a normal creepypasta retrospective

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[@ashtonstatesman6761]

dont gaslight me like this. i thought i somehow missed a bunch of weirdly familiar creepypasta back when i was obsessed with it.

[@ashtonstatesman6761]

You said jed the caver and i just went well musta misheard that

[@rolboo6158]

Omg w the png history too

[@VultureSkins]

@@ashtonstatesman6761me too! I was waaaay too ready to just go “sounds kinda off but Im probably wrong” lol

[@daniellewilliamson4215]

SAME omg!! I'd read so many pokemon creepypastas as a kid i just assumed i'd read wishmaker bad egg bc of course i must have i'd read all the big ones

[@treehann]

I actually had to come to the comments section and get spoiled early because I was so annoyed that my favorite pastas like Pokemon Ghost were getting skipped😂

[@Burningfiretaco]

I hope this video creates a youtube genre of "longform video essays from alternate timelines". Seems like there is a lot of potential.

[@jadenbryant9283]

Yeah maybe it could be a fun new way to do a ARG like maybe di a video Essay on a canceled movie like Tim burtons Superman movie or Justice league mortal by George Miller that type of thing

[@roxygaming5968]

Turns out it did not.

[@boscorner]

​@@roxygaming5968YET

[@SpookyPancakes]

@@roxygaming5968and I’m disappointed

[@berserkerciaran]

​@@roxygaming5968 But there's an alternate timeline where it did

[@sukidable]

Gotta say, ShareThis is a LOT scarier than smiledog. The idea that you're not only missing memories but you were doing... SOMETHING in that time. Bit more haunting than just nightmares that say "SPREAD THE WORD"

[@Kuro-2427]

Plus that FUCKING IMAGE. I know it's literally just A Picture Of A Dog but deep fried to hell and back, but it genuinely made me so fucking uneasy the first time I saw it

[@Jetsetlemming]

hard agree, the writing is just better done. The melancholy of "living with the aftermath of something you did" tone for the ending is also a wonderful mature flavor compared to "watch out or you might get a bad dream of a dog!!!1"

[@thekingofallfrogs]

Ngl i think someone should turn these into actually creepypastas. If anything this and the whole 1999 thing was the one that got me thinking that something was up. This alternate version of Smile dog was much scarier.

[@nooneinparticular2638]

I actually tried searching sharethis.jpg cause it scared me good and wanted to read it in text format, and returned nothing. Then, I reached the end. Ngl, I was a little disappointed it isn't real, but impressed nonetheless.

[@ghostiieeseason]

@@thekingofallfrogs yeah honestly everyone involved really out did themselves

[@thumbhead3370]

Damn I thought Jed the caver was just a genuine mistake. Totally caught me off guard

[@dollarestoreoffbrand5545]

All of it is so close to normal creepy pasta. Its all so normal and mundane (believable atleast) i didnt notice anything until the peeker update.

[@maxmad7641]

Its funny because my brain autocorrected it to “Ted” so i just went along with the whole ride

[@boscorner]

Same lmao

[@gardenagnostic]

i only noticed cause i got the explanation video recommended to me lol

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

unfortunately it's what spoiled the gimmick of the whole video for me. I wouldn't have been familiar enough with creepypasta to call out the other ones as not just being stuff I'd never heard of before, but I know Ted the Caver well enough it made me cautious enough to pick up what was going on with the others

[@ZenobyGoat]

you somehow managed to recapture the feeling of reading creepypastas as a child and thinking, just for a moment "hold on....is that real?"

[@TheAleG]

well, you want to fear the scary? its easy, first select a creepy pasta or movie anything scare, before watching either say or think in conviction that its is real, like its some camera footage etc.. if its a history, just try to imagine it in your head, if you can "see" image on your head (not everyone can) its easer

[@t-rexadmirer]

I was convinced for 90% of the video that the twist was that Mae doesn't exist and Hazel made her up for a creepypasta video. They sound so similar and in the video they both used Hazel's "voice" in writing terms. watching a twitch stream now with both of them on it and waaaa

[@Bighomie39]

This feels like the horror version of not being able to tell two siblings/twins apart because they look super similar

[@mattnavey2]

Kinda lovely how you can HEAR the "siblingness" in the vocals of Hazel and Mae.

[@arisafari1855]

Ha.

[@eoincampbell1584]

You didn't watch the whole video.

[@mibber121]

ISNT ITTTT

[@mattnavey2]

​@@haddockcoreah fixed

[@VultureSkins]

@@eoincampbell1584and you didn’t watch the two and a half hour video about the video lol

[@vacantvisionary]

I'd never heard of Gabbit Rabbit before but "You have to be a big kid, even if it's hard. That's what big kids do" is raw as hell. Really hit me as a survivor of childhood abuse in a way I can't quite describe.

[@heartcatchprecure]

the original version of the story was definitely my favorite in the whole video. its not super scary but its really depressing and im a sucker for horror based on old games

[@sploosh5432]

Honestly same, I'm a sucker for the kind of horror that turns out to be more down to earth and kind of sad to think about.

[@Zectifin]

also conservative parents having no problem with abuse being show, because they are ok with it, and being appalled at media for kids saying you should stand up to your parents is right on the nose. Like its literally what happened with Turning Red.

[@weakmoon2363]

same!

[@Wixma]

When I heard that stitcher rap, straight away I was like "that's thorhighheels 😄" and then hazel said it was some random Dutch person and I was like "I guess it was just the accent". Very happy to see the credits prove me right in the end

[@violetto3219]

for a bit i sort of brushed it off as their reconstruction of what it could have sounded like. a lot of those old songs posted to myspace are simply missing now, so it wouldn't be weird to do that. definitely when i started realizing this whole video was a bit though

[@btragicart]

I legit had to do a double take once the pic of the "Stitcher" came up. I was almost tricked but then Skungo popped up and that's when I knew... something was up

[@mattfanofcats3262]

Same! I was just like, “oh I guess i’m being an asshole and it’s just the accent” lol.

[@nibscribs]

Literally same I was like “oh I guess all Dutch people sound like Thor” lmao

[@dustgraystone9448]

That's actually kinda weird... I don’t remember a rap or any music like that popping up. I remember them talking about it and showing it, but not hearing the music.

[@Joemetheus]

Wow, took me way longer than I would have expected to realize what was going on. Beautifully done lmao I was half thinking “there’s no way I haven’t heard of this many creepypastas, I just spent an entire year researching horror stuff for my own thing wtf” I noticed the Jed the Caver discrepancy, sidestepping Jeff the Killer in favor of Steven the Stitcher, and the alternate smile dog variation too but it took until the “KZbinr went missing” for me to get suspicious at all. I had chalked it up to it being a hazel video, so of COURSE she’d have heard of a hundred of the most obscure niche things I’ve never seen anywhere else.

[@MimikyuCookie]

Same but it took me entirely until the disappearances.

[@eggboy9126]

Oh my god. At first I was totally convinced these were all just stories I never heard of. Genius video.

[@yurifairy2969]

watched the entire video thinking these were just obscure ones I haven't heard

[@vaughngreason2175]

Lowkey, the only thing which raised an eyebrow to me was the quality of the creepypastas that were mentioned. Like, lmao the Peaker story sounds basically like The Rake if it wasn't written by a 14 year old.

[@GabrielMcKean]

Same here, it didn't twig for me until they started talking about how freaking Slenderman was an obscure, little known creepy pasta monster.

[@peanutkix]

"Jed the Caver" and "Slenderman is obscure" caused me to raise an eyebrow but I concluded that they must've just been funny bits in order to focus on obscure stories instead

[@timrosswood4259]

​​@@vaughngreason2175wdym? The rake is actually very unsettling

[@Zachdewd]

The way you nailed the social ineptitude and Idiocracy of 4chan threads was absolutley masterful.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Bro what

[@four-en-tee]

​@@ImmaLittlePip "fucking trips"

[@a.j.chaisson8740]

true

[@justcommoncurt]

Agreed. "They dropped webbed hands and feet because the guy that originally proposed to it was getting off to the idea" is so on brand 😂

[@osprey_06]

​@@justcommoncurt honestly idk what the appeal with that would even be what is bro thinking

[@silentsaints]

as a preteen I was completely convinced the Russian sleep experiment and candle cove creepypastas were real, it took an embarrassingly long time (last year) for me to realize they weren’t

[@Alman117]

I feel that me and my friends were convinced slenderman and the rake were real so we would always be looking out the window. Although Russian sleep experiment was probably more real still easily to scare kids minds.

[@al.m765]

Idk if I ever fully believed it but I only found out the Russian sleep experiment was a pasta like 3 years ago lmao

[@thishandleistacken]

What really frustrates me about the Sleep Experiment is that such things really did occur during the Cold War, on both sides. Exaggerated and ridiculous versions of the truth have since proliferated as theories and fiction but under all of that are hundreds of ruined lives and unrelenting horrors. I live in Montreal (Canada) and my greatgrandmother was a victim of Dr. Ewen Cameron when he was working for Subproject 68 on behalf of the U.S' CIA. What they did to her reduced her to a childlike state for the rest of her life. It was torture, barbaric... Wikipedia will give you the basic information on what happened. Just look up Dr. Ewen Cameron and you'll have a good starting point. Please stay to academic and true sources if you decide to look into this stuff. There is so much disinformation out there and as a relative of a victim I leave comments like this because I think it's important people remember the truth without turning it into something unbelievable. I've typed this out way too many times and it's too personal and messed up to keep rewriting. I get really conflicted seeing creepypasta/ARGs/unfiction use the extensive horrors of not only Subproject 68 but the rest of what we know from real declassified documents and court cases actually occurred. Stay away from nonsense like Monarch, it's fake nonsense... there's more than enough to dig through with what journalists, investigators, lawyers (like Alan Stein for a large example) have uncovered. My dad is retired now but worked at the McGill Neurological Institute and while he arrived in Montreal just after Cameron was exposed he met and knew many people who were directly involved. One of his best friends was asked to be administer some of the experiments at the Alan Memorial but said no. My dad is weirdly casual about it all and says things like "people just didn't understand what they were doing" and "medical ethics are a relatively new thing so we can't judge those in the past for what they did as we would now" but I've pointed out to him that his friend said no because it was clearly wrong. I think my dad is so weird about it because he's super close to Dr. Brenda Milner, a world renowned neuropsychologist who pioneered a lot of neuroscience around memory, who is somehow still alive and still quite sharp minded at 104. Her involvement in Cameron's Subproject 68 isn't fully known but she was involved without a doubt. She used to spend Christmas at my place every year and damn would she say some weird stuff now and then like "I don't like children, their brains are not fully developed yet so speaking to them usually isn't worth the time" (which she said to me, a child). Honestly though she's always been pretty nice and genuinely interesting to be around but I can't quite get over the fact she was involved in the horrors that effected not only my greatgrandmother but many others. Agh... I'm not in the right headspace to be writing about this. If you comment back maybe I'll be less foggy another day if you have any questions... I've spent a stupid amount of my 30 years of life looking into all this.

[@miiiwu1999]

I thought the one about the song Kagome, Kagome was based on real WW2 history 😭

[@Lunarrbase]

@@miiiwu1999 it kind of is, but not in the same exact way yk the creepypasta made after isnt real

[@thegamblingsloth]

I really want to thank you both, “you have to be a big kid, even if it’s hard, that’s what big kids do” is one of those lines that deeply touched me for reasons I can’t properly articulate, and is going to stick in my heart forever. I had this weird hesitation to watch this video, which I’m now kicking myself over, because I think it truly is a creative triumph.

[@thegamblingsloth]

Oh, gosh, doing the slightest amount of research would indicate Alyssa is probably responsible for that wording; I apologize for the misattribution!

[@hhhazel]

yeah that line was alyssa's, though the rest of the writing in the gabbit screencaps was my writing, so i totally get the confusion hahaha

[@furuyawn]

no spoilers but this was insane in the best way, i'm absolutely mindblown

[@genmaicha_]

i can't believe i got unfictioned by hazel and mae

[@furuyawn]

@@genmaicha_same. i thought i knew at least a little bit about creepypasta but i didn't question not recognizing a single story until the peeker update section because i'm usually completely unaware about all media hazel focuses on lol

[@genmaicha_]

@@furuyawn this video has been absolutely electrifying and im currently rediscovering a lot of older unfiction in its wake, like invisible games

[@deparinge]

Weirdly the Sonic Shuffle Yuji Naka Ronnie Radke reference has an obscure fandom wiki entry from 2018.

[@Affexion_99]

This whole time I was like "why are they changing the names of the creatures..."

[@Bizabizow]

I GOTTA know more about the Homestar Wiki Demonic Projection

[@maedotvod]

me too...

[@hhhazel]

that was the one i put the least amount of thought into sadly...

[@juliagoodwin9510]

Is that why that site disappeared?!

[@AspelShuyin]

I didn't read the description so I was like "wow, I've never heard of any of these, weird how they only talk about Jeff the Killer as a tangent to make fun of it" and later "I wouldn't be surprised if this was all fake". It was the Slenderman reference that made me finally check. Exceptionally good writing, and Mae is a really good narrator for those creepy stories.

[@jojobinx4020]

Damn you got me so good. I even read the description mid-video and was like "well of course they're fake they're creepypastas"

[@ShawnsLegacy]

This is probably the most clever twist on an in-depth analysis of internet horror I've ever seen, and you should be incredibly proud of what you've made here. I can't wait to see what comes next!

[@ectozoologist9573]

This is brilliant. You know you can’t give an adult the “is this real?” feeling by sending them a link to the creepypasta wiki but you CAN do that when you speak as an academic authority on a subject in the form of a video essay!!! YOU DID IT!! YOU ACTUALLY RECAPTURED WHAT MADE CREEPYPASTA SO MAGICAL!!

[@rosalindalaboy7111]

What an ending actually? Can we acknowledge that? Holy shit? That was so cool? The writing? The voice acting? The flat out bullshit? I love it? Truly the essence of creepy pasta, I was so busy passively absorbing information i wasn’t expecting it at all! (I got chronic I-don’t-read-des-till-the-end-itis) thank you that was a great spook!

[@twentypeak179]

Watching this expecting a "normal" hazel video and then slowly realizing something's up has got to be one of my best experiences on youtube.

[@lanagomisc.6005]

I read the description first and thought it was only a silly comment...I still got got...

[@sleepysystem]

@@lanagomisc.6005 same lmao bc ppl sometimes just Say Shit in the descriptions (and of course its fake! its about creepypasta, its fiction!!) btu god its been in my brains all week and im glad i experienced it this way thinkin it was real most of the way an watchin it unravel around me. edit: also like im in the sweet spot of specifically having been *into* creepypasta while also not knowing the lore of some of the biggest ones, so it wa s entirely reasonable in my mind that i missed some things! my first pasta was ben drowned, but my second was russian sleep experiment and from there the most well known ones that ppl really fandom-ized werent really ones i knew. i read ritual pastas, a bunch of pokepasta and some other misc ones, but i never really read smiledog or jeff the killer or any of the slendy stories (i never finished marble hornets or anythign like that), i didnt read laughing jack or eyeless jack until years later, i dont think i ever read ticci toby (tho i heard theres some stuff where his creator doesnt really want to associate him with the creepypasta fandom anymore so??) and i def havent touched anything with the rake.. p much ever.

[@funnywes]

i swear i thought i remembered the first one. greatest thing i've seen in some time. this is the ultimate way to pay tribute to that time. fantastic work

[@sidasterdisaster]

Ted the caver.

[@ShootingStarNeo]

A fun fact (bc it’s one of my favorite creepypastas personally): If I recall my internet investigation into the subject correct, Ted the Caver was written by an actual hobbyist spelunker and inspired by a real-ass cave in their area they had explored. Which means the photos actually included(!) in the o.g. site are likely quite real! Just with the more fantastical details that give the images context likely exaggerated for the sake of a story about the quite real feelings one can feel while in a cave. Which probably contributes to why nothing else out there feels quite like it.

[@peanutkix]

Yep, he actually discovered a hole to a virgin passage; that's what the photos are from. The rumbling sound was real, too, but it was actually just cars on a nearby freeway.

[@xanderguyer7512]

It seems he's called "Jed" in Hazel's universe lol. The Hazelverse.

[@JRCT3E]

SPOILERS: this video feels like an affirmation and a celebration of creativity. it feels so much more impactful to be immersed in the subject by a lovely homage, rather than just list a bunch of examples and lament a time passed by.

[@jamstarr]

real nice until you realize the formulaic set up and it just gets to too much build up and little pay off. like this video has such a specific crowd of “people who knew of creepypasta as a kid but also knew they were shit but also never looked too much into creepypasta retrospective stuff and dont read the description please”. i get what they were going for and its a fun idea but theres more to go in a creepypasta iceberg (or better yet immersing yourself in the pasta and culture itself). also its way more interesting going through actual history than making this overly niche flawed short film. its a nice concept though but the fact that everyone already seen creepypastas it doesn’t work, maybe if they were earlier on the trend itd be fine ?? lol

[@DitzyBear]

@@jamstarrtheres an insane over saturation of creepypasta history videos in general already. I doubt we needed another one. If you wanted one that badly you could just go see the fuck ton of other videos by Sagan Hawkes and stuff. I understand its not for you but still, its a creative concept and took a lot more effort than a flawed boring creepypasta history video would be. Hazels content in general is about obscure niche shit so i doubt shed want to make a video about a bunch of creepypastas that have been covered to death already.

[@HonkHonkJosei]

LMAO THE DRIFLOON CONSPIRACY IS HILARIOUS. Glad yall had fun with this!

[@pleasantchimera3285]

back watching this again and i gotta say the entire reveal of "the peeker is real" to "the police have issued a warrant to the peeker" is the best bit of this vid its so fucking funny

[@joshgraham2683]

DAMN y’all got me! You really capture the feeling of watching creepy pasta videos late at night as a kid with unrestricted internet access. Thanks for making this.

[@kelendalkazama9926]

My first creepypasta was The Holders series, kind of a proto-SCP concept. They went like "In any town, in any country, go to the local hospital and ask for The Holder of Emptiness. The receptionist will regard you with a cold horror and tell you to go to the last room at the end of the farthest hall." And there would always be these really specific actions you had to take or be horribly murderfucked.

[@nomoon327]

I remember reading that in highschool and after a certain point start laughing at how convoluted getting an item was as it went along.

[@penguingobrr41]

Oh my goddddddddd I can't believe I'm not the only one who remembers this! I remember looking up various parts and wondering if there's more lore to this

[@folgerkelley2715]

I REMEMBER THIS

[@kirabad-artist6532]

Murderfucked is such a fun word, also holy shit I also remember reading all of these and thinking to myself if I could get a certain item or not

[@zeikjt]

The references were all there even if modified! The Jed part definitely tipped me off to something being off because I absolutely loved the Ted the Caver story and it still haunts me to this day. Super fun video!

[@augustindie]

i’m shocked i didn’t catch on at that part, i think i kinda just assumed that it was a mistake that they didn’t catch in editing?

[@zeikjt]

@@augustindie Haha, I thought I might've misheard it the first time but I listened extra close the next time and it felt like they put extra emphasis on the pronunciation to drive the point home

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

I really liked the art of Gabbit the Rabbit so i tried looking it up part way through the video. Couldn't find anything, but my immersion wasn't broken. The primer at the beginning of the video about these stories being lost explained it away. p.s. you almost had me with Jed! something seemed immediately off, but i wasnt sure if his name was Ted or Jeff. Those memory holes are par for the course with creepypastas.

[@BG_NC]

I will say Angel Hare is really good if you're interested in the idea ❤

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

@@BG_NC I actually got really into that one awhile ago. I'm glad to see the series is getting a lot of attention.

[@jureigeeksoutoccasionally]

Same thing as me but with the creepypasta yuri(what does that say about me? Not much detective work needs to be done there I don’t think)

[@SighFi]

y'know, in hindsight it's very fitting how the "stitcher" rapper's whole thing instantly gave me huge hypnospace outlaw vibes......... god alternate internet culture shit is SO so cool. this was amazing!!! i can't even begin to imagine the work that went into this holy moly

[@skep2923]

ZANE

[@NezumiVA]

This was such a fun video, and incredibly well put together. I think it really captures the essence of online storytelling and ~collective mythos~ in a way that both touches on the faults it _can_ have but also just the unrestrained joy and artistry of doing something like this with friends, or even just watching someone else's story unfold.

[@timpind.8237]

oh my god I recognize you, neat! cool videos

[@jureigeeksoutoccasionally]

MARCIE!(double Marcie mayhem what will happen next no one knows)

[@callmeaprilroseorisha404]

OMG NEZUMI

[@bw4708]

Holy shit, as someone who has been absolutely devouring Hazel’s content in spite of having no personal interest in anime or video games I don’t know if I can emotionally handle a hazel video about something I’m ALSO deeply nostalgic for 😆

[@fullmetalanarchist6521]

I felt my long forgotten fixation reactiave like a sleeper agent.

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

you should get more into games and anime, its worth it

[@jureigeeksoutoccasionally]

@@alchemistofsteel8099that’s like saying “You should get into books, they’re good” haha/lh

[@julianalvarez4231]

Same

[@Never_Know_Best]

I’m curious how you got into Hazel tbh

[@neonbowser]

I watch hazel to feel nostalgia for a part of life that was adjacent to my childhood but not quite my childhood. I couldn't have been happier to have been a sucker in this production. Amazing

[@wygolvillage2637]

This is one of the highest effort Halloween specials I've ever seen holy shit

[@KnaveMurdok]

Hazel, we are in desperate need of your imminent return.

[@nore5888]

Consistent Hazel is scaring me

[@jacksonmccormick3839]

Hopefully this isn’t a fluke, and stays the norm 🙏

[@hiddenplantklaha]

​@@jacksonmccormick3839 I mean she did indicate in the tokusatsu video that she had a handful of videos lined up so it might be the norm for a little while longer

[@Thomas-ex6tp]

I miss consistent Hazel😔

[@en3677]

The fact that after mentioning the photo, morbid curiosity made me pause and go on a Google spree only to turn up nothing. Figuring Hazel just pulled through finding that real good esoteric shit I tab back in and hit play, only for the literal second after I paused they pull back the curtain

[@Leo-ub8fd]

I'm not a native english speaker so I 100% believed this until the end thinking I missed out these stories lol. Awesome video Hazel.

[@Spamster3212]

This was like seeing through into a parallel universe. Surprisingly, I only heard of Ted the caver for the first time a couple of months ago, so when you said Jed, not being too familiar with the story, I thought it didn't sound right, but I must be misremembering. Then every story that came afterward sounded so familiar, and had me wondering if I was getting confused between two stories, or if these were just stories I didn't know that were similar to others I did know. I was confused by a few parts, like Slenderman being unknown, but assumed they were just jokes, even though the delivery was completely serious. Even at the end, from the peeker being real part, I thought it was all just some big meta joke. Did not see this coming, but in retrospect I don't know how I couldn't have realised what was going on. I can only assume that you did exactly what you set out to do perfectly, well done.

[@crimewizards]

i was a preteen with unfiltered internet access in 2013. my first creepypastas were squidward's suicide (never finished reading), abandoned by disney, various iterations of slenderman, a screamer i accidentally clicked on from a youtube comment, and the bong cheon-dong ghost. hearing you two talk about your first creepypastas brought back a similar memory - warm and fuzzy, but also. oh god. the horror.

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

Abandoned By Disney mentioned. That story's author was and is one of the *characters* of the whole scene and I'm slightly surprised he has no allegory here

[@seekerstheshy3842]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THIS VIDEO ACTUVATED MY NEURONS, I AM THROUGH THE ROOF THERE IS A LITTLE SPACE IN MY BRAIN JUST FOR THIS VIDEO I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS good autism food

[@thelastchannelonyoutube]

Am I the only one who thinks the horrorcore rapper creating his own creepypasta to build a narrative around his music and persona is actually a neat idea. I wonder if anyone’s actually tried that. I also want to appreciate how you convinced your friends to play as fake KZbinrs. The “Green Grub” clips are so accurate to that period in time I looked him up to check if he was real.

[@drpibisback7680]

Not creepypasta, but Insane Clown Posse have their own deep lore surrounding "The Dark Carnival" that runs through basically all their albums.

[@rabbiteclipsed]

Look up the Unwanted Houseguest! The guy who made the original drawing now uses him as a horror pop persona. I'm not even kidding.

[@nautil_us]

Not entirely sure how much lore they have, but you should check out clowncore

[@The.internet_guy]

Dj rozwell kinda did that

[@jacob_ian_decoursey_the_author]

@@rabbiteclipsedI’ve been a fan of his for years now. But I didn’t know he was the original artist.

[@Lario64]

God victim no. 1 is definitely the creepypasta image that gave me the most difficulties sleeping as a kid. To finally be able to look at the original image, I didn't expect it to feel like such a weight lifted but it absolutely did.

[@ruairip7722]

You know what? This whole little fiction was actually really impressive. Well done.

[@bunnychibitty3756]

So, i have an hour commute to university and i usually just download a video essay as an mp3 so i can listen to it on the way here so I had no comments to look at, no description to tip me off so I just spent the last 60 minutes thinking I had fallen into a parallel dimension and I genuinely got heartbroken at the idea that all my favorite creepypastas would no longer exist

[@Calpsotoma]

This is a good video with no curves or deceptions.

[@MidnightKrick]

you have successfully inspired your inspiration.

[@maedotvod]

thank you so much haha.

[@PrinceKupo]

This was so good! A history of thorough, well-researched videos of specific/niche topics really conditioned me to be like "Makes sense that hazel and mae would be able to do a deep dive on this stuff, but, damn, it's kinda crazy that all of these stories that must have flown under my radar over the years." I genuinely feel so bamboozled lol. What a ride!

[@alienjay]

do you think steven the stitcher and jeff the killer ever explored each others bodies

[@callmeaprilroseorisha404]

ITS JEFF THE *MURDERER*

[@TheDetectiveBloke]

I'm inside your walls.

[@alienjay]

@@TheDetectiveBloke whats it like

[@TheDetectiveBloke]

@@alienjay comfort.

[@alienjay]

@@TheDetectiveBloke ok have fun

[@ali_is_bad]

it's always a good day when a hazel video comes out 😌

[@bananamangopeach9784]

FACTS

[@lrgogo1517]

Getting top comment is way too easy

[@thequimsnaim]

Real

[@ali_is_bad]

​@@lrgogo1517for fuckin real, why is mine the top one ;^; it doesn't even contribute to an actual conversation

[@yukifrost795]

I kind of adore this. I've always sort of thought about creepy pastas as the internet's version of folktales, but in a somewhat more documented sense. We'll never know what the little red riding hood story was originally ike, but we can trace back versions of it, and we can do the same with creepy pastas.

[@LiliththeMoth]

This video genuinely started to make my stomach drop towards the end. It's a storytelling masterpiece

[@xidyl200]

When I first watched this video I was getting into it thinking "I've kinda looked into creepypastas as a kid so this is gonna be fun and nostalgic and I might learn about some new really obscure creepypastas" and was very impressed with how obscure each story was as I only had a vague idea as to what each one reminded me of, and I legit was believing every second of it because of just how vast the internet is and how stories like these could have been told. Honestly this idea of AU internet storytelling really fascinates me, I think the closest thing to this that I've seen before is the mario 64 personalization community.

[@beaconfilms]

i haven't finished the video , but the story surrounding 'steven the stitcher' absolutely follows the more recent creepypasta i am more aware of - Erratas. DJ Rozwell essentially crafted this deep lore , a fake band, a creepy story about a 'codeword' you can't even mention at work or you get fired? and it all led to the fake band's 'unreleased' album (actually it was released but it was taken down!!!) all in all, its a great, like shitnoise industrial dnb? when i first listened it really was abrasive and terrible, but i was so fascinated with the story that i kept listening to it. Hope someone else out there truly enjoys niche internet music bands like KFC Murder Chicks - Cortex Rampage Fav Track: Anywhere I Go

[@hhhazel]

oh yeah i love erratas. kfc murder chicks are twisted too, really fun stuff. somehow it totally slipped my mind the whole time we were making the video, probably because my brain didnt categorize it as a creepypasta for whatever reason. shouts out either way though hahaha.

[@gota7738]

The creepiest thing about this vid is Realising how easy it is to spread misinformation to people with only passing awareness on the topic, by twisting the truth and playing on people's vauge memories aka. me and my 8th hand familiarity with Creepypasta. The stuff I recognised at all sounded familiar enough that I assumed I must either be wrong or that what I knew was the "lowest common denominator" version spun from the originals. Funnily enough it was the "Slenderman as the first creepypasta monster" statement that made me twig, because surely any monster I even I knew about couldn't have been the first.

[@metalgearskeletor]

I’m not a creepy pasta fan by any means, but I feel it’s a testament to the consistent quality of videos Hazel puts out if I decide to watch one based off a creepy pasta :)

[@KethEx09]

Genuinely this is one of the best and most creative video essays that has come out this year.

[@wattsynchron]

This got me insanely. I know a good bit about creepypastas but the caver bit slipped past me. I swore I remembered Jwittz mentioning or hinting at the bad egg creepypasta in his video. The breaking point for me was how "Share this" really reminded me of that smile dog arg that is currently? happening, or maybe the original smile dog? idr but that was the point i scrolled down and saw the explained video mentioned

[@smittens888]

Creepy pasta is such a unique form of media like nothing else. Knowing its not real, wondering if it is, desperately wanting to be the next person to write the next great story. The fact that these stories never really die and it's hard to pinpoint where they ever even started. The deep, almost infinite nostiagia that all produces... This video was satisfying on a cosmic level and I can't thank you enough for it.

[@thefisherking2268]

Speaking as a fellow internet-addled horror fan, I absolutely adoreeee this video. Totally got me for a good while until that final part about The Peeker, enough so that I kind of wish some of these stories were real haha. I feel like I’ve heard every scary internet story around, so hearing some I hadn’t before was really refreshing

[@Truffle_D_Toad]

This video is the Candle Cover sequel we never expected. Legit it's stuck with me and I'm super happy it exists, it's so well done. The fact that you're able to make points about actual real creepypastas and the histories of how they were made without even directly bringing them up is insane.

[@commanderkittin1873]

Extremely joyful experience of "oooh yay new hazel, and its an hour long!" to "BRUH" to "THE EXPLANATION IS 2 HOURS". Ty to you both. Sometimes a guy just needs almost 4 straight hours of creepypasta talk.

[@dylanrx897]

Man I miss your content, but I know its a whole hell of a lot of work to put together as well as you do! Hope all's well!

[@cerulean1003]

Holy shit you guys got me lmao, i legit thought all these were real. I should have known something was off cause watching the video i was thinking "huh The Peekers origin sounds a lot like Slendermans" or "how are Hazel and Mae siblings who swiped games from each other when they grew up in different places?" but i figured i was just thinking too much lol. Hats off to the both of you and everyone else for doing such a great job designing and writing these stories. I didnt grow up a creepypasta kid but i knew about a lot of the popular ones theres something special about even the obviously fake and amateurish ones that they kinda just stick with you even as an adult. The fact that so many image sources and creators are lost to time is also a shame, i was thinking about this recently while reading Otherside Picnic and how in one of the afterwords (where the author lists the sites and forum post numbers where he got the monsters from) he mentioned one story was hosted on Geocities which closed not long after the volume was published, stuff like this really should be archived more and its creators celebrated. Thats something i like about the modern internet horror era, creators are openly talking about their creative process (like Kane Pixels using various softwares while making the Backrooms or how the guy who made the Walten Files does all the art on his phone) and its nice to peek behind the curtain and get to know the people behind the story as much as it is to experience it. Great video.

[@timrosswood4259]

Why do people constantly bring up the word "fake" everytime they talk about creepypasta? Of course it's fake, it's fiction. Is there something wrong about fictional stories? All horror media is fiction. Why doesn't Stephen King get accused of telling fake stories if it's a bad thing? I need answers.

[@cerulean1003]

@@timrosswood4259 theres nothing wrong with fiction of course! Unfortunatley theres been a lot of people over the years who believed these stories were real and caused harm over it. (see the Slenderman stabbing) So creator credits are a good reminder to those people that hey, no matter how convincing this all is its not real!!! Its just fun spooks!

[@DragonbIaze052]

@@timrosswood4259 Because saying "fake" is easier when a large portion of the audience for these kinds of stories are familiar with the concept of metafiction. It's a fiction *within* a fiction.

[@gaminglakitu]

Man, here I go thinking I was just gonna get another amazing Hazel retrospective, just to get an amazing art statement that tells it's own amazing alternate reality story. I was honestly convinced that these were all just stories Hazel and Mae had heard that I simply had never heard about, to the peaker story going into real life, just to have a the mind blast that none of it was real in the first place. Masterclass video here Hazel

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

I remember back in the day there was an author called "pet rock" who my friends always got a kick out of because his stories featured protagonists who seemed very...unadventurous. Like the story never seemed to start and the whole buildup would be to something incredibly mundane It's weird thinking about how I may be the only person who *actively* remembers him or that particular conception of his work

[@livinglikeananimal]

i'm a bit too old to have grown up with creepypastas but i am familiar with a lot of the stories through online cultural osmosis. this video was so much fun and so creative, perfectly in the spirit of creepypasta. :D i love how all of the stories y'all came up with felt like parallel universe versions of our beloved canonical pasta monsters, familiar but different enough to be interesting and new.

[@dragoflame]

My best friend watched this, then immediately sent me this video and proceeded to gaslight me into believing everything and that I was a creepypasta idiot for not hearing of these. The murder report with the peeper he goes "Oh yeah dude trust me I know this one from my true crime research." Thanks Lemon, you got me good.

[@DriftloonTheater]

Wtf…I’m not dead, my KZbin channel was just deleted, I’m planning on reuploading some of my old videos

[@dottomatsu]

i've been kind of obsessed with creepypastas over the years so i know my way around it, and this video THOROUGHLY had me convinced everything covered here was real and somehow just elapsed my knowledge and memory. i felt like i was going insane like "how come i don't know any of this WHAT THE F ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT" so the reveal at the end that everything was fake, yea you got me. these were some really convincing pseudo-creepypastas down to the art and writing. incredible work as always

[@erickmarcelino8009]

Where are you hazel 😫 what could you possibly be cooking up!!!

[@sepiatone77]

I genuinely thought this was real until I googled "wishmaker bad egg creepypasta" and got nothing even similar. like that part sounded so real and cool asf

[@CapnSeaWolf4071]

This is genuinely one of my favorite videos of all time. Getting most of the way through in complete confusion as to how I had missed so many classics (I wasn't big into pokemon creepypastas so they all seemed to check out). The drop of "Jeff The Murderer" Is insane. I've watched this about four times over the past few months, y'all are geniuses

[@maedotvod]

this was fun :)

[@iwakuraWired44]

omg u saw the video before it was uploaded....

[@maedotvod]

@@iwakuraWired44 you won't believe how

[@tomotar]

the fact that you made me genuinely believe all of this, gosh, i love it so much. gonna binge the rest of your content at some point, this was a little lovely video n it really did recapture the feeling of getting told a silly little creepypasta as a kid. honestly thought id heard of like, half of these already lol.. love this video!!! 10 out of 10!!!

[@ash.e]

Hazel, you're absolutely spoiling us. I love your uploads no matter what, and more uploads just means new content for relaxing and chilling out!

[@OmynysFence]

i come back to this video every other month or so now. i don't know why, but it's like a really cozy video that makes me feel good and warm feelings. you guys created some thing brilliant.

[@arieslofi]

not gonna lie, y'all got me 😭 great video, i love to hear people's memories on creepypasta that doesn't solely focus on slenderman (mostly because i never got into slenderman and only cared about the "good" creepypastas -- tbf i was 13/14, i had my right to be a pretentious teen!)

[@Polybrow]

YESSSSSS! I loved Krick's video on Alternate Pokémon Iceberg facts and have been searching for similar media ever since. Amazing work!!!!!

[@AspelShuyin]

I just want you to know that it's been four months and I'm still a bit scared of the Peeker.

[@twinkinpark]

this was so great and fun!!!!!! the "being a kid and just getting into creepypastas" vibes were captured amazingly. also feel like saying that with each vid i discover a new cool track to add to my playlists so Thx for having cool music choices

[@ninckmane]

Having just gone through a small binge of rewatching your videos, you couldn't have posted this video in a better time. Love your content!!

[@dragongamerx12]

some creepypasta are not scary but the writer keeps you interested in the story

[@hurbywurby-q1h]

I fucking adore this concept of "media in alternate universes thats familiar yet different"

[@iggyelle]

Delighted by this and the clips from the og Pulse, a movie that affected me so badly I ended up ugly sobbing by the end.

[@saladplainzone]

I was a big creepypasta kid, and I can't explain how much this video resonates with me, especially the whole talk at the end. Amazing video, sums up a lot of why I enjoy the whole culture

[@kaminosai]

33:52 So, legitimately, my internet died right at this point and I could not get it to turn back on. Like, I'm a grown man, but the longer it took for me to get it going again the more my hairs started to stand up on end.

[@crowk5287]

it hit me that something was wrong when they went into that slasher twink. I was DEEP in the trenches of deviantart creepypasta yaoi I would KNOW if I was missing an uke

[@ThomasAtlus]

You know it literally took me until JUST TODAY to realize the "we spent the night writing it and rewriting it in different configurations to strip it of its horror" is EXPLICITLY the way the video ends and I fucking love it so much it wraps up in a little bow in a way I didn't even consciously realize

[@sheowmao]

holy shitttttt this was incredible!! i didnt read the description until the end bc i had this playing while working on a project and im so proud of my critical thinking when i was like "hmm ive never heard of this i dont think this exists" a few times. not enough to think it about every story but still! amazing writing and i can tell you both had fun with it. thanks for this gem

[@smittens888]

Also the editing for this was so on point, loved all the clips you included. Pulse is so perfect for creepypasta.

[@666_lucifer_morningstar]

I usually never comment under videos, but this video was insanely good! You voiced it so naturally and the content was literally a nostalgic trip through a parallel universe universe. You really captured the essence of the old creepypasta era so perfectly and it all felt so natural and right. I wasn’t expecting this kind of video, but I am happy it exists :D

[@pepsiman215]

oh my god i thought these were all just obscure as hell and that ive never heard of since im not incredibly into creepypastas absolutely incredible job!! i was beginning to wonder why you were never bringing up anything i ever heard of lol

[@Audraw-ox5oz]

this is better than anything i could’ve guessed it would be, hazel uploads are always worth setting everything else aside for

[@klaykid117]

This is like a creepypasta retrospective from a mandela effect universe

[@EbolaGranola]

As the creator of a webseries that plays on a modern lens of these old pastas, this video does SO much for me. Love that a lot more of this sort of thing is coming out as of late. ALSO love the Krick shoutout. My homie Krick needs waaay more subs.

[@seekerstheshy3842]

O SHIT IT U

[@je4155]

holy shit. this is so good. so so so good. this is going to be a yearly october watch for me, this resonates with me on so many levels. everyone who was involved in making this: thank you

[@kaleidawscope]

Everyone who enjoyed this video needs to go listen to The Magnus Archives! It's a really good horror fiction podcast that starts off with a monster of the week format but becomes more and more connected. It touches on pretty much all of the fundamental fears like being watched, being manipulated, the uncanny valley, drowning, disease, death, etc... but is also really funny and sweet at times! The ending made me cry so much but I do probably need more therapy for my newfound fear or being killed like a pig in a slaughterhouse

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

Seconded. I can take or leave the characters but I think there's a *lot* to learn about horror writing from the statements

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Its on my list now, keep seeing fanart for it on my tumblr

[@peebleeble]

i grew up with creepypasta too, and im so often wrong about my memories of the internet at that age that i thought that i just. missed all of them. i remembered something similar to broadcast urself (maybe a combo of that one user profile where you reload the page and it becomes alive? and the innate fear of being watched), and i thought the peeker was turning into the rake but lol you really brought me back to how it felt reading a (good) creepypasta for the first time. you even got it down to sharing the stories with your sibling to scare each other lol, me and my brother would share them with each other all the time, thats how i even got into it in the first place.. ty for this cozy chilling time :)