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Why Creepypasta Is Problematic 2/20

Part 2b – When Blood Stops Shocking: Desensitization to Horror “To numb the wound is not to heal it. And to feel nothing in the presence of suffering is not resilience—it is erosion.”

We examined how creepypasta's unrelenting exposure to violence fosters emotional numbness and diminishes empathy. But desensitization is not simply a passive loss—it is also an active reconfiguration of ethical frameworks. It warps how audiences engage with morality, with pain, and with each other. As horror becomes habitual, the brain begins to compensate—not by feeling less, but by reframing what is felt as normal, deserved, or entertaining. This is where desensitization metastasizes into something more malignant: moral disengagement. What begins as emotional detachment becomes ethical distortion.

⚖️ The Banality of Horror: When Monstrosity Becomes Mundane In Hannah Arendt’s study of Adolf Eichmann—the bureaucrat of genocide—she coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe how monstrous acts become unremarkable when stripped of conscience. While creepypasta does not traffic in genocide, it does rehearse a kind of microbanality—ritualized harm rendered aesthetically banal.

When every second story involves the murder of a child, the torture of a woman, or the dismemberment of a friend, the genre’s affective terrain becomes a grotesque normalization of the unthinkable. The horror no longer feels horrific—it is expected. Routine. Even comforting in its predictability. This flattening has ethical consequences. The reader is not asked to feel, but to consume. The victim is not someone to mourn, but a narrative device. Trauma becomes texture. And when this occurs repeatedly, the line between fiction and the moral imagination starts to fray.

🪞 From Irony to Inversion: When Cruelty Becomes Cool Much of creepypasta fandom operates within an ironic affect—a posture of knowing detachment, dark humor, and performative numbness. Jokes about “Jeff the Killer being hot,” TikToks romanticizing Yandere-like stalkers, memes that make light of suicide, abuse, or childhood trauma—all form a cultural armor against vulnerability. Horror becomes not only something to enjoy but a tool for identity formation: “I am the one who isn’t fazed.”

This cultivates what theorists like Lauren Berlant and Mark Fisher identify as “cruel optimism”—the pursuit of emotional intensity as a form of meaning, even when it corrodes the self. In this framework, creepypasta becomes a coping mechanism that masquerades as agency. Viewers assert dominance over horror not by resisting it, but by internalizing it. They become fluent in fear, fluent in nihilism, fluent in apathy—and therefore socially “in control.” But this armor comes at a price: moral inversion. What should provoke discomfort now provokes laughter. What should generate compassion now generates memes. What should haunt now flatters.

🧪 Case Study: The “Lost Episode” Subgenre and the Infantilization of Death One especially revealing subgenre is the so-called "Lost Episode" creepypasta—stories that purport to uncover unaired or secret episodes of children’s shows filled with horrific imagery: Mickey Mouse committing suicide, SpongeBob dismembering himself, Dora staring dead-eyed into the camera as blood drips from her ears.

These narratives layer childhood nostalgia with ultraviolence, evoking what literary theorists might call the uncanny return of the repressed. But their true impact lies in what they trivialize: the dismemberment of innocence. These stories do not engage with trauma—they deploy it as aesthetic irony. What’s at stake here is not narrative experimentation. It’s the ritualization of death—especially child death—as emotionally meaningless, culturally humorous, and psychologically routine.

🧊 The Cold Gaze: Desensitization as Defense Mechanism To be fair, not all detachment is malign. For many, especially adolescents or trauma survivors, engaging with horror is a way of gaining symbolic mastery over what feels otherwise unmanageable. This echoes Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject: the horror of what disrupts identity, order, and the body. To fictionalize it is to contain it. But containment becomes dangerous when it calcifies into permanent disassociation. When readers can no longer feel disgust at the abject—or worse, when they eroticize it—they risk losing not only sensitivity, but the very capacity to register injustice as injustice. The creepypasta reader may not intend cruelty. But through repetition, irony, and escalation, they learn that empathy is inefficient, compassion is cringe, and suffering is spectacle.

🕯️ Recovering the Capacity to Shudder The goal is not to censor horror or neuter its emotional power. The grotesque has its rightful place in literature, in catharsis, in confronting human darkness. But when horror becomes affectively neutral—when suffering becomes aesthetic wallpaper—something vital is lost.

What we lose is the shudder. The shudder is not mere fear. It is moral recognition, visceral unease, an embodied rejection of cruelty. It is the body saying: This is wrong. To feel the shudder is to remain human in the presence of the inhuman. And creepypasta—if it wishes to evolve, if it wishes to be more than algorithmic terror fodder—must rediscover that capacity. It must risk slowing down, reintroducing ambiguity, forcing discomfort rather than cheapening it. Because when blood stops shocking, we do not become stronger. We become hollow.

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Why Creepypasta Is Problematic 2/20

Part 2a– When Blood Stops Shocking: Desensitization to Horror

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock What happens, then, when the bang comes every day?

In a media ecosystem saturated with cruelty—where screaming thumbnails, mutilated avatars, and blood-soaked fan art circulate with algorithmic ease—the very affective core of horror begins to corrode. Fear, once the emotional centerpiece of the genre, becomes diluted through repetition, severed from its physiological purpose, and reshaped into something inert. This process—desensitization—is not simply a numbing of reaction, but a profound reconfiguration of how the viewer engages with violence, suffering, and ultimately, with empathy itself.

Creepypasta, as a genre, operates on the assumption that shock is infinite. But the human nervous system—like narrative tension—has thresholds. There comes a point when the bleeding child, the screaming victim, the "and then he slit her throat" no longer elicits a flinch but a scroll. In the relentless churn of stories—each more grotesque, each more extreme—the grotesque becomes not horrifying, but banal.

🧠 The Psychology of Diminished Response Psychologically, desensitization refers to the process by which repeated exposure to violent imagery reduces the emotional and physiological responses typically associated with distress. This is not metaphor but measurable effect: reduced heart rate variability, blunted cortisol release, decreased amygdala activity. In simpler terms—less fear, less empathy, less care.

In a pivotal 2010 study conducted at Iowa State University, researchers found that individuals who consumed violent media regularly—particularly in a narrative form—displayed diminished emotional responses to both fictional and real-world violence. Over time, the body stops mounting a response to what it perceives as routine. What was once an aberration becomes architecture. What was once trauma becomes wallpaper. This is the terrain creepypasta occupies—not horror as disturbance, but horror as background noise.

Digital Culture and the Demand for Escalation Unlike traditional horror cinema or literature, which build tension through pacing, character psychology, or suspenseful architecture, creepypasta is beholden to a different economy: the economy of escalation. Stories are shared, rated, commented on, and algorithmically surfaced based on intensity. The more visceral, the more viral. In this system, horror loses its atmospheric creep in favor of front-loaded brutality—a race to dismember before the reader clicks away.

This is not merely a question of taste. It is a structural deformation of narrative logic. When stories are optimized for maximum shock per sentence, the audience is conditioned to require ever-greater doses of violence just to feel something. This leads to a genre inflation—a grotesque arms race—in which subtle dread is devalued, and only the most extreme content survives. Over time, this rewires emotional baselines. Mild discomfort becomes insufficient. Anxiety becomes ambient. Fear becomes background noise.

👁️ The Empathy Erosion Hypothesis Desensitization is not just a personal phenomenon—it is social. When repeated fictional violence makes one less reactive to suffering, it follows that real-world suffering, too, becomes less cognitively and emotionally arresting. This is the foundation of what some scholars call the Empathy Erosion Hypothesis—a theory suggesting that certain types of media consumption, particularly graphic horror or violent spectacle, can inhibit the development or exercise of compassion.

In the creepypasta ecosystem, where fictional death is ubiquitous and suffering is aestheticized, this erosion is quietly normalized. A child being torn apart by an eldritch entity is not a moral outrage—it is a set-up for a sequel. A mentally ill person self-mutilating on camera becomes mythos, not tragedy. Repeatedly consuming such narratives can flatten emotional registers, narrowing the reader’s ability to empathize with actual victims, or worse—blurring the distinction between representation and reality. A particularly disturbing manifestation of this is the comment-section phenomenon: readers joking under stories involving rape, child death, or suicide—using gifs, memes, or ironic hashtags. Horror becomes humor. Tragedy becomes trend.

🧬 Cognitive Fatigue and the Commodification of Trauma There is another angle worth exploring: compassion fatigue. Originally a term in trauma counseling and crisis response, compassion fatigue describes the numbness that sets in when one is overexposed to suffering without the tools to process it. In digital horror spaces, especially among adolescents, creepypasta can function as a constant exposure to stylized trauma—without the narrative scaffolding or emotional education necessary to metabolize it. When horror becomes a lifestyle—when usernames are “xSadisticLoverx,” avatars are bloodied faces, bios say “madness is my reality”—one begins to see trauma not as wound but as brand. The culture rewards detachment. Irony becomes armor. Affective dysregulation becomes a badge of belonging.

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Why Creepypasta Is Problematic 1/20

Part Ib– Pathologizing the Mind: The Killer as “Crazy”

Nearly all of creepypasta’s iconic antagonists share a common origin: psychological disorder rendered as deviance. “He went crazy.” “She lost her mind.” “They snapped.” These characters are not written as individuals with diagnosable conditions, let alone nuanced internal lives. Instead, mental illness becomes a narrative shortcut—a lazy signifier for danger, otherness, or monstrosity.

This trope—the "insane killer"—is not new. It has roots in gothic literature, 20th-century slasher films, and postmodern horror fiction. But where earlier media often used madness as a metaphor (think: the Gothic heroine in the attic, the Freudian split self), creepypasta collapses metaphor entirely. There is no subtext—only spectacle.From an academic lens, this is where Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization becomes hauntingly relevant. Foucault traced the Western tradition of cordoning off the "mad" from the "sane" not as a medical necessity, but as a cultural performance of control—sanity as power, madness as the spectacle of its collapse. Creepypasta amplifies this bifurcation: the killer is “crazy,” and “crazy” means evil, unredeemable, and—crucially—entertaining.

Media Criticism: Algorithms, Reward Systems, and the Attention Economy of Violence

The glorification of madness is not occurring in a vacuum. YouTube horror channels, TikTok storytimes, and Reddit’s NoSleep forum all reward virality, and virality rewards extremity. The more shocking, graphic, or transgressive the story, the more it circulates. Within this digital ecology, stories that sensationalize mental illness or dramatize extreme violence are algorithmically amplified.This is not neutral. It’s structural. The violence is not just tolerated; it is incentivized. When horror is monetized, madness becomes marketable. And this turns a deeply stigmatized and complex human experience into little more than clickbait fuel.

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Why Creepypasta Is Problematic 1/20

Part Ia– Fear Fetish: Glorification of Violence and Madness

“We are not afraid of the dark. We are afraid of what the dark tells us about ourselves.”

In the sprawling necropolis of internet horror, creepypasta has emerged as both digital folklore and emotional pornography—a genre in which violence is not merely depicted, but deified. Its primary aesthetic currency is fear, but unlike classical horror, which frequently situates terror within the domain of moral consequence or allegorical conflict, creepypasta often pivots toward a different mode: fetishism. It does not simply describe violence—it dwells on it, eroticizes it, aestheticizes it, and in doing so, trains its audience to consume brutality as spectacle.

This phenomenon—the glamorization of psychosis, the idolization of killers, the flattening of mental illness into narrative shorthand—warrants more than moralistic hand-wringing. It demands critique through the overlapping lenses of literary theory, media ethics, and cultural pathology.

The Aestheticization of MurderCreepypasta’s relationship to murder is not that of cautionary tale but of ritual obsession. In canonical stories like Jeff the Killer, Eyeless Jack, or Laughing Jack, acts of mutilation are lavished with detail: slit throats, gouged eyes, flayed skin—each rendered with a tactile voyeurism that borders on the indulgent. Violence, here, is less consequence and more climax. Its narrative function is not to resolve tension but to fulfill a perverse contract between creator and reader: you came for the gore, and you shall receive it.

Such portrayals align with Sontag’s concept of the "aesthetic of suffering"—where pain becomes visual code, and trauma is stylized into a consumable object. In Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag warns against the moment when "suffering becomes spectacle." Creepypasta crosses that threshold gleefully.

It is horror unmoored from ethics, consequence, or allegory—where the knife does not mean patriarchy, capitalism, or repression. The knife is just the knife. And it is beautiful.

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poc and black are not synonymous, thank you.

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And on the day when Kamala Harris nearly sews up the nomination...

... we are reminded what it's like to be a black woman in this country for everyone else.

Illinois deputy charged with murder after shooting a Black woman (theguardian.com)

An Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder after fatally shooting a Black woman who called 911 to report a possible prowler.

Sangamon county deputy Sean Grayson, who’s white, shot 36-year-old Sonya Massey in the face in her home in Springfield, Illinois – about 200 miles south of Chicago – after deputies responded to her 6 July call.

Prosecutors alleged that after Grayson, 30, allowed Massey to move a pot of water heating on the stove and set it on a counter. Grayson then “aggressively yelled” at Massey over the pot and pulled his 9mm pistol. Massey then put her hands in the air, declared “I’m sorry” and ducked for cover before being shot in the face.

In its statement issued the day of the incident, the Sangamon county sheriff’s office initially said “deputies immediately administered first aid until EMS arrived” after Massey was shot, but prosecutors allege Grayson discouraged the other deputy from getting his medical kit to save her....

[...] Grayson, who has since been fired from the department, was indicted on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct. He pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance Thursday.

Sheriff Jack Campbell said Wednesday that Grayson was fired because it is evident that the deputy “did not act as trained or in accordance with our standards. With our badge we accept enormous responsibility, and if that responsibility is abused, there should be consequences.”

Before his firing, Grayson had been with the Sangamon county sheriff’s department for nearly 18 months. He served as an officer with several other police agencies in central Illinois for about seven years prior....

Bodycam video released in case of Sangamon County deputy shooting Black woman who called 911 (chicago.suntimes.com) By the Associated Press Jul 22, 2024, 4:22pm CDT

The video will “shock the conscience of America. It is that senseless, that unnecessary, that unjustifiable, that unconstitutional,” said civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing the family of Sonya Massey.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Body camera video released Monday reveals a chaotic scene in which Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for help is shot in the face in her home by a white sheriff’s deputy.

The video from deputies’ body cameras shows a tense moment in which Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson yelled at 36-year-old Sonya Massey to set down a pot from the stove just seconds after she started pouring the water into the sink and the two giggled over her “hot steaming water.”

He then threatens to shoot her, Massey ducks, then briefly rises, and Grayson fires his pistol at her three times....

The Sun-Times article contains the body cam footage.

The baffling thing is that even more than usual in these things, there's absolutely no reason for him to have shot at her. They're laughing together and then suddenly he's shooting. (That there is a "usual" is horrifying and ridiculous and saddening and infuriating, all at once.)

I am ... curious, let's say, as to why Grayson has worked with "several other police agencies" in "seven years prior". That is not typical; people generally don't move around that much in that little time.

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--- Just that during his lifetime, Michael Jackson became a white-black African, with too many nosejobs, who was related to pedophilia and vaguely to transgenderism [but was not fully transgender].

Similarly to some artists today, he must have been an absolute intuitive genius, to figure out what was wrong with the black community or who was sitting on top of them - there even to represent the issues to us all. An odd top play in the African community, bridging the gaps between many different types of people.

WOW if only the world could have understood his sacrifice at the time. What a unique person.

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Don't ASK Black People to Fight for ya'll causes when ya'll couldn't Vote against a damn convicted criminal rapist felon.

Seriously, I'm getting so fucking sick and tired of Black People/ Black Americans having to Fucking fight for everybody else causes. Especially other POC causes when half of them have shown during this damn election how deeply they don't give a Fuck about Black Americans and all while voting against their own communities best self-interests because they so badly want to sit at the table of White Supremacy and do everything they can to be close to Whiteness. While still being super anti-black as hell.

It's seriously going to be a Black vs. Non-Black POC America now more than ever.

Some of ya'll Arabs Americans and Muslims as well as some Latinos and other non-Black POC as well as some White people. If ya'll guys want protest and be on the Frontlines dealing with Trump bullshit then go ahead and do as you may.

Please don't be asking either Black women or other black people to be on the Frontlines with you when some of ya'll have shown that you didn't have our backs during this important election and Fucked us over. As well as fucking over your own racial communities too.

At this point I'm so fucking tried and done.

I did my part during this election by voting for Kamala as well as getting out the word at how bad and horrific another Trump term would be.

But some fools still didn't want to listen to the truth or evidence and would rather learn the hard way...

I didn't Fucked around at all! Yet I still have to deal with the consequences of other people damn stupidity, racism, misogynoir, and ignorance of not taking this election seriously.

From your own protests and organize and do whatever it is you can, but please stop excepting black people to fight for ya'll shit when some of you have shown that ya'll aren't true allies towards Black Americans at all.

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Adriana Smith’s neonate was delivered today, 3 months early (around 28 weeks).

She will finally be allowed to rest and taken off of life support.

Her family’s fundraiser is nowhere near its goal, and now they have tremendous NICU costs to look forward to based on how her son was able (or unable) to develop under the duress of all those life saving drugs they pumped his mom full of.

Please allow this mother’s spirit to rest and support their family as they’re finally allowed to grieve poor Adriana being used as an incubator for the state.

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what are your sexuality headcanons for the characters?

I’ve got so many. If you’re wondering why so many are cis&bi it’s because I’m 

Percy: cis, bisexual. People ask him why he ID’s as bi rather than pan, his best answer is “I like the bi pride colors more.” It takes him a while to realize that he’s bi because he’s always been open about appreciating men aesthetically. Like “yeah, of course Jason is handsome,” but he slowly starts to realize that, sure, he’d kiss a guy, maybe he’d hook up with a guy, maybe he’d date one. One day Annabeth is like, “Alright, I know everyone is on their own personal journeys, and I’m not going to force you to come out or ID any kind of way, but I need you to know that those are not heterosexual thoughts.” 

Annabeth: cis, bi/pan. She prefers the label pansexual (just feels right for her), but she doesn’t mind people calling her bisexual. She will also often say she’s bi to people who may not understand what pansexuality is. 

Also, I do love trans Percy and trans Annabeth headcanons, that’s just not my personal default for writing them.

Grover: cis & het but the absolute #1 ally. He is the only valid straight ally. 

Nico: cis & gay or trans & gay. Both feel correct 

Jason: cis bisexual. Once all of Jason’s memories come back, he remembers that he’s had boyfriends in the past, and he’s like “oh okay, everything makes a lot more sense now.” Poor thing had to figure out his sexual identify twice. 

Leo: Currently, I’m on the “Leo is gay train.” I’ve been on a lot of Leo trains, but I’m back on this one, and I’m having a good time on it. Also, trans Leo? Very good. Also maybe aromantic. Haven’t decided on that one yet. 

Piper: Nonbinary (specifically agender) pansexual. She likes she/her and they/them pronouns. 

Frank: Trans and demisexual. 

Hazel: Nonbinary, biromantic, asexual.

Reyna: You cannot tell me this girl is not an ace lesbian. 

Rachel: nonbinary lesbian - you know she kissed Percy and was like “well, that wasn’t right.” 

Will: trans, bisexual. I’ve written about this at length. 

Clarisse: cis, bisexual. I think she knows she bi from the start of puberty. She grew up at camp, mostly, where there are a lot of lgbt folks around, so she wasn’t surprised or confused by having feelings for multiple genders. She didn’t tell anyone though until she started dating Chris, because that’s when she was like “okay, yup, for sure like this.” and then she started to fully unpack all her feelings and attractions to figure out what label best worked for her 

Chris: So until v recently, I kind of just had him as cis het, but honestly? Bisexual Chris is a vibe. I also saw a headcanon of Chris as a he/him lesbian, and while that’s not my cup of noodles, it is also a very good vibe. I’m mostly in support of any gender/sexuality headcanon for him and Clarisse that keep him around, because he deserves to be remembered. 

Silena: cis, pansexual. 

Beckendorf: cis, heterosexual. I lied before when I said Grover is the only valid straight ally.  

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The 21st century can be divided into distinct periods based on decades and significant timeframes. Here’s how these periods can be organized:

The Early 21st Century:

January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2010

The Early-Middle 21st Century:

January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2025

The Middle 21st Century:

January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2050

The Late-Middle 21st Century:

January 1, 2051 – December 31, 2075

The Late 21st Century:

January 1, 2076 – December 31, 2100

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🚨 We Need Your Kindness to Survive 🚨

Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and I’m writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.

The ongoing war has devastated my family. We’ve lost 25 family members—each one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeply—their laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.

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🌟 A Journey of Hope: An Update from Mosab 🌟

Hello dear friends,

I am writing to you with a heart full of gratitude and hope. Over the past few weeks, your support has been overwhelming. Together, we’ve raised an incredible €3031 towards our goal of €20,000, and I cannot express how much this means to my family and me. ❤️🌍

Life here in Gaza has always been filled with challenges, but the current circumstances have made it unimaginably difficult. As some of you know, my family has endured unimaginable losses – 25 of my loved ones were taken by the violence. 💔 Their memory is my driving force to keep moving forward, to survive, and to share our story with the world.

Your generosity – through donations, reblogs, and kind words – has shown me that even in the darkest times, there is light. ✨ Every euro donated, every reblog shared, every message of encouragement has made an impact. You’ve helped us cover basic necessities, keep our spirits alive, and dream of a safer future.

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Why creepypasta is problematic part 1/20

Creepypasta, a genre of horror fiction that originated on the internet, has gained a significant following over the years. However, it also comes with several problematic aspects that are worth discussing. Here are some of the main concerns associated with creepypasta:1. **Glorification of Violence and Mental Illness**: Many creepypastas revolve around violent acts, graphic imagery, and disturbing themes. While horror as a genre inherently deals with these elements, creepypasta often glorifies or normalizes violence, which can be harmful, especially to younger or more impressionable audiences. Additionally, some stories perpetuate harmful stereotypes about mental illness, portraying characters with mental health issues as inherently dangerous or unstable.2. **Desensitization to Horror and Tragedy**: The constant exposure to extreme horror and graphic content in creepypasta can lead to desensitization among readers. This desensitization can make it more difficult for individuals to empathize with real-world victims of violence and tragedy, potentially normalizing cruelty and suffering.3. **Copycat Behavior and Urban Legends**: Some creepypastas, such as the infamous "Slender Man" story, have inspired real-life copycat incidents, including acts of violence committed by individuals claiming to be acting out the lore. This blurring of the line between fiction and reality can have dangerous consequences, particularly when the stories involve harmful or illegal activities.4. **Quality and Credibility Issues**: Because creepypasta is largely user-generated and spread through forums and social media, there is a wide range in quality and credibility among stories. This can lead to the spread of misinformation and pseudoscience, as well as the reinforcement of harmful beliefs and stereotypes.5. **Potential for Exploitation**: The popularity of certain creepypasta characters and stories has led to their commercialization, with merchandise, video games, and even movies being produced. While this can be seen as a form of recognition for the creators, it also raises concerns about exploitation, especially when the original creators are not properly credited or compensated.In the next part, we'll explore additional issues related to creepypasta, including its impact on mental health and the ethical considerations surrounding the creation and consumption of such content.

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I'M BLACK!!! NOT PEOPLE OF COLOUR

I’m fucking angry about these 2024 election results because, once again, they show how little Black lives mean to this country’s political system. We turn out and cast our votes, hoping for change, hoping for leaders who will fight for us—and yet, the policies that follow rarely benefit us. The pattern of empty promises and token gestures toward racial justice is clear, and I’m tired of it. When Black Americans show up to vote, we’re not asking for favors or handouts. Fucking asking or demanding justice, safety, and equality—basic rights we’re constantly denied. We’ve been waiting for meaningful progress on police reform, education, and economic equity, but the message from Washington is loud and clear: our struggles aren’t a priority. After generations of dedication to this democracy, we deserve more than these weak attempts at change. The constant grouping of Black people under “people of color” or “marginalized communities” dilutes our experience and fucking minimizes the depth of the issues we face. This election has made it painfully clear that leaders will keep overlooking Black lives if they can get away with it. They’ll use blanket terms and pass watered-down policies, but they won’t put in the work to deliver real, transformative change. I am fucking done being patient. Black Americans are more than a voting bloc or a talking point. We’re a force in this country, and our needs to our history and experiences. We deserve policies tailored to our community, not diluted with vague, broad “diversity” initiatives that don’t target the root of our issues. Until Black lives are seen, valued, and respected by our political leaders, my fucking anger won’t subside. This fucking election, like so many before it, proves that the fight is far from over. We need leaders who actually see us and stand for us, not ones who just offer lip service when it’s time to collect fucking our votes.

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