Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20140603171416/@comment-24989630-20140608051645

Basilisk Centauri wrote: SpunkySix wrote: I'm still not entirely clear why people assume that the victims here would be sickened by reading a pasta about what happened. Maybe I'm weird, but I'd be kind of honored in a way. I mean, obviously the event was terrifying and awful, but if even something tiny and creative came out of it, co-starring me... I don't know, I'd think it was pretty cool. If you think about it, it's either in this hypothetical case that I become part of the lore of a really awesome series of stories in a way that turns the event on its head, or nothing. Either way, I'd still have been stabbed, and nothing would be changing that, including a story about it that was obviously fictional and purely for fun.

Now, if the family specifically requested for the story to be taken down, you'd have to respect that. Until then, it's probably a case of "too soon" as I've said in the past, but not really anything twisted or deserving of accusations of being this awful person, as long as nothing nasty was said about the victims in the story. Heck, tons of pastas capitalize on specific real events in which children were likely involved, and nobody complains about those or says that the writers of those are evil.

Even if you were stabbed by two twelve year old girls claiming to be proxies of slenderman doing his bidding because of what they saw on this site?

Not all stories, and especially not all the ones about events like this, are "obviously fictional and purely for fun" :( Yes, even then.  I highly doubt the intent was to make the victims sad, and it's clear that since it's from what is basically the boogeyman's POV that it is fictional.

Again, maybe I'm just a minority here with this, but it seems to me like people are definitely twisting this pasta into something much more than it actually was and demonizing the author much more than is warranted. Perhaps it was a misstep in posting it so soon, but nothing more than that. The guy wasn't a twisted psycho for posting a made-up story about something that happened.