User blog comment:BrianBerta/My opinion on slenderman/@comment-25755652-20150513132841/@comment-28938497-20150513203640

You do know Slenderman was a creepypasta before he was a game, and was a series of creepy photos on the SomethingAwful forums before he was a Creepypasta, right?

But yeah, mascot pastas tend to suck because the focus is purely on the villain instead of the actual story or scariness.