The "Slender Man?"
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Much of the myth's scariness of comes from the fact that it developed into something so expansive, so quickly, and for a while it was pretty much uniformly terrifying to anyone who heard about it. It struck a chord with some kind of primal fear instinct in a hell of a lot of people.
Less scary now that more people know about it and we have dozens of blogs and videos of mediocre quality trying to add something to the mythos, but the basic idea is still incredibly disturbing and the Marble Hornets guys are still geniuses.
To newcomers: honestly, ignore everything except MH and the original Something Awful thread if you can find it. They're both deliciously creepy, but most everything else...isn't.
Less scary now that more people know about it and we have dozens of blogs and videos of mediocre quality trying to add something to the mythos, but the basic idea is still incredibly disturbing and the Marble Hornets guys are still geniuses.
To newcomers: honestly, ignore everything except MH and the original Something Awful thread if you can find it. They're both deliciously creepy, but most everything else...isn't.
Interesting how the idea of a 'new' cryptid is passed around like a meme. In my day we watched documentaries with rednecks, white trash, and or crazy people proclaiming the existence of champ/bigfoot/shadowy government men whathave you.
I do enjoy proper horror, I just feel things like the Slender Man creepypasta accomplish (or for that matter any good camp fire tale) the same thing for people.RAKtheUndead said:
Real life horrors suck. Yeah they're scary, but never in a fun way. Good horror fiction allows us to deal mentally and emotionally with real life horrors in an indirect way, which can be nice.
Ah, slender man... I don't get creeped out easy but paradoxically manage to creep myself out constantly. Slender man is one of those things that did initially creep me out, then I got over it, and then it started fuelling my self-horrifying side. For example... I have a small gap in my curtain, but I never bothered fixing it because it only looks on to a very, very small portion of my room. Unfortunately that portion of my room includes the back of my head at this moment. And as soon as someone mentioned slender man, I immediately felt like he was watching me through it.
But don't worry, I looked. There's noone there. You might want to check your windows though.
But don't worry, I looked. There's noone there. You might want to check your windows though.
I have made this thread 20% cooler by adding the link to this slender man/FiM crossover fanfic
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgY9tE0bMMXGoPcUMghqua91lpLR4z7UOTlBVqlBATA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKGqps0G#
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgY9tE0bMMXGoPcUMghqua91lpLR4z7UOTlBVqlBATA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKGqps0G#
I would just watch the "Marble hornets" series. They have woven their own mythos of the "Slenderman" I would also watch the videos fom a youtube user called "totheark" as they post videos in response to a lot of the entries and is definitely interrelated to the "marblehornets" story.
Try looking on the "Something awful" forums. That's where the meme started, as well as a blog series called "JAF" (Just another fool) or something like that.
I must admit the "Slenderman" story is pretty damned good. I would have never have thought that a meme form "Something awful" could have made as big an impact as this. It was part of a thread where people had to make their own creepy myth and the "Slenderman" mythos was the clear winner.
Try looking on the "Something awful" forums. That's where the meme started, as well as a blog series called "JAF" (Just another fool) or something like that.
I must admit the "Slenderman" story is pretty damned good. I would have never have thought that a meme form "Something awful" could have made as big an impact as this. It was part of a thread where people had to make their own creepy myth and the "Slenderman" mythos was the clear winner.
haha i always think that when i see Stephen Merchant, he actually is a living representation of slender man, physically, not mentally, because you know.... he doesn't kidnap children etcBGH122 said:
[small][sub][sub] well, that we know of anyway...[/sub][/sub][/small]
Somehow, this makes it even more creepy.BGH122 said:
It's a damn good story. What can I say? He's prime horror material, even, i can't believe a full budget film hasn't been made about him yet, And that's a nice way to make it more scary, claiming that belief in him makes him exist, much like what made freddy Krueger scary.
Or at least...we hope it's just a scare technique.
