User blog comment:BrianBerta/Why Ben Drowned is Overrated/@comment-6794436-20150809195727/@comment-24466828-20150809214221

The footage looked good (admittedly) but even I knew it was fake. I knew that someone could've easily been skilled and they could've easily made it. Besides, the "dead boy haunting a video game" kind of destroys all plausibility.

Also, did you seriously just say that Squidward's Suicide is amazing. That is a horrible story.

Firstly, the grammar in that story is very poor. There are countless tense swaps, and some sentences that are worded poorly/don't really make sense. That pasta does not work on an English level.

Also, it has loads of clichés. Jesus Christ, they pulled everyone out of the book for this story. The only one they didn't bother adding in was the use of 666 somewhere. I know this was one of the earlier stories to use these cliches, but it doesn't matter because the cliches were not scary then. If they weren't scary then, they sure as hell are not scary now.

Like many other lost episode stories, it has shock value. As a matter of fact, it results to one of the laziest and most terrible things you can do with it: Include gore and children.

Gore is just about the laziest thing an author can put it in to try to shock the audience. However, when the author includes children into that, it actually gets offensive. Children are a very sensitive subject, but if a story is written well or the plot heavily revolves around it to deliver a twist or something, yeah, it might be a tiny bit unconformable, but the story's quality will strive, or the shock will actually not be used too much to offend the audience.

Also, even the parts of the story without the cliches have so many plotholes.

Let me elaborate a bit. The main character and everybody in the room sees a photo of a dead child. After the first photo, they say, "We were of course mortified, but pressed on, hoping that it was just a sick joke."

The author is talking about a dead, gruesomely murdered child, and they think it might just be a little morbid joke. Those people are morons. Once you start seeing dead children in a cartoon intended for a very young audience, why the hell would you keep going? Why would you not call the police immediately (they eventually do, but why didn't they do it right then)? Why are all these people still in the room? There are so many plot holes, so many things that don't add up, that it completely destroys this story.

Also, the video which goes along with it has nothing to do with the story. In fact, I grew bored after 25 seconds.

Also, I agree. There are some who act that all the earlier and popular creepypastas are bad. That is an incorrect statement. However, I never said that all popular stories are bad so I don't why you said that.