User blog comment:ShadowFlash83/Why Is The Slender Man So Overrated?/@comment-36627132-20181214155715

He isn't overrated at all, he deserves the popularity he recieves. He is the perfect embodiment of the Creepypasta genre: he has an iconic look, he is Lovecraftian (fear the unknown), he is interesting to read and write about, and is the perfect urban legend material, reminiscent of such legends as Bunny Man or the man with the hook.

Slender Man originated on a SomethingAwful thread back in June 2009 and gained immediate attention. People started writing their own stories about him and making fan art, often photoshopping him in photos for both comedy and horror. These photoshops appealed to the meme fanbase.

Slender: The Eight Pages was released only three years after Slender Man made his appearance on SomethingAwful. The game has been praised for its effectiveness as a minimalist survival horror game. Gamers enjoyed it because it had originality (even for 2012), Let's Play and Reaction video audiences found out about him through their favorite Youtubers, and the fact that the game is Freeware makes it accessable to anyone who has an internet connection.

A lot of people found out about him through the web series Marble Hornets. He has also been making appearances (and has had parodies done about him) on television since 2013, most notably Gravity Falls and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

As for the movie, if you want a synopsis then go read the one on the movie's Wikipedia page. I doubt anyone is going to want to watch it again just to make a synopsis of it, and I doubt anyone remembers it well enough. It was just another one of Sony's sad attempts at transforming a meme into a movie.