Creepypastas

Creepypastas are horror-related legends that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. Many of them were anonymously published on the 4chan imageboards. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. The genre had its peak audience in 2010.

They have fallen out of fashion in favor of dedicated places for internet such as the R/nosleep subreddit. This is presumably due to issues surrounding proper credit to the writers. However the term Creepypasta still is and likely for quite a while will be associated with written internet horror. Creepypastas can still be submitted to https://www.creepypasta.com/ many of the classics can also be found there.