CNN's digital correspondent, Kelly Wallace, worried that kids today might be at risk from nefarious fictional creatures because they are generally incapable of differentiating between fantasy and reality. "Many are wondering: What dark forces does this online urban legend potentially release?" asked a CTV anchor. An Australian news report dubbed CreepyPasta an "internet horror-cult that almost caused a killing". Reporters are savoring the lurid fantasy like kids around campfire, or an iPad. "Parents are strongly encouraged to restrict and monitor their children's Internet usage," Waukesha police chief Russell Jack said at a news conference, and the local school district banned a website called CreepyPasta, where much of the lore lived, after the attack. Local authorities were quick to blame the culture of online ghost stories. Both suspects told the police that they attacked their friend in order to become "proxies" of the Slender Man, a fictional character created in 2009 for a Photoshop contest. According to the victim, who asked not to be identified, she was attacked by her daughter, whom she says was waiting in the kitchen for her with a mask over her face and her hands covered with her sleeves, upon returning home from work.On May 31, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier of Waukesha, Wisconsin, both 12 years old, allegedly lured their friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. On June 6th, 2014, WLWT News in Hamilton, Ohio reported that the myth of Slenderman may have been implicated in another stabbing incident of a mother by her 13-year-old daughter. The victim survived the attack and remains hospitalized. On May 31st, 2014, TMJ4 News in Waukesha, Wisconsin reported that two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, were arrested on charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide after allegedly trying to kill their mutual friend by stabbing her 19 times. Gaster Criminal Incidents 2014 Wisconsin Teenagers Stabbing In October of 2011, the indie game developer group Green Meteor Team submitted a 3D puzzle adventure gamefeaturing Slender Man as the primary antagonist to a horror game competition hosted by the gaming site 64Digits.ĭerivative Characters Minecraft's Enderman Doctor Who's The Silence FNaF's Puppet Undertale's W. Unlike most of his species, however, he prefers to go after young women, almost similar to that of an Incubus. Sexual Offenderman is the youngest of the Slender family. Trender Man is described as the sassy brother (sometimes referred to as a cousin) of Slender Man with a passion for fashion and clothing, wearing brown fashionable attire with a white shirt underneath. The earliest known mention of "Slender Man" on 4chan can be found in an archived thread dating back to June 24th, 2009, though the conversation suggests that it had been mentioned prior. SlenderMan became a well-known mythical creature on the /x/ (paranormal) 4chan board.
Slender man meme series#
It would later become clear that the series was created by two film students, SomethingAwful users KicksYouInHalf (Joseph DeLage) and Ce gars (Troy Wagner), as part of an alternate reality game centered around the Slender Man myth called the Marble Hornets Project. On June 20th, 2009, YouTuber MarbleHornets started hosting videos called "entries" which claimed to be taped segments retrieved by someone named "Jay" (or also "J"), and contained footage of a friend that had since disappeared. Making his first in-game appearance in Trilby's Notes, the character was portrayed in the third installment as a tall, thin man dressed in a long, black, high-collared coat with tails that reach to the floor and having a blank face. The creation of "SlenderMan" may have been also inspired by an ongoing series of amateur adventure games titled "Chzo Mythos", published by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw in 2003. On June 11th, 2009, Victor Surge continued to improve upon the myth by adding another picture and a fake doctor's account.
Something Awful users soon began sharing their faux-paranormal creations with layered images of ghosts and other anomalies. The contest required participants to turn ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images through digital manipulation and then pass them on as authentic photographs on a number of paranormal forums. On June 8th, 2009, a "'paranormal pictures" photoshop contest was launched on the Something Awful (SA) Forums.
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