THE FUSE

If you don’t spend very much time on web forums, the title of this article may sound like absolute nonsense to you. The word “creepypasta” comes from the older internet slang term “copypasta,” which was used to refer to blocks of text that circulated by being copied and pasted (on internet forums and other similar venues) as a form of internet humor or in-joke. One form of this is posting the script of The Bee Movie in an unrelated comment section–I once received this several dozen times when someone emailed all of the graduate students at my university but forgot to BCC the list.