creepypasta

horror-related legends or images that have been copy-and-pasted around the Internet
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Summary

creepypasta is a fiction genre[1]. creepypasta ranks in the top 2% of fiction genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41,692 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: creepiness[3], copypasta[4]
  • Subclass of: fakelore[5], legend[6], copypasta[7]
  • Commons category: Creepypasta[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Creepypasta[9]
  • Facet of: urban legend[10], chain letter[11]
  • Has list: list of creepypasta[12]
  • Hashtag: creepypasta[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Narration[14]
  • Social media followers: 792,724[15]

Why It Matters

creepypasta has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] creepypasta is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Trivialist · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → list of creepypasta
    Topic's main category → Category:Creepypasta
    Aliases → —
    Named after → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ Social media followers: 792,724, Cleanup: downgrade preferred ranks ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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