But we cannot be too quick to dismiss what Slender Man represents to his original, much younger target audience, who also made up a huge chunk of the fandom who established his lore.

Two stabbings in the US have been linked to the fantasy horror character Slender Man. ... From the very beginning it was intended to be a meme - in the original sense of a replicating idea.

That’s the same Slender Man that’s on show in the original photos that started the legend. Back in 2009, the website Something Awful was running a Photoshop competition on its forums, asking ...

Police say two girls, both 12-years-old, tried to kill their friend in order to please "Slender Man," a demon-like character that has been floating through the Internet since around 2009.  ...

The original thread is still live. ... “The Slender Man, and other newly created entities, are just the newest addition in the progression of a long, and very real, human tradition.

March 2010: Slender Man Videos Become a Popular Trend Multiple video series in the vein of Marble Hornets appear on YouTube, the most popular being the TribeTwelve series EverymanHybrid .

After nearly a decade and a smattering of very public ups and downs — including a widely publicized stabbing case in 2014 that left a teenage girl seriously injured — both Slender Man and the ...

When reached for comment about the controversy around their Slender Man film, the company offered only this on the record: “The Slender Man film is based on an original fictional character that ...

The original "photos" of Slender Man and the accompanying captions that fed into the creature's mythos are archived at Know Your Meme. The trailer for the upcoming Slender Man movie seems to take ...

These two 12-year-olds did so to prove their allegiance to Slender Man. ... Sex, and Survival in Prep School,” now a Lifetime Original Movie. She is also an Ochberg Fellow in trauma journalism.