Just putting a few of my thoughts and questions together:
CPW is popular because of
- Jeff the Killer*
- Jane the Killer*
- BEN/ Majora's Mask
- Lavender Town Syndrome
- Pokemon Creepy Black
- Smile.edu
Right?
Now it makes sense that the bottom three are popular choices right? And you would have to be five years old or just stupid and/or don't know literature to like the two starred pastas right? [You have to be partially stupid ( < 70 IQ ) and/or don't know literature to like Jeff the Killer; You need to be completely stupid ( <50 IQ ) to like Jane the Killer] I was curious, "How many total stupids are there that like Jeff the Killer?" So I looked up a few google trend graphs.
Lets assume that a higher number of google searches indicate higher popularity.
Creepypasta (blue), Jeff the Killer (red), Jane the Killer (yellow), over time
So according to google, there's a pretty large percentage of idiots out there. The number of Jeff searches was a little bigger than I expected it to be - but I was happy to find out that Jane the Killer is far less popular than I expected.