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

I applaud your efforts, but I don't think it's possible to make sense out of something that basically originated as a joke on the Something Awful forums. I really never saw what was scary about him, and knowing where he originated, I probably never will.

A monster in a horror story has to have some kind of consistent logic in the way it works. Slenderman is just a bunch of random bullshit, and I think even his very appearance suggests this. He's a faceless tentacled dude with a suit because he was made up on the spot. He photobombs people and makes random, pointless things happen that aren't actually connected to each other, and people try SO HARD to make it all seem scary. To each his own I guess. I'm not scared of clowns, either, but a huge part of the populace is for whatever reason.

I would save my creative energy for my own work - something that's actually worth a writer's attention and effort.