A Brief History of Slender Man, The Internet's Boogeyman
By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
Slender: The Arrival launches on PlayStation 4 today, and while the Slender Man phenomenon has died down in the last few years, he’s still super creepy. Did you know he was invented on a message board? While a writer over at Giant Bomb, I profiled the history of Slender Man. You might think he’s a product of Hollywood, but Slender Man’s origins are, in reality, the Something Awful forums.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/one-two-slender-mans-coming-for-you/1100-4332/ Cue the “Create Paranormal Images” sbfplay thread from the Something Awful message boards in the Comedy Goldmine category from April 30, 2009. User “Gerogerigegege” created the thread. “Creating paranormal images has been a hobby of mine for quite some time,” said Gerogerigegege in a thread that’s now, amazingly, three years old. “Occasionally, I stumble upon odd web sites showcasing strange photos, and I always wondered if it were possible to get one of my own chops in a book, documentary, or web site just by casually leaking it out into the web — whether they’d be supplements to bogus stories or not.” The first few pages include your typical hair-raising submissions, including poorly Photoshopped ghosts and distorted faces with too much blur filtering. On the