Creepypasta vs Cryptid - What's the difference?
creepypasta | cryptid |
(label) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
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(cryptozoology) Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.
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As nouns the difference between creepypasta and cryptid
is that creepypasta is (label) frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the internet while cryptid is (cryptozoology) any creature that may or may not exist sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.creepypasta
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Spooked by 'Slender'", Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union), Volume 9, Issue 49, 14 September 2012, page 2:
- The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.
Hunstman: The Orphanage", Adventure Lantern , Issue 46, September 2013, page 7:
- Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta -style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"
The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World", Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), Issue 33, Fall 2013, page 11:
- The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas ” on the Internet.
cryptid
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(en noun)Loren Coleman, Loch Ness snowman of cryptozoology," salon.com , 16 Aug,
- Now comes perhaps the cleverest tag of all: cryptozoology. It refers to the search for new animals, animals dwelling in unexpected places, and most importantly for "X-Files" scriptwriters, "cryptids "—legendary creatures such as the yeti.
