Background

While Analog Horror is merely an infant in internet history, its roots lie deep being directly inspired by the classic creepypasta story line. Creepypasta is the fusions of the word creepy and the term 'copypasta', which is a widely copy and pasted body of text, be it a joke or a story. Creepypastas originated in the late 2000s with 4chan which is another popular board where people post content into selected genres, although its appeal is that it is nearly completely unmoderated resulting in it being considered one of the most unfiltered places on the internet. At the time however a lot of short horror stories were produced from it, which would eventually result in the term being coined, a website being created for young horror authors, and the creation of the most infamous internet entities to be created. Around the early 2010s the creepypasta community would eventually die down due to an increase in popularity and many children being attracted to the site, resulting in a decrease in story quality, and late even having an entire separate website, aptly called 'crappypasta', solely to post your worst horror stories. Creepypastas are still a part of the internet today however they do not hold nearly as much of the internets eye as they did back in the Golden Age of internet horror. It is important to understand creepypastas and its place not only in internet history, but as its own genre and style of internet horror that will be reflected on with Analog Horror.