The Digital Campfire: Looking Back At Creepypasta (with Chris Joyce)

Cian and Chris host a campfire chat to remember the heyday of creepypasta: bad grammar, juvenile topics - and yet occasionally incredibly effective bite-size (ok, sometimes epic) slices of crowd-sourced digital horror. Creepypasta ruled the roost in the early days of Web 2.0, back when folks wondered whether Ted really was a caver, whether N64 cartridges really could be haunted, and why you should stay away from cabins in the woods (present company excluded, of course). Conversation includes: -personal memories of creepypasta -origins of the name -some famous Cpastas: Jeff the Killer, Ben Drowned, Slenderman, etc -Candle Cove and short Cpastas vs epic, expanded ones -our personal fave Cpastas -NoSleep and the 'rules' for online creepy fiction -the 2014 Slenderman attack and moral panics -nostalgia and the obsession with old video games and pre-digital tech -the legacy of Cpasta? Indie horror gaming & social media ghost stories LINKS: Buy me a coffee! A haunted coffee. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Vox Possible's Bandcamp Page https://voxpossible.bandcamp.com/ Finger Post Blog https://finger-post.blog/ Creepypasta, Candle Cove, And The Digital Gothic, Jessica Balanzategui https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470412919841018?journalCode=vcua Slender Man Is Coming, Blank & McNeill https://books.google.ie/books/about/Slender_Man_Is_Coming.html?id=J6NtDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Haunted PS1 Indie Game Horror https://hauntedps1.itch.io/demodisc2020 The Ghost In My Machine Blog https://theghostinmymachine.com/ Dear David in the Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/dear-david-is-the-bone-chilling-online-horror-true-or-fake-1.3331231 The Russian Sleep Experiment https://www.creepypasta.com/the-russian-sleep-experiment/ Sonic.exe https://www.creepypasta.com/sonic-exe/ It Had My Mother's Voice https://www.creepypasta.com/it-had-my-mothers-voice/ Tales From A Retired Cryptozoologist https://www.creepypasta.com/tales-from-a-retired-cryptozoologist/