The Creepypasta Iceberg Explained (Vol. 1)

I always find it really funny when Herobrine is grouped in with all of the other big creepypasta names lmao. You've got all these supernatural guys who attack children and then you've just got a dude who does spooky things in a block game.

I do have Tourette's, "mild to moderate" was my diagnosis. No coprolalia, which is the swearing tic, so I just make noises, whistle, repeat words or phrases, and have a variety of motor tics (physical tics). The idea of a character with Tourette's is not inherently wrong, and the plot line of being kicked out of school for Tourette's is actually accurate and a very sad reality, especially for those with coprolalia. The idea of it being "creepy" is kind of off-putting though. Tourette's is something many people struggle with. For me, my motor tics are uncomfortable or even painful, BUT it isn't 100% awful! Tourette's is by definition a "phasic dysfunction of dopamine transmission." There are tics I have that I call my "happy tics" because they only come out when I have a surge of dopamine, and it's always a nice surprise when they pop up. I love my happy tics! And on my livestreams, my fans love them too. I even have some sound alerts that people can use to intentionally trigger some amusing tics. It's okay to play around with Tourette's, it's not always suffering. But again, using it as something meant to make him creepy doesn't sit right with me.

I'm a therapist and used to work in a children's mental health setting. I had to do an anxiety intervention about a child terrified of the Backrooms and had to give a presentation about the SCP fandom as we had children referred with fears of them, and no one knew what they were or how to work with it. Fun times!

Creepypastas like Jeff, Slenderman and Smiledog were ironically carried more by the imagery than the writing. Story of a psycho murderer did not phase me as a kid, its seeing that darn image is what made me scroll down to comments. Also Smiledog's second phase image was brutally frightening to me, even worse than Jeff's. But I eventually began to appreciate the artistic work that went into it.

One of the details about Herobrine that I feel like was missed is that Mojang would repeatedly add 'Herobrine removed' from patch notes. They still do it, and it gives the myth this endurance that kind of fuels it. The devs acknowledge it, and they keep removing him, but he keeps coming back.

i can’t tell you how much joy i felt when i read “creepypasta” in the title

Holy cow, dude I drew that art at 31:45 like 6 years ago, you don’t know how insane it felt seeing my art in one of these videos 😭. I’ve improved so much since then but it’s so awesome nonetheless. Thank you so much

The image of SCP-173 you used is no longer used by the SCP fandom. The actual statue is a work called Untitled 2004 by Izumi Kato, who had not given permission for his art to be used, so the official wiki made the right, if difficult, decision to take the image down. Kato didn't pressure them, but they didn't want to carry on allowing stolen art to be used by third parties for a profit. There's a community project to redesign it, no official design will be chosen, but there's a super cool gallery to scroll thru!

I really hope Man Door Hand Hook Car Door and ‘THEN WHO WAS PHONE???’ make it into the next video. Neither of them are genuinely scary, but they never fail to make me laugh

the forest stairs aspect of the woods creepypasta is funny because there ARE random creepy structures found in the woods, but they're chimneys. the chimney is often the most well-built, reinforced part of a house (and built of stone rather than wood), so when an old house goes into disrepair and all the wood eventually rots away, the chimney remains. out here in the country it's not super uncommon to see a lone chimney standing in a field or while walking through the forest. the real life creepy phenomenon is right there!

In regards to Ticci Toby, most of the disorders he had were shared with the creator, and he was made as a sort of comfort character iirc. I don't have Tourettes personally, but I do have tics resulting from my autism, and I enjoyed him a lot as a kid. It wasn't as much of a case of "lol mental disorders are so spooky scary!!" as it was self insert angsty projection (and like. same). The creator also said explicitly thhat they don't like Toby being part of the creepypasta fandom anymore, it'ss a huge ongoing discourse lol

I believed the Russian sleep experiment because I read it at a time in high school where we were learning about the holocaust in history class and all the fucked up experiments people were doing during that time period, so it didn't seem all that far fetched for it to be real. I remember retelling the story to my dad and grandad and they were not as convinced 😂

The hillarious/tragic thing about Russian Sleep Experiment is that there are actually people who aren't able to sleep. It's called fatal insomnia, it's often caused by a genetic defect that makes certain parts of your brain deteriorate, and it's, well, fatal. And no, these people aren't sadistic murderers. They just get sick, suffer and then die.

Laughing Jack's backstory is literally the plot of this Disney channel Halloween movie called "Don't Look Under the Bed". Its lore is that, when imaginary friends are forgotten by their kids/their kids grow up too fast, they turn into an evil Boogeyman monster that wreaks havoc across whole towns. It came out in 1999, so my conspiracy theory is that the author saw DLUTB as a child and got inspired lol

I can’t believe you talked about SCP and didn’t mention Josie the Half-Cat (SCP-529). A regular house cat who’s back half is in another dimension. An excerpt from her page reads: “Staff are not permitted to feed cheese to her - she will become distressed if not given sufficient cheese.”

If I had a nickel for every time a creepypasta described something as “hyper realistic” as a stand in for using actual adjectives…I’d have a lot of nickels.

as someone who was never allowed to read creepypasta, watching this video feels like reading an entire library of hidden knowledge. thank you izzy for showing me The Horrors that my parents desperately shielded me from as a kid!

I always feel a little sad and worried when creators apologise for not having uploaded sooner. I'm sure at least the majority of your subscribers is fine with waiting if it means that you don't overwork yourself. If those apologies are just a formality, then that's fine, but if you feel genuinely sorry/guilty, then please know that there's no need for that!

This will probably get buried, but the Smile Dog image was created by Michael Lutz, a host of the podcast duo Ranged Touch. He talked about it on his podcast Homestuck Made This World and I remember being completely flabbergasted. I don't know which episode in particular he talked about it in, but I do remember him talking about it for sure. Crazy how this information was revealed on a Homestuck podcast, right?

My Aunt is a search and rescue park ranger and I asked her about the stairs... I was so freaked out because she left me on read and then a week later asked me a completely unrelated question. I was shaking, thinking, "Omg she just doesn't want to talk about the stairs!" When I eventually visited I asked her about the stairs, in a whispered voice of course. She scratched her head and said, "Well I do find staircases, but they are from old houses that have succumbed to nature. They aren't in perfect condition, they are very degraded." I asked her why she left my question on read and she was confused. Turned out the message never showed up on her end. Really weird!