A copypasta is a humorously bizarre piece of text, usually an outlandish story, a piece of ASCII art, or something else weirdly humorous and self-contained.

[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9ap8pf/ben_shapiro_curbstomped_my_kid/) is an example of an outlandish story, and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/8qiqus/despacito/) is an example of ASCII art. The most famous one is [Navy Seals,](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7lqds5/navy_seal/) which falls under the third category of “something else.” Subgenres include emojipastas (copypastas containing tons of emojis) and creepypastas (an offshoot of copypastas focused around urban legends).