Citations:creepypasta

Noun: "(Internet slang) urban legends and frightening short stories circulated on the Internet"

 * 2011, Megan Hutton-Smith, "Halloween Dos & Don'ts", The Magdalen (Dundee University), Number 24, October 2011, page 23:
 * In response to a common MC-related creepypasta regarding 'Herobrine', Notch is putting NPC's into the game.
 * 2012, Isabella Monroe, The Fresher: You're Every Minute Closer to the Truth, AuthorHouse (2012), ISBN 9781477247471, page 39:
 * He was so afraid and desperate to find a logical answer to what happened before that he wanted to hear that “funny story”! It was just a creepypasta story . ..
 * 2012, Kaz Scattergood, "Spooked by 'Slender'", Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union), Volume 9, Issue 49, 14 September 2012, 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.
 * 2012, James Herd, "'Creepypastas' take over Internet scares", The Baylor Lariat (Baylor University), Volume 113, Number 36, 31 October 2012, page 4 (used only in title)
 * 2012, Alex Tucker, "The Spreading Web: Progression Takes Over", The Wire (Lewis Central High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa), Issue 3, December 2012, page 13:
 * The first time I heard of Slenderman was by word of mouth and investigation into the concept of creepypasta, scary stories told on the /x/ board of 4chan, and that was years ago.
 * 2013, "Huntsman: The Orphanage", Adventure Lantern, Issue 46, September 2013, 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!"
 * 2013, Joey Dussault, "The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World", Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), Issue 33, Fall 2013, 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.
 * 2013, Adam Hostetter, "Land of memes and cats", Navigator News (Lake Land College, Mattoon, Illinois), Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2013, page 9:
 * Even so, can we really call the Internet's wide array of comics, images, creepypastas, videos, forums and forever more an actual culture?
 * 2013, Damien Riley, "Pokemon Origins", Anime Reign, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2013, page 18:
 * Small things that many people might have missed in the original games have been incorporated into this special including many of the creepypastas that fans made by finding these small things.
 * Small things that many people might have missed in the original games have been incorporated into this special including many of the creepypastas that fans made by finding these small things.