creepypasta
English
Etymology
creepy + pasta, after the pattern of copypasta, itself an alteration of copy and paste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːpipeɪstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipɑːstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipæstə/
Noun
creepypasta (countable and uncountable, plural creepypastas)
- (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
- 2013 September 1, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 46, Adventure Lantern, 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!"
- Autumn 2013, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), number 33, 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.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:creepypasta.
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