/ot/ - Off-topic

I don't think it was that good in the past. Its easy to blame zoomers, but there's lots of continuity between these eras of internet history. There was a ton of lame stuff back then. But I get where you're coming from. It has been kinda stagnant in recent years. My guess is that social media has sped up consumption of these stories which now have to be short or have an obvious hook because people have the attention span of a 4 year old on crack. Its also harder to isolate people now and most people live in a work/school - home bubble and never go outside. Stuff has highs and lows too and maybe we're just going through a low period now? It will pick up eventually I'm sure.

I think its just hard to do any internet horror story/creepypasta and have the sheer suspension of disbelief that series like Marble Hornets could have nowadays. It's kind of written in stone that what you are viewing isn't true and it's a lot harder to set the atmosphere/void that old creepypasta could fill because a lot of creepypasta is a commodity now. That being said, while its le analog horror, Gemini Home Entertainment has probably been the most fun I had in a while with creepy things. I can't sleep is also good. Vibingleaf is also another channel I like that recontextualizes old horror tropes/creepypasta and makes them scarier or just straight up parodies them.
https://youtu.be/NIu-B51_rp0

>>27229
>I don't think it was that good in the past
That's what i said in op, but yeah your theory makes some sense. I have been seeing some recent interest in creepypasta type content from zoomers though, which i forgot to mention. The most obvious recent example being the backrooms. But that was quickly ruined when it became a trendy youtube thing.

>>27230
The art for some of these is undeniably pretty good but I'm not a huge fan of the "childhood thing but scary face" stuff that's been popping up in certain corners of the web. I mainly see this a lot with Sonic for whatever reason. Maybe it's just me but something about it just feels forced.

All horror is like this though. It goes through a phase where what was new becomes a trendy fad and the mainstream sucks it bone dry and eventually people move on to something else.

>>27230
vibing leaf is very good

>>27231
Trendy youtube stuff is ok, what kills me is all the shitty lore that people added. Like, all the async stuff is fine, because it doesn't detract from the horror of the backrooms, but all the bullshit with the smilers and partygoers and whatnot is so irritating to me.

There's nothing new, everything turn to shit when a brilliant niche idea becomes mainstream. The Backrooms, SCP, every meme that come from the depth of 4chan and pretty much everything else get ruined when too many people try to hop on the hype train.