I've noticed something lately. Over the past few months there's been an upsurge in popularity of creepypasta stories and videos that follow a formula like this:
"I found a book / note / diary full of crazy and specific rules about really weird situations that are going to happen. If I follow these rules I will live, but if not I'll surely die or worse"
I feel like this is a subconscious reaction to the life people have been subjected to over the past year and a half. A subconscious cry out and an attempt to deal with the presence of increasingly fickle, nonsensical rules imposed for seemingly no good reason. But more that you will find yourself in crazy situations but if you just follow the script everything will be okay. In some ways its a cope:
Wear your mask so you don't die. If someone robs you hand them your money. If someone accuses you of privilege just go along with it and you will be okay. If you see riots just call them peaceful protests and you'll live.
In other ways its a cry out for a wish to know what all the rules even are, and a wish that they could at least be exciting and not soul grinding.
The first such story I found felt like it was from a time before 2020 and it felt fresh and interesting. It was "The Calgary Journals" and was more in the spirit of a quest for power. But the newer ones feel very much more like a cry of pain than a quest for magic.
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"I found a book / note / diary full of crazy and specific rules about really weird situations that are going to happen. If I follow these rules I will live, but if not I'll surely die or worse"
I feel like this is a subconscious reaction to the life people have been subjected to over the past year and a half. A subconscious cry out and an attempt to deal with the presence of increasingly fickle, nonsensical rules imposed for seemingly no good reason. But more that you will find yourself in crazy situations but if you just follow the script everything will be okay. In some ways its a cope:
Wear your mask so you don't die. If someone robs you hand them your money. If someone accuses you of privilege just go along with it and you will be okay. If you see riots just call them peaceful protests and you'll live.
In other ways its a cry out for a wish to know what all the rules even are, and a wish that they could at least be exciting and not soul grinding.
The first such story I found felt like it was from a time before 2020 and it felt fresh and interesting. It was "The Calgary Journals" and was more in the spirit of a quest for power. But the newer ones feel very much more like a cry of pain than a quest for magic.