When someone says "kripi," he usually means terrible stories. It all started with the so-called crypts on 4chan.org, which started regularly appearing in 2006 and almost entirely consisting of such stories; like many other wonderful things, this tradition was copied to the first Russian imageboard 2ch.ru practically unchanged, even their name was not translated - only transcribed. Since then, although the Russian-speaking anonyms have created quite a large number of their stories, and the tradition has spread far beyond the limits of image boards, the word "kripi" has become in some way a collective definition of such concepts as "terrible story", "kripipasta", " "," scary picture "," horror "or just an eerie situation from life.