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Creepypasta
A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet. The term ''creepypasta'' has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories that are intended to frighten readers. The subjects of creepypasta vary widely and can include topics such as ghosts, cryptids, murder, suicide, zombies, aliens, rituals to summon supernatural entities, haunted television shows, and video games. Creepypastas range in length from a single paragraph to extended multi-part series that can span multiple media types, some lasting for years. In the mainstream media, creepypastas relating to the fictitious Slender Man character came to public attention after the 2014 " Slender Man stabbing", in which a 12-year-old girl was stabbed by two of her friends; the perpetrators claimed they "wanted to prove the Slender Man skeptics wrong". After the murder attempt, some creepypasta webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Creepypastas
Creepypastas are Horror fiction, horror-related legends or images that have been cut, copy, and paste, copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. The term "creepypasta" originates from "copypasta", a portmanteau of the words "copy" and "paste". List of creepypastas ''The Backrooms'' ''The Backrooms'' is a short passage originally posted to 4chan's /x/ board in 2019 as a caption to a photograph of a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper. The story purports that by "Noclip mode, noclip[ping] out of reality", one may enter a realm known as the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors and rooms with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in", as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slender Man Stabbing
On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, Anissa E. Weier (born November 10, 2001) and Morgan E. Geyser (born May 16, 2002), lured their friend Payton Leutner into a wooded area of a local park and stabbed her 19 times to appease the fictional supernatural character Slender Man and prove that he was real. Leutner survived the attack after being found by a cyclist, later stating the attack inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. During their interrogations, Geyser was described as displaying no empathy and Weier was described as displaying guilt for stabbing Leutner, although both stated that the attack was necessary. In 2017, Weier and Geyser were both found not guilty by mental disease or defect and committed to mental health institutions. Weier received a sentence of 25 years to life and Geyser was sentenced to 40 years to life. Weier was released in 2021 to live with her father. Geyser is due to be released in 2025 to live in a group home and will be under s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Drowned
''Ben Drowned'' (originally published as ''Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge'') is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial and web series created by Alex Hall (author), Alexander D. Hall under the pen name Jadusable. Originating as a creepypasta based on the 2000 action-adventure game ''The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask'' and published by Hall from 2010 to 2020 with a hiatus in-between, the series is known for creating many of the current common Trope (literature), tropes and themes of creepypasta and for subverting themes from ''The Legend of Zelda'' series. The series concluded on October 31, 2020. Serving as Hall's first project, the first arc of the series, ''Haunted Cartridge'', was released in 2010. It follows college sophomore Jadusable, who, after acquiring a haunted Nintendo 64 video game cartridge of ''Majora's Mask'', is plagued over the course of a single week by the presence of a seemingly omniscient artificial intelligence entity called BEN. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted The Caver
"Ted the Caver" is a short horror story by Ted Hegemann, self-published on an Angelfire website in 2001. It is presented as the online diary of a man who excavates an unexplored cave with his friends. As he unearths the passage further, the entries become increasingly unsettling. The story was widely shared on the early internet, where message boards constantly debated its authenticity. Some users thought it was true by virtue of the many images and technical details, to the point that the cave in the story was able to be identified. After several years, the author revealed that "Ted the Caver" was based on his real caving experiences but he had added numerous creative embellishments. An early internet horror story, "Ted the Caver" is sometimes considered the first creepypasta; the story also popularized several of the subgenre's tropes. An independent film titled ''Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver'' (2013) loosely adapted the story. Another full length independent film w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slender Man
The Slender Man (also called Slenderman, Slender, or Slendy) is a fictional supernatural character (arts), character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forum user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009. He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless white head and face, wearing a black suit. Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature his stalking, Kidnapping, abducting, or traumatizing people, particularly children. The Slender Man has become a pop culture icon, although he is not confined to a single narrative but appears in many disparate works of fiction, typically composed online. Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as ''Marble Hornets'' (2009–2014), wherein he is known as The Operator. The character has appeared in the video game ''Slender: The Eight Pages'' (2012) and its successor ''Slender: The Arrival'' (2013), as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff The Killer
Jeff the Killer is a fictional horror character and creepypasta meme that gained popularity following posts by the DeviantArt user "Sesseur" on Newgrounds. He is depicted as a psychotic serial killer with ghastly pale skin, no eyelids and a permanent smile-shaped scar. Description Jeff the Killer's original story was created by DeviantArt user "Sesseur," the pseudonym of Jeff Case from Auburndale, Florida. Sesseur began posting on Newgrounds in 2008 under the alias "killerjeff," where they described a Bloody Mary-like ritual that supposedly summoned Jeff. In the original story, Jeff, initially named Jeffrey C. Hodek, "accidentally spilled a bucket of acid on his face while trying to clean his bathtub." The most notable version of the Jeff the Killer story, which emerged in 2011, follows a teenager named Jeffrey Woods, who is attacked by a group of bullies. The altercation ends with Jeff being nearly arrested for assault, but his brother Liu takes the blame, resulting in his pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copypasta
A copypasta is a block of text copied and pasted to the Internet and social media. Copypasta containing controversial ideas or lengthy rants are often posted for humorous purposes, to provoke reactions from those unaware that the posted text is a meme. History The term ''copypasta'' is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year. Examples Navy Seal The Navy Seal copypasta, also sometimes known as Gorilla Warfare due to a misspelling of "guerrilla warfare" in its contents, is an aggressive but humorous attack paragraph supposedly written by an extremely well-trained member of the United States Navy SEALs (hence its name) to an unidentified "kiddo", ostensibly whomever the copypasta is directed to. Written in a manner simi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks that consists of Private network, private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, Wireless network, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and Web application, applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), email, electronic mail, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to research that enabled the time-sharing of computer resources, the development of packet switching in the 1960s and the design of computer networks for data communication. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viral Phenomenon
Viral phenomena or viral sensations are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. Analogous to the way in which viruses propagate, the term ''viral'' pertains to a video, image, or written content spreading to numerous online users within a short time period. This concept has become a common way to describe how thoughts, information, and trends move into and through a human population. The popularity of viral media has been fueled by the rapid rise of social network sites, wherein audiences—who are metaphorically described as experiencing "infection" and "contamination"—play as passive carriers rather than an active role to 'spread' content, making such content "go viral". The term ''viral media'' differs from '' spreadable media'' as the latter refers to the ''potential'' of content to become viral. Memes are one known example of informational viral patterns. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copy And Paste
Cut, copy, and paste are essential Command (computing), commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique for transferring data (computing), data through a computer's user interface. The ''cut'' command removes the Selection (user interface), selected data from its original position, and the ''copy'' command creates a duplicate; in both cases the selected data is kept in temporary storage called the Clipboard (computing), clipboard. Clipboard data is later inserted wherever a ''paste'' command is issued. The data remains available to any application supporting the feature, thus allowing easy data transfer between applications. The command names are an interface metaphor based on the physical procedure used in manuscript print editing to create a page layout, like with paper. The commands were pioneered into computing by Xerox PARC (company), PARC in 1974, popularized by Apple Computer in the 1983 Apple Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imageboard
An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of a number of English-language imageboards. Characteristics Imageboards, similar to bulletin board systems, are used for discussions of a variety of topics. The primary focus of imageboards, however, is directed away from text posts, and is instead placed on picture posts. The two share many of the same structures, including separate forums for separate topics, as well as similar audiences. Imageboards are much more transitory with content—on some boards (especially highly trafficked ones), the thread deletion time can be as little as 10 minutes. The most popular English language imageboard, 4chan, similarly has a large variety of topics. Imageboards are also different from online galleries in that most of the works posted are not mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, technology, anime, physical fitness, politics, and sports, among others. Registration is not available, except for staff, and users typically post anonymously. , 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of whom approximately half are from the United States. 4chan was created as an unofficial English-language counterpart to the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel, also known as 2chan, and its first boards were originally used for posting images and discussion related to anime. The site has been described as a hub of Internet subculture, its community being influential in the formation and popularization of prominent Internet memes, such as lolcats, Rickrolling, rage comics, wojaks, Pepe the Frog, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
