Slender Man

Description

Slender Man is a fictional character which started as an Internet meme and this was created by Victor Surge and on the forums of Something Awful this was in 2009.  This character is portrayed as a thin unnaturally tall man with a featureless face and he wears a black suit. Slender man is described as to stalk people, abduct them and also mentally unstable them and his main targets are children.

Development

Slender Man went viral across the internet, and by doing this it then spawned different works of Fanart also cosplay.  The very first video series which was sown as a post on the Something Awful.  This tells the stores a friend involved in film school who was creating a film called Marble Hornets.  The series was published as found footage style and was shown on YouTube forms an alternate reality game describing the filmers' fictional experiences with the Slender Man. Marble Hornets is now one of the most popular Slender Man creations, with over 250,000 followers around the world, and 55 million views.  Slender man had become that known that in 2011 the creator of the indie Minecraft Markus Persson created a new character within the game called Enderman.  In 2012 slender man was created in to a game and this was called Slender; The Eight Pages and from August 2012 the game had been downloaded over 2 million times.  When the game was created into an iOS app it then became the second most popular app download, the game was released for free online after a $10,000 kickstarter campaign. In 2013, it was announced that Marble Hornets would become a theatrical film.