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2.  is a fictional character that originated as an Internet
meme created by Something Awful forums user
Victor Surge in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a
thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually
featureless face, and wearing a black suit. The
Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or
traumatize people, particularly children

4.  The Slender Man was created in a contest launched on the Something Awful forums on
June 8, 2009, with the goal of editing photographs to contain supernatural entities. On
June 10, a forum poster with the user name "Victor Surge" contributed two black and
white images of groups of children, to which he added a tall, thin spectral figure wearing
a black suit.[2][3] Previous entries had consisted solely of photographs; however, Surge
supplemented his submission with snatches of text, supposedly from
witnesses, describing the abductions of the groups of children, and giving the character
the name, "The Slender Man":
 We didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them, but its persistent silence and
outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time… 1983, photographer
unknown, presumed dead.
 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 “The
Slender Man”. Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one
week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence. 1986, photographer: Mary
Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986.
 These additions effectively transformed the photographs into a work of fiction.
Subsequent posters expanded upon the character, adding their own visual or textual
contributions.

6.  The Slender Man is described as very tall and
thin with unnaturally long arms, which it can
extend to intimidate or capture prey. It has a
white, featureless head and appears to be
wearing a dark suit. The Slender Man is
associated with the forest and has the ability to
teleport.

8.  The Slender Man was called "the first great myth of the web" by the BBC.[14] The success
of the Slender Man legend has been ascribed to the connective nature of the Internet.
While nearly everyone involved understands that the Slender Man is not real, the
Internet allows others to build on the established tropes, and thus lend an air of
authenticity to the character.[3] Victor Surge has commented that many people, despite
understanding that the Slender Man was created on the Something Awful forums, still
entertain the possibility that it might be real.[14] Professor Tom Peddit of the University
of Southern Denmark has described Slender Man as being an exemplar of the modern
age's closing of the "Gutenberg Parenthesis"; the time period from the invention of the
printing press to the spread of the web in which stories and information were codified in
discrete media, to a return to the older, more primal forms of storytelling, exemplified by
oral tradition and campfire tales, in which the same story can be retold, reinterpreted
and recast by different tellers, expanding and evolving with time.[14] Shira Chess has
noted that the Slender Man exemplifies the similarities between traditional folklore and
the open source ethos of the Internet, and that, unlike those of traditional monsters such
as vampires and werewolves, the Slender Man's mythos can be tracked and
signposted, giving a powerful insight into how myth and folklore form.[2] Tye Van
Horn, a writer for The Elm, has suggested that the Slender Man represents modern fear of
the unknown; in an age flooded with information people have become so inured to
ignorance that they now fear what they cannot understand.[16] Troy Wagner, the creator
of Marble Hornets, ascribes the terror of the Slender Man to its malleability; people can
shape it into whatever frightens them most.

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