The Softboy is a creepypasta audiovisual that constructs a narrative around the contemporary figure of the "softboy", a type of sensitive and intellectual young man. The non-spectral, non-monstrous, yet terrifying figure of the softboy serves as an archetype to unravel soft masculinity and its role in the refinement of sexist violence. The Softboy is a stubborn narrative exercise, organizing personal and collective experiences of lived violence. This exercise responds to a dual need, both personal and political: the need to bring order to the confusion and destruction that come with surviving a psychologically abusive relationship, and the urgency to uncover the structural mechanisms that sustain it and their consequences.