User blog comment:JamesBloody/Creepypasta is dying because you guys been deleting too many stories./@comment-28266772-20160829110630/@comment-4715955-20160829155332

I would honestly lump Slenderman in with those others you mentioned. His stories are comprised of two gimmicks: Slendy photobombing people, and a jumble of random phenomena that are somehow supposed to be arbitrarily connected/scary. Oh yeah, and he started as a goddamned joke on the Something Awful forums.