creepypasta

English

Etymology

creepy +‎ pasta, after the pattern of copypasta, itself an alteration of copy and paste.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːpipeɪstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipɑːstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipæstə/

Noun

creepypasta (countable and uncountable, plural creepypastas)

  1. (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
    • 2012 September 14, Kaz Scattergood, “Spooked by Slender, Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union)”, in magazine‎, volume 9, number 49, page 2:
      The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.
    • 2013 September 1, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, number 46, Adventure Lantern, page 7:
      " […] Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta-style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"
    • Autumn 2013, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University)‎, number 33, page 11:
      The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:creepypasta.

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