Flaky Pudding
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While I consider myself somewhat of a a casual creepypasta fan, I don't like most of the extremely popular ones like Slenderman and Jeff the Killer. Actually the majority of stories associated with the genre don't really appeal to me. I consider a good portion of them to be too clichéd, repetitive, and almost boring due to how most creepypastas tend to blend together to me personally. So many of them seem to be written by fame hungry people who are trying to become an Internet sensation instead of those who are passionate about what they do and actually put creativity, effort, and originality into their work rather than simply jumping on a bandwagon and attempting to emulate the popularity of another creepypasta. I consider many overemphasized tropes such as creepy kid shows, blood and gore for the sake of shock value and nothing more, "lost episode" stories, etc. to be extremely overrated and overused within the creepypasta community. I personally prefer the more obscure gems that are rarely talked about. The ones that most creepypasta fans wouldn't even know about. I favor quality over popularity when it comes to that subgenre, making many of my favorites those highly underrated tales written out of pure enjoyment rather than tales written out of a lust for popularity by folks who are merely attempting to write "the next Slender-Man" or something like that.