Why do we obsess over Slender Man so much?

[Lil_Rimmy]

Personally I find him scary as all fuck... but Slender, the game, was not scary in the slightest. I mean, yeah, you play it once... AHH SLENDERMAN!... ... ... and that's it. There is no story to drag you in, no people going missing. Litterally all we have is some teenager and a bunch of notes drawn by three year olds. I shit you not that probably the only things he really have to code in that game was the Slenderman and the notes. Everything else was shit easy to make so I am not sure why people are calling it the greatest game ever when someone can spend a day with Unity (I myself am a Unity Programmer) and make something better...

Anyway... on to actual Slenderman... Euuuugh... he scares the crap outta me. This is, however, mainly because at my dad's house we have a lot of windows that are everywhere... with each one opening out to a long view which Mr. Slender could be hiding in and at mums I sleep downstairs. Alone. With a huge window. Facing down a hill. With a forest. And the nearest person is the whole house away.

*pees myself*

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

The scare effect comes from a combination of 2 things.

1. [Evidenced] ancient evil aka the unknown. Humans fear what they don't know.
2. He's a man in a suit.

Combine these two things and you can take any old photo with average resolution and turn some tall suit in the background into 'The Slender Man'. Then you think up some generic story like 'he steals souls' and voila, perfect monster.

Personally the most frightening thing about him is not that he steals souls or eats people or w/e, but the pictures people dig up. Then your imagination kicks in.

All in all a rather ingenious phenomenon.

 

[Lionsfan]

Slenderman doesn't have anything over Candleja-

You're doing it wrong. Candleja doesn't do anything, you have to say the full name Candlejack before he kidna

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Neither do i got no idea the context with which the OP ment it to be used, hence the wtf am i reading! xD

So why did you "derp" me !!!

*smack*

 

[shockywatt]

Quite frankly, I don't find slenderman that scary. Sure, his human-like features are so far down in the uncanny valley that it has its own postal code, but He just doesn't scare me like he should. I watch Marblehornets to see Slenderman, and how they'll portray him in this entry. But, if there is one thing that scares me shitless, it's Jeff the fucking Killer.

Hey buddy thanks for mentioning Jeff the killer! After all I don't NEED sleep.

 

[SextusMaximus]

He doesn't look scary, maybe he just wants a hug?

No wifin' in the club.
Give me 20 dollars.
GIVE ME 20 DOLLARS.

Can someone please explain this 20 dollars thing to me??

Sure thing, it's very simple.

Slenderman wants his twenty dollars.

 

[Lunar Templar]

eh .....

the majora's mask 'haunted cart' story was way creepier

 

[irani_che]

slenderman lives in the uncanny valley's deepest part, he is that shadow of a tree your brain keeps thinking is a person in the dark.
the game does this really well,as 90% of the time you see something, think its him and panic and run only to realise you were overreacting
the other 10 percent, you see the blur of a shadow, panic, run, think oh just overreacting to a shadow - and be deadly wrong

 

[Kinguendo]

Well I've no idea who he is, so am judging solely on that picture. I guess the terror would come from his completely emotionless state. Those killers seem to be the most-business. You know, the Michael Myers kind.

Weird thing is he rarely kills people

Except for that thing with the forest filled with impaled bodies on tree branches, their rib cages crudely sewn shut containing a clear bag filled with their organs... unless they survived?!

 

[Saviordd1]

Well I've no idea who he is, so am judging solely on that picture. I guess the terror would come from his completely emotionless state. Those killers seem to be the most-business. You know, the Michael Myers kind.

Weird thing is he rarely kills people

Except for that thing with the forest filled with impaled bodies on tree branches, their rib cages crudely sewn shut containing a clear bag filled with their organs... unless they survived?!

Notice I said "Rarely" not never

 

[GoaThief]

So I just checked out Marble Hornets Introduction, Entry #1 and #2. Started watching #3, got bored and did some fast forwarding. Skipped to Entry #13 and concluded this isn't even close to the quality of the Blair Witch Project, which is quite damning.

As far as I can tell the Slender Man is a teenybopper creation that takes off from the likes of shadow people, an allegedly real phenomenon and makes it far less scary, almost comical.

 

[Kinguendo]

Well I've no idea who he is, so am judging solely on that picture. I guess the terror would come from his completely emotionless state. Those killers seem to be the most-business. You know, the Michael Myers kind.

Weird thing is he rarely kills people

Except for that thing with the forest filled with impaled bodies on tree branches, their rib cages crudely sewn shut containing a clear bag filled with their organs... unless they survived?!

Notice I said "Rarely" not never

The implication of that story is that he killed numerous people over a vast time period... so I would say that of his interactions with people in stories, most ended up dead and impaled on trees.

 

[MagicalWhisk]

Actually SlenderMan is based off a German folklore (Der Großmann) a demi god that was able to take people's lives before they died. He is actually a good deity as its said he took the lives of people that were destined to die a painful death, before escorting them through the underworld.

Thats why SlenderMan doesn't scare me because I know the myth he is based off is actually a creature that is trying to save you from something much worse.

 

[Saviordd1]

Well I've no idea who he is, so am judging solely on that picture. I guess the terror would come from his completely emotionless state. Those killers seem to be the most-business. You know, the Michael Myers kind.

Weird thing is he rarely kills people

Except for that thing with the forest filled with impaled bodies on tree branches, their rib cages crudely sewn shut containing a clear bag filled with their organs... unless they survived?!

Notice I said "Rarely" not never

The implication of that story is that he killed numerous people over a vast time period... so I would say that of his interactions with people in stories, most ended up dead and impaled on trees.

Huh, I thought they more went insane, I thought the murder numbers were lower.

 

[cthulhlu]

The thing about slenderman is that since he's just a tall guy with no face, film makers have to use other. more subtle tactics to build the scares, like video distortion, Blink and you miss him moments and Massive Ramping of atmosphere. as such i feel he works best as a youtube/inde game entity, as big screen/aaa games lack the time required to build the dread of such a entity.

by that i mean macking you fear something that has never actualy done anything, pyramid head was scary from the get go cause he did something freaky, slendy just looks at you..

 

[Kinguendo]

Well I've no idea who he is, so am judging solely on that picture. I guess the terror would come from his completely emotionless state. Those killers seem to be the most-business. You know, the Michael Myers kind.

Weird thing is he rarely kills people

Except for that thing with the forest filled with impaled bodies on tree branches, their rib cages crudely sewn shut containing a clear bag filled with their organs... unless they survived?!

Notice I said "Rarely" not never

The implication of that story is that he killed numerous people over a vast time period... so I would say that of his interactions with people in stories, most ended up dead and impaled on trees.

Huh, I thought they more went insane, I thought the murder numbers were lower.

I think the stories are one pied piper-esque kidnapping of children, which the kids snap out of and say it was kinda creepy... then there is the one with him standing near a tree with kids looking up at him, which leads to a library burning to the ground... then there is the one Marble Hornet stuff which implies murders... then there is the story of police going missing after fidning a bunch of bodies impaled on branches in a forest. I think, other than the German origin story, those are all of the stories.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I don't think I really know enought about Slender man to really be bothered by him in the slightest. The SCP Foundation has more scary things that I actually know about that get me, particularly SCP-145, SCP-507 and several others I forgot the numbers for right now.

 

[waj9876]

Because we have a primal fear that we can't explain of tall, faceless beings that LOOK like us, but aren't in any way LIKE us, and have some reality warping powers.

Now I'm not gonna say it was aliens...But it was aliens.

 

[ProtoChimp]

I just know it was made into a boring game that only gets fun when you nearly die, than you shit your pants and cry

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

TL;DR
Why is Slender Man so popular and scary to us all.

Also, if your not scared of the guy, tell us why.

He's not and I look down on people who post pictures saying "HURR DURR YOU WILL SHIT BRIX WHEN YOU SEE IT" or that fucking lame and moronic Candlejack shit where "Oh no I mentioned him now I need to cut off my post before th-"... And I'm supposed to care because..?

It's not scary, it's fucking lame. You what is scary? Context. A story that's believable enough, with people I care about in grave danger, Copypasta need not apply.

Candlejack isn't supposed to be scary, it's from a sat/sunday morning kid's show called Freakazoid that a lot of people liked.

I miss that show. *Puts in DVDs*