The Creepypasta Iceberg Explained (Vol. 1)

[@Setashi]

I always find it really funny when Herobrine is grouped in with all of the other big creepypasta names lmao. You've got all these supernatural guys who attack children and then you've just got a dude who does spooky things in a block game.

[@ouch892]

I mean, sonic.exe is there too

[@tobycampbell7783]

There is a creepy pasta who doesn’t attack children he just tries to peer pressure them into committing toaster bath in innocent sounding ways lmao

[@faenene]

I just learned from this video that it’s Herobrine and not Hero Brian. Lmao I remember being terrified of him in like 2016 but I’ve been getting his name wrong this whole time

[@ead0132]

This is such a funny way to describe him LMAOO😭😭😭

[@blueboy2976]

There is a lot of game creepypastas - in my opinion some of them are interesting

[@LilaTheMoo]

One of the details about Herobrine that I feel like was missed is that Mojang would repeatedly add 'Herobrine removed' from patch notes. They still do it, and it gives the myth this endurance that kind of fuels it. The devs acknowledge it, and they keep removing him, but he keeps coming back.

[@Okbuddypal]

They didn't do it in the 1.16 Nether Update, so I think they were in on the joke/Creepypasta and decided to troll us by not adding "removed Herobrine" to the patch notes and made the whole Minecraft community freak out and think they added him or he was real this whole time and is just hiding

[@peachfang]

and they keep adding him in the background of some official art too!

[@commandernici]

Yesss I also felt like this part was missing, almost made me wonder if I remembered it correctly or not almost like some Mandela effect stuff Dx

[@TheStrongestPokemon]

I like the idea that they keep removing him and he just, somehow, keeps finding his way back in. Like that one Simpsons meme of Moe.

[@MrPenetroso]

​@@TheStrongestPokemonthe one with Barney where Moe throws people out of his tavern?

[@OriginalOwlAssassin]

I'm a therapist and used to work in a children's mental health setting. I had to do an anxiety intervention about a child terrified of the Backrooms and had to give a presentation about the SCP fandom as we had children referred with fears of them, and no one knew what they were or how to work with it. Fun times!

[@daymare0]

wow, what a world we live in. I love scp's now but as a kid I was terrified of them.

[@Zectifin]

@@daymare0 I can only imagine how creepy this stuff is to kids. Thankfully I found SCPs when I was mid to late 20s so it was just fun creepy shit to me.

[@daymare0]

@@Zectifin yeah totally, growing up in this time is weird

[@bluestcircle4550]

Oh god yeah, I wasn't able to sleep because of some creepypastas and my dad/brother just told me that this is my fault and I need to deal with it. I can imagine this surely is wild when many children suddenly come in talking about some weird stories from the internet.

[@louises.p6833]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was pretty common with other games and stuff throughout the years, especially bigger things like FNAF. But parents are SO relaxed about the media their children consume nowadays so it’s definitely way more common (and easier) for them to access stuff that’s harmful to their developing minds. A parent tried to bring two young children (10 and 6/7 if I had to guess) to see the FNAF movie a few days ago when I went. I work with kids and a 4 year old brought a Huggy Wuggy toy into school with him (and I had to explain to the 59 year old class teacher what Poppy’s Playtime is lmao)

[@DaxMarko]

Creepypastas like Jeff, Slenderman and Smiledog were ironically carried more by the imagery than the writing. Story of a psycho murderer did not phase me as a kid, its seeing that darn image is what made me scroll down to comments. Also Smiledog's second phase image was brutally frightening to me, even worse than Jeff's. But I eventually began to appreciate the artistic work that went into it.

[@raistlinbracey6710]

yes! Jeff specifically for me. even to this day, at 22 years old, being WELL aware that creepypastas are (especially in Jeff's case) poorly written internet fiction, looking at Jeff's picture in this video unsettled me and made me walk around my house on edge (it's 3 am right now lol). I was super into creepypastas in middle school and I couldn't look at jeff for more than a few seconds without getting scared lol

[@zoelynnesage]

whenever i would see smile dog’s more demonic image, i would instantly be sent into a huge panic attack, like LITERALLY like i would curl up into a ball and just weep LMFAOOO

[@Black98Raven]

⁠​⁠@@zoelynnesage gosh yes! But I didn’t know Smiledog had a different image? Is it worse then the one in the thumbnail? I haven’t seen the image in years! It used to send me into a panic attack like that as well, so I avoided it at all cost. This one didn’t have that effect and I don’t know if it’s because I’m used to the scarier image or i grew out of it a little. I don’t think however, that I will ever fully grow out of my irrational fear of smiledog

[@zoelynnesage]

@@Black98Raven GIRL YES ITS WAY SCARIER IMO

[@Black98Raven]

@@zoelynnesage HOW DOSE IT LOOK LIKE! I’m curious but scared to look

[@mtiscool1593]

Holy cow, dude I drew that art at 31:45 like 6 years ago, you don’t know how insane it felt seeing my art in one of these videos 😭. I’ve improved so much since then but it’s so awesome nonetheless. Thank you so much!

[@cannibalbunny]

It’s so cute!

[@-candylovesans-]

holy crap, wow. I'm guessing it was a blast from the past XD

[@big.venom.snake.boss.]

That's super cool

[@clarkstrange2142]

I love that image! SCP is the best

[@GrimBat0]

That's superr cool!!!!

[@gray7094]

i can’t tell you how much joy i felt when i read “creepypasta” in the title

[@nightwolfanimatez]

samee

[@basilcreates8146]

realll

[@anabsolutebuffoon]

Even more joy when this is Vol 1 meaning there will probably be more

[@marilynwestphal4968]

Yea

[@Tully-tittles]

I can’t tell you how much joy I felt when NEW IZZZYZZZ VIDEO POPPED UP ON MY FEED :DD

[@CaitlinKoi]

I do have Tourette's, "mild to moderate" was my diagnosis. No coprolalia, which is the swearing tic, so I just make noises, whistle, repeat words or phrases, and have a variety of motor tics (physical tics). The idea of a character with Tourette's is not inherently wrong, and the plot line of being kicked out of school for Tourette's is actually accurate and a very sad reality, especially for those with coprolalia. The idea of it being "creepy" is kind of off-putting though. Tourette's is something many people struggle with. For me, my motor tics are uncomfortable or even painful, BUT it isn't 100% awful! Tourette's is by definition a "phasic dysfunction of dopamine transmission." There are tics I have that I call my "happy tics" because they only come out when I have a surge of dopamine, and it's always a nice surprise when they pop up. I love my happy tics! And on my livestreams, my fans love them too. I even have some sound alerts that people can use to intentionally trigger some amusing tics. It's okay to play around with Tourette's, it's not always suffering. But again, using it as something meant to make him creepy doesn't sit right with me.

[@honeycoatedparadox]

wonderful insight, thank you for sharing

[@gemma4249]

Fully agree with you as someone that has motor tics, coprolalia, repeats heard sounds. I agree with your point I do believe that the subject of touretes should be approached carefully as it is a complex subject

[@gemma4249]

Fully agree with you as someone that has motor tics, coprolalia, repeats heard sounds. I agree with your point I do believe that the subject of touretes should be approached carefully as it is a complex subject

[@emilybarclay8831]

What are some of your happy tics? I’m imagining you seeing a cute animal and going ‘wheeee!’ and it’s a lovely mental image

[@Weewoo988]

Yeah, my first thought when this is brought up is always the movie Split. It basically demonized DID for a huge audience.

[@mollymcdade4031]

I really hope Man Door Hand Hook Car Door and ‘THEN WHO WAS PHONE???’ make it into the next video. Neither of them are genuinely scary, but they never fail to make me laugh

[@MegidolErin]

As long as I live, I will remember man door hand hook car door, and saying either "hook" or "car door" will trigger me saying it as if I'm programmed to do so

[@harusaurus]

same. i saw "THEN WHO WAS PHONE???" on the tier image so i really hope it gets mentioned next time. i laugh every time. 😭 i quote it more often than i'd like to admit and nobody ever gets it lmao

[@deerprynce]

AND THEN YOU WAS SKELETON AND WROTE THIS

[@maicey_t.]

I can't believe that I forgot about 'then who was phone!' Your comment made me laugh and I immediately had to go find that story bc I haven't heard it in so long.

[@uniquenormalcy.]

Wait man door hand hook car door is a creepypasta?!? I always knew it from that one cover of Mr Sandman with nonsensical lyrics😅

[@jaxn6364]

The image of SCP-173 you used is no longer used by the SCP fandom. The actual statue is a work called Untitled 2004 by Izumi Kato, who had not given permission for his art to be used, so the official wiki made the right, if difficult, decision to take the image down. Kato didn't pressure them, but they didn't want to carry on allowing stolen art to be used by third parties for a profit. There's a community project to redesign it, no official design will be chosen, but there's a super cool gallery to scroll thru!

[@scp-phenomenon014]

in the secret lab game, they explained its change in appearance as some sort of "event" that happened to it, melting and disfiguring it somehow. i really like that idea, and the goofy ass change from peanut to walnut makes me smile :)

[@VultureSkins]

I didn’t know about that, that’s interesting !!

[@RevOwOlutionary]

It's really sad to see a few greedy people ruin a nice thing for so many. Kato was fine with them using the image on the site, but as people began releasing unlicensed "official" artbooks and shit, with some even locally copyrighting the SCP logo and name itself, it became an issue they couldn't really handle with that gentlemen's agreeement.

[@dinofelisdruid78]

In regards to Ticci Toby, most of the disorders he had were shared with the creator, and he was made as a sort of comfort character iirc. I don't have Tourettes personally, but I do have tics resulting from my autism, and I enjoyed him a lot as a kid. It wasn't as much of a case of "lol mental disorders are so spooky scary!!" as it was self insert angsty projection (and like. same). The creator also said explicitly thhat they don't like Toby being part of the creepypasta fandom anymore, it'ss a huge ongoing discourse lol

[@brunoactis1104]

Huge ongoing discourse? Is this stuff still being talked about? And where? Honestly wanna know, didn't imagine these stuff would still be alive.

[@dinofelisdruid78]

@@brunoactis1104 yup! the creepypasta fandom is alive and well on tumblr! i was active in it from 2021-2022 and a lot of mutuals are still in the fandom to this day

[@kaijujun]

That's actually kind of nice to know, I always had an issue with the name and character because it felt derogatory, assuming that someone who didn't live with that had created it. I'd shrivel up and die if my angsty tweenage OCs got co-opted by internet fandom and were still floating around without my input, so best wishes to the creator.

[@eveecco]

@@brunoactis1104Tumblr is where I’ve seen it mostly. But I also hang out there more than I used to. Honestly though, if you want to look for it you’ll find it. It’s gotten smaller since the mid 2010s, but the fandom does still exist in some ways.

[@salemmarz3809]

wait, autism can include tics as symptoms? i had no idea

[@kphnx]

the forest stairs aspect of the woods creepypasta is funny because there ARE random creepy structures found in the woods, but they're chimneys. the chimney is often the most well-built, reinforced part of a house (and built of stone rather than wood), so when an old house goes into disrepair and all the wood eventually rots away, the chimney remains. out here in the country it's not super uncommon to see a lone chimney standing in a field or while walking through the forest. the real life creepy phenomenon is right there!

[@halkiierid4084]

Can confirm, there's one in a nature preserve in my home region! The land used to be a farm, but it seems to have been abandoned because it was too hilly and rough.

[@Man-ej6uv]

around roads i often see stairs that go nowhere. unfinished stuff probably but it used to freak me out

[@NIgHTMaReFortyTwo]

@@Man-ej6uv No they're actually just stairs used to mount horses back in the pre-car days when those roads were actually used for travelling. They aren't unfinished, they're supposed to be like that.

[@BananaJonesMom]

I’m from Washington state though and I’ve seen those carpeted stairs that they warn you about. There’s a whole thing about not going on the stairs in the woods or you’ll die

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@NIgHTMaReFortyTwo "No they're actually just stairs used to mount horses back in the pre-car days" Kind of like how there was a Christmas event on in the park yesterday near the house we're currently staying in, and there were free camel rides as part of the event, and people had to climb a set of metal stairs to get on top of the camels.

[@tereziamarkova2822]

The hillarious/tragic thing about Russian Sleep Experiment is that there are actually people who aren't able to sleep. It's called fatal insomnia, it's often caused by a genetic defect that makes certain parts of your brain deteriorate, and it's, well, fatal. And no, these people aren't sadistic murderers. They just get sick, suffer and then die.

[@chillcreep4926]

Because it's a genetic disorder, it's hereditary. It's the only 100% terminal hereditary disorder.

[@freya_moone]

What’s really sad is that the picture associated with it used to be rumored about being a holocaust victim, which obviously isn’t true. Awful how people come up with things for photos

[@lukebrowning4712]

When I was a kid that story genuinely fucked me up and I ended up finding out an that stuff

[@melodyscorpion6606]

Wtf

[@bloodieghostie]

​@@freya_moone it's literally just a Spirit Halloween decoration why do people come up with such stupid stuff 💀 also the original photo appears to be taken w/ the Halloween prop (called 'Spazm') seated on someone's wicker couch..not to mention the curtain backdrop 💀 pretty obvious this isn't a real image. (Considering that the wicker couch has no cushion and is obviously inside [aforementioned curtains] I assume OP was going through old belongings/throwing things out and happened upon the "Spazm" prop...but thats just a theory :]])

[@the-moon-cycle]

as someone who was never allowed to read creepypasta, watching this video feels like reading an entire library of hidden knowledge. thank you izzy for showing me The Horrors that my parents desperately shielded me from as a kid!

[@misseselise3864]

god i can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to watch a video like this with no idea what to expect. must be nice

[@pickledbugjuice]

​@@misseselise3864 may parents kept me off the internet as a kid so im also going into this as a newbie

[@hatetheeyes3726]

G00D LuCK GuYs!!! Check out THE important videos playlist if you want more spooky as well as creepypasta or old/internet icebergs!!! I also have a tremendously disorganized playlist somewhere haha! Good luck! Oh; and don't forget the creepypasta wiki! If ya'll have any questiiions i would bee happy to answer to the best of my abiiiliiitea!

[@JessiJoy]

I also never went looking (or would have been allowed); I was raised in the Mormon church, so it just 'wasn't a thing', you might say. A lot of the things Izzy talks about I never actually experienced as a kid (except Neopets). XD I find them all so fascinating now, and while I haven't delved in too much, videos like this are so entertaining and make me wonder how I would have turned out if I had looked at all this stuff as a teen! lol

[@snowwyflake]

I can’t believe you talked about SCP and didn’t mention Josie the Half-Cat (SCP-529). A regular house cat who’s back half is in another dimension. An excerpt from her page reads: “Staff are not permitted to feed cheese to her - she will become distressed if not given sufficient cheese.”

[@maddieb.4282]

I can’t believe she didn’t list off all my personal favorite SCPs in order of importance including SCP-227895368876, the Butthole Stealer

[@shouldileavesatanforraphae2395]

It's because of the Josie half cat I found out cats love cheese. My cat loves cheese

[@jan_Eten]

SCP-49 and SCP-999 being absent is disappointing; same wiþ SCP-1471 only getting a brief mention

[@haleyc.3530]

Why are they withholding her cheese ??? 😭 They want to make her distressed ??? 😭 Poor kitty is stuck halfway in two different dimensions and they won’t even let her have a little treat ??? 😭

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@jan_Eten *Especially* SCP-999! My brother told me about that one two years ago when I asked him if there were any nice SCPs.

[@stephhasquirks]

I believed the Russian sleep experiment because I read it at a time in high school where we were learning about the holocaust in history class and all the fucked up experiments people were doing during that time period, so it didn't seem all that far fetched for it to be real. I remember retelling the story to my dad and grandad and they were not as convinced 😂

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

I was in the same boat when I heard about the russian sleep experiment! Humans do awful things to each other so an exeriment like that didn't seem too unrealistic at the time.

[@maddieb.4282]

Yeah the part where they talked to god and survived without functioning organs was really realistic especially with it being posted on a website for fictional horror stories

[@softnoobgirl73]

Well unit 731 is real

[@MinaUltmiteLifeForm]

It's not real?!?!?!??!?!?

[@iatemycat5320]

​@@MinaUltmiteLifeForm Duh

[@tart-miano]

Laughing Jack's backstory is literally the plot of this Disney channel Halloween movie called "Don't Look Under the Bed". Its lore is that, when imaginary friends are forgotten by their kids/their kids grow up too fast, they turn into an evil Boogeyman monster that wreaks havoc across whole towns. It came out in 1999, so my conspiracy theory is that the author saw DLUTB as a child and got inspired lol

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

An underrated Halloween type movie for kids. The set design and makeup is brilliant for the budget

[@agirlwholoveseeyore]

snuffbomb 😞😞 the old creepypasta community drama...lots of people dislike LJ cuz of his creator.

[@justindenney-hall5875]

@tart-miano11909 It "Literally" isn't the same plot, I think you need to rewatch that movie because your memory sounds a bit hazy🤣

[@KamillahM-q3v]

​@@agirlwholoveseeyoreWhat happened?

[@InkyArcticFox]

That movie is probably some of the best ‘horror for kids’ media.

[@Apollo9898LP]

One interesting thing about Smiledog: there's actually an unfiction series called Chainmail Chasers that features Smiledog as its main antagonist, and it's really well made! Genuinely manages to make this silly dog photo into a scary supernatural entity

[@endspeaker]

so nice to see another chainmail chasers fan out in the wild !! i love that series, it's so well done 🥺💕

[@KathySage234]

That gives me the same energy as making Rayman the main antagonist of a series. *°~°*

[@texasred8424]

@@KathySage234 if youtube comments had photo attachments i would post that picture of the no correlation line graph with the text "no correlation"

[@calencalen]

And the guy who created Smiledog has a podcast about Homestuck called Homestuck Made This World :)

[@kaiv69]

YESSS i love chainmail chasers!! it's my favorite horror series on youtube right now

[@nullings.]

I always feel a little sad and worried when creators apologise for not having uploaded sooner. I'm sure at least the majority of your subscribers is fine with waiting if it means that you don't overwork yourself. If those apologies are just a formality, then that's fine, but if you feel genuinely sorry/guilty, then please know that there's no need for that!

[@fireworksforme2]

so true ✨

[@madisonemily4083]

yes!!

[@slowpokemegan]

This will probably get buried, but the Smile Dog image was created by Michael Lutz, a host of the podcast duo Ranged Touch. He talked about it on his podcast Homestuck Made This World and I remember being completely flabbergasted. I don't know which episode in particular he talked about it in, but I do remember him talking about it for sure. Crazy how this information was revealed on a Homestuck podcast, right?

[@m0ddotrar]

Huh that's really cool actually

[@raynercoslop]

for me, the most frustrating part is when you read a creepypasta and find it so good that it sticks with you almost a decade later, but since you can't remember the title (if it had one) or a decent sized sentence word for word, you can't find it again

[@acidicvagabond9343]

IM SO GLAD THERE ARE OTHER PURISTS bc the original premise was being stuck in one never-ending floor and the psychological horror of wondering if you really are alone or not and entirely no hate to those who choose to expand the lore, have your fun!!! i just personally like the existential dread of the og

[@captainghoul666]

Yeah like you ever been on the middle of a big lake or ocean where you suddenly realize you can't see land, you actually can't see anything besides the same water stretching all around you. Its an unnerving feeling, og backrooms plays so much on that

[@Blue_bird1e]

Does anyone else love how Izzy dresses up to match what she’s discussing? And also because of all the effort AND dedication (I really got inspired and now whenever there’s an event I’ll dress up to match the party)

[@aminor3049]

I love it so much, she gives me severe gender envy as well.

[@NatorGreen7000]

wtf is severe gender envy? @@aminor3049

[@adubz555]

YESSSSS

[@Blue_bird1e]

I’m planning to get my hair dyed blue,, I’m gonna finally embody my KZbin name!! Oh and my hairs gonna be all floofy and jagged at bits, just like bird feathers

[@biggestwinonaryderfan]

⁠​⁠@@Blue_bird1ethat makes me really happy for some reason lol!!! enjoy ur blue hair

[@mildlymarvelous]

As a Backrooms purist, I took psychic damage when I heard you say its name. In my opinion, the horror is supposed to be in the liminality, the concept of being stuck forever alone in an endless empty place. Although the original post does mention that you might not be alone, hunted by a nebulous “something”, it is absolutely a situation where the unknown is scarier than any gory detail.

[@anais3337]

I could’ve ghostwrote this comment 😂 I agree 100000%. The discomfort and liminality of the backrooms are what really grabbed my attention and kept me interested.

[@MegidolErin]

I understand why people feel that way, but for me the coolest part is the different places inside it- a plethora of different liminal spaces and gimmicks. I think the best thing that could happen is what did happen- a split between people who like the (incredibly boring imo) original backrooms, and people who like the more elaborate level system

[@mildlymarvelous]

@@MegidolErin I think it’s okay to have different levels that are different liminal spaces as long as it sticks to the liminality being the focus and the source of the horror, y’know? It’s the monsters and stuff that really annoy me.

[@MegidolErin]

@@mildlymarvelous Yeah, I can agree with that. I don't think the monsters add anything, it's the environments themselves that interest me

[@brynleyellsworth1699]

Yeah, I always thought the last line was more suggesting how your mind would become more and more paranoid as time went on. Being so terribly lonely that you cannot possibly be alone

[@aquarose317]

Some of my favorites growing up were "if you see her turn off the game", "the day I hired a hitman on myself", and "There is something very strange going on with my wife". I really hope one of them makes the list!

[@SeleniteQuartz]

one of my favourite was about a father who’s son is a serial killer and finds out about his sons “activities” and doesn’t confront him about it because he’s scared his son will retaliate against him or will be held complicit in his sons actions. i remember “the day i hired a hit man on myself”, that was one of the scariest ones i ever read!

[@Zullala]

My Aunt is a search and rescue park ranger and I asked her about the stairs... I was so freaked out because she left me on read and then a week later asked me a completely unrelated question. I was shaking, thinking, "Omg she just doesn't want to talk about the stairs!" When I eventually visited I asked her about the stairs, in a whispered voice of course. She scratched her head and said, "Well I do find staircases, but they are from old houses that have succumbed to nature. They aren't in perfect condition, they are very degraded." I asked her why she left my question on read and she was confused. Turned out the message never showed up on her end. Really weird!

[@merentori]

Realistic creepypasta

[@LetsBeTogetherForever]

As a person with Tourrettes, I loved Ticci Toby. Having been undiagnosed at the time and being thought of as “weird”, I really latched on to him because I could relate to him. He definitely wasn’t the best portrayal of Tourettes or any of the other disorders shown in the story, but he was the one character I knew who had my “quirk”. Overall Toby was actually a pretty good portrayal of Tourettes for the time, at least in comparison to most of the ones I saw.

[@unclekarl5219]

you related to a serial killer?

[@glockhall59]

​@@unclekarl5219He was written as an OC for an edgy teen and was co opted by zoomer gremlins (like me) so it's not too far fetched people would relate to him, he was like a tulpa resulting from 2014 quirky humor and innocent edgelords

[@unclekarl5219]

@@glockhall59 idk what that means but the op specifies the time specifically as when it was written not co opted in the modern day

[@chacharealclanky3580]

@@unclekarl5219them: i related to this aspect of this character because i didnt see it much in media and i didnt understand it fully in myself yet you, annoying as hell: uhhhmmmm he killed people??? you related to people dying? Hows that reading comprehension going

[@luc1ddream5]

​@@unclekarl5219Did you read anything they said

[@Gravewhisper]

I think the lavender town theme one was simply genius, at the time everyone thought it was real. Nintendo even changed the song in the fire-red and leaf-green remakes, which gave the creepypasta much credibility. It's also just not too far fetched. That a song could induce psychological symptoms like depression or suicidal thoughts is a lot more believable than characters from a video game haunting you or mysterious monsters lurking in the woods. It's just so grounded. I mean, you might know about the song Gloomy Sunday and that questionable creepy history. Plus, there was the very real story about a Pokemon episode sending hundreds of japanese children to the hospital with seizures around the same time, which gave the Lavender Town thing precedent as an unexpected Pokemon mess up.

[@kidchrome1305]

Wasnt even a pokemon fan but i REFUSED to listen to the lavender town theme. I didn't know what creepypasta was at the time. Child me thought it was true and it was terrifying

[@biohazardg1rl]

wait can you expand more on the whole seizure thing? i’ve never heard of it before

[@Keet626]

@@biohazardg1rl An episode featuring porygon had a scene with lots of rapidly flashing lights and colors, which triggered seizures in epileptic children when watching the episode. I've heard a lot of parents during the incident may not have even known their child had epilepsy beforehand? The episode got pulled from TV and never aired again due to safety concerns, and never aired anywhere outside of japan as far as I know.

[@misseselise3864]

i’ll never forget having a full blown panic attack bc my mom made me listen to the lavender town song and i was convinced i was gonna die

[@biohazardg1rl]

@@Keet626 ohhh okay thats really interesting and makes a lot more sense, my brain immediately jumped to the cause being like some creepy pasta type stuff cuz of the topic lol

[@JDPlaysMoth]

As a Godzilla fan, I love that Godzilla NES is lumped together with iconic "evil videogame" Creepypastas. It's absurdly creative, and at that time, Godzilla lore and characters weren't nearly as mainstream as they are now. And the pixel art for that series is just amazing!!!

[@amateurorator]

Godzilla NES absolutely terrified me and my friends the first time we encountered it. To this day, the creepy red bug alien guy is still burned into my eyelids 😂

[@JDPlaysMoth]

@@amateurorator That's so cool omg!!! And yes, Red is such a great horror design!!!!!

[@mcgfn]

that is such a great story up until the ending, the pixel art screenshots were awesome though

[@Feasco]

STILL THE BEST - 1973

[@VultureSkins]

4:18 it’s very much worth mentioning (as StrangeÆons does in her slender-specific video) that the event was a result of an untreated mental disorder that produced hallucinations

[@hell_screen]

idk why but the term "micking their mouse" unironically drives fear into my heart

[@_holy_frick_]

In regards to Ticci Toby it should also be mentioned his creator pulled him from the Creepypasta community, dislikes his use in the community/fanart of his old design, and has completely reimagined him into a completely different character. His creator also seems to recognize how bad some of his old traits were (like Tourette's), and has apologized.

[@nymphia]

does the old creator still use the new design? i really liked him but i saw it was deleted cuz fangirls harassed them over aging toby up and changing his backstory :(

[@_holy_frick_]

@@nymphia I'm not sure how much they're using his new design/him as a character, I remember at one point they said they were working on a new story or comic involving him but I'll be honest idk. I do know they've been having issues because of rabid fangirls who are angry Toby is "ugly" now :(((

[@XxCreepyRawrxX]

I think he can't anymore because he sold the rights to a Chinese company.

[@_holy_frick_]

@@XxCreepyRawrxX I never heard anything about that, I just searched and the only thing I can find is them talking about Toby not being a creepypasta in 2020, do you have a source for that? Just bc I'm interested in if they did sell him or not.

[@steampunk-llama]

Pretty sure the creator was revealed to be a nonce as well iirc (there was drama surrounding Sally’s creator too?) so I think there being a canon split has worked out well

[@ImDudeRandom90]

I'd highly recommend adding "The Girl The Universe Forgot" to a tier. It's easily one of the most existentially frightening stories I've read.

[@Okbuddypal]

I (and probably a lot of other people) haven't heard of that one so could you maybe tell me what that one is about? Or maybe link the original source so I can read it/check it out?

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

I'm sorry but the title remind me of the dinosaur girl from TAWOG whom Gumball and Darwin have to rescue from the void

[@freakonaIeash]

Jesus man. This comment made me read it and this simple non-violent story has somehow affected me more than most creepypastas ever. It's just so grim and tragic in a certain way now I'm really creeped out lol

[@pwuppi]

@@kittykittybangbang9367 i was JUST about to say that lol

[@a_bear]

I just read it and thought it was pretty mid. I think it would be better if you have never heard of "the effect" before.

[@macaronisex]

The best part in every izzzyzzz video is that you can always tell exactly at what point they go off script. It’s so cute

[@Glace_cakes]

the smile dog image randomly gets into my head sometimes and i get freaked out everytime

[@maxiepallet]

20:06 one thing that I realize now about Lavender Town Syndrome that I find really funny is the fact that the spectrogram has unown letters in it, but unown wasn’t created until generation 2 so it doesn’t make sense for it to be in a song from the first generation

[@rusticgiraffe4262]

If I had a nickel for every time a creepypasta described something as “hyper realistic” as a stand in for using actual adjectives…I’d have a lot of nickels.

[@puppetpawss]

A lot of nickels? You'd have enough money to buy your way into the slender mansion!

[@dragonrider8891]

my very first creepypasta was a "lost episode" of Hetalia, where they were stranded on an island and had to eat each other. As a kid I totally fell for it 😂

[@chimerianidiot]

Oof, I remember coming across that one on the Trollpasta Wiki, and not gonna lie, to me that one felt more like an excuse to write a weird cannibalism fic than an actual creepypasta lol

[@dragonrider8891]

@@chimerianidiot yeah looking back it definitely was not very good or scary lol

[@TJ_Sauce]

I hate that I know exactly which one you're talking about LMAO

[@halley8105]

Same

[@meias.]

HETALIA. OF ALL THINGS???

[@betterretromess]

I love this sort of thing! Can't wait for the other parts!

[@asthejayflies]

it really reminds me of the magnus archives, a supernatural horror podcast - particularly episode 15 from season one, Lost Johns’ Cave, which tells a similar tale of spelunking gone wrong (and likewise, knows that less is oftentimes more when it comes to horror)

[@RealSetsuP]

I stumbled on Ted the Caver as it was going on and it's been a favorite ever since. One of those lightning in a bottle moments like the marketing for the original Blair Witch Project.

[@dashsmash1806]

Not to mention that author's description of the caving adventure itself, while grounded in reality, is just as (if not more) terrifying than the supernatural part

[@fluffyphoenix8082]

agreed, plus just the fact that it takes place in caves and the tiny passageways within is what really horrifies me. it's so grounded in reality. I've never considered myself claustrophobic, but after reading Ted the Caver AND way too many unfortunate real life incidents about people getting stuck in tiny tunnels, I may have to rethink if I'm claustrophobic or not lol

[@anguset]

I heard in Mutahar's video on the subject that the story was largely stolen

[@Memesauce67]

I gotta say man, from an outsiders perspective, Creepypasta shipping is absolutely WILD

[@thylascene]

fr broo, and the fanarts too :sob:, kinda ruins the creepypastas sometimes lmao

[@muidem4273]

I have Tourette's, diagnosed at 8 years old, now 20. I honestly found some solace in Ticci Toby, as I always read the story more in a sympathetic way, where his tics didn't make him creepy, but did make him a target for bullying and eventually along other stuff drove him to do extreme stuff. I felt sorry for him, and still have a soft spot for him as he's one of the few characters I can think of that has Tourette's period, albeit with less than stellar representation.

[@lythiathyme7581]

I have tourettes. The severity has fluctuated over my life, so I can speak from the severe perspective and the practically nonexistent perspective. I don't think the intentions are bad, but calling tics creepy is kinda weird, but also considering most Slenderman fans were probably quite young, I don't think it was necessarily malicious in nature. Ig it can be chalked up to kids finding a disorder they find cool and running with it, which is nothing new.

[@Yipyipyay]

In the case of a creepypasta, look at it this way Someone slowly walks up to you in the dark, head cocked, mouth in a painfully wide smile, eyes wide, and they're twitching and making strange noises you can't quite place. That's what's meant by that, no one's calling tourettes creepy in general.

[@year2082]

@@Yipyipyay i mean...depending on one's symptoms, everything you just listed in this comment is something a person can experience in real life because of mental or physical illness/disability. thinking that "twitching and making strange noises" is creepy still harms people with tourette's and similar conditions because those are literally aspects of the disorder whether you label them as such or not. relying on knowing someone's specific diagnosis to tell when a behaviour is a trait of a disorder+when it's "just creepy" doesn't work, because people with disabilities exist in public (including "creepy" places like outside after dark)+they aren't just going to hand you a card that says "hey, don't think i'm scary, i just have xyz." i don't have tourette's myself nor an opinion on ticci toby specifically (i think i read that story like, one time when i was 12, and got bored before it was over lol), but i do have other "creepy" disabilities, and regardless of that i am quite sure it's not helpful to "well, actually" someone discussing a portrayal of their disorder by saying "oh it's not your disorder that's scary, just the SYMPTOMS of the disorder!" you know? because there's no meaningful difference between those things.

[@lythiathyme7581]

@@Yipyipyay I mean you can have "creepy" twitching and noises, that's pretty common in horror, but pinning it on the tourettes is different from just having those traits in general. Besides, the kind of noises/twitching commonly seen in horror doesn't really reflect tics

[@lythiathyme7581]

@@year2082 I agree! Your comment reminds me of how people might regard, say, an autistic individual as creepy... But saying "oh you're not creepy cuz you're autistic, it's because you do xyz" when it's a symptom of autism is just the same thing as calling the person creepy

[@yun0ny4]

Unrelated to the main topic but I have literally never heard anything about another person with Tourette's who's tics fluctuate to that degree. Maybe that's just because I don't watch enough content by people who have it, but still. I didn't have severe tics until I was 14. Before that it was only the occasional blink or slight head jerk. I didn't even notice them myself. It was only right after I turned 14 that they became noticeable, and it quickly turned into one of the worst cases of tics my psychiatrist had ever seen. I couldn't sit still or stay quiet for more than a minute at a time and I was constantly hitting myself. It was so painful. Of course it also happened right before the "youth come in all the time with fake tics because of tiktok" craze in 2020, which made me doubt if my own tics were even real. Since then, they've calmed down a lot. With the exception of the occasional bad day or two, they're mostly unnoticable for me now. I haven't had a tic attack in a good year. But even though I consider myself quite well educated when it comes to mental health and neurodivergency, I have never heard of anyone else who also fluctuates that dramatically. It's really not talked about enough. Sorry for bombarding you will this wall of text but I only have one other friend with tourette's and we never really talk about it. Thank you for existing with tourette's and saying what you said, I guess, because I feel a lot less alone now. Have a nice day 🫶

[@Sluggii]

I remember heading about Lavender Town syndrome when I was 10 or so and deciding to try and use myself as a guinea pig since I was in the claimed age range affected. I found an upload of the song from Red and Green (since people claim it was only the original releases that caused the syndrome) and gave it a listen and, obviously, nothing happened. The next day I happened to have my first migraine attack, which happened to have the symptoms like the crushing headache and nausea, and was absolutely convinced it was real after all for some time since I never actually got to see a doctor for my migraines as a kid

[@mepommier]

When I first read ben drowned, I was a younger teenager and was actually really frightend by it. While I was in the middle of reading it, I had facebook open on a different tab. I got a notification and the tab preview text changed to "Ben messaged you" and it gave me the scare of my life. For half a second, I truely believed Ben from the story was trying to get me. It was my irl friend Ben messaging me, lol

[@PersonYT4545]

Poor Ben, you literally forgot he existed

[@captainghoul666]

​@@PersonYT4545ben forgotten

[@babygurlxo5183]

My sibling and I had a similar experience, we were watching the Ben drowned creepypasta on their laptop and it freaked us both out at 14 years old, so we tried to exit out of the video, but the cursor wouldn’t move? We started panicking like hell since everything we tried didn’t work, even turning the laptop off itself. In the end, we left it still playing in their room while we closed the door and sat on the kitchen counter waiting for it to be over. I know this sounds like complete bs, but even today they remind me about it and we kinda laugh about it

[@aino-kaisav5504]

This is like that one time I watched the Angel Statue episode of Doctor Who for the first time and after watching it I opened my phone and had a KZbin notification about a comment that said: "The Eyes. Don't blink." Freaked me out for a good moment but turned out it was just a response to my comment on a SaberSpark video about a kids' show with incredibly uncanny animation.

[@batteen2911]

I've had Tourettes pretty much my whole life and was a "weird kid" who was into all the internet horror things from a young age. I was less into the slender man/ticci toby/ fandom side of creepy pasta and more into the more scary, less "chibified" characters. I remember being upset when my friends would want me to be Ticci toby during our recess creepy pasta role-plays solely because I didn't like the character, not even because of the stereotyping. Looking back I think it's a little funny and my feeling aren't hurt. I do remember sometimes other people in the group would violently jolt and shake and "tic" while playing the character and I would feel a little uncomfortable seeing someone attempt to imitate the motions I would often make (involuntarily), was made fun of for, and sometimes even pulled muscles doing. Idk, looking back I don't think it's that deep but I can't speak for all people with Tourette's.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Is Tourettes not something you have literally your whole life?

[@techSoldier141]

i heard in some ppl that it starts to like appear more later in life, if that makes sense, like maybe around teenage to adult years but i'm not sure that's just what i remember@@PhoenicopterusR

[@xzenvii]

As a kid, the story of Ben Drowned really got me. Game glitches scared me at that time and I had nightmares about it for a little bit. There was also that rumor that you could talk to him through 'CleverBot'. That was a funny time LOL

[@artythepartyofficial]

last year i read one creepypasta with a friend out of funnies because it was written so badly, but in the story it actually mentioned the full name of my high school which obviously creeped me out and that's how i found out that someone who went to my high school wrote a semi-popular creepypasta

[@yaoidyne]

what creepypasta was it?

[@artythepartyofficial]

@@yaoidyne wouldn't you like to know weather boy

[@yaoidyne]

@@artythepartyofficial i only now realized that this was a weird ass thing to ask because of the full name of your school being in it 💀💀💀 forgive my stoopidity

[@pb-squiddy]

as a garfield connoisseur, your collection is inspirational.

[@uglebeffus]

Something a lot of people always seem to overlook when talking about Slenderman is that a lot of his behavior started in a web series called Marble Hornets. He wasn't called Slenderman then - he was called "The Operator" - and he didn't have tentacles, but he was extremely creepy and the series follows the corruption of his proxies. He also isn't the main threat in the series which is really interesting! I highly recommend watching it. Edit: Oh, hey, maybe I should finish the video before I comment stuff like this lol. So glad you mentioned it!!

[@Void_Daddy]

incredibly correct-- also, Marble Hornets wasn't even the only major ARG of it's time. You also had Tribe Twelve, EverymanHYBRID, etc. I personally was very much into the ARG scene and have spoken to Tim & Jo from the THAC / Marble Hornets team. They're very chill, and Tim to this day likes to drop little nuggets of wisdom in his home blog on Tumblr. I actually have him added on Steam too LMAO

[@evil.mag1c]

@@Void_Daddy nice to see someone else who fell down the MH rabbit hole! I got so into these ARGs as a middle schooler that I was watching everything THAC posted on youtube and tumblr. I also went to one of the filming locations for EverymanHYBRID once. Everyone involved with the series’ (for the most part) were such cool people!

[@Void_Daddy]

@@evil.mag1c Hell yeah! Glad to see another THAC person here. I used to be a part of their forums and got really into ARGs in high school. Back in the Skype era, I also took part in a fan-made version of the HABIT trials. Was rabbit #14 and #54 respectively for the Angoras on two different runs. Kind of a shame what happened to THAC, but I think it was for the best that everyone went their own separate ways. I remember being really into their D&D campaign they uploaded on the main channel with the whiteboard and everything. Troy Moves Out and Tim Opens A Present will always be my favourites.

[@maddieb.4282]

Who has heard of creepypastas but hasn’t heard of Marble Hornets? 🤔 it was super popular and it’s still considered a pretty good piece of media

[@Void_Daddy]

@@maddieb.4282 That was back in the day, now er days people don't hear about it a lot and know only surface level stuff such as JTK or Backrooms. MH is over a decade old after all.

[@SoldCitizen]

IZZY you kept smiledog on screen for so long my dog stood up on the couch and stared back at it until it was gone. it legitimately freaked me out. Well done 😆

[@stripeyy_]

lavender town scared me SO bad as a kid that now as an adult (with i will admit, unrelated mental health issues) whenever i hear lavender town music it triggers really severe tics, i start crying and get really sick! its INSANE how believing something so strongly as a child can make things still manifest as an adult

[@frostbitlion1727]

My favourite thing about Lavender Town Syndrome is that Unown didn't exist in Gen 1, so couldn't be in the spectrograph.

[@caninecuspids]

the abandoned by disney creepypasta is actually kind of interesting when you dig into it, pastra made a whole video about it if anyone's curious. photo negative mickey becomes at least a tad less silly and a little more interesting in hindsight when you realize, through other pastas by the same author, that he's supposed to be a sort of manifestation of the pain and suffering of poorly treated and traumatized workers within disney parks. pastra does a much better job of explaining it than i ever could though so go watch his video

[@nymphia]

photo negative mickey is actually pretty funny like if he wasn't a mascot costume and a hot bishie anime boy i can see people inserting him into the proxy group in some way. literally a suit walking around and fucking with people via murder, leaving constant written messages, and (trying and failing multiple times) to turn off the annoying waiting music in the lobby.

[@davidhong1934]

​@@nymphia I mean, that's basically what he did in "A Few Suggestions" After the mascot suit possessed an employee, it proceeds to do some very heinous, reprehensible actions, such as: - unwinding the VHS tapes - unscrewing the light bulbs - cheating at poker - littering on the staircases - throwing out the suggestion cards - stealing food from the cafeteria - loitering - flooding the toilets (these are definitely not euphemisms)

[@moistwrmonastring1017]

This!!! It’s a really well done story with a lot of fun lore to read up on, it’s not that corny at all ☹️

[@iclynnx]

I thought of Pastra's video too. I've never personally been into Abandoned by Disney, so I have no bias for it. I just think it's allowed to be a little silly in hindsight - it can be executed well even if the manifestation is literally a mascot of Mickey but photonegative.

[@e-ffrayaning]

the perfect iceberg we didn't asked but needed

[@Pugkin5405]

If you watched it in 20 seconds

[@_logan_38]

I remember as a child, I used to believe herobrine was real because my brother used to log onto my minecraft worlds when I was asleep or at my dad's house and completely demolish them saying that Herobrine hacked my world or some stupid thing. So my brother used herobrine as an excuse to grief my minecraft worlds

[@diamondplayz2145]

I was playing Minecraft on my school computer back in middle school and someone named Herobrine got on my world. I didn’t see him though. I typed hi in the chat then he just logged off. Weird.

[@gray4449]

one of my favourite details about the SCP Foundation, is that despite how well known it appears to be, there's a large population of people out there who have never heard of it. SCP is one of the internets best-kept secrets despite how popular it is, helping to play into the secret governement site that we're not supposed to know about side of the story. also, in my humble opinion, Marble Hornets kick-started a lot of what we look at as creepypastas and ARGs, it was one of the first and the most popular for a while and i feel like a lot of more modern ARGs stem from Marble Hornets and it's impact on the internet as a whole. it was the first ARG i watched and i loved it, and despite how old it is it holds up pretty well compared to a lot of the other creepypastas mentioned on this list

[@maddieb.4282]

Marble Hornets is not a creepypasta but your opinion is definitely not unique, they paved the way for a lot of analog horror and args that we have now

[@Huxxerberry]

I remember having a "friend" who kept parading around that she was the creator of Ticci Toby and I genuinely got so pissed off that I messaged the creator and I THINK I linked my friend's Tumblr. She stopped claiming the character was hers, but kept saying that some friends in Japan made a Creepypasta anime for her in her honor and she just so happened to not have the "Anime" only "screenshots". She stopped being friends with me because I kept calling her out on her bullshit and demanding proof for a lot of things.

[@luc1ddream5]

Damn that sounds mad annoying 😭

[@aBlackMage]

I have a classmate like this who just keeps making shit up to sound more accomplished than she is. Literally everyone knows she's lying but no one wants to deal with the fallout of calling her out on all her BS. So annoying

[@Zectifin]

this is just the modern version of "My uncle works at nintendo"

[@Slayerlord13]

So I haven't read Ted the Caver but looking at how many of these stories can easily fumble the finish line where they reveal the monster and all that, in hindsight it seems like such a genius move for Ted the Caver to end on the note it does.

[@serpentarius1194]

It's funny you say that because I remember seeing a comment someone made about how they didn't like the "cop-out" ending. Like no, the ambiguity of it is what makes it so terrifying! Letting your imagination run wild trying to figure out what this entity could be makes it much scarier than any clear description could be imo. I'm always a fan of horror that shows as little as possible, only as much as necessary.

[@Swedishtrex]

Ted the Caver is a fantastic story, I highly recommend! The ending is absolutely perfect, your imagination just does the rest of the work for the author. 10/10, highly recommend a read!

[@raicrush]

Izzzy I am SO hyped for this video. You’re easily one of the best creators around weird early internet stuff. So much of my childhood was these creepypastas 😂

[@villainousthoughts]

Please please please do a SCP tier list or iceberg, I love hearing about them and I think you'd do it justice Absolutely loved this video, Internet anthology folklore is my jam

[@CFGalt]

Honestly I’d love to hear Izzy do any sort of deep dive on SCP (if she wants to of course)

[@stuppittyhed]

I have never seen a human face as captivating and beautiful as the face of Izzyzzz. Voice is even better>

[@hummus_exual]

I kind of miss the good old days when I was afraid listening to the Lavandonia theme cause I thought it would kill me, or being afraid of playing minecraft alone in fear Herobrine could come out. Ahh, good old childhood frights...

[@Maggie66112]

Lavender town

[@endymallorn]

I’m amazed that Candle Cove isn’t in T1. It seems like such an iconic piece of the internet horror culture, even more than the caver story. Though with SCP, given Containment Breach and the news about Bright… the real horror story is the acquaintances we made along the way.

[@Void_Daddy]

Honestly I think it's the right choice to put it below the surface, at least when looking back on it today, Candle Cove was popular 'at the time' but it shrunk in popularity very quickly, where the ones at the top are always on others' minds.

[@evagand]

Wait, what happened with Bright?

[@delunimbus]

​@@evagandHis creator was exposed as a nonce

[@davidhong1934]

Candle Cove is weird The creator, Kris Straub, wanted the last line of the original story to be the twist, the horror element; the show doesn't exist, yet so many kids have identical recollections and experiences. From there, two camps formed: 1. For a while, channels would upload static, and viewers in on the joke would pretend that they were watching episodes of Candle Cove 2. Some were more interested in the actual show of Candle Cove and started making entire plotlines amd characters (I recall a story called "Memoirs of a Set Deaigner") Regardless, the SyFy channel decided to do something with it, and Candle Cove fell off

[@endymallorn]

@@davidhong1934 Given his final decisions on Starslip Crisis, I’m almost glad others took up the banner.

[@r3verendcrow]

The fact that as soon as I'm creating a Creepypasta tierlist project, everyone suddenly starts making Creepypasta videos is such a coincidence and I love it!

[@Serithe]

It being October might have something to do with it.

[@SteelRosePedals]

Marble Hornets was my first dive into spoopy media when I was a teen. I started watching it at 3 in the afternoon on a Tuesday in July with my best friend by my side and it still managed to scare the crap outta me. For years, I would imagine Slend- The Operator outside my windows at night.

[@midniteauthor]

Cool to see The Expressionless pop up. TJ is a good mate of mine, I know he's very proud of it even if by his own admittance it is more basic than most. He's still writing now and his writing has only gotten better and better over the years.

[@Twiggo_The_Foxxo]

THE 2000s LADY IS BACK

[@caninecuspids]

as a huge marble hornets fan thank you So Much for not even touching on the weird way hoodie and masky were treated in the creepypasta fandom it is one of my biggest pet peeves as a chronic enjoyer of the series lol

[@chainreh]

creepypasta always make me feel so incredibly nostalgic lol, i think i learnt about them at a time i was starting to be interested in horror and even though looking back a lot of the ones i was scared of are pretty goofy and poorly written they still have a special place in my heart. love ur vids as always

[@emailforyays]

AHGH purplekiss pfp? or am i crazy...

[@chainreh]

@@emailforyays omg yeahhhh plory spotted in the wild!

[@FaerieSkye]

Creepypastas were my core special interest as a young child and still hold such a special place in my heart today at 22 so seeing you making this series is making me overwhelmed with joy 😭❤️

[@TheMutantCreeper]

One detail about Slenderman that I find so neat as a Sci-Fi nerd is that it directly influenced a monster in Doctor Who called The Silence. Pale white creatures in suits with long arms. It is detached enough to not really think about Slenderman in my opinion as they have big heads with eyes and have an ability to be completely forgotten about the moment you look away from them, but you can vaguely remember orders given to you from them.

[@ladybugs_soup]

i got so happy hearing Catastrophe Crow get mentioned! it's currently my favorite arg, hey peebrain, you teleport? being close second. Can't wait for the next part of this series :3

[@StillNotBurning]

IZZYZZZ STOP APOLOGIZING FOR NOT UPLOADING!!! we all love your stuff and cant wait for it to come out but we want to you be happy and make good videos so take your time xo

[@kleptomaticagain]

Just so you know, scp-173 is no longer being represented by that statue in the thumbnail due to copyright reasons - the original image was used without permission and the creator allowed the scp community to continue using it. Somewhat recently, however, it was decided to remove the image because of the dubious legality of using it

[@kleptomaticagain]

There’s a lot more information if you look up “SCP-173 Redesign”

[@kleptomaticagain]

If you want more creepypasta-ish SCP stories I’d say to look at the “creepypasta” tag or the Parawatch Hub

[@kleptomaticagain]

SCP in terms of objects actually stands for Special Containment Procedures but SCP is also used for Secure Contain Protect Sorry about all the info dumping, i’m just really into SCP lol

[@kleptomaticagain]

also, there is no canon

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

SCP has been kinda ruined by it's own popularity

[@MsSasoDei]

I really can't take the Smile Dog picture seriously since a dream I had ages ago. In the dream I basically lived in a big mansion and the Smile Dog was my roommate who constantly tried to kill me, but the tone of it all it was really silly like a sitcom.

[@thederpypikachu9873]

I can't take it seriously due to my old orthodontist having edited animal photos all over their office - you see a frog smiling at you with a human mouth while getting braces adjusted enough and you're unphased by similar imagery forever

[@magicsteve5523]

I think my favourite one is Borrasca, the twist of the ending is one of an exclusive club of horror stories that actually managed to keep me up at night

[@Mossymoss69]

I remember being mortified of Sonic.exe when I was a kid, I literally refused to blink or close my eyes in fear that something would come and get me when I wasn’t looking 💀

[@QT-JME]

I'm not a huge creepypasta person but one that got me bad was The Princess. As a major gamer, the idea that just knowing about her can cause her to show up in any game, turn things super glitchy, and then stalk you irl was really scary to me as a kid.

[@eldrichnemo9312]

"If you see her, turn off the game." Very underrated imo. Then again I actually added her to Tomodachi Life where she married Slenderman and they had a bunch of faceless kids together. I felt bad for her so I tried to give her a normal life 😭

[@MmeCShadow]

Oh, yeah, shout-outs to The Princess. While I think the story kind of loses itself for a bit in the middle to end (but still ends on a chilling note), the concept is pitch perfect. When I read it, it took me back to playing games in the middle of the night, sound turned down low so as not to wake anybody up, leaning in close to the TV and something just going... weird. Glitchy. Wrong, in ways you can't understand and which unnerve you so badly that all you can do is turn off the game and wait until the sun is up and hope it doesn't happen again.

[@stxrryd]

just a friendly reminder that the original SCP statue's artist did not consent to her art being used for a creepypasta and had to get rid of her piece because it nearly ruined her career's reputation

[@JaydenAttard-cu8fk]

Meh who cares SCP-173 is fictional creepypasta anyway

[@M3RDR]

clarification about eyeless jack: the original eyeless jack pasta doesn't actually involve a cult sacrifice at all, in the og he's just some creature who steals people's kidneys with no backstory. the cult sacrifice story is fanmade and completely unrelated, but still widely accepted as "canon" by the creepypasta fandom. the reason "heir of chernobog" is listed as an alias is because Chernobog is the entity that the cult worships in that story.

[@Toaster_the_what]

I remember the old WildCraft creepypastas. Freaking out the second you might have seen the chat button appear in single player. Spawncode being faked showing up in servers, spawning LaRona. The forgotten bull… The memories of old WildCraft

[@leijaile]

Creepypasta is still one of my biggest hyperfixations, even in my twenties. Yes a lot of the most known ones are goofy, but the way they're designed as something you bump into during late night reddit browsing, still feels effective. Imo they're products of their time in the best way possible, you can really remember the childhood fear and general nostalgia when re-reading them. That's why I'm generally hesitant to write them off as just cringe, even if I'd think so if written today. The cringe is what makes them so nostalgic to me❤️

[@Cepphalized]

I was thinking about this channel literally yesterday “where did they go? I miss them😢” We are blessed today truly :)

[@LEEBLISSY]

strangeaeons posted a great video specifically about Slenderman yesterday that towards the end helps to contextualizes the Slenderman stabbing with sympathy for all the girls involved (the victim lived btw she's ok!!!) and overall it's just a very fantastic video if you're interested in the history of the Slenderman mythos and the surrounding moral panic after the stabbing :3

[@maddieb.4282]

She may have lived but I highly doubt she’s okay. That trauma lives with you forever and can destroy your life

[@sporeham1674]

@@maddieb.4282 Yeah, not to mention the permanent internal damage she'd have on top of that

[@LEEBLISSY]

@@maddieb.4282 because of this comment I actually decided to look her up and see if she's said anything on that since then and read a couple articles. her name is Payton Leutner, by the way. obviously there's trauma, it took her a long time to trust people again even family members. BUT she said something really interesting when she was asked in 2019 if there was anything she wanted her assailant, Morgan Geyser, to know. from ABC News: *"I would probably, initially thank her," Leutner said to Muir. "I would say, 'Just because of what she did, I have the life I have now. I really, really like it and I have a plan. I didn't have a plan when I was 12, and now I do because of everything that I went through.'"* *"I wouldn't think that someone who went through what I did would ever say that," Leutner said. "But that's truly how I feel. Without the whole situation, I wouldn't be who I am."* /end paste OBVIOUSLY it is not a good thing she was stabbed 19 times and shit like that leaves trauma, but it is truly truly great that she was able to recover and find her passion in medicine because of it. according to TheCinemaholic: *"As of fall 2020, Payton was a senior in high school and was planning to attend medical college. She said that her attack had given birth to aspirations of pursuing a career in the medical field. [...] Therefore, today [article posted Aug 31, 2023], in her early 20s, proud university student Payton understandably prefers to keep a relatively low profile these days."* /end paste I'm not really interested in like true crime stuff nowadays but this case admittedly is interesting to me (mostly because she survived tbh, I know I wouldn't have looked this far into Leutners story if I didn't know that). from what I gathered from those two articles and the strangeaeons video, this wasn't a case of internet horror ~corrupting~ these little girls into committing atrocities, but a result of Geyser having no way of knowing her hallucinations of slenderman were not real. I want to make it very clear firstly that people who struggle with schizophrenia are far far more likely to be VICTIMS of violence than perpetrators, but Geysers case is a rare exception. she had apparently been seeing hallucinations since she was 3, but was only diagnosed with schizophrenia AFTER the stabbing, and she and her mother apparently had no idea she had it. all Geyser knew was what she read on the Internet about slenderman *and that she'd seen him.* she and their other friend Anissa Weier, who allegedly had helped convince her that what she saw was real (again, important to remember that these kids were TWELVE at the time) were working with the information they had available to them and imaginations they let run wild. it's extremely tragic that this is what became of those imaginations and of Geysers untreated mental illness, but the following moral panic blew the whole slenderman thing way out of proportion imo. anyway, sorry for the long response but it's a pretty interesting story if you don't mind reading about it. the two articles I mentioned go over the events of the stabbing, but not in gruesome detail or anything, and I'm glad Payton Leutner is doing relatively ok and eventually found a bright side to her attack.

[@rained649]

that video is very likely based on the HBO documentary on the case. So just watch that instead.

[@ha_des]

​@@rained649..no it's not

[@hedgethesledge]

Absolutely love creepypastas! I remember some kid in primary school gaslighting me into believing Tails Doll and Sonic.exe were 100% real and would come and visit my house in the dead of night. 10 year old me dreaded needing to go to the bathroom at 11pm just because that's the time and place you summon Tails Doll irl oooo spooky! Nowadays I just adore hearing about these things that made me so terrified as a kid, it's so nostalgic. Can't wait for the next iceberg layer! :D

[@MichaelAftonApologist]

The layout going: Anime boy, anime boy, anime boy, Herobrine, Anime boy is crazy but very telling of the internet.

[@Railgun18]

As a teenager I was REALLY into Marble Hornets, so much that I wanted to do something like that too and with some friends we went and explore a really big and old abandoned school. That school was a place were you could really find anything, satanic rituals, neo nazi stuff etc, so we ended up with some really nice find footage videos. 2 years ago they began the resturation works for that building, so the only things that remains are those videos and some nice and stupid memories.

[@LiaMakesContentWow]

yo, since you recorded that, if you still have the footage you should post it!

[@Railgun18]

@@LiaMakesContentWow I thought about it but I can't really, the video has me and my friends during the teenage years so I should ask if it's ok with them to share it but unfortunately I've lost contact with most of them

[@LiaMakesContentWow]

@@Railgun18 ah that's unfortunate

[@soronprfrbs]

Hey Izzzyzzz, absolutely no need to apologise! This was great, really looking forward to the rest of the series. It's nice to hear someone else talk about how silly so many of the climaxes of creepy pastas are and how the ones that leave all the hard work to our imagination are the the ones that really stick with you. Damn, I gotta go and give Ted the Caver another read, that story is DOPE

[@Zectifin]

a lot of popular creepypastas get popular because they are good and creepy and vague, then everyone wants to fan fiction them and act like they are official lore and it gets overdone. The backrooms is a good example. its creepy liminal spaces. adding more spaces is great, maybe the suggestion of something hunting you. Then people wanna turn it into an expanded universe with different biomes and monster lifeforms and humans survivor settlements. It turns cringey.

[@rinkat669]

i used to avoid the lavender town theme like the plague!! smiledog too, although it feels stupid now it just seemed so real! i'm really glad you're doing this series, i love how involved you are and that you were almost the exact same age as me at creepypasta's peak

[@Shmandalf]

I think thats the first one I'd ever heard about, I remember it coming up alongside the infamous seizure episode a lot in conversation

[@shama1239]

I think the 8 parts of Search and Rescue work in the creepypasta's favor specifically because it eases you into the weird stuff. By breaking it up, your suspension of disbelief grows steadily. The first things mentioned are pretty weird, but aren't super out there for something you might hear someone say. Then they get weirder and creepier, but since it is slowly ramping up, you don't feel like it came out of nowhere and ruined the story.

[@Rey_Palpatine]

It's wild how I actually read some of the reddit creepypastas back when they were on the front page of their subreddit and only a few hours old, only for them to blow up and become super famous. I used to be on nosleep all the time and I remember reading the search and rescue stories about the stairs in the woods

[@chillcreep4926]

I miss the old days of nosleep, when people were just sharing campfire stories without a thought to future success

[@Sapphykins]

as someone who is fascinated by horror, and also the biggest scardycat on the planet, this is my ideal way to consume creepypasta. friendly kiwi gently explaining the plot and also regularly reminding me how silly and goofy this stuff really is, exactly what my stupid anxious brain needs!

[@adrielleakuryo]

When the world needed her most, she returned.

[@redringrico999]

That Smiledog image is actually a secondary one made by someone else, not the original Smiledog creator! The 'canon' one is the even sillier red demon dog pic, since the original story always says the 'dog' doesn't even look like a dog.

[@hannahdavis4256]

I was 12-14 when I loved creepypastas and was very much in the fandom of shipping and fangirling and emo anime boys of them. But I read some on my own too. I had some influences that aided in this being I came from an abusive/neglectful home and what really affected my love of it: I was starting to experience schizophrenia/psychosis. I'm schizospec now and it started with delusions and hallucinations around here along with other symptoms. So even if things were fake, I very much had very real delusions of SCPs, the creepypasta hot guys (and gals) that fans loved to draw and write fics about, and the creepy stories that I totally believed. Even now, I have to be careful because it can still trigger delusions/hallucinations. I rarely experience visual hallucinations that are detailed or anything, but the rake and Slenderman were two big hallucinations I had as well as when I started seeing shadow people. It was great to latch onto to cope with pretending the big creepypastas that were super popular amongst fanfics and stuff were a family I never had since I was really struggling mentally back then and they were my first real comfort characters, but the horror stories very much also messed up my mind when I was developing/first experiencing psychotic symptoms. And since I didn't know I was mentally ill, to me they were real supernatural events. It's fun to look back on and even share with my friend and I also just admire Internet horror in general, good or bad. The classics are great (even if they're bad) and it's fun to look back at what we thought was good or interesting or what seemed so real. I'm managing my psychotic symptoms fairly well now and still very much have a love of horror and especially internet horror. I love going through the ones I vividly remember and the ones that have long been forgotten since I repressed that part of my life due to how my parents reacted and demonized me for it. It's like I'm reclaiming the cringey early mental illness years of my life and it's nice. And I get to share it and my knowledge with my friend as we watch these since they missed out on it and only know it from their boyfriend and me liking creepypastas. Edit: Also I'm definitely a backrooms purist. The original one/start of it was horrific to me and gave me bad delusioms and fears of it that genuinely made me have to avoid it. Yeah, that's all gone now. I barely find it creepy at all anymore and it's cool to see what people do, but I very much feel like it's not even horror anymore, it's just cool "urban legend" to theorize about and try to bring a story to it. Even if it triggered delusions, I loved seeing stuff around it, but that feeling is very much gone for me. In the end, it ain't the worst, but it feels very much uninteresting to me now that personally, I don't care for them anymore. Edit 2: I remember Ticci-Toby. I don't have tourettes, but the creator very much shared disorders with him. I get how sort of linking ANY disorder or neurodivergency with "killer" or "creepy" can be harmful, but I know for me it can also be a coping method. I had my fair share of OCs that I very much gave my same disorders (undiagnosed at the time and so they never actually had the names, but I still gave them all my symptoms of them.) It may be offensive to people because neurodivergencies can be so stigmatized in that way, but I can see how it was a comfort character for them. Sometimes when you are made fun of or even demonized for stuff, it's nice to have a way to play into that. I do the same today with jokes about me being the "big scary abusive narcissist" or playing it up because I have been demonized and seen as freaky and scary for years and it can be an isolating experience. It isn't the exact same, but all I'm saying is, I get it. It can help esp if you're still a kid or sumthn.

[@FrankiKaye]

I feel like creepypastas are getting a resurgence in popularity as appreciation for campy retro horror seems to be going up a lot lately. My inner 12 year old is happy about this development.

[@pixel_ocelart]

Love the outfit/makeup color scheme in this one, Izzy! I remember thinking some creepypastas were real as a kid (especially Russian sleep experiment) and crying my eyes out over it. Now I somehow see it as nostalgia haha. Excited to enjoy this video!!

[@Okbuddypal]

I used to think Slenderman (and the Jersey Devil cause I'm from there) was real as a kid because my house is literally in front of a forest that's blocked off by a chainlink fence so that made the possibility of Slenderman being real and stalking/capturing me so real when I was little and obsessed with Creepypasta (mostly just Slenderman though because I would watch Jacksepticeye, Markiplier and the Annoying Orange (cringe I know) play The Eight Pages RELIGIOUSLY and I remember doing my math homework and watching the news when the Slender Stabbing happened so I was more familiar with Slenderman than any of the other Creepypastas)

[@flameflox]

Scott Cramer and Izzy uploading at the same time?? Today is a good day

[@citrusune]

that's what I thought too lmao

[@Alansaurus]

Frrr!

[@jellyowl2644]

Gonna go look up scott cramer now, see you in abit Edit: apparently im already subscribed to him with notifs

[@citrusune]

@@jellyowl2644 join usss

[@hunkynchunky]

Man, this was such a joy to watch! I'm excited for the volumes to come because, while I was too afraid to delve too deep into the creepypasta sphere, I was always curious about the stories in it. There was one creepypasta I remember LOVING as a kid, it was called Candle Cove. It freaked me out and it's the first one I think about every time someone brings up creepypastas.

[@Zectifin]

so this was actually made into a show on sifi. Channel zero is the show and its kinda like american horror story where each season is completely separate. The first season is Candle Cove. There are 4 seasons and each are a different creepypasta made into a season.

[@freddyfazbear1334]

7:52 this one really takes me back. The amount of kids in my elementary school who swore he was real and that they had seen him drove me crazy because I would always maintain that it didn’t make logical sense for him to exist, but little Timmy said he had seen him and I didn’t think they could be lying for fun lol. Thanks for making this video, it’s a treasure trove of nostalgia ❤️

[@pigeonbusiness]

I love the way Mr Creepy Pasta reads SAR Woods' stories. He doesn't do that weird, monotone reading most Cp narrators do. The way he talks makes you feel like he's telling you these stories over a campfire. It's very good and I cannot recommend the series enough.