We are a literature site, not a satanic cult.” There is a line of between fiction and reality, and it is up to you to realize where the line is. “This wiki does not endorse or advocate for killing, worship, and otherwise replication of rituals of fictional works. “This is an isolated incident, and does (not) represent … the Creepypasta community as a whole,” the statement reads. The site has issued a statement condemning the attack. The girls accused in the Milwaukee stabbing told police they knew the character from the Creepypasta Wiki, a site that compiles such fiction. A play on the term “copypasta,” which itself is derived from the keyboard action “copy-paste,” creepypasta is horror fiction written with the Web in mind and, often, done in a style that makes it appear like a news item or other piece of true crime. Slenderman has also been a popular subject of “creepypasta,” a form of Web-based short fiction.
Original slender man series#
It’s a video series on YouTube, presented in “Blair Witch Project”-like faux-documentary style, with nearly 380,000 subscribers. “Marble Hornets” is one of the most popular permutations. Over the past five years, he’s appeared in fan art, short stories, videos, video games and other media all over the Web.Ī Google search for “Slenderman” on Tuesday returned more than 4 million results. Other Something Awful users began creating their own Slenderman stories. “But I don’t think anyone really expected that to happen.” “Some people joked in the thread, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if some of these ended up on those paranormal websites or someone said these pictures look real,’ ” Knudsen said in an interview this year with WNYC’s “TLDR” podcast. And, from there, Slenderman’s assault on the Internet began. They were presented as being from 1984, and one included the text ” ‘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.” (Know Your Meme has documented these posts, although links to the original thread no longer work.)Ī day later, according to Know Your Meme, Knudsen added a third photo and a fictional doctor’s account of a mass killing. Site member Eric Knudsen (under the screen name “Victor Surge”) submitted two images to the contest, both black-and-white images of children, one of which appeared to show a largely undefined figure lurking in the background. According to Know Your Meme, a blog that chronicles Web culture, the goal of the contest was to create the images and then use them to fool, or “troll,” other Web users by submitting them to paranormal websites. In June 2009, a Photoshop contest for images that appeared to be paranormal was launched in a forum on the website Something Awful.
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