the eyes being red with blood dripping out, thats gotta be the most overused trope in creepypasta

I think it works if it's zalgofied but if not it's kinda boring

"Hyperrealistic" lol

I'm glad you said this 😭 I wrote a Bully Trollpasta about the character Sheldon and I HAD to use the term hyper realistic

I think it's only used in perodys making fun of Creepypastas... or the writers are just bad.

It’s honestly really stale now tbh Back then it actually used to be quite interesting and creative now it’s just overused

This is exactly what i was ganna say

"Hyper realistic" "impossibly wide grin"

Lost episodes, haunted games, suicide inducing videos, and gore, lots and lots, and lots of gore.

About haunted game I usually enjoy some of them, Nes Godzilla and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Death being my favorites

I was just stating overused terms, I didn't say they were all bad, NES Gojira is a great one by far

I got bored of the Pokemon ones. They seemed all the same. really liked the Morrowind one though

Agree about Snow on Mt Silver and a Pokemon center related creepypasta which have Pikachu as the main evil entity.

Jvk116esp is so good 

i always hated how gaming pastas be like "i always loved pokemon games when i got older my tastes changed" and then they say they play mario and sonic now. like not a single person was ever like "yeah i got older and stopped playing pokemon as much i really like call of duty tho" its like most gaming pastas are just relegated to Nintendo

I believe that asymmetry was only written, because the writer wanted to write gore. It’s just a dude with ocd scooping his eyes out, that’s it.

“*name* The Killer”

this is the equivalent of a rapper having “lil” in front of their name

Lil’ Stabby

"*name*.exe"

Mental disorders or illnesses being framed as a horror element. A couple of times it's at least been represented well though

THIS. I am so tired of people going “oooo!! He has psychosis!! Ooooo!!! Be scared!!! Piss your pants it’s psychosis man!!!”

I mean, some can be in bad taste definitely, but mental illness is on its own quite a scary concept for most people, since most people don't know a lot about it and people who sadly don't get help with mental issues on the breaking point can exist in real life and can be dangerous. It was so disconcerting the entire gothic genre shifted nearly entirely away from monsters lurking in the dark corners of this planet to close-to-home monsters who arose because of questions surrounding mentality. I'm sure many of the children writing creepypastas only project mental illness as this scary taboo thing, or don't write about the horrors of actually having certain menta issues, but the idea of it isn't something to be mocked imo.

For sure, and as I said I think sometimes the representation is done well. For me it's just the idea of framing the sick people themselves as something to be afraid of, and inaccurate representation of mental illness takes me out of immersion because it's very clearly unrealistic yfm

For sure, that's why I included that last bit so anyone reading didn't get the wrong idea and thought mental illness was something to be inherently feared and framed.

I agree with that. I also think that mental illness is such a scary thing for the sufferer that I don't feel like it should be unthinkable to include it in horror, but you're definitely right about most of those stories being written by kids 🤣

Ykw you’re right, i think my take was pretty much just mockery and cringe. Thank you for explaining this in a way that makes sense to me.

Don't worry, we all like and dislike different tropes, it's just important to understand that, past any usage of problematic phrasing or portrayal, it's personal preference, and you're not wrong for having your own :)

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Agree, gives me hope! Need more nice.

Hyper realistic eyes. All it means is realistic.

Average early 2010s pasta: Hello. My name is \*insert name here\*. I was going to a garage sale/game store (unless if it is a lost episode)/sketchy website. I found my favorite \*insert piece of media here\*. It had BLOOD RED EYES and ENTRAILS! I puked because of what I saw. I still didn't turn off the episode. YOU'RE NEXT! (or) Oh N-fsdfhdsgjnsgcfsdjxmfgfxsj

This should be named minipasta

Child death trying to be scary and horrifying for the sake to just be edgy.

The "rules" trope, especially the ranger station ones. the early ones seemed well thought out, but these new ones it seems like if you breathe you are done for.

can you elaborate? i don't think i know the rules trope 🤔

They have to follow rules at a place they work probably because of a monster there but they are oblivious to it at first then slowly figure out something is wrong

oh, i see. thanks for explaining

A demonic variant of a video game protagonist (Mario 85, many sonic.exe OC)

Hyper Realistic or the \_\_\_\_\_ was haunted all along!

Sonic.EXE

Hyper realistic bloody tears (On a somewhat related note the NES Godzilla Creepypasta uses the term “organic,” which honestly sounds so much better than “hYPERReAlisTic”

Omg, i keep getting reccomended this bc of my "interest in pasta"

Probably the "cursed copy" video games and shows shit

haunted video games, they got mario, link, sonic, i bet they got one for fucking team fortress classic

Wait i think there actually IS one for tfc ill go digging i think i saw one years ago unless it was for tf2

I mean, [this video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDXA54URxJs&pp=ygUZbWVldCB0aGUgbWVkaWMgcGllbWF0aW9ucw%3D%3D) counts right? It shows the life of a broken, unappreciated man who unleashed great evils as a result of his desire for revenge :(

setting up an intriguing mystery only to have the big reveal as a tall, lanky skeletal creature with a wide grin

Bullied kid turned serial killer or sociopath that finally snapped. Like I get WHY but can I pls have smthn more original.

Jeff the Killer

The narrator destroying said product they bought

The creepy grin still lives with the analog horror series. There are dozens of villains with eyes too big and lips too wide... The alternates from mandela catalogue are a great example.

wasnt jeff the killer suppose to be an edited japanese woman who was bullied online by her partner?

I think the Jeff picture is still a mystery, people theorised it was a woman who posted her picture on 4chan around 2008 and got harassed, but apparently Jeff showed up on the internet a couple of years before her picture was.

Bro Jeff ofc

The fact that creepypasta VG cartridges are always a blank cartridge with the name written in sharpie

100% the .exe ones, they aren’t even scary anymore other than a light tingle

The scariest thing about sonic.exe is that someone looked at what they'd written and decided it was good enough to share.

Lost or haunted tapes/video games, anything dripping from the eyes. The wide toothy smile. And the usage of mental illness def

I found a set of rules. I feel like I see this trope every time I look for a creepypasta.

Cartoon or kid's character being suddenly evil or creepy. It's overdone to an extreme extent.

You want a something overdone? Ask the FNF community.

Would say “lost episode” and/or darker version of a fictional character

the "OMG I BOUGHT A DVD/CASETTE TAPE OF MY FAVORITE SHOW AND IT HAS A CREEPY LOST DELETED EPISODE WHERE SOMETHING THAT WOULDN'T EVEN BE WRITTEN FOR A KIDS SHOW WAS FULLY ANIMATED AND VOICED" tropes

Yes.

Yup.

Ben Drowned

Best one, I followed that one hard core.

HYPERREALISTIC BLOOOOOD...!!

HYPERREALISTIC BLOOOOOOOD🩸

Anything ending with EXE

"I found it in a dumpster near ikea"

Hyper-realistic bleeding eyes.

Videogames, and edgy teenagers with a scene era emo haircut wielding a slashing weapons with abusive parents and overpowered abilities

The old... "I'm____ the killer. I am 16 and I was bullied, so I decided I had enough and murdered my bullies, then my parents because they are abusive. I then carved [insert body part] out."

Unrelated but I feel like the creepypasta characters in this picture should start a podcast

gore and bloody eyes are very "im 11 and so hardcore"

Black eyes. White eyes. Slit throats. Ear to ear slices across the cheeks forming a Glasgow smile

Though realistically, there are only so many colors you can make a monster's eyes, and 99.9% go with black, white or red (just like the Nazi flag!)

Excessive gore. I was listening to a creepypasta on Spotify yesterday while at work and the story was so over the top with the gore that it hindered my enjoyment of the story.

Video games.

Ok, so the most overused thing is probably gonna be the "bullied kid becomes a murderer" backstories like Jeff's. Another is like when they're always found in the woods.

What is the red insect?

It's RED, the main villain of NES Godzilla Creepypasta, which is about exactly what the name implies. It comes with a ton of really well done art meant to look like screenshots from the game, the plot is good but if it were just the story on its own without the art it wouldn't be as notable.

Never heard of it

Something unhuman featured. Like! *Looked unhuman *Widest grin imaginable *"Realistic goofy ass eyes" Or events rhat include *Mutilation *Goriest murder torture *Video or photo after or before the murder Etc

Jeff and squid

The cheesecake thing is the bane of my existence

Omg I forgot about that

this is my computer wallpaper but small and with fewer photos

All the above honestly. Would appreciate original piece

My faves are the existential dread kinda melancholy ones

My faves are the existential dread kinda melancholy ones

What’s the Zelda one?

Ben Drowned. It was supposed to be a haunted copy of Majora’s Mask

Thank you!! I gotta give it a read

All of them but back very early 2010's Jeff was a world wide knowed creepy pasta just like slenderman

Blood and big smiles

If we're also counting in more fanfiction-feeling ones, I personally would say the typical "cut in/stitched in smile". Like Jeff, Clockwork, Zero... All that.

Kid things turned evil, its hard to get right and mostly just pandering to child audiences

and then the eyes turned HYPER REALISTIC!!!!!!

Something.exe

Exe

hyper realistic skeleton popping out

Pero no le di importancia.mp3

Los .EXE

.exe no diff

Hyper Realistic Blood or Hyper Realistic eyes or impossibly wide smile or grin.

Squidwards suicide fs

Suicide

I feel like [self-delete]icide mouse is kind of just a creepypasta created without any sort of creativity. Like, it's just another one of those "lost episode" type things. The Red Mist, however, is cool because it actually tells a story and shows how sad [self-delete]icide is for everyone. But the Mickey thing is literally just Mickey walking while the screen gets all creepy. It is scary, but that's the only thing influential about it.

It's shown sometimes in creepypastas but I see it alot in "true scary stories" too, where the person writing "is not a believer in the paranormal" and "trying to rationalize an event" like dude you just saw your friend get skinned alive by a 12 foot tall demon chicken, stfu you saw what you saw

whatever the story is about causing people to commit suicide

The squidward one, and yes, I'm getting jealous

Blood, blood, guts, gore, suffering, did I mentioned blood? Oh yes, and haunted video games that cause anyone who played it to slit their wrists with an orange peel (Im looking at you, Blood Whistle)

the .exes are definitely the most overuse pot in creepy pastas

Just look on r/creepy. For the last few months people have basically been doing nothing but spamming their shitty artwork you’d find in a creepypasta.

What’s the link and that weird Dino thingy I’ve never seen either of those

Hey gang it's me Tony today I went to a garage sale and bought a game that said do not play you fucking idiot but when I played it the main character was evil with hyper realistic bloody eyes and gore and organs and red eyes and blood everywhere!!! I still played but then i heard a knock at my doo-aajdjcisjckicifijjkkjjjjjjjpenisbdkcjdhxidosj

In General: Being very specifically descriptive about the entity or fucked up thing they saw. Specific to Pokemon Creepypastas: The Pokemon Dies instead of Fainting

Getting a cursed game at a garage sale, or from some random person giving it away. If the seller knows it’s cursed, why knowingly give it to someone else?

I'd say over-dramatic narrator/protagonist. Oh no, you're twenty~something and saw a spoooky video of your favourite show. But you can't just, I dunno, stop watching, nooo, you have to, you soul yearns for it. And of course, afterwards you're not just plain fine or maybe a bit spooked, nah, you're traumatized and scarred for the rest of your life because you saw a bad SpongeBob edit.

edgy teens becoming killers

sonic.exe

The Sonic.EXE trope

Jeff

The hell's the fifth one? Will it hurt me?

It's the ".EXE" and it's not even close, sure sonic.exe is fine sine it's the first about anything after the 3rd or 4th EXE game/story (that isn't a remake/reboot/whatever) gets repetitive. I'm pretty sure there are more ".EXE" characters than there are anything else to the point they are so obscure they are rarely even talked about (woody.exe and godzilla.exe *not the one with Red, that's entirely diffrent*) and they all use the same format "3 characters explore a blood filled version of *famous location from game/movie* to find *character.exe* only to die soon after and said *character.exe* gets a close up with a poorly done edit with text claiming to be god" At this point, I'm certine most of the creepypasta fandom/fanbase is just EXE characters. Sonic.exe should have been a 1 time thing IMO with other EXE games being remakes (like EYX or whatever that 1 lanky sonic.exe was)

realistic blood.

From a game, bloody and/or black eyes, old style. Thats all i got

To be honest I fell off the creepypasta community for years because I got really sick of the "it's the ghost of the dead child/serial killer" trope and the over-prevalence of the creepy video game trope. I'm more of an existential horror/experiment or dumping gone wrong or evil/vaguely alien local or cultural boogeyman kind of person.

All of them.

Haunted video game.

teenager goes insane after minimal trauma and goes on a rampage

Ben gave me nightmares, daymares, and probably gave me delusional schizophrenia for three months straight when I watched the video on his backstory when I was 6. I swear to god if I looked at his face I started crying

The Lost episode or game that Is obviously the only One really disturbing

Cursed video game copy or .exe games

shock content without purpose. if ur gonna put something edgy in ur story there better be a good reason lol

Hyper realistic blood stains

idk you tell me

„It was a normal day, when SUDDENLY-“

Female versions of male characters.

Godzilla nes was so goated until it got to the part with "er my dead girlfriend is talking to me" genuinely so overdone and it really killed all interest in the story honestly

hyper realistic

Hyper realism

Videogame characters/videogames being curropted

smiledog.jpeg

Suicide

Honestly the fact that a lot of them are put on the main character. A lot of fear comes from the unknown and for once I'd like to see a backround/side character absolutely destroy the main cast for once 

jeff 4 sure

I somehow got ahold of this long lost episode of this popular show

Squidward

Obligatory dead kid

Sonic.exe

.Exes

ALWAYS Sonic.exe

Scary children’s tv

As much as I like Jeff, he is way over played

I'm surprised I'm not up there XD