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Why's he scary? Also, people are obsessed with the games-I don't know why.

 poppa G wrote:
Why's he scary?

He's not, but then I think that may be because he didn't exist as an urban legend when I was a kid, what with having only originated in 2009.

The game is ok at making you jump if you play it late at night and mildly inebriated... but the Slenderman himself isn't that scary - it's the shock of him appearing, not him being scary.

As for the urban myth, I'd never heard it until after I'd played the game, so I can't say if the myth was scarier.

There are a few decently photoshopped photos that do look creepy as hell...
Mostly it's just the proportions are... wrong...

People are obsessing because kids can play it on thier phones on the bus or at school. Its just angry birds that kids can pretend to get scared at and the more 'urban myths' that come out the better it will sell. Its the computer game equivalent of the blair witch project. ...... and that was crap too

its just a kid thing. i know my 9 yr old and 5 year old freak out over him all of the time while forcing each other to watch the million or so videos of him on youtube.

Slenderman isn't scary. Endermen, who are based on Slenderman, are most definitely scary.

We have language rules on this forum. The fact that there's a word filter should clue you in that posting an image containing a filtered word is going to count as a violation of our forum rules. -Mannahnin

 Grey Templar wrote:
Slenderman isn't scary. Endermen, who are based on Slenderman, are most definitely scary.

Creepers are way scarier then endermen

Slenderman found his way into the newest Call of Cthulhi LCG box. Not sure how I feel about that.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Slenderman found his way into the newest Call of Cthulhi LCG box. Not sure how I feel about that.

Jumping on the bandwagon!

Maybe the appeal of Slenderman is his versatility? I mean... it's pretty much the perfect monster for this generation. Not really that scary so that anyone can get into it, can appear -anywhere- so he can be applied to any setting, easy to draw, has no characterization and no real powers besides teleportation.

Where some people see Slendy as bland I see him as a blank slate. He can be as scary as you want him to be (And he can be really fricking scary) or as tame as you want him to be. Essentially, he's a monster that we can put a bit ourselves in.