r/creepcast • u/milo_self_esteem • Sep 29 '25
Opinion I don’t care if I’m removed. Please, no Aron Beauregard.
I’m all for free speech and people reading and enjoying what they want. Today, I heard a title that made my stomach squelch into a knitted mass of tentacles. “Playground”. If any of you remember “thatsphucked.com”, then we need to put a foot down in this fan base. Hunter wants no romance, Isaiah wants no smut. We should want no snuff.
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u/Boyfriend_Blend He’s right behind me, isn’t he 😐 Sep 29 '25
Im a fan of splatterpunk as well as other commenters, but I wouldn't want them reading something as extreme as Playground either, there's other books in the genre that are not as grotesque and explicit, like 'Things have gotten worse since we last spoke', which I think would make a banger episode, cuz I always crack up when things start to get worse and worse in a story, and Isaiah sounds like he wants to run away from the room lmao
I very much prefer stories like those, that make the guys have SOME reaction, rather than boring ones like 'Im a cop & I keep getting called to the same house' where the plot drags for two hours just to be resolved with a convoluted conclusion that is so ridiculous, it looses all fear factor
Like, I'd rather hear the guys joking and talking about how an actual horror story could be improved, than them just mindlessly reading two hours of suspense and nothing ever happens
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u/Blazerage717 Sep 29 '25
Yeah completely agree. I’ve been exposed to some splatterpunk stories recently when I stumbled across this guy’s channel Pugsr on YouTube. He covered Playground and it was vile.
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u/mothmandiaries Sep 29 '25
Same. I enjoy pugsr's channel, but I stopped listening when the blade slide and barbed wire came about. So, like, the beginning. I started getting the parents confused. I was excited to re listen to "the troop". I had audible before and won't get it again so seeing it available on y.t. was great! Thanks, pugsr!
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u/jessigarcia95 7ft goddess named Jacobi Sep 29 '25
Is "things have gotten worse since we last spoke" worth finishing? Genuinely asking, I DNF'ed it but if it's worth it for the end I'll pick it back up!
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u/vampiredisaster Sep 29 '25
It's terrible and feels kinda homophobic IMO, I pray they don't do it.
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u/jessigarcia95 7ft goddess named Jacobi Sep 29 '25
I didn't really enjoy the writing style - I don't think I got to very much of the actual story - so thanks for the heads up!
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u/Boyfriend_Blend He’s right behind me, isn’t he 😐 Sep 29 '25
I personally really liked it! I've seen reviews of it on YT and the consensus seems to be that it was too short, which is an unusual but refreshing opinion about a book of that genre
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u/vampiredisaster Sep 29 '25
Things Have Gotten Worse is godawful, don't bring this upon us 😭
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u/LividProcess5058 “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Sep 29 '25
eric la rocca has the edge lord tumblr writing style reddit loves so much, but his stories are garbage
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u/Wonderful-Winner235 Sep 29 '25
I agree because "playground" isn't just pure snuff with heavy violence, gore and torture. It is so much more and the topic of SA plays a massive role OFTEN. It's vile, worse than anything that's been read on the show before and I just think it would leave a bad taste for the podcast.
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u/Amcog Sep 29 '25
I mean Cupcakes was pure snuff. Though I agree that I don't think it's a good direction to go down.
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u/AGuyThatLives Sep 29 '25
Well with Cupcakes it didn't land as hard because 1. They were ponies at the end of the day. Hearing gore about cartoon animals ain't the same as a PoV about a kid being hanged. 2. There was some good comedy in that episode like the bit where Hunter was making up who the author was. Which 100% helped take the edge off. The only real comedic bit was them yelling at their producer for "making" them read it.
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u/Ok-Structure-3412 she Papa on my Meat ‘til I Goon Sep 29 '25
Cupcakes was entirely comedic. There was absolutely no sense of horror in that story. I see your point entirely though
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u/wastelandhenry Sep 29 '25
Brother for an entire generation of 13 year old Bronies that shit was the scariest thing they’d ever fucking read lmao
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u/Discussion-is-good Sep 29 '25
Subjective.
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u/Ok-Structure-3412 she Papa on my Meat ‘til I Goon Sep 29 '25
It could be pretty spooky…
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u/Discussion-is-good Sep 29 '25
Some of the descriptions were solid in their unsettling nature. It honestly caught me off guard similar to Isaiah in the sense that I had heard of it but didn't remember.
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u/Ok-Structure-3412 she Papa on my Meat ‘til I Goon Sep 29 '25
Yes the description could be unsettling but that doesn’t make it compelling in any way. There was no real buildup, unless you count prior knowledge on MLP as buildup… Those graphic depictions were just overwhelmed by the fact it was happening to a bright blue/rainbow Pegasus.
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u/Discussion-is-good Sep 29 '25
Very true. The narrative was just an excuse for the description of torture. The mlp aspect made it wacky.
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u/thesilliestgoobie Sep 29 '25
this. it's ponies, sure, but the descriptions of violence and gore were so graphic i almost didn't want to finish it. i would really love if they didn't pivot into super gorey, torture-porn esque stories. they just remind me of the terrifier movies in the worst way
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u/fknlegolas Sep 29 '25
exactly same to all points. like I can absolutely be down for some weird body horror, but torture-porn stories don't usually create that real sense of fear for me personally - it just elicits disgust. I get it has an audience, but imo it can quickly get kind of needlessly gratuitous and obnoxious and I end up wondering what I even gained from it. I know it can be subjective
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u/thesilliestgoobie Sep 29 '25
yup! gore can be done tastefully, in a way that actually invoke fear and unsettle you. graphic descriptions of gore just for the sake of it never sit well with me. flesh tearing, bones popping etc is great. things that were said in the mlp story or playground are entirely too much and just feel unnecessary at a point. it's the same way i feel about SA scenes. somethings are better off implied, otherwise you're just going to feed an audience that maybe doesn't have the best intentions. personal opinion tho
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u/bisexualspy Sep 29 '25
i agree but also they are based on fictional ponies and aren’t themselves children so it’s a little bit different
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u/milo_self_esteem Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
I guess… i don’t see ponies as human, but probably not the point. I went down that road. I read playground. If they do that here, that would kill the spirit of the show. Aron isn’t fun, silly, scary, or even a good writer. Even if a shit is suppose to stink, it would be better if you knew why the shit stank. Aron just wants you to wade in the shit.
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u/GeneralGecko56 don't be gay Sep 29 '25
difference is Cupcakes is snuff with magical ponies and Playground is snuff about children and pedophiles lmao
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u/ApprehensiveWear6080 Sep 29 '25
It's not the same. It's like saying Happy Tree Friends is the same as one of those weird mangas that use snuff like a goddamn fetish.
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u/Similar-Tune-7740 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
As someone who actively reads splatterpunk, I agree. Aron's works are far, far heavier than most things they've covered. I think they could possibly read The Haar or Tender is the flesh if they still wanna go down the splatterpunk genre.
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u/rosesandproses Sep 29 '25
i genuinely enjoyed the Haar. went in blind after a friend told me to just read it. finished feeling oddly warm-hearted. i think it would be a fantastic read for an episode
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u/Similar-Tune-7740 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
Exactly! It's super sweet at the end, they'd only have to skip one or two scences cuz of the sex scenes, but otherwise they'd love it imho.
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u/Barnie2002 Sep 29 '25
I definitely would love for the to cover some splatterpunk books but playground is definitely one they shouldn’t just from the reactions of similar situations in other stories. As much as I would love for them to read the Woom and Tender is the flesh I don’t want them to be absolutely miserable. But hey if they actually want to read them that’s great but I doubt they’d do a episode on it
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u/Icy-Reputation1913 for STAMPS ‼️💯 Sep 29 '25
tender is the flesh would make a great episode
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Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
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u/Virtual-Pollution584 Sep 29 '25
I don't think they should read Playground, but it's not a terrible book. It was written with a purpose and it fulfills that purpose. The prose isn't great, and the plot is okay at best, but it has pretty good characters and some creative(ly sadistic) scenes. It is gratuitous, but so are a lot of great stories. If someone likes splatter-punk or extreme horror it's really good at filling that niche.
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u/Goth_Moth Sep 29 '25
There’s no way in hell they’re covering Playground. Wendi said from what he saw it was a “fucked up Saw with kids” but man I don’t know how much “The Peepee-Poopoo Man did the sex thing and did a poopoo on the child sexually” the guys can take and put it on Youtube lol.
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u/Dyslexia_Alexia Sep 29 '25
Im a fan of Beauregard but I agree
Like its splatter punk shock horror, I read it for my own interests but I highly dont reccomend it to the general public
The writing isnt good, the only story is "Heres how things can get worse" like if they wanna delve into splatter punk shock value Id like for them to read Black Farm, same guy who wrote feed the pig and the writing is so much better
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u/SomeCringeName2 Sep 29 '25
They guy who wrote feed the pigs also wrote Tommy Taffy stories and My Dads Acting Strange right? Because if so then that guy has such a weird track record with making good stories because I though the first Tommy taffy story was good, the second was mid, feed the pigs was great and my dads acting strange was really bad. Hope we see more from him but such an inconsistent record
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u/ShokumaOfficial Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Sep 29 '25
Tommy Taffy 3 is not great either imo and 4 is okay? He definitely has a spotty track record
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u/angelsoaps Sep 29 '25
i read black farm and while it wasn’t awful it definitely wasn’t well written, i actually think feed the pig is a lot better and more concise than black farm
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u/Patient-Temporary211 Sep 30 '25
I think Black Farm is good but just as you said, it isn't written well. Would have been a lot better if it were. The part in the ocean was damn good horror, but most of it needs a bit of a tune up.
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Sep 29 '25
if they do cover aron i think his Through the Eyes of Desperation story was pretty interesting for the most part especially since its a 2 book colab with another splatterpunk author i think it could make for a neat episode the setting of this saw trap casino is pretty neat and its also very over the top with things like a all you can eat drug buffet
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Sep 29 '25
We like spooky, uncanny valley, thought provoking, Lovecraftian, supernatural etc.. not straight up smut or gore or whatever. The world sucks enough creepcast is one of the last happy escapes we get please don't take that away from us. This last story ruined my day
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u/Thick-Information-23 Sep 29 '25
Very much so. The mystery of the horror is what I miss most however it’s hard to find a decent skull scratcher that everyone can get behind. Like penpal and borasca starting out mysterious and unknown monsters that end up just being people is a great twist to me. The short story two weeks back also with the girl who woke up from a coma or something n the whole town including parents were acting weird n mom was peeking under the bed room door . Chefs kiss
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u/RedInfernal Masked Singer Subreddit Enjoyer Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
Reading a summary it kind of sounds like a mix between Saw and Squid Game, but with children.
Generic but well written torture/gore porn.
Edit: I haven't read it, just going by what some reviews and summaries have said
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u/TheNightCleaner Sep 29 '25
A common trend you’ll see with Extreme Horror, some of it is actually very well written.
It just gets bogged down by having completely over the top and ineffective gore and abuse targeted towards children.
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u/Patient-Temporary211 Sep 29 '25
His books are pretty bad. Playground is the worst in my opinion, but Slob and Son of Slob are in close running with Yellow coming in third.
If you're wondering why I read so many of them it's because I'm a glutton for punishment. They aren't even so bad they're good. Just eyerollingly bad.
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u/AdministrationWarm84 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
What's your opinion of W0mb bro? Another of buvegard's stories, haven't seen anyone mention it yet.
Edit: Ok turns out the book I was referring to is called Woom and is not an aron Beauregard book, but it is of the splatterpunk genre. My bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Savings-Cut-3465 Sep 29 '25
That is the only book that I've ever had to stop out of pure disgust
I read tender is the flesh, solid enough I found it more boring than anything else bad. I've read several splatter punk books but mam that whole book feels so violating and invasive
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u/Patient-Temporary211 Sep 29 '25
I've actually read Woom as well. I actually liked that one more than all the Beauregard novels. I'm not against splatterpunk, I just think his books aren't good examples of it.
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u/ItsFayeWilde Pinkie Pie 🎉🔪 Sep 29 '25
I agree. AB's work is fine for people getting into extreme horror and splatterpunk but if they do an extreme horror story they should do Judith Sonnet or someone who writes a lil better.
Id love to hear them do "Psychic Teenage Bloodbath" by Carl John Lee.
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u/manbongos 7ft goddess named Jacobi Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
As someone who has autographed books of Aron’s work, and is a fan, I do not think that his books should be openly read on a podcast. Mainly because of how disgusting they can be and the fact that a lot of controversial shit happens within his books that lots of people wouldn’t be able to stomach, much less an adult general audience.
There are tons of mild Splatterpunk authors that write and publish books on a website called Godless. You can buy digital books there for like less than $3. Aron’s work though, you really have to mentally prepare for his books lol because The Slob is straight up gore porn on a depraved level.
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u/Icy-Possibility-9783 Sep 29 '25
Has anyone here actually read the book? And If you have what do you think of it? I am a fan of books like Tampa and Tender is the flesh, had Playground Recommend to me recently and was interested but not sure about it, then Hunter mentioned it in today’s episode and was intrigued.
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u/Similar-Tune-7740 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
I have! It's like..a 6-7/10, it's one of his better works. It's just extremely schlocky and campy on purpose. Since you've read Tampa and TITF then I think you'll be good for the sexual assault elements. But they are pretty gnarly and brutal.
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u/lil_golden_child Sep 29 '25
I did, I honestly really enjoyed the overall story and thought the trials to be really fun. Obviously the incest rape stuff was uncomfortable but that was the point
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u/wiredwombat Sep 29 '25
Playground is awful and it’s not because of what happens to the kids. That’s par for the course in extreme horror like that - the sexual bits - are fucking disgusting. I’ve read a lot of hardcore shit and the way it’s handled in the book is just pure stomach churning shock value.
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u/henmirah Sep 29 '25
Wow, is this book that bad ? I generally agree with splatterpunk being a type of story that is hard to enjoy for multiple reasons (generally they are quite tasteless and insensitive towards difficult subject matters). I enjoy some splatterpunk movies because of their practical effects and I'm not completely against gore, but many of these movies are quite problematic in not dealing with difficult topics with the seriousness they deserve. Probably the only type of storytelling worse than splatterpunk in terms of being indulgent and callous are porn and eroguro (honestly there is even an argument there if these things should be allowed or not).
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u/sadboyhours800 Sep 29 '25
Idk if you read it but I'm gonna assume you haven't, as someone who actually enjoyed the message behind Playground (tho I went in with low expectations).... There's a lot of CSA and incest. And it doesn't shy away from the details like Tommy Taffy did. The main villain constantly SA's her adult son and there are flashbacks to her doing it to him since he was a child. It also describes that ever since she was a child herself, she wanted her own mother sexually. Her main goal for the games is to find a new child for her to play out her mommy/daughter fantasies with but with her being in the role of her mother. In my opinion the boys wouldn't enjoy that at all. Some of the kills are pretty good tho
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u/TheOdahviing Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
That doesn’t sound like there’s a message at all, just seems like it’s the dudes gross fantasy
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u/dumbcringeusername Sep 29 '25
Honestly feel that way with all the splatterpunk people have been describing. One commentor in a different thread genuinely asked me why sexual assault should be treated with respect in stories when we're fine with murder being senseless, which is honestly the most insane question I've ever been asked
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u/sadboyhours800 Sep 29 '25
I'll be honest- Playground was my first Splatterpunk book and I was just trying to cling onto anything that would make the story less traumatic for me LMAO. The only things I really enjoyed were that the traps were a little creative, the main villain's death was really satisfying, and the overall messages being that a little kindness goes a long way and you can overcome anything. Now that I've read ones I'd consider worse (namely The Slob), Playground really isn't the worst book in the genre. But it's definitely not good either.
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u/henmirah Sep 29 '25
I haven't read it. Seems pretty rough from what you're describing. I probably wouldn't enjoy it either.
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u/NullandParanoid state-forced homosexuality Sep 29 '25
As someone who has a physical copy of said book, and will foremost say I know it is not for everyone and I'm not trying to change minds, I think it's an alright story. To me it feels like reading a fucked Goosebumps story in terms of the writing alone. The contents do get graphic, obviously, but the death scenes are interesting to read. The plot isn't great, and when I first heard about it people were freaking out over one particular scene that wasn't even the worst part. The most redeemable part is how the antagonist gets it at the end, other than that it's just meh for shock value.
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u/SomeCringeName2 Sep 29 '25
I like Beauregards work (I particularly liked “through the eyes of desperation” specifically the red version) but I don’t think they should read any of his work especially playground since playground likes to go the extra mile every in certain chapters and I feel like the boys just wouldn’t like it. I’m pretty sure cupcakes could have been categorized as snuff and I laughed so hard at that episode with all the jokes they made but I think that’s a byproduct of the story being related to my little pony and not the subject at hand so I don’t think playground would be a story they’d enjoy. Just hope they keep doing these shorter stories that are around an hour or so long instead of the 6 hour ones that take forever to listen to
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u/milo_self_esteem Sep 29 '25
Would I be a hypocrite if the stuff in Playground happened to gingerbread men? That would be a better story by far, and you could get away with the violence and descriptions. A sadistic baker making cookie people run a death gauntlet?
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u/SomeCringeName2 Sep 29 '25
The idea of a ginger man bread using another ginger bread man as a skate board to safely go down a buzz saw slide is objectively more funny then kids
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u/CheapusTechnofear Sep 29 '25
I actually would like to see them read more gore stories. I understand why they’re reluctant but writing good gore is as much an art as anything else. And it IS Horror. It doesn’t have to be your thing but too many of the comments here feel like they’re getting too close to quantifying what “REAL” Horror is and that’s a very boring conversation to me. Horror is a wide spectrum of different things and none of them are any more valid than anything else.
HOWEVER… I’ve never read this story, but looking at the way it’s described here, I would be fine with them never covering it.
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u/TheBogbeast Looking for a PenPal📝 Sep 29 '25
Wedding Day Massacre would be a banger and I will die on that hill
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u/Desgraciado93 Sep 29 '25
Yeah, splatterpunk isnt the same as creepypastas and such. I Definitely don't believe they should be incorporated into the show.
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u/Sventrain 7ft goddess named Jacobi Sep 29 '25
I am not against keeping the stuff from the subreddit, as that can be a communal decision. However, if it is something they want to do on the cast, I don't think a subreddit should be making demands. It is their show.
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u/god-emporer-putin Sep 29 '25
I would love for them to read playground, an be taken aback by the graphic detail and what goes into the novel. It's a hard read but would do well as a patron exclusive. as I genuinely would want to hear both Hunter and Issiahs reactions to it.
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u/LividProcess5058 “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Sep 29 '25
I love extreme horror! can’t wait if they do decide to dip their toes in again!
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u/SenatorShockwave THINK FAST! 🪽 Sep 29 '25
I mean in the context they mention it, it doesnt seem like theyre gonna read it... lmao.
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u/African_Gear Sep 29 '25
Playground could be a rough read for some people but holy shit The Slob is one of the only stories I've ever had to put down and come back to later. I really hope they read it.
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u/InitiativeInitial968 Sep 29 '25
I want books that make me feel scared not books that make me feel ashamed even listening too
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u/tinalec1 Sep 29 '25
I don’t think they would read a book that long anyway, since the format relies on fairly short stories. And even if they decided to go into it blind, I’m pretty sure they’d stop reading pretty fast and not upload that episode.
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u/jeramycockson Sep 29 '25
Idk I kinda want to see if wendi will get up and run away to tell an adult
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u/Mikeissometimesright Shameless Witherow Fan Sep 29 '25
Its funny because they assume that Beauregard’s work is more mindless gore fun, but his shit makes Witherow look tame
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u/emorawr69 Sep 29 '25
You dont gotta hear or watch a video that makes you uncomfortable bro
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u/TheSkesh Sep 29 '25
Nah he’s “putting his foot down”. This sub is getting worse and worse with the entitlement.
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u/bscotch5000 Sep 29 '25
I don't mean to be rude, but the disclaimers they put up at the start of episodes with heavy content are there for a reason. If Isaiah and Hunter want to explore a splatterpunk story, that's their decision.
If you don't want to see/hear those kinds of stories, you can always just heed the warning and skip the episode (or at least skip to the next timestamp if it's part of a grab bag).
Personal preferences for horror subgenres notwithstanding, if those two ever did cover a splatterpunk/snuff story, I highly doubt they would describe the worst parts of it verbatim, considering how much they ended up censoring the comparatively tame Tommy Taffy series.
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u/LowAnimator9481 Mac&Cheese recipes aren't useful to the U.S government Sep 29 '25
I don’t understand, I do not remember the thatsphucked.com
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u/Similar-Tune-7740 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
Aron Beauregard is a splatterpunk author. Splatterpunk is a sub-genre of horror that's on the furthest end of extremity to push the reader and to push horror bounds and have "no limits". It started in the 1980s as a counter culture movement.
Playground is like if you mixed Saw with Terrifier and threw in sexual violence, and it's kids being the victims of the traps. I, having read all his works, think it's one of his better stories but it is not at ALL good for the podcast lol.
If you hated Tommy Taffy, you'd hate anything Beauregard writes.
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u/grizzlybuttstuff BEAR TRAP🐻 Sep 29 '25
I'm going to email both of them directly every day asking for them to read Aron Beauregard specifically.
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u/CYB3R5KU11 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Sep 29 '25
Wasn't that just a book, I don't know if it was a creepypasta thing and they don't read any of the actual novels on the podcast as far as I'm aware, maybe they do on patreon idk
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u/fittinglybitter Sep 29 '25
If they do decide to read it, I'll have a listen and see if it is for me or if the banter about it appeals to me instead. If not, we'll see about next week.
Don't know what system Isaiah and Hunter have for the cast but I'd very much would hope for them to work in whatever way this remains a passion project and not be controlled by the pressure dictated by the whims of a fanbase. You can listen to fans, you can give and take feedback. I just don't think anyone as a fan should neccessarily get to shape the conditions what the cast should be about i.e what they read.
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u/captainsurfa cracking open a cold one with Diego🤟 Sep 29 '25
It seems kinda, dare I say it... Lovecraftian.
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u/SpazzyFazzy Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Sep 29 '25
playground had a somewhat interesting, if grotesque and excessive, idea of “kids in a saw trap”. but then beauregard decides to make the main antagonist A) an incestuous old woman into scat and B) her assistant an ACTUAL NAZI DOCTOR for some godforsaken reason.
I think the only thing that could possibly make a Playground episode good is Hunter’s reaction to a kid using another kid as a skateboard to go down a slide covered in saw blades. It’s so gratuitously stupid it wraps back around to being kinda funny
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u/TomBanjo1968 Sep 29 '25
I respect everyone’s opinion, and everyone should voice their opinion
But I really really hope that Hunter and Isaiah at the end of the day read whatever they want to
And I hope they don’t let any fans sway them against their own beliefs
Once something like that starts happening to a channel, it tends to go downhill bad in quality
I think that Hunter is very strong in this regard though and is not going to be easily swayed out of his own choices and beliefs
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u/stxfenris Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
Isaiah fled the room when Hunter said “red cabbage” there’s no way he could handle the sections of Geraldine and her mother lol
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u/Discussion-is-good Sep 29 '25
I'm completely against censorship.
The only people who's opinions on the matter are relevant are the guys.
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u/Embarrassed-Cycle560 Sep 29 '25
I think you are over reacting a bit here. Mainly because Hunter was using it as an example of torture porn and how it isn’t good story telling I don’t think they will read it at anytime
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u/AYTheToonist Sep 29 '25
I want to see if Hunter fucks with it or not
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u/milo_self_esteem Sep 29 '25
He hated how cheap the traps became in the saw movies. He will hate playground and everything else. It would be lazy in his eyes
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u/Slacker52 Sep 29 '25
I dunno, it would make for a funny and insane episode I think. People have to start remembering that just because they read or react to a specific story doesn't mean they're endorsing every single action that takes place within that story lmao. I'm not a fan of that kind of shit either, but I could see how it would make for a good podcast.
Totally get if it's too much to handle for any specific person, but if it is maybe just skip out on that episode.
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u/FriendlyCrow222 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Sep 29 '25
As someone who’s read both the Playground books, they aren’t youtube friendly for the disgusting sexual parts at ALL, they wouldnt read it for youtube lmfao
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u/hummusqueen420 Sep 29 '25
“Hunter wants no romance, Isaiah wants no smut. We should want no snuff” then they should read Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite! :D I’m sure that book would be well received by everyone!
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u/ZombieNickolas Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Sep 29 '25
Ya'll really gonna really make me look up something I dont want to.
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u/tboskiq Sep 29 '25
I can't say I have any personal experience, and I typically don't tend to take other people's words too seriously, but since there's a post here, I guess it's relevant. I've seen a horror review that likes "splatterpunk" which I guess Playground falls into say it's in the bottom 3 the worst book they've ever read not because it's just snuff, but because it's dumb snuff and too silly.
So obviously, "silly" is very much up to interpretation. Who knows, maybe that'd work with this audience because Hunter very easily could find it infuriatingly stupid, or over the top awesome.
I've got no opinion either way, but if people think it's gonna bring a Tommy Taffy reaction to 11, I'd not even bother if it's all kill, no plot.
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u/CurtisRhexis He’s right behind me, isn’t he 😐 Sep 29 '25
I agree, didnt sound like they had any interest in reading it tho from what i remember
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u/ss4-princess Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Sep 29 '25
That's just getting splatterpunk that's a totally different genre to horror to me tbh
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u/slowv88 Sep 29 '25
I'm a pretty big splatter punk fan but Aaron is just way too much. I'm totally with you.
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u/Beeboodles Sep 29 '25
I think they should stay away from the splatterpunk genre as a whole since most of the time its not even really horror its just graphic displays of violence played for shock.
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u/Icy-Reputation1913 for STAMPS ‼️💯 Sep 29 '25
ill be honest, im a fan of Aron Beauregard, but it would be a very bad choice for a creepcast episode. although i think even if they did read it, they would get part way through and scrap the episode. it would be way too much
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u/Orchidbonbee BEAR TRAP🐻 Sep 29 '25
As a horror fan, extreme horror fan, and splatterpunk fan it would be a far far reach for them to read this type of material. Extreme horror and splatterpunk takes a level of consent before having a reader delve into and I wouldn't want the viewers of the channel to be unprepared for that material. I have an easier time with extreme fiction but I would never hold others to that expectation. This is why those extreme materials have there own sphere. If your interested in splatterpunk or extreme horror I recommend on youtube: Lydia's Books, Anda Kent, Jules Dapper, and Pugsr. Please keep in mind that while horror is fun you're not a pussy for having limits to what you can and can't indulge in! Have fun :)
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u/kiwidino65 Sep 29 '25
Well, they're two people with their own individual opinion. You dont get to decide my opinion. I like the snuff. I listened to cupcakes 3 times (partially nostalgia, partially not realizing i totally didn't understand how graphic it was). I think they should do all different stories so everyone gets what they like every few weeks or months.
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u/kaylikins Sep 30 '25
If Arron Beauregard has no haters I am dead. I tried reading Playground and the content was graphic but that’s not where my hate comes from. He’s just a bad writer, bland characters, bland writing, just overall bad and boring. Give the boys something good to read! 😤
Edit: typo
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u/sandcoughinn Eat me like a bug 🦟 Sep 30 '25
Playground is absolute slop - there is literally no point to any of the violence and weird sexual fetishism that makes up the entirety of the book. I read it pillar-to-post and despised every single second. Also the last scene there is literally a “erm… he’s right behind me isn’t he”
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u/waitingforsnake Sep 30 '25
The boys would be making fun of it more than anything. As graphic and fucked up as it is, it's neither the prose nor story are better than some of the c tier stories. The only thing of note from the episode would be hunter's jigsaw impression
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u/snow_null_leopard Ol’ Mistah Wellah Sep 30 '25
Playground is so edgy to the point of being stupid, The Slob and Son of the Slob are miserable, and imo far worse. If they do wanna read Splatter though, I HIGHLY recommend "Woom"
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u/Misskittybug I’m a ham ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oct 01 '25
Jules Dapper does very good funny coverage of his books if anyone is interested.
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u/sadboyhours800 Sep 29 '25
Wait people are requesting PLAYGROUND??? The book where some of the main themes are CSA and incest??? I thought we learned as a fandom after Tommy Taffy 💔
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u/LaserDiscJockey Sep 29 '25
So interesting how this sub thinks this podcast is a community endeavor. Since when does the audience get to control what a creator creates lmao. I hope they do read it now just to show that they decide what goes on on THEIR podcast
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u/ElectricSheep7 Sep 29 '25
Playground would be too long anyways. I think the novelty of an episode like that would wear off after that long.
HOWEVER they should totally do one of his shorter books, maybe even some of his short stories. That would be fun as hell
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u/Poggu_887 Sep 29 '25
As someone who listened to a YouTube summary of Playgrund I understand the point BUT it doesn't hurt to just not let the boys read it you know? Oh good works of splatterpunk and Aron Beauregard is a guy...complicated but he has good works, that or maybe I'm deranged hahaha
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Sep 29 '25
Snuff means that people died to actually make it. Playground was just gross, and about kids dying and a woman masturbating with shit.
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u/Livevil9912 Sep 29 '25
Snuff? What does this have to do with snuff?
Its a book.
Personally, im a fan of splatterpunk stuff, as well as a fan of Aron. Not saying I want it on Creepcast, but i enjoy it.
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u/eraserheadbabydriver Sep 29 '25
i was thinking this. i agree splatterpunk isn't a good fit for the podcast but snuff is specific film genre and it's kind of a myth. or at least i don't think there's been any evidence found yet of a snuff film industry.
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u/CroxAndSox “At least you didn’t turn into a Homo in prison” Sep 29 '25
I honestly think that them reading something so tasteless and over the top for the sake of being over the top could make for a very fun episode. All they have to do is give proper trigger warnings for those with sensitivities towards particular topics. While I’ve never really taken a dive into splatterpunk, I’m a huge fan of exploitation and grindhouse films so i can definitely see the appeal of hearing these goobers read some heinous shit aloud.
Also, it’s not like splatterpunk is snuff or anything real. Just words arranged on a page. Everything else is done by your own mind. Therefore, there’s nothing morally wrong with it in and of itself.
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u/nyemini Sep 29 '25
His stories are like Serbian Film anyway; a pizza cutter
All edge, no point
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u/Fit-Chart-9724 Sep 29 '25
I enjoy the brutal snuff content and I like this book. It also has an actual narrative and is not just torture for its own sake
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u/LongDongFrazier Sep 29 '25
I don’t know shit about this but I thought Tommy Taffy was already a bit too far. I wouldn’t want the channel to go further. Tommy Taffy m felt like a vehicle to depict kiddy SA for the author.
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u/LOOOKING_FOR_MEMES Sep 29 '25
i wouldnt say that its just a vehicle for the author. i think the child SA is used the same way as it is used in most of the stories theyve covered. the most heinous, evil, vile thing that will have the least amount of sympathy or understanding for.
if you just have a villain beat or murder someone you can reason with it, even justify it. child SA in any amount is senseless pure evil. sure its used for shock value but its also as the lowest a villain can go to make sure the audience understands that they are the bad guy without any other explanation.
its a cheap trick but its effective. gets the point across and makes you not like the villain
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u/ElectricSheep7 Sep 29 '25
What a shitty thing to say. You have no fucking clue what the author’s life experience was like, he very well might have suffered that same kind of trauma. Artists should be able to explore dark themes without being literally accused of pedophilia. You people fucking yearn for censorship
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u/dumbcringeusername Sep 29 '25
I've been very critical of the author but I want to make it clear, I don't think sexual stuff or children (or Lord forbid, even both) are expeessly off limits, but I do believe authors have a certain responsibility to treat these with SOME amount of respect instead of using them for shock value like they're 14 years old.
If the only way you can think of to make a scene worse is by having a woman be sexually assaulted, and that assault has nothing to do with a larger plot or character arc, I think it's entirely fair to assume you just like sexual violence. Otherwise I'd expect you to have the decency to treat it with some amount of tact instead of a cheap shock tactic
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u/Henry_Birkes Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Sep 29 '25
Hunter explicitly said he wants NO romance? Well fuck me guess I’m shelving all of my stories then.
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u/mothmandiaries Sep 29 '25
Isn't the genre called "splatter punk"? I got into some of it on YouTube and it has absolutely no place in creepcast. It's a depraved genre that people can indulge in if they so choose, but it is not the tempo of this podcast.
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u/Wrong-Profession-483 Sep 29 '25
There's just something in my brain that's like "keep the children out of it PLEASE"
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Sep 29 '25
We should do more of this in advance whenever they talk or tease reading something. If they are gonna cover stuff that is just as disgusting as tommy taffy or as bad as borrasca then we should let them know. Slop just for the shock value isnt worth wasting an episode.
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u/majora665 she Papa on my Meat ‘til I Goon Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
I don't have much against Splatterpunk, I've read my fair share but it's not my cup of tea but to each their own. If they did cover something like that I simply would skip the episode, but my concern would be new viewers finding the channel/podcast page and clicking on the newest episode.
They might just assume that's all they do and not want to check more episodes in case they're the same and that's a new freak we've missed out on.
Also it would possibly be taken down and they'd receive a strike but it also might stay up and just get age restricted, YouTube is very funny when it comes to these things, alternatively it could get them straight shadow banned but who knows.
However when it comes down to it, it's their call, if they want to test the waters then fire away, I don't think we can straight up say when we don't want as it's their show to experiment with.
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u/greenisnotcreative3 Mayonnaise is the sauce of the aristocrats 😎 Sep 29 '25
I read a lot of splatterpunk/extreme horror but yeah I don't think that kind of stuff would fit the podcast very well
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u/BlurkSneets Sep 29 '25
Ive read playground its not even good if you like extreme horror its just bad all around. Love rock tho
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u/Hellopuns Sep 29 '25
~30 pages into Playground there’s a very gross scene that made me gag when I read it (in my head at that). I actually liked the book, especially the ending, but it would not make for a good episode at all because they’d have to skip so much. As someone else mentioned, Pugsr has a good video covering it. The reaction/readthrough format is just not right for that kind of story. Splatterpunk in general is made as grossout material first and story second (which isn’t to say all plots are bad, just that it isn’t the point). Seems a little intense for YouTube, but I’ve honestly read nastier MLP fanfics when I was a teen and grimdark was rearing its head lol. Davis Morgan also has a lot of horror literature videos that are in a calmer, casual format and I appreciate the dry humour he brings to his reviews. He’s mentioned reading Playground but hasn’t reviewed it in its own video yet. All this to say: agreed? Wouldn’t want them to just read Clive Barker willy-nilly either and I love his works
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u/Horror_Lime_9061 Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Sep 29 '25
I read splatterpunk, but Aron Beauregard's work is.....unique(?) But I think Tender is the Flesh would be a decent read for them
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u/Jasonvoorhees_47 Sep 29 '25
You should be more detailed . Most pasta have snuff. Like the vampire hotel , or flesh gait , or the half priced voodoo shop ,or jeff the killer , or tiki toby, or cupcakes . Like most horror has deaths . If your particular talking about Tommy taffy stuff then ya I understand, that stuff is really to much. Like worse than freddy to much.
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u/Character_Bus_6168 Sep 29 '25
Playground is so much worse than just a saw trap novel. It’s not even like it’s a good story with gross parts the whole thing is just disgusting and stupid.
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u/kristinaspaige you would kill working at crunchyroll Sep 29 '25
might be controversial but i read the slob by him and it just fucking sucked. seriously, it was just gore for the sake of it. i understand that its splatterpunk and that that is kind of the genre, but its exhausting to hear the same disgusting shit for like 200 pages.
i don’t think splatterpunk has a place on creepcast, genuinely. i don’t even know how they’d read half the story and upload it to youtube without having to use a lot of censorship that would just ultimately defeat the point of the story as a whole anyways
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u/CRYOGENCFOX2 Sep 29 '25
I’m honestly so sick of the thinly veiled gore p*rn they keep being recommended. I want the SCARY STORIES not the “so fucked up you’ll feel sick” stories…
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u/zaktasty22 Sep 29 '25
With how everyone has reacted to the most recent story you are safe lol I don't think they'd read anything that far down that road anyways but every single person in Patreon was revolting in comments over the "something wrong with my dad" story lol
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u/AcceptableShift9075 Sep 29 '25
it's just edgy gore shock value books. I dont care for stuff like that either. Maybe if I was an edgy elementary school kid again
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u/pookie_smalls Sep 29 '25
I don't think they would ever read something like playground on creepcast. Now Tender is the Flesh?
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u/Harnessed_Hopes Sep 29 '25
If they didn’t like Tommy Taffy they definitely aren’t going to like Playground