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One of the comments made me think about why I'm so afraid of this thing. The explanation given sounded reasonable, but it just failed to "click". Then I realized -- it's not that I was unable to figure out the root of it, it's that I was so preoccupied with the fear that the idea of digging for its roots didn't even cross my mind. (Unusually, seeing as I analyze just about everything.)

When I thought about it, I realized: it's not the possibility of not knowing that this thing is after me until it's got my jugular in its claws. It's the fact that no matter what, if I so much as glance at the wrong pixel, it's over. There is no way of stopping it. Not with an army, not with an ocean, not with a solid cubic mile of steel or concrete. Even if I inadvertently piss off someone in the real world who is smarter and stronger than me to the point where it would take a miracle to save me, the fact remains that an irate psychopath is physically capable of being evaded, stopped, or destroyed.

It's not the unknown I fear. It's inevitability.

Umm. Can you remind us what the secret was?

Dumb creepypasta website on the interbutts. SCP foundation stuff.

SCP 96. NOrmally a docile creature, If you see it's face in person or on recorded media, it WILL kill you. Horribly. Once it has it out for you, it cannot be stopped, except to stop to kill somebody else that saw it's face while it was coming at you, and that just delays it. The only alternative (and implied mercy compared to how it kills you) is to off yourself. It was discovered after a particularly gruesome incident that even 4 pixels you couldn't make out with your naked eye where it was in the background of a photo count as seeing it's face. you might never know where you saw it before it comes to slaughter you and, if unlucky, the loved ones around you.

(don't worry, artistic depictions don't count. Though prey for those poor artists)

Unless your SCP 682.

Edited 2014-02-06 01:18 (UTC)

I can't really agree with you since I was around when people on 4chan were brainstorming the first plots for the SCP shit (back when /x/ was a new board). I wound up contributing a bit to it, and really it was just crowdsourcing common fears.

That particular one is just a nameswitched Candlejack story. Literally, someone was like "so guys I'm writing for this, how do we make Candlejack scarier".

I can't be scared by something that lazy, honestly.

I don't even understand creepypasta stuff at all. Half the time they aren't even written with a scary tone. It's just dumb jumpscare bullshit about a skinny dude who follows you around or something.

Video game creepypasta is the worst. Glitches are legitimately terrifying! So why is all of the creepypasta just like "and then all the characters' names changed to DEATH and there was BLOOD ON THE SPRITES..." It's so uncreative. =_=

You basically need to be alone in the house at 1am reading it. Or later, so your rational brain isn't on right. I have seen a couple that were legitimately creepy, but for the most part they're all just stories by amateur horror writers trying to hone their craft.

I can see why it's scary, the part that gets me after reading the story for it is the idea of something that seems totally innocuous (the "four pixels" bit) lurking around and you don't know it.

Remembering your secret compared 096 to Slenderman, the problem is I think Slenderman has got over-exposed. Some of the early tales based on the first pictures made were pretty good for the creepy factor, but with all the big video series and the Slender game, it's now got old and what creepiness was there is swamped by too much of everything else.

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