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Well it’s the end of the year and I want to summarize my year of creepypasta reviews. Overall I say that I’ve reviewed more pastas that I didn’t like than ones that I have. This may be because most of them were at most meh, but there are the bad ones, and this list shows it. This time around I have made a few changes for list qualifications, I decided to remove the 3 or lower rating rule, since this time around there have been pastas here the received a 5 or higher. With that said I don’t want the list to be very obvious and my choices may actually surprise some of you this time around. For those of you who weren’t around for my last top 10, I want to clarify something, I review creepypasta, most of it is on the creepypasta wiki, but some of what I reviewed this year was from DeviantArt, and those count as well. Also I did a few re-reviews this year, so those don’t ultimately count since they were just to clarify a few things and update my opinion. Now I want to get this out of the way so I never have to read this garbage again.
10. White with red
(Date published: Oct. 5, 2015)
Apparently I hate wasted potential more than down-right stupidity as I could’ve given this spot to Slenderman instead, but I chose this because honestly I’ve always been a bit too hard on Slenderman as he was kind of the one that got the ball rolling.
This was the creepypasta that inspired me to start doing ghost story month, which was a series of four reviews where I did nothing but stories in the wiki’s Ghosts category, and honestly there wasn’t a whole lot to choose from. This was my least favourite of the bunch because I felt like it could’ve been so much better than it was. It felt very anti-climactic and like I could’ve skipped over this one and nothing would’ve changed. Whenever I read, it’s always a chance for me to learn, (hence why I’m reading Dune right now), but this one didn’t really give me any tips on what to do or what not to do. It was very bland, and barley worth a read. I know I gave this pasta a 7/10, but honestly I have the most problems with this one.
9. Ed Edd n Eddy lost episode
(Date Published: Feb. 2, 2015)
Don’t be shocked this is on the list. There isn’t much I can say here that I haven’t already said in my review. In my review I said that it was a series of events tied loosely together, and in truth that is what it is, a series of events that are tied loosely together and have very little if any connection. I don’t honestly think this pasta could’ve been better with any tweaking, since the nature of this pasta is supposed to be strange, unfortunately strange doesn’t always translate to scary, or good for that matter.
8. The Amazing World Of Gumball - The Grieving
(Date published: Apr. 6, 2015)
This pasta had so much potential in the beginning and just wasted it on the impossibilities of the situation. So let’s talk about impossible situations and how they can be scary. For starters, here’s an oxymoron to chew on, Impossibility must be possible. To rephrase it, you must establish what can or can’t happen in your world, if you don’t we’ll just assume it’s an average world like what we live in. A good way to do the impossible in your story would be like how they do it in a super-hero story, not a lot of stuff in superhero stories are possible, but because it was established that it’s possible in their world, BOOM, it happens. This is why I often give points to realism in a creepypasta, not because it makes it scarier, but because it makes it much more believable.
7. Herobrine
(Date published: Nov. 2, 2015)
So let’s talk about how popularity is both a good thing and a bad thing for creepypasta in general. A strong fan-base is the key to anything’s survival as a product, if there wasn’t so many people talking about creepypasta, it would be as big as it is. However, some people will simply read the popular stuff and claim it the scariest thing in the world, so good stories like Jeff and BEN, will be torn down by hardcore pasta readers and they’ll tell others to avoid those stories because they aren’t scary, good or worth any time. Now to be fair a lot of these stories are hit or miss, some stories are pretty good and others are crap. Herobrine is crap through and through.
A big problem with this particular pasta is that there isn’t a lot happening, it’s just someone encounters some ghost in Minecraft and that’s really it, a few other things happen but it’s just a ghost encounter. Of course this pasta has become a staple of Minecraft and has since become a running joke for the programmers. Honestly it stopped being funny a long time ago and the only thing that would really impress me is if they made a Herobrine summon in the game. Actually that’d be kind of cool now that I think about it.
6. Midna's Sorrow
(Date published: Sep. 7. 2015)
The amount of boring creepypasta I’ve read this year was amazing, I had more candidates for a boring creepypasta than I thought I would. Aside from my number 1 pick, this was the worst of the bunch, mostly because there wasn’t much happening. Here’s the basic run down of the pasta, somebody puts in a game and it’s not what the player expected, I swear if creepypasta were on Netflix that would be the description to all video game entries. This one also has the honour of being a bad Zelda pasta, which is like being a bad fan made Mario game, you know that they exist, but you just say “Seriously, try next time.”
5. Pokémon lost silver
(Date published: Apr. 13, 2015)
Once a favourite of mine it now has a spot on my hated list.
The biggest problem with this pasta was that it used very basic scares, like replacing badges with skulls and the sprite losing its limbs. The scares that were used would only scare a first grader and completely bore anybody else. I know my favourite Pokémon pasta also wasn’t very scary, but it was still a good story, and could pass for a sad pasta, this one tried to do something cool, but it ultimately didn’t work and was about as scary as Bette Midler.
4. Cul-de-sac
(Date published: Jun. 15, 2015)
It was amazing that I managed to find this when you think about it. This theory pasta wants to explain that the characters of Ed, Edd and Eddy are all in some kind of purgatory. Which is kind of like trying to explain the physics behind Kill la kill, it’s cool and could be interesting but, why? The pasta had a few problems but amazingly it could’ve been a solid theory, since it did have a good idea for some things like how Eddy died in the great depression and that’s why he tries so many get-rich-quick schemes. But I’m sorry, many of the explanations were complete bullshit to the point where the pasta had to land at this point. If anything it’s another example of how not to write a theory pasta. It’s strange though as it walks the border of decent theory and complete Heeby-Schmib.
3. Dead Bart
(Date Published: Mar. 30, 2015)
HAHAHAHAHAHA, NEXT!
2. Majora's Mask
(Date Published: Jun. 8, 2015)
Yes, this one isn’t my number one. It is a really bad, horrendous story that doesn’t understand what it wants to be, but that doesn’t make it the worst. It’s a strange creation that is like BEN Drowned crossed with Midna’s Sorrow. What ultimately makes this one worse is that with a quick rewrite it could’ve been decent, I mean it couldn’t be as good as something like Lost Episodes, but at least something like The Necromancer.The pasta was written as if it was trying to be a sad pasta, but it felt much more like a scary pasta, and the combination just didn’t work out. It’s like crossing Ghost Rider with Princess Peach, these are two separate things that should be separate.
1. Username: 666
(Date Published: Feb. 9, 2015)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the worst creepypasta I reviewed this year. Some of these creepypasta I didn’t like because they were boring, stupid, or could’ve been so much more. This one I hated because it seemed to be a combination of all three. The pasta really seems like a Sonic.EXE type pasta, really boring and stupid with the dumbest things happening. Sonic.EXE was at least enjoyably bad, nothing really amazing but something tolerable. This was just awful, it makes me question why some popular pasta get more hatred than others.
Sometimes I like to think that writers write things similar to what they’ve been inspired by. Me personally, I enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, The Brothers Grimm and Neil Gaiman, so I write a lot of dark things. I want to know what this would inspire others to write.
But I think you’re wondering if I think this is worse than Mortal Kombat.EXE, no I don’t. This one works on a story level, a level that Mortal Kombat.EXE didn’t. In some way, this made sense and I didn’t have many questions leaving this one. This one is my pick because it was had the least amount of quality to it. I felt like it had very little, if anything, good about it. Something I very rarely think about any creepypasta, even some of the worst had some quality to them.So that’s my worst of the year, for those wondering, yes I do think that most of these are worse than last years. Of course, my next one will be the ones I thought were good, so until next time.
Honourable Mentions:
Pokémon black version, Teacher wanted, must love children, The Magic School Bus Original Pilot, Childhood Stories
10. White with red
(Date published: Oct. 5, 2015)
Apparently I hate wasted potential more than down-right stupidity as I could’ve given this spot to Slenderman instead, but I chose this because honestly I’ve always been a bit too hard on Slenderman as he was kind of the one that got the ball rolling.
This was the creepypasta that inspired me to start doing ghost story month, which was a series of four reviews where I did nothing but stories in the wiki’s Ghosts category, and honestly there wasn’t a whole lot to choose from. This was my least favourite of the bunch because I felt like it could’ve been so much better than it was. It felt very anti-climactic and like I could’ve skipped over this one and nothing would’ve changed. Whenever I read, it’s always a chance for me to learn, (hence why I’m reading Dune right now), but this one didn’t really give me any tips on what to do or what not to do. It was very bland, and barley worth a read. I know I gave this pasta a 7/10, but honestly I have the most problems with this one.
9. Ed Edd n Eddy lost episode
(Date Published: Feb. 2, 2015)
Don’t be shocked this is on the list. There isn’t much I can say here that I haven’t already said in my review. In my review I said that it was a series of events tied loosely together, and in truth that is what it is, a series of events that are tied loosely together and have very little if any connection. I don’t honestly think this pasta could’ve been better with any tweaking, since the nature of this pasta is supposed to be strange, unfortunately strange doesn’t always translate to scary, or good for that matter.
8. The Amazing World Of Gumball - The Grieving
(Date published: Apr. 6, 2015)
This pasta had so much potential in the beginning and just wasted it on the impossibilities of the situation. So let’s talk about impossible situations and how they can be scary. For starters, here’s an oxymoron to chew on, Impossibility must be possible. To rephrase it, you must establish what can or can’t happen in your world, if you don’t we’ll just assume it’s an average world like what we live in. A good way to do the impossible in your story would be like how they do it in a super-hero story, not a lot of stuff in superhero stories are possible, but because it was established that it’s possible in their world, BOOM, it happens. This is why I often give points to realism in a creepypasta, not because it makes it scarier, but because it makes it much more believable.
7. Herobrine
(Date published: Nov. 2, 2015)
So let’s talk about how popularity is both a good thing and a bad thing for creepypasta in general. A strong fan-base is the key to anything’s survival as a product, if there wasn’t so many people talking about creepypasta, it would be as big as it is. However, some people will simply read the popular stuff and claim it the scariest thing in the world, so good stories like Jeff and BEN, will be torn down by hardcore pasta readers and they’ll tell others to avoid those stories because they aren’t scary, good or worth any time. Now to be fair a lot of these stories are hit or miss, some stories are pretty good and others are crap. Herobrine is crap through and through.
A big problem with this particular pasta is that there isn’t a lot happening, it’s just someone encounters some ghost in Minecraft and that’s really it, a few other things happen but it’s just a ghost encounter. Of course this pasta has become a staple of Minecraft and has since become a running joke for the programmers. Honestly it stopped being funny a long time ago and the only thing that would really impress me is if they made a Herobrine summon in the game. Actually that’d be kind of cool now that I think about it.
6. Midna's Sorrow
(Date published: Sep. 7. 2015)
The amount of boring creepypasta I’ve read this year was amazing, I had more candidates for a boring creepypasta than I thought I would. Aside from my number 1 pick, this was the worst of the bunch, mostly because there wasn’t much happening. Here’s the basic run down of the pasta, somebody puts in a game and it’s not what the player expected, I swear if creepypasta were on Netflix that would be the description to all video game entries. This one also has the honour of being a bad Zelda pasta, which is like being a bad fan made Mario game, you know that they exist, but you just say “Seriously, try next time.”
5. Pokémon lost silver
(Date published: Apr. 13, 2015)
Once a favourite of mine it now has a spot on my hated list.
The biggest problem with this pasta was that it used very basic scares, like replacing badges with skulls and the sprite losing its limbs. The scares that were used would only scare a first grader and completely bore anybody else. I know my favourite Pokémon pasta also wasn’t very scary, but it was still a good story, and could pass for a sad pasta, this one tried to do something cool, but it ultimately didn’t work and was about as scary as Bette Midler.
4. Cul-de-sac
(Date published: Jun. 15, 2015)
It was amazing that I managed to find this when you think about it. This theory pasta wants to explain that the characters of Ed, Edd and Eddy are all in some kind of purgatory. Which is kind of like trying to explain the physics behind Kill la kill, it’s cool and could be interesting but, why? The pasta had a few problems but amazingly it could’ve been a solid theory, since it did have a good idea for some things like how Eddy died in the great depression and that’s why he tries so many get-rich-quick schemes. But I’m sorry, many of the explanations were complete bullshit to the point where the pasta had to land at this point. If anything it’s another example of how not to write a theory pasta. It’s strange though as it walks the border of decent theory and complete Heeby-Schmib.
3. Dead Bart
(Date Published: Mar. 30, 2015)
HAHAHAHAHAHA, NEXT!
2. Majora's Mask
(Date Published: Jun. 8, 2015)
Yes, this one isn’t my number one. It is a really bad, horrendous story that doesn’t understand what it wants to be, but that doesn’t make it the worst. It’s a strange creation that is like BEN Drowned crossed with Midna’s Sorrow. What ultimately makes this one worse is that with a quick rewrite it could’ve been decent, I mean it couldn’t be as good as something like Lost Episodes, but at least something like The Necromancer.The pasta was written as if it was trying to be a sad pasta, but it felt much more like a scary pasta, and the combination just didn’t work out. It’s like crossing Ghost Rider with Princess Peach, these are two separate things that should be separate.
1. Username: 666
(Date Published: Feb. 9, 2015)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the worst creepypasta I reviewed this year. Some of these creepypasta I didn’t like because they were boring, stupid, or could’ve been so much more. This one I hated because it seemed to be a combination of all three. The pasta really seems like a Sonic.EXE type pasta, really boring and stupid with the dumbest things happening. Sonic.EXE was at least enjoyably bad, nothing really amazing but something tolerable. This was just awful, it makes me question why some popular pasta get more hatred than others.
Sometimes I like to think that writers write things similar to what they’ve been inspired by. Me personally, I enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, The Brothers Grimm and Neil Gaiman, so I write a lot of dark things. I want to know what this would inspire others to write.
But I think you’re wondering if I think this is worse than Mortal Kombat.EXE, no I don’t. This one works on a story level, a level that Mortal Kombat.EXE didn’t. In some way, this made sense and I didn’t have many questions leaving this one. This one is my pick because it was had the least amount of quality to it. I felt like it had very little, if anything, good about it. Something I very rarely think about any creepypasta, even some of the worst had some quality to them.So that’s my worst of the year, for those wondering, yes I do think that most of these are worse than last years. Of course, my next one will be the ones I thought were good, so until next time.
Honourable Mentions:
Pokémon black version, Teacher wanted, must love children, The Magic School Bus Original Pilot, Childhood Stories
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