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—Chapters—
0:00 Intro
1:05 Horror Short Stories in the Early Internet
2:54 Ted the Caver
6:01 The Dionaea House
9:45 Defining the Term
11:37 The Early Years of Creepypasta
14:07 Growing Popularity & the Slender Man
18:17 r/NoSleep & the Creepypasta Wiki
23:22 Rising Notoriety: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨
25:31 Creatively Bankrupt & Overly Zealous
28:05 The Decline of the Creepypasta
34:24 The Modern Creepypasta
37:06 Conclusion
39:44