Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20140603171416/@comment-24626077-20140604213225

this is like the Bulger case in the UK where two kids murdered another, then blamed horror (in that case it was Child's Play) - turned out the kids never even watched it.

Now these girls may well of read Slenderman but its clear they were completely insane to begin with, I read stories about MLP and don't murder people so Pinkie Pie will let me become a slave and live in a magical mansion in a forest (also in no Slender myth has he ever been the type to live in a mansion and be a friendly sort you want to summon in the first place).

The girls use it as a means to act out violent fantasies and the media goes into a frenzy, as they often do, in order to play to the mass-fears of "Satanism" and "corruption" : rather than focus on mental illness or (god forbid) the actual victim and family.

In the end people need to calm down and remember this happens after every major crime, the religious and media go crazy, beat their chests and spew venom but the sane amongst society soon see past the witch-hunt and live returns to normal.

However this doesn't minimize the tragedy, all I'm saying is people yelling "OMG they'll ban creepypasta" are ignorant or trolling because this is the same crap people blamed movies like Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Nightmare on Elm Street for "causing".

To date those films are not banned (they may of in the past but that's not relevant), neither will Slender (though out of respect for the crime I'd say lay off Slender-inspired stories for a couple of months)