User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Beware the Slenderman Documentary/@comment-25947144-20170124182351/@comment-26030957-20170124185410

Also about that, the documentary also talks about the ambiguity and malleable nature of Slenderman, how he can be whatever you want him to be.

Like the Pied Piper, it is never clear what exactly he does with the children he abducts. Some see him as a benevolent savior, rescuing children from bullies and bad parents.

His mysteriousness makes him the perfect post-modern boogey man. He can be anything from the monster in the closet, to the pedophile stalking the elementary school in the beat-up van, to a dark angel.