While it is highly likely that mental illness contributed to the actions of the perpetrators of the Slenderman stabbing, it’s also worth examining the effects of the new monsters of the internet and how effortlessly they can escape the bounds of “recreational terror”.īeware the Slenderman premieres on HBO Go on January 24, Australia time.įor more on the Slenderman and the genre of YouTube horror, you can read Adam Daniel’s article ‘Always Watching’: The Interface of Horror and Digital Cinema in Marble Hornets. Its symptoms include coughing fits, memory loss and, ironically, irrational acts of violence.
Part of the Slenderman mythology is the Slender Sickness, a fictional illness that affects those who have been in the presence of the monster. Read Original Mythos from the story Slender man History by EllaRosewinter with 26 reads. Despite a general awareness of his artificial creation, the Slenderman has, like Frankenstein’s monster, been stitched together by communal storytelling and escaped the bounds of his creator’s intentions to simply scare the members of the original forum. What is clear from this event, and the Slenderman’s still evolving presence as an internet boogieman, is that unlike the urban legends of the pre-internet world, these new monsters may become untethered to their fictional origins. It is this act, and the origins of the delusions of the two perpetrators, that is the subject of the HBO documentary. The victim survived, having crawled to a nearby roadside where she was discovered by a passing cyclist. After doing so, they allegedly stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to prove their worth as Slenderman proxies. One terrifying answer to this question emerged in May of 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, when two 12 year-old girls allegedly enticed a third 12 year-old girl to follow them into the woods (a location which figures prominently in the Slenderman mythology). And what happens when the pictures are no longer photoshops? We’re stuffing him with nightmares and unspoken fears.
A user named Soakie was one of the first to identify the Slenderman as a potential tulpa, writing:Įven if we don’t really believe in supernatural, even if our rational minds laugh at such an absurdity … we are cutting out and sewing him together. However, even the participants of the original forum identified the risks in doing so.
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from In an age of scepticism and increasing access to information, how do we account for this growth of a mythological monster? Horror scholar Isabel Pinedo poses one possible explanation, in that horror narratives can be an “exercise in recreational terror… not unlike a roller coaster ride.” In the case of the Slenderman, the communal participation in his creation is a way to bring about the pleasurable aspects of scaring ourselves, with the safety of knowing he is just a fictional construct. Slender Man (sometimes spelt Slenderman) is a monster that appears in various creepypastas, first appearing in a series of images created by Eric Knudsen that were posted on the Something Aweful Forums.He is depicted as as thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless head and face and wearing a black suit.
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