One of the earliest additions was added by a forum user named "Thoreau-Up", who created a folklore story set in 16th-century Germany involving a character called Der Gro?man, which was implied to be an early reference to the Slender Man.:36 The first video series involving the Slender Man evolved from a post on the Something Awful thread by user "ce gars". Many aspects of the Slender Man mythos first appeared on the original Something Awful thread. Divorced from its original creator, the Slender Man became the subject of myriad stories by multiple authors within an overarching mythos. The Slender Man soon went viral, spawning numerous works of fanart, cosplay, and online fiction known as "creepypasta"-horror stories told in short snatches of easily copyable text that spread from site to site. Although previous entries had consisted solely of photographs, 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" The thread was a Photoshop contest in which users were challenged to "create paranormal images." Forum poster Eric Knudsen, under the pseudonym "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. The Slender Man was created on June 10, 2009, on a thread in the Something Awful Internet forum. He has also appeared in a film adaptation of Marble Hornets, where he was portrayed by Doug Jones, and an eponymous film, where he was portrayed by Javier Botet.īeginning in 2014, a moral panic occurred over the Slender Man after readers of his fiction were connected to several violent acts, particularly a near-fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Outside of online fiction, the Slender Man has become an internet icon and has influenced popular culture, having been referenced in the video game Minecraft with the Enderman character and generated video games of his own, such as Slender: The Eight Pages and Slender: The Arrival. Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as Marble Hornets, wherein he is known as The Operator. The Slender Man is not confined to a single narrative but appears in many disparate works of fiction, typically composed online.
Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature him stalking, abducting or traumatizing people, particularly children. He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless head and face and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009.
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