The fun and games of scaring people on the internet suddenly became very real.
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Their victim survived, and both girls were put on trial and institutionalized in the years since.
In 2014, after Slender Man had spread across many different types of fan-made media, tragedy struck when two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend 19 times with a kitchen knife and left her for dead in an attempt to become Slender Proxies. Where Sony’s Slender Man runs into issues is when it deflects from the other part of the Slender Man mythos: a real life attempted murder. That means that no one calls out “Slender Proxies” and there isn’t white-noise digital distortion when Slender Man appears, since those were additions to the character made after its creation. The movie currently in theaters is based solely on the creations of Victor Surge, and his credit appears in the film (as Surge, not Knudson), as well as several of his original Photoshopped images that kicked off the Slender Man myth around the internet.
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The video game Slender: The Eight Pages popularized the belief that Slender Man causes electronic distortion when he appears a web series called TribeTwelve introduced the idea of a “Slender Proxy” or a human, usually a teenager, who would be hypnotized to work for Slender Man. The idea of Slender Man snowballed as amateur authors added traits into the core idea of a blank-faced man in the woods hunting children. Mere months after first being posted to the Something Awful forums, Slender Man popped up in other web creators’ work, from serialized YouTube series that played like new versions of The Blair Witch Project, to independent video games, and “Creepypasta,” a type of internet-propagated scary story told in running threads, like campfire tales of a bygone era. Seeing his character catch on, Knudson produced more Slender Man images, this time with the creature in the woods being suspended in the air on multiple black tendrils acting like spider legs. Other forum users started contributing to the Slender Man myth, using the idea that the creature hunted or entranced children. The image burned into internet users’ brains. Both photographs included children and spooky captions devised by Surge to give some creepy authenticity to these fabricated images. Eric Knudson, posting under the name Victor Surge, took 15 minutes out of his day to photoshop some images of a tall man in a suit with multiple limbs and a blank white head with no face for a “Create Paranormal Images” forum subthread. The entity known as Slender Man first appeared on the internet in June 2009 on a website called Something Awful. The movie’s problems are new to internet IP: Slender Man isn’t just one thing you can buy and adapt. The Slender Man movie spent years in development before director Sylvain White ( The Losers) finally turned around the version that hit theaters this month. In context, the voiceover feels like an apology from the filmmakers to the audience: we’re sorry you had to see that, don’t tell anyone.
By sharing Slender Man’s mythos - through websites and drawings and late night trips to the woods - people manifest the monster into reality and allow it to claim victims. The new horror movie Slender Man ends with a vague, voiceover reminder: “we” spread the “virus” that is the antagonist.
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