[ SECRET POST #3642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3642 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Brittany Murphy]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it came out before creepypasta was a thing, so probably they hadn't.

Honestly it seems more likely to me that it was itself a massive influence on creepypasta. It was certainly Big On The Net with much the same people who'd end up doing a lot of that stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I do agree it must have had a huge influence on modern creepypasta since so much of it is basically the same as this book or better.

But my bad, by "the people raving about it" I meant the people obsessing with it a few years back when it was making the rounds in fandom circles, not the critics that liked the original 2000 publication.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember it being pretty big on the Internet already (or, more specifically, on places like 4chan and SA) by like 2006, 2007. It's not like it only got popular a couple years ago. Like, XKCD ran a parody of it in September 2008. It wasn't unknown. And AFAIK creepypasta as a distinct genre doesn't really predate that by much, if at all.

If you're talking specifically about people who have only read it in the last couple years, then sure, whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

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Huh? I'm talking about when it made the rounds in the fandom spaces on Tumblr and LJ, which was definitely after creepypasta had become better than the book, if not gathered together and labeled Creepypasta yet. The label itself is new, the stories themselves having been around longer than that, and all. There was a new wave of people discovering the book and obsessing over it, and I find it totally meh. The genre has and had already become better than the foundation at that point, if you want to call it that.

[(Anonymous)]

On LJ, in 2006, was where I first heard of it. It was big.

[(Anonymous)]

It came out before creepypasta, but it seemed to be pretty popular around the time creepypasta was becoming a thing, and I'm sure that's no coincidence.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's not a coincidence in the sense that the people who made creepypastas had previously read House of Leaves

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Yeah, this. 2001 was way before creepypasta's time, and I was just contemplating a post earlier about how in 2001, people who were on the internet enough to be into that sort of thing were still seen as weird obsessives with no irl social life.