User blog comment:EtherBot/Slenderman./@comment-4715955-20170926064055/@comment-25458443-20170928085534

I disagree with Slenderman being a shitty monster. Not really well thought out but there's not much about his concept which is poorly thought out or particularly silly unlike Jeff the Killer. Good monster design isn't predicated on how it utilizes the elements of horror in an intentional way but whether he's scary. Preplanned or not, they accidentally made an unnerving looking monster who does unnerving things.

I'm basing this purely based on looks and the original conception. He's a tall facelss guy with tentacles who kills children and there are some photos of it provided to be extra spooky, Nothing egregious here. In my opinion everything "not scary" about slenderman was added after by people who were just throwing shit at the wall without thinking first.

The original elevator pitch of slenderman is good monster design it's literally that simple. Tall faceless men in suits are weird and scary and killing children is too. I really don't see the point about loads of nonsense that don't make sense, unless you're refering to the nonsense that's been added after the fact...which i don't count as being actually a real thing and just ignore.