A Deep Dive Into Episode - Choose Your Story

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[abdiel]

One negative thing I remember is a lot of the fanmade stories were CRAZY in terms of toxic tropes. It was basically Wattpad for mobile visual novels. I still remember some of the more traumatizing ones 💀

[uniraffesaur]

I played the Demi Lovato stories like crack for a minute there 😂

[ellap]

So disappointed that episode went the way they did. It’s become a smutridden paywall hellscape.. when it started there were cool mystery stories! When I played it as a teenager there was a mystery “stranded on an island” story, and I remember one that went on for ages that started with you on some kind of dating show but then you end up with your own reality tv show. Others where you and your friends are witches, just lots of really fun stories that had a complete chokehold on my early teens.

[genmartin]

Omg, the old art style hit me with so much nostalgia 😭😭😭

[anoni]

"no I dont recall any episode stories"
"chain reaction, Blake, the teacher, it starts with a bra"
*Instant flashback*

[ewuradwowa]

it starts with a bra was also actually from wattpad. The actual wattpad book is called 'A bad boy stole my bra' and its published as a real book now

[FlutteringReiya]

ink style is THAT girl, its the funniest and most nostalgic one. i feel like comedy ink stories were actually funny compared to limelight stories and i really miss ink stories and just episode itself but it sad that its not as popular as it was cause all my fav authors have disappeared with unfinished stories

[theoutsiderjess]

The Author being 14 writting a grooming and incest story made so much sense. I hope they realize how screwed up that dynamic and story is.

[sage]

i remember playing some actually great stories made by independent creators on the app when i was younger. zombie apocalypse stories, fantasy, stuff like that 😭 i always thought the excessive amount of mafia stories or “dark romance” was ridiculous and whenever a story had gem choices i would immediately stop playing lmao

[lizabee]

I can’t remember if it was this or Choices, but one time I was playing a story and the options were something like “go right or go left” so I picked left, the character goes left and was like “huh, there’s nothing here, let’s go back.” That was when I stopped playing because what was the point of giving me options if there was only one choice to begin with

[owowhatsbliss]

Seeing the Ember Effect in here was a huge surprise that story is forever iconic to me

[ImToad]

I played episode for YEARS, this video felt like whiplash. I can’t believe how many things I’d completely forgotten about 😭

[_penelp]

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH THIS VIDEO MEANS TO ME HAHHAHAHA I GENUINELY FEEL SO SEEN😭

[seaemji]

There was this story where a teacher got pregnant by her student (don't ask), and there where two choices for the ending : who does she end up with (the student, the rich childhood friend and another one I forgot about) and does she keep the baby. When the sequel came, the heroine has a grownup child and a rich husband, and even though the author tried to justify it, it was hilariously obvious that there was one intended ending for the previous story and the author didn't want to admit it was a sequel only to that ending

[ewuradwowa]

the license for bad boys girl probably also got expired because it was also a wattpad story which was adapted onto episode

[reelreal]

I felt like my world came crashing down when they introduced the limelight style lmfao

[lilxamryn]

Classic style was the first time I ever played Episode… in elementary school on my Kindle 😭. There was this mystery story I was OBSESSED with and every morning before school, I’d quickly play through a chapter.

[moonlightauras]

The crazy thing about the writer who used the N-word is that there is an alternate title to that Agatha Christie book that doesn't have the N-word in it; it's called "And Then There Were None". She could've just used the alternate title, everyone knows it if you've read Agatha Christie's books, she just wanted to say the N-word and get away with it.

[rayosprey]

I remember this thriller story about this adopted girl who was a replacement for this couple who lost their daughter but she was kept alive in a vat in the basement and the adopted girl was like a sacrifice? 😭

[cyuyokb]

oh my god ive been trying to remember what the "Blake" story was for years lmaoo i was so obsessed w it. that and basically every story by mette peleikis, especially femme fatale