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Slender Man

Slenderman is a fictionalcreature from an internet meme. It appears as a tall and thin man, wearing a black suit and red tie. Slenderman's face is usually blank, without any features. It is said to stalk, abduct, or scare people, especially children.[1]

Slenderman was originally created on the Internet forumSomething Awful in It has grown into a kind of urban legend.

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Description

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Slenderman is described as very fictional tall and thin white creature with unnaturally long arms. It can extend its arms to scare people or capture them. It seems to be bald or be wearing a featureless white mask covering its entire head, the mask gives an unsettling feeling due to lacking a face or other facial features.

It appears to be wearing a black suit. In images, the figure is often out of focus and blurry.[2] Slenderman is associated with the forest and has the ability to teleport.[3][4]

Origins

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Slenderman was created during a contest on the Something Awful forums in June The goal was to change photographs using digital manipulation so that the pictures showed something supernatural.

On 10 June, a forum poster with the user name "Victor Surge" uploaded two images in black and white. They were photographs of groups of children, to which had been added an obscured figure in the background: a tall, thin man with a blank face.[5][6] Surge included short stories to go with the images, describing the disappearance of the children in the images.

Slender man biography book One of the most powerful new traits Slender Man exhibits is some form of memory inhibition. Yet unlike most such tales, developed and adapted over long periods, the origins of Slender Man are absolutely clear and very recent. It was reported last week that two year-old girls in Wisconsin had allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times in an effort to show their dedication to Slender Man. Marble Hornets is also being made into a movie.

It gave the character the name, "Slenderman":

One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as “Slenderman”. Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one week later.

Actual photograph confiscated as evidence.
, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, [6]

These stories made it a work of fiction. Other users on the forum developed the character further, adding their own images or stories about "Slenderman". However, is it possible to find supposed records of the monster dating back to the 14th century, a notable example is a medievalGermanfolktale entitled Der Ritter ("The Knight" in German), it tells the history of a brave knight appointed by the church to slay a great evil entity who had been stealingchildren from a local village from around the Black Forest, Württemberg, in Southern Germany, by which some people claim the existence of the entity.

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Development

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Slenderman soon became very popular on the Internet. Many works of fanart, cosplay and fiction were created and spread from website to website.[7] The first video series involving the Slender Man was published on YouTube.[1][8] It is called Marble Hornets, and is now one of the most popular Slender Man creations.[9] Other YouTube serials about the Slender Man followed, including EverymanHYBRID and Tribe Twelve.[1] In , Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the sandbox indie game Minecraft, added a new character to the game.

He named it the "Enderman" when many users on Reddit and Google+ commented on how similar it was to the Slender Man.[10] A video game based on the Slender Man was released in , named Slender: The Eight Pages.[11] Several popular variants of the game followed, including Slenderman's Shadow[12] and Slender Man for iOS, which became the second most-popular app download.[13] The sequel to Slender: The Eight Pages, Slender: The Arrival, was released in [14]

A horror movie about the Slender Man, Entity, was released in [15] Another, The Slender Man, was released free online.[16] On August 10, , another movie about the character, Slender Man, directed by Sylvain White, was released.

Marble Hornets is also being made into a movie.[9]

The Slender Man was called "the first great myth of the web" by the BBC.[3] The success of the idea has been ascribed to the Internet's ability to connect people with one another. It has allowed anybody to build on the story and develop the character,[6] and also shape it into whatever frightens them most.[3]

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References

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  1. ↑ Gail Arlene De Vos ().

    Slender man biography wikipedia Site Navigation. Archived from the original on 20 January It isn't certain how he does this, but he seems able to keep a perfect trace on its targets, often speculated to be a part of his supposed existence as a potentially omnipresent being. HP Lovecraft: The man who haunted horror fans.

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  2. ↑Tye Van Horn (). "Behind You: The Cultural Relevance of Slender Man". Retrieved
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  4. ↑Kristin Tillotsin ().

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  8. ↑ Shira Chess (). "Open-Sourcing Horror: The Slender Man, Marble Hornets, and genre negotiations". Information, Communication & Society. 15 (3): – doi/X S2CID&#;
  9. ↑ Patrick Dane ().

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  10. ↑Aja Romano (). "The definitive guide to creepypasta—the Internet's urban legends". Daily Dot. Retrieved
  11. ↑Peters, Lucia (14 May ). "Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren't: The Marble Hornets Project".

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  17. ↑ Dave McNary (). "'Marble Hornets' flying to bigscreen". Variety. Retrieved
  18. ↑"Notch reveals new mob, dubs them Endermen in reference to Slender Man". Retrieved
  19. ↑Gary Marston ().

    Slender man game online free: How do you like the game? Typically individuals will show massive mood swings and constant irritation, lose track of large periods of time, and have difficulty maintaining communication with friends or holding down steady work. List of creepypastas List of cryptids Lists of fictional species Lists of legendary creatures. People collectively take on some bits and reject others.

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  20. ↑Lana Polansky (August 20, ). "Slenderman's Shadow "Sanatorium" Map Released". Gameranx. Archived from the original on August 23, Retrieved September 9,
  21. ↑Tom Senior (July 26, ).

    Slender man minecraft Abandoning its more blunt tactics of impaling and gutting its victims, it is possible he has moved to more subtle forms of attack, such as invading their mind, surroundings, and thus eliminating any feeling of safety and driving them to insanity in a slow torment. In America and Canada, there were reports of missing skiers and children, mainly coming from forested and unoccupied areas. Examples of Slender Man Some users even begin to suggest that Slender Man existed far before Knudsen claimed to have made him up and insist that this story dates back to German folklore. It has grown into a kind of urban legend.

    "Slender Man Source mod will let you scare the hell out of yourself for free, with friends". PC Gamer. Retrieved September 9,

  22. ↑Jeffrey Matulef (February 11, ). "Pre-orders for Slender: The Arrival are half-off, come with instant beta access". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 3,
  23. ↑"First Trailer & Poster For The Jadallah Brothers' Horror Movie ENTITY!".

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  24. ↑"Slender Man Movie Producer Steven Belcher Wants to Create True Terror with the Faceless Figure". GameTrailers. Retrieved

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