The Creepypasta Fandom

[VJ 343]

Yeah, cause this guy totally warrants yaoi.

Also I just noticed this guy might have a neckbeard. (seriously look)

One thing that really amuses me is one of the suggestions for the origin of this image is that it's a heavily photo shopped version of a picture of an obese woman called Katy Robinson who committed suicide after online bullying.

There was also another version that said a guy splashed acid on his face while trying to unblock his toilet and Lu - the brother that apparently Jeff couldn't bring himself to kill - actually saved the idiot's ass by coming by to borrow money.

I like the idea all these ladies are masturbating to a (dead?) lady. Or a moron.

I've looked up The Doll Maker and he appears to be male. But what's with creepypasta characters being teenagers who "go insane" and then mutilate their own faces and murder people after having traumatic life experiences? Experiencing a life of trauma doesn't necessarily make one an insane killer, you guys. More likely than not the victim gets years of PTSD and nightmares, even with therapy.

Thanks for clearing that up; I thought Vine in the Doll Maker (the names could do with a review, I hate names that are just not plausible) was female. I guess it doesn't matter much, really - male or female the character is just a stand in for bad knowledge of what intense psychological trauma does to you, and those all too cringe worthy revenge fantasies.

 

[A Random]

I know people like to say Bella Swan is a stand-in for the audience, but she's really just a stand-in for Stephenie Meyer to write her revenge success fantasies where she's the World's Greatest, Richest, Most Powerful, Most Feared Mom Of All Time.

That people think she's not that proves how lacking in character she is if you ignore her psychosis.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I know people like to say Bella Swan is a stand-in for the audience, but she's really just a stand-in for Stephenie Meyer to write her revenge success fantasies where she's the World's Greatest, Richest, Most Powerful, Most Feared Mom Of All Time.

That people think she's not that proves how lacking in character she is if you ignore her psychosis.

That's probably the intention, yeah. But she is a fairly universal character. I mean, Bella does have a distinct personality (And by god, it's an unbearable one.) but it's the kind of personality a specific kind of person could probably identify with quite easily.

In other words, her blatant elitism, her condescending attitude, her complete selfishness and her crippling inability to have a mature relationship would seem very relatable to the kind of woman or girl who is herself elitist, condescending, selfish and immature and the fact that the book never addresses and is in fact completely unaware of these flaws make it a perfect medium for them to feel better about themselves. After all, despite Bella hardly having any attractive qualities a rich, handsome, strong and exotic man falls in love with her and provides her with an ideal life she doesn't ever have to work for. I mean, Edward is kind of a creep himself but let's chalk that up to Meyers lack of writing talent. Thinking about it, Bella Swan would be great lolcow material if she was real.

 

[Saney]

That's probably the intention, yeah. But she is a fairly universal character. I mean, Bella does have a distinct personality (And by god, it's an unbearable one.) but it's the kind of personality a specific kind of person could probably identify with quite easily.

In other words, her blatant elitism, her condescending attitude, her complete selfishness and her crippling inability to have a mature relationship would seem very relatable to the kind of woman or girl who is herself elitist, condescending, selfish and immature and the fact that the book never addresses and is in fact completely unaware of these flaws make it a perfect medium for them to feel better about themselves. After all, despite Bella hardly having any attractive qualities a rich, handsome, strong and exotic man falls in love with her and provides her with an ideal life she doesn't ever have to work for. I mean, Edward is kind of a creep himself but let's chalk that up to Meyers lack of writing talent. Thinking about it, Bella Swan would be great lolcow material if she was real.

Kind of a creep? He casually plots out murder and genocide because he can.

 

[Silver]

Edward is nothing short of abusive, either.

 

[Ification]

Wasn't there also some drama when someone came up with a Jeff clone called, get this, "Jane the Killer"?

 

[Olhelm]

Thinking about it, I find that most of my pastas (and by extension, the pastas I enjoy) involve surreal depictions of psychosis or otherwise realistic events. Pastas like Jeff, for example, irritate me because they focus on the killer (monster), rather than what it represents. It makes you think about this wholly unrealistic being as it is.

But that does not mean that a monsterpasta cannot be good. Take the Rake, for example. Yes, the Rake is visually described, and yes, it's actions are told vividly. However, that's the extent of it. Past that, you only see the creature through other people's perspectives. No backstory. This makes the Rake a force, rather than a being. This is an extremely good thing. Beings (namely, you and me) can control other beings. But we cannot control forces. This best demonstrates what a monster should be.

Wasn't there also some drama when someone came up with a Jeff clone called, get this, "Jane the Killer"?

Yes. And the creator was ridiculed and promptly kicked off the wiki.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Kind of a creep? He casually plots out murder and genocide because he can.

He does? I have to admit, I've only read the first book which I felt told me everything I needed to know about Mrs. Meyers writing and even that was 4 years ago. I mostly just remember him stalking Bella, going on about how good her blood smells generally acting out his whole "I love you... but I'm dangerous!" routine that some girls seem to dig.

 

[Saney]

Thinking about it, I find that most of my pastas (and by extension, the pastas I enjoy) involve surreal depictions of psychosis or otherwise realistic events. Pastas like Jeff, for example, irritate me because they focus on the killer (monster), rather than what it represents. It makes you think about this wholly unrealistic being as it is.

But that does not mean that a monsterpasta cannot be good. Take the Rake, for example. Yes, the Rake is visually described, and yes, it's actions are told vividly. However, that's the extent of it. Past that, you only see the creature through other people's perspectives. No backstory. This makes the Rake a force, rather than a being. This is an extremely good thing. Beings (namely, you and me) can control other beings. But we cannot control forces. This best demonstrates what a monster should be.


Yes. And the creater was ridiculed and promptly kicked off the wiki.

What creepypastas would you recommend?

He does? I have to admit, I've only read the first book which I felt told me everything I needed to know about Mrs. Meyers writing and even that was 4 years ago. I mostly just remember him stalking Bella, going on about how good her blood smells generally acting out his whole "I love you... but I'm dangerous!" routine that some girls seem to dig.

It's in the unreleased one told from his perspective, midnight sun.

 

[Olhelm]

What creepypastas would you recommend?

Hands, Blueberries, Psychosis, The House That Death Forgot, NoEnd, the entire PenPal series, and The Showers, for starters.

For some of mine, there's Supernova and I See, my most well-received pastas.

 

[Mourning Dove]

One thing that really amuses me is one of the suggestions for the origin of this image is that it's a heavily photo shopped version of a picture of an obese woman called Katy Robinson who committed suicide after online bullying.

This is by far the scariest creepypasta idea yet. A bullied young lady committed suicide but now haunts the internets as a viral horror character that 12-year-old girls squeal over: Jeff the killer.

 

[Meowthkip]

This thread is making me want to try my hand at writing a creepypasta and I kind of hate myself for it.

 

[hm yeah]

i spent 4 years off and on working on the same damn things so i guess i'll pick my little rambly creepy story about vidya up again.

 

[Red_Rager]

Hands, Blueberries, Psychosis, The House That Death Forgot, NoEnd, the entire PenPal series, and The Showers, for starters.

For some of mine, there's Supernova and I See, my most well-received pastas.

The Cell Phone Gamer, series is pretty good.
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cell_Phone_Game
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Alternate_21328

 

[Abethedemon]

One thing that really amuses me is one of the suggestions for the origin of this image is that it's a heavily photo shopped version of a picture of an obese woman called Katy Robinson who committed suicide after online bullying.

There was also another version that said a guy splashed acid on his face while trying to unblock his toilet and Lu - the brother that apparently Jeff couldn't bring himself to kill - actually saved the idiot's ass by coming by to borrow money.

I like the idea all these ladies are masturbating to a (dead?) lady. Or a moron.



Thanks for clearing that up; I thought Vine in the Doll Maker (the names could do with a review, I hate names that are just not plausible) was female. I guess it doesn't matter much, really - male or female the character is just a stand in for bad knowledge of what intense psychological trauma does to you, and those all too cringe worthy revenge fantasies.

Wasn't Jeff the Killer from a still in a trailer for an art movie? I can't find it anywhere but I remember seeing it once. However, the Katy Robinson theory makes sense.

 

[Ivan Komarov]

I seem to remember the original jeff image was from a camwhore asking 4chan to photoshop her.

 

[Red_Rager]

I don't understand the obsession with Jeffers, the story was scary at first but it was mostly because of the picture. I agree with the consensus that it is forgettable. Than again, the people who think Jeff is sexy are probably the same demographic who enjoy Twilight. I believe TV Tropes refers to it as "Draco in Leather Pants." Hopefully, they grow out of it eventually.

 

[Mourning Dove]

I don't know if making up dialogue is disallowed in the Lolcow forums like it is in the Chris forums. Pardon me if it is.

Parent: *sees Jeff doodle in daughter's notebook* Oh, who is that a picture of, honey?
Daughter: It's Jeff, my boyfriend.
Parent: *amused by imaginary boyfriend/crush* And what does Jeff do?
Daughter: ...He murders people. He's Jeff the killer.
Parent: ...

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I don't really understand the appeal of the Jeff the Killer backstory. The picture is kinda creepy if you're not expecting it, but the actual story is just your standard slasher movie backstory with a flavour of teenage revenge fantasy. Horror is built on mystery, so the more elaborate the backstory, the less scary it becomes.

I remember finding this video on YouTube called Fantastic Hey Hey Hey which creeped the fuck out of me. Basically it's a short film of a home-built female android singing. But it just has this disturbing uncanny valley wrongness about it - the android's face has messed up proportions, it moves all wrong, the voice is electronic and sounds like nothing human, but not quite mechanical either. The camera work is random, probably intended to be whimsical but coming off like the work of someone mentally ill. The music is just strange. And there was no story behind this. No indication of who filmed it or built the android or anything like that.

But then people started coming up with fake backstories, usually along the lines of "omg did u kno the man who biult teh robot killed his wif & put hr gohst in the robot." Predictable horror movie crap. And then whoever made the original realised that people found his robot scary, and started doing more overtly horror-themed videos (like one where the android bites someone's finger off), which just weren't scary at all - not least because his special effects were crap and the robot can't actually walk.

 

[Slowboat to China]

I actually just read Jeff the Killer for the first time. I'm fairly certain I made a mistake and read a shitty teenage rewrite of it, because that mess cannot be the real thing fangirls are creaming themselves over. It was so ... damn ... dull.

Protip: don't tell me the killer is "ominous." Especially don't tell me the killer is ominous multiple times in the space of a page or two. Show me!

The story would have worked much better if it had stuck with the newspaper article format; you could have had some fun with building up the full picture from several different accounts and confusing some details, leaving the reader wondering whether Jeff is a killer or falsely accused or even something someone just made up to cover up something much, much worse. Candle Cove used its format beautifully, playing it completely straight, and the result was one of the best creepypastas I've ever read.

Jeff the Killer isn't creepypasta. It's more like incompetentsorghum.