User blog comment:EtherBot/Slenderman./@comment-4715955-20170926064055/@comment-25941663-20170926112321

@Mike: I agree with pretty much all your points, but I just want to point out Slenderman (the photos of him) were some part of a contest on Something Awful. I think I read it somewhere, but I can't really be bothered to check, so take this at face value.

I disagree though with the "random bullshit" thing. I think it can be scary. The problem is they overdid it. Oh, he has no face, photobombs people, is afraid of water, has tentacles, kills children, he is all-powerful, and the list goes on. The original photos were creepy because the idea was simple: *something* tall and thin and creepy-looking stalks children and we happened to catch it in a photo by chance. At the end of the day though, creepiness is in the eye of the beholder.