Glossary Entry: Copypasta

This refers to an image or some text that has been copied to so many places so many times that the original author almost impossible to locate due to the many, many identical results on a search engine. Most of these are chain letters or other unimportant greetings.

Copypasta stories that are intended to be creepy or scary are known as creepypasta, and often take on a life of their own.

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