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. Lovecraft influenced the creation of the Slender Man. The stabbing inspired the documentary Beware the Slenderman, which was released in 2016. He has also appeared in a 2015 film adaptation of Marble Hornets, where he was portrayed by Doug Jones, and an eponymous 2018 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. The character has appeared in the video game Slender: The Eight Pages (2012) and its successor Slender: The Arrival (2013), as well as inspiring the Enderman in Minecraft.

Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as Marble Hornets (2009–2014), wherein he is known as The Operator. The Slender Man has become a pop culture icon, although he 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 his stalking, abducting, or traumatizing people, particularly children. He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless white head and face, wearing a black suit. The Slender Man (also spelled Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forum user Eric Knudsen (also known as 'Victor Surge') in 2009.

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