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Audiopasta
Audiopasta is a genre of music created by the underground experimental music artist J. Effect, in which dark and experimental sounds combined with sounds related to creepypasta are used to unnerve the listener, rather than a traditional form of horror such as film. The name stems from creepypasta, a cyberculture that involves horror stories and urban legends shared on the Internet.

Characteristics
Within audiopasta is a combination of creepypasta-related sounds (from sources such as the background music from the video suicidemouse.avi, the sounds in the much-discussed Mereana Meregord Glesgorv video, and many, many others) and other experimental and industrial sounds. It should be noted that audiopasta is not completely centered around the sounds from popular creepypasta. For example, in J.F Sounds - The Audiopasta, some songs do not contain any references to creepypasta whatsoever. In these cases, songs are simply dark ambient and death industrial-style sounds and vocals put together in the attempt to make the listener feel unnerved.

J. Effect
J. Effect is a dark ambient, death industrial, and experimental music producer who lives in southern Brazil. He works in the digital audio workstation Audiotool; his first track, Release, was created sometime in 2013. When he created audiopasta, he went by the name J.F Sounds.

While there may have been other dark ambient and industrial music that contained creepypasta elements before J. Effect made his album, he is the first (known) artist to actually refer to it as audiopasta.

J.F Sounds - The Audiopasta
The album J.F. Sounds - The Audiopasta was released on Audiotool on September 26th, 2014 and is the first known reference to audiopasta. The album has since been taken off of the web, and there are no known copies of the album or any of its songs in existence today, physical or digital.

The oldest single on the album is Overwhelmed, which was released in February or March 2014.

References to 333-333-333 and the Wyoming Incident
In audiopasta, references to 333-333-333 are prominent. This was inspired by the creator of audiopasta, J. Effect's interest in the event often referred to as the Wyoming Incident, in which a hijacker took control of a news broadcast in Wyoming and sent odd messages across the signal. The credibility of this incident is widely discussed on the Internet and is the source of much controversy. Many believe it to be false and say it was an event planned by users of the website Something Awful.

On September 10, 2007, YouTube user jonrev uploaded the original Wyoming Incident to YouTube. As of the writing of this article (Oct. 2014), it has over 1,500,000 views and nearly 3,500 likes.

A link to the video is here.