I agree with Wendigoon that the one part with the stoner carpenter or whatever he was should have been cut out. It ruins the flow of the story, and makes no sense, I don't care how much of that Mary Jane ganja you be smokin man, you don't see a meth head with a bunch of kids screaming at a fire and go "Yeah, that's cool I guess."
Hasn't slimebeast accused pretty much everyone of plagiarism or am I thinking about someone else?
Maybe. I don't know enough. But in this case I think he's correct. I remember listening to a reading some years ago and some scenes were just transcribed videos of Alantutorial.
it was written and posted before alantutorial's video came out
The first post yes. But the subquent updates weren't.
This really reminded me of True Detective season 1. A lot of current day media likes to put occultic references in it and events that are only possible through either magic or pure retardation of everyone involved. And conclude with lol no, everyone was stupid.
the OG story was, but the page suddenly got an update that featured the Alan Tutorial ripoff, allegedly it wasnt by the OG author since it was a free to edit Wikia page, back when the creepypasta Wiki was the main hub of some communities
I think it was a public access show at first then the call to come and see the basement was what got the killer caught. The shock tapes were never aired but it was filmed and collected as evidence; evidence that perhaps purposely was lost to time. I have no problems with how the story is structured in this regard. I do think there are filler arcs that could be edited out without harming the basic story. This story structure reminds me a lot of old Splatterpunk stories where we know the beginning and the end but what happens in between in gory detail that is the story. This story was built in a way that attempts to manipulate the very human instinct of curiosity. Kind of like the most memorable aspects of the movie Sinister were the snuff films within the movie.
I'm unfamiliar with Alan tutorial but I think a big problem with a lot of creepypastas like this is that the core concept just isn't that unique or original. Just ooh a creepy kid shows with awful stuff happening behind the scenes.
So, Nickelodeon
It's like horror is how art confronts harsh truths or something.
alantutorial is an allegory for how someone becomes successful on Youtube thanks to their unique personality/style of content, and gradually have to keep churning out the same shit over and over again to appease the algorithm, and how what they loved doing at first essentially becomes a prison.
