Introduction to Slenderman

For all of those that don't know, (and it is integral to some of the things I will be reviewing that you do know) Slenderman is a character originally created by the SomethingAwful forums. He originally spawned from a "Let's Create Paranormal Images" thread. He was added in to a few of them, and then he sort of overtook the thread.

From that, an icon of creepypasta was born.

Slenderman is different in most of his appearances. What people can agree on, however, is that he's a tall, faceless thing wearing some sort of business suit. He has freakishly long limbs, and sometimes has tentacles, depending on what you're watching (if it's Japanese, he probably does). His preferred targets are usually children, but he will go after adults if the plot demands it. His main powers include severe mindfuckery, breaking most cameras and an incredible ability to manipulate areas around him. He can either teleport or move really fast, depending on what you're watching.

His MO is usually mindfucking his victims into writing weird notes all over the place, and then either killing them or taking them to his pocket dimension for super happy fun times. Those super happy fun times usually end with him placing your organs into bags for other people to find. Again, this depends entirely on what you're watching. Sometimes he just straight up murders them, sometimes he adds his own special twist to the recipe.

His origin story is usually left entirely unexplained. The cryptic hints that the viewer is given vary wildly, from being a pedophile that was killed by stretching him from a tree, to an entirely meta perspective that we created him by writing on the SA forums, and that we basically doom ourselves by reading up about him. This twist is so meta it's like the Doritos Taco flavoured Doritos.With less Doritos.

So, that's the basics on Slenderman. Essentially, he's a child killing, mind raping, camera breaking, snappy dressing, tall, faceless motherfucker who cannot be harmed through normal methods, or at all. The exact description will change based on the creepypasta you are viewing, but it's essentially the same beast.

Coming up next time, what I've watched of everymanHYBRID so far (which is very little, just to warn you).