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But who was phone?

I used to be a fan of Internet horror during my college years (which were precisely late 2010s) before eventually growing out of it.

However, until this day I am sad that there are some real gems of stories out there which make Stephen King look like a repetitve hack in comparison, but they are all invisible to the majority of internet audiences due to being overshadowed by massive loads of dogshit that are Jeff and EXonic.
>>44163
"But who was phone?" is at least a geniunely dumb funny parody on a certain subgenre of creepypastas. Jeff is not even funny, unless you are the sort of people who finds Tommy Wiseau's Room a funny movie (and even Tommy Wiseau himself wouldn't find Sonic.EXE funny or engaging story)

>>44164
>there are some real gems of stories out there which make Stephen King look like a repetitve hack in comparison
Post some.

Real ones remember Ben Drowned

Eh I think the more recent wave of "analog horror" was worse. Everything now is just smile tapes quality trash.

>>45125
Well Gemini Home Entertainment and Local 58 were good ones.

>>44162

Just some videos that i like about sonic exe that might convince you that sonic exe is cool even in 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-R8okhMx0 "The Misunderstood """Canon""" of Sonic.EXE", there is no canon, but some people like to do crossovers and continuities with different sonic.exes. Some of the OCs are cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtAdiNmtRyw "This Sonic.EXE Game Changed EVERYTHING" Sonic spirits of hell is cool too i remember watching videos on youtube as a kid to see all the endings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK279xj_qiU "I Was Wrong About Sonic.exe", look, this streamer said some exe games are cool. Internet culture is starting to think sonic is cool again, i don't think it will last much longer, but still, cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyf7mMhjYNE "sonic exe memes", pretty funny and cool.

bonus video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Vic2ZxUKE "Kart Racing Brain Rot (FT. SnapCube, Mar Katoto, and Jonii Vee)"

>>44162
Who, other than you, ever considered creepypasta a credible, serious form of art?

>>45126
Those were decent because they were more than just shitty still images with a vhs filter on it while amazing grace plays

Even the best creepypastas were kind of mid tbh, though there was a magic to the newness of their subjects and storytelling methods. It is what it is, though, I guess. Even pulp fiction magazines had stricter quality control than borderline-anarchic internet communities competing for 5 minutes of viral fame.