The name is a play on the 4chan slang of “ copypasta ” – when the creepypasta meme first began, there was a set group of pastas that tended to get shared over and over.

Are you scared yet? Herobrine started out as a character in creepypasta memes, made up by players to spook each other. In the stories, he'd most often just be found floating in the background, and ...

A cadre of teens invoke the wrath of Slender Man in the chilling new trailer. The horror film is based on the infamous creepypasta meme, which inspired an actual attempted murder. Slender Man hits ...

Twitter/X users are posting "there's a man out front" in reference to a creepy viral post by the creator of "moon's haunted." ...

But the Creepypasta memes don't stop with Slender Man. From the deep, very dark Internet rabbit hole we went down for you, here are some of the big ones ...

The first trailer debuted for the movie based on the creepypasta meme that inspired a real-life attempted murder. The creepy figure became an online urban myth in 2009 after Eric Knudsen posted a ...

An unnerving dread permeates the first trailer for 'Slender Man,' a horror film based on the infamous creepypasta meme.

Based on the creepypasta meme first introduced on an internet message board in 2009, Slender Man fleshes out the story of the cyber legend featuring an ominously tall, humanoid supernatural entity ...

So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not real.