User blog comment:19amotra/Why is Slenderman not scary anymore?/@comment-25052433-20150828011137

Well, my guess is that Slenderman, like most horror villains and characters, is simply not immuned to the effects of over exposure.

Let's go back in time though. In the early 80's when Freddy Krueger first showed up, he scared a lot of people. Then, they kept making movies, which meant, they had to keep coming up with stuff for him to do. He went from being this boogey-man of sorts that haunts nightmares, to being a familier face to everyone. He wasn't scary anymore because he had become so popular. He was the Mickey Mouse of horror films. Everyone knew him, his story, his methods and his antics. He was a hair away from being on breakfast cereals.

The same can be said for Jason, Chucky, zombies in general, Taylor Swift, pretty much anything that's meant to be scary. Once we see it enough, it becomes familier, and familier is often the polar opposite of what creates fear.

Fear generally spawns from a place of unknowing. It's scary because you don't know what it's about, what it may want or do. However, the more familier we become with any concept, the less frightening it becomes, because, well, we know it.

So, Slenderman sort of fell victim to that same fate. He became too popular to be feared. It didn't help that every fangirl in the country was drawing him hanging out with other creepypasta characters, doing normal crap. It didn't help that parady characters, like Trenderman, came to be, making Slender more of a joke than a legit fear source.

Of course, when you stop to think about it, a lot about Slenderman was never that scary to start with. I guess I never quite got the suit. I mean, is this part of his body or does he take the time to dress up? His suit is always clean too, so does he take the time to wash and iron, or does he have magic powers for that?

Well, that's my guess anyway.