Pacrat173 54 points a year ago

Ah I remember these days when I was a kid and believed creepy pastas and SCPs were real

Now I mod a SCP community how the times have changed

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SpaceNoodle 42 points a year ago

The number of people that bought the marketing for The Blair Witch Project is what finally made me realize that people are stupid.

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JandroDelSol 9 points a year ago

take this with a grain of salt since it was before I was born, but the marketing was apparently very good, including fake missing posters for the actors. A lot of modern analog horror/creepypasta/SCP stuff is so over the top that no one should believe it (especially the Russian Sleep Experiment!) but I'm a lot more understanding of those who were fooled by The Blair Witch Project

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Kolanaki 5 points a year ago

I'll admit that Fourth Kind got me. I barely saw much promo material, didn't see any reviews, just saw a small blurb about the premise, watched it super drunk and high and thought the "real documentary" parts were in fact real and got scared by a dude just slightly levitating off a couch.

Again, I was super drunk and high when I watched it. So I was, in fact, incapable of anything but stupidity.

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chunkystyles 5 points a year ago

I'm my defense, I was a teenager at the time. But I fully believed that it was actually found footage due to the marketing. That infomercial disguised as a documentary got me.

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QueenHawlSera 2 points a year ago

Eh the internet was in its early days back then. Wasn't as easy to look stuff up

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