Copy and pasted spooky short-stories made famous by 4chan's /x/ board. The term derives from "copypasta".

The stories aren't really copy and pasted anymore, but rather they are screenshots of the post so they can be shared and saved as an image rather than a huge block of text.

A Creepypasta is a being that used to be a character in a horror story. These said characters are brought to life by a creature known as Slenderman or The Operator in some cases. Creepypastas also kill people for fun and for vengeance. Some examples are Jeff The Killer killing for fun, Hoodie and Masky killing since they are oredered to by Slenderman, and Laughing Jack killing for revenge on his former human (he’s an imaginary friend/clown demon).

A subcategory of Creepypasta is a Proxy. A Proxy is a disciple of Slenderman. These Proxies do Slenderman’s killing for him and go on missions to do said killing.
All Creepypastas live in Slender’s Mansion. It is a large, white, castle-like mansion that rests in the center of The Black Forest, Germany.

Stories you read online that aren't really scary but your friends are really scared so you try to act invested.

An interesting horror phenomenon which it was formed from a journalistic hoax from a man who had SomethingAwful ties creating the figure known as slenderman. The precursor to this was the now defunct e-zine known as The House of Pain which established in 1994.

The guilty party behind The Cabbie Homicide, he in 2006 introduced a creative nonfiction piece called The Pattern of Diagnosis introduced on his own mag and in a Philly based mag in autumn of 2007. The latter compared to the earlier piece was a hope spot in contrast, as this has an eerie personality of it's own often seen as Inspirational though it's eerie atmosphere.

Pinned a piece to his personal pinterest account; a creepypasta piece on fanfiction net examining it as it was the size of his cult horror outings going around and his published output. Tampa Bay Times did an interesting article about the phenomenon as they documented a truecrime that happened in Wisconsin that the subjects stabbed a classmate to honor the fictional entity. It's something born out of what is known as fakelore. Where a journalistic hoax meets weird fiction is when you get the creepypasta output. It shows up on wattpad as the author introduced a horror story that deconstructs how teenagers were portrayed in teen dramas and in slasher films as the actors are often older.

He in 2006 introduced a dry-witted narrator in a short story called Spectral Exile which is quite gory in nature.

One of the best and weirdest fandoms of all time lmao

creepypastas are fake bullshit stories for internet points