[Old Article] Creepypasta - the internet is mapping the contours of modern fear | Aeon.co (+audio)

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Creepypasta - Where scary things go bump in the night@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Article: https://aeon.co/essays/creepypasta-is-how-the-internet-learns-our-fears

Creepypasta aspires to be urban legend: dark social memes with just enough familiarity to give a frisson of awful possibility

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