• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ok srsly tho never found slanderman scary, it’s really hard to when you watch it become invented on the internet out of thin air (iirc another 4chan thing or maybe SA)

    Like was it a meme to pretend it is scary? Was I not in on the joke or something?

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Slender Man was invented on Something Awful.

      It convinced a couple of middle school girls to stab another middle school girl. That’s scary enough for me.

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        1 month ago

        If it wasn’t Slenderman it would be something else. Geyser believed she was speaking with several fictional characters, from Slenderman to Severus Snape.

        How disconnected a human mind can become from reality is the truly scary thing.