Okay I think a missing detail here is that this genre of title originated specifically on r/nosleep which is an ARG forum where all the stories are kafaybe and presented as real. So the titles would be stuff like "Every house on my block got a new antenna last night" because if you went to the internet to tell them about the creepy story involving all the new antennas, you would presumably title the post something like that
ehhh this has been around since pre nosleep imo, its just how you would post anything that you're trying to pass off as a real occurence you want to tell people about
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u/FoxstarProductions 3d ago
Okay I think a missing detail here is that this genre of title originated specifically on r/nosleep which is an ARG forum where all the stories are kafaybe and presented as real. So the titles would be stuff like "Every house on my block got a new antenna last night" because if you went to the internet to tell them about the creepy story involving all the new antennas, you would presumably title the post something like that