Brad Jones, The Cinema Snob

[pibbs]

Was Cabbage Man blamed for two crazy girls stabbing nearly to death a third?
Then he's a pussy. SLENDERMAN RULES!!!

[rabidtictac]

Yahtzee's adventure games are kind of surprisingly good for the conditions in which he made them + the typical lack of talent most e-celebs have.

I don't remember which game it was, but one of them had a staircase sequence or something that really stuck with me.

[Vaporwear]

slenderman, yet another SA creation that led to autism, failure, IRL murder and child abuse

You haven't seen the depths of YT comment sections until you found yourself in a discussion with a guy who claimed Slendy is real because you can't prove that he doesn't exist.

But I wouldn't even say the stretchy albino is the worst of the bunch. At least he's made up of fancy photoshops, while a shitload of other creepypastashit is just walls and walls of crude text that gets praised by idiots for some reason.

Slenderman is a ripoff of a similar enough guy in Yatzhee Chzo Mythos games and that character was better, like that series is full of problems and mistakes but the Tall Man/Cabadath was a better threat than Slender ever will

And Yahtzee ripped it off from the movie Phantasm, where the otherwordly entity is literally called the Tall Man. The concept of a tall, scary man-like creature in the woods stealing kids is nothing new, not even a tall creature wearing modern day formal clothing.

Ironically it's why The Slender Man works so well: it's a well known archetype that often pops up in folklore that takes advantage of several unsettling ideas: the fear of an unknown entity that is almost human but not quite, the fear of a creature that preys on vulnerable children, and the fear of the woods, which when untouched by man are dark, dense, deep, and impenetrable to a child.

[Guest]

slenderman, yet another SA creation that led to autism, failure, IRL murder and child abuse

You haven't seen the depths of YT comment sections until you found yourself in a discussion with a guy who claimed Slendy is real because you can't prove that he doesn't exist.

But I wouldn't even say the stretchy albino is the worst of the bunch. At least he's made up of fancy photoshops, while a shitload of other creepypastashit is just walls and walls of crude text that gets praised by idiots for some reason.

Slenderman is a ripoff of a similar enough guy in Yatzhee Chzo Mythos games and that character was better, like that series is full of problems and mistakes but the Tall Man/Cabadath was a better threat than Slender ever will

I want the one with the glasses to call me in a few years.

[Guest]

You haven't seen the depths of YT comment sections until you found yourself in a discussion with a guy who claimed Slendy is real because you can't prove that he doesn't exist.

But I wouldn't even say the stretchy albino is the worst of the bunch. At least he's made up of fancy photoshops, while a shitload of other creepypastashit is just walls and walls of crude text that gets praised by idiots for some reason.

Slenderman is a ripoff of a similar enough guy in Yatzhee Chzo Mythos games and that character was better, like that series is full of problems and mistakes but the Tall Man/Cabadath was a better threat than Slender ever will

And Yahtzee ripped it off from the movie Phantasm, where the otherwordly entity is literally called the Tall Man. The concept of a tall, scary man-like creature in the woods stealing kids is nothing new, not even a tall creature wearing modern day formal clothing.

Ironically it's why The Slender Man works so well: it's a well known archetype that often pops up in folklore that takes advantage of several unsettling ideas: the fear of an unknown entity that is almost human but not quite, the fear of a creature that preys on vulnerable children, and the fear of the woods, which when untouched by man are dark, dense, deep, and impenetrable to a child.
Oh i haven't seen Phantasm so i didn't know that, at least Yatzhee didn't copypaste the Phantasm one (Unless i'm again mistaken. I'm not scared by Slendyboy, as far as i know he doesn't kill even directly but by causing heart attacks (unless they changed him since the old Slenderman lore days)

Was Cabbage Man blamed for two crazy girls stabbing nearly to death a third?
Then he's a pussy. SLENDERMAN RULES!!!

Depends on the logic (or lack of it) used and if we count only crotch goblins as victims

[Kugelfisch]

It's still some lame shit. The coolest concept is that of the good old German folklore of the "Wechselbalg". The boogiemen in that story are unknown creatures living in the ground. The creatures are not the point, though. See, they drag children into holes in the ground, kill them, and send back out one of them but as a perfect clone of the killed child. They behave oddly, generally badly or illogical. They are terrible changelings but don't usually live past 30 years at best.
So the thing to fear isn't the creatures, it's the child.
It's most plausible that it was used to explain mental illness of a child arising and also have a reason to kill the child.

[pibbs]

It's still some lame shit. The coolest concept is that of the good old German folklore of the "Wechselbalg". The boogiemen in that story are unknown creatures living in the ground. The creatures are not the point, though. See, they drag children into holes in the ground, kill them, and send back out one of them but as a perfect clone of the killed child. They behave oddly, generally badly or illogical. They are terrible changelings but don't usually live past 30 years at best.

So, millennials then.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

The fey have returned, and this time they're giving us millenials.

And Yahtzee ripped it off from the movie Phantasm, where the otherwordly entity is literally called the Tall Man. The concept of a tall, scary man-like creature in the woods stealing kids is nothing new, not even a tall creature wearing modern day formal clothing.

Ironically it's why The Slender Man works so well: it's a well known archetype that often pops up in folklore that takes advantage of several unsettling ideas: the fear of an unknown entity that is almost human but not quite, the fear of a creature that preys on vulnerable children, and the fear of the woods, which when untouched by man are dark, dense, deep, and impenetrable to a child.

Slenderfags love pulling up some old medieval woodcuttings as "proof" that he exists. Because it's not like medieval artists just loved drawing weird and grotestque demons / grim reapers because they had a weeb-tier obsession with death and the afterlife.

Though the sad thing is the Slendy isn't really a child kidnapper anymore. That was only part of his lore in the original photoshops. Nowadays he's pretty much exclusively targeting millenial manchilds cause that's the only type of character appearing in those spooky scary web video projects, like the famous Soy Wasps.

[rabidtictac]

The obsession with death made more sense in medieval times than it does when goths and emo fags do it now. Medieval art was about death a lot of the time primarily because of rampant disease. There's some pretty metal paintings where skellingtons are watching sick people die slowly and shit.

[Kugelfisch]

So, millennials then.

Bazinga!