather stick with the part of this fandom that gives zero shits how you see a character as long as youโre having fun.
You can have your serial killer 30 year old Jeff and your canon-accurate-to-that-one-image eyeless Jack, but donโt shit on other people if they donโt want the same thing. Your interpretation isnโt canon, and neither is anyone elseโs for that matter.
Realistic, dark, gritty Creepypasta isnโt a new concept, and neither is โadultโ Creepypasta. And by the way, Creepypasta was never stated to be for adults. Thatโs like saying kids and only kids can eat trix cereal. It sounds that stupid on paper.
Let people interpret things the way they wanna interpret. No one is infringing on YOUR character ideas. Creepypasta has no age limit, nor a set way the horror has to be presented. Those who do continue to claim that just sound like pretentious assholes.
Very small side note, I personally think itโs inappropriate and rude to keep using Toby as a โbad exampleโ of mental health rep when the creator has stated multiple times the character is old, not researched, and not even in the fandom anymore. Leave the poor guy alone.
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Thanks for the tears ๐๐๐
Do you think Jay got his fear of being without a camera recording him after losing 7 month of memories?
He didn't post any entry during that time, his previous camera got broken, he didn't know where the chest mounted camera came from.
He didn't remember anything at all, and how terrifying was that?
Was he paralysed by fear, when he woke up in that hoter room?
Did he mourn all those missing months, alongside all the things he had started to forget?
Do you think he cried for his mom? For his family? Do you think he was too scared to call them? Do you think he had living family members he was scared to call, not wanting to pull them in that mess? Do you think he was scared of forgetting passed relatives?
Do you think he was tired of forgetting? Tired of having to keep himself together in fear of losing pieces?
When Tim took away his camera, after using the zip ties to keep him still, do you think Jay got scared of forgetting again? Do you think he resented Tim, who only wanted to protect him?
Do you think he felt gratitude towards Hoodie, when he left him a knife to free himself and a camera recording him?
Do you think Hoodie could relate to Jay's fear, and didn't want him to be so scared?
And in his final moments, do you think Jay was grateful to still be recorded? Do you think he wanted to be remembered even as a dead body?
Or do you think he thought he didn't want his mom to find out like that, to see her baby boy dead and gone in such a tragic and unfair way?
I think about these things a lot, in these days, my memory failing me constantly...
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