User blog comment:CoughOfFire/Slenderman Incident: Really People?/@comment-5000412-20140807000108

At this point, I don't think it's appropriate to correlate Slenderman specifically to creepypasta. True, it originated as a creepypasta character through various stories and posts, but the character's become so popular over time that he's more of a general internet meme now. I think more people have known about it through Marble Hornets and the Slender game (played by almost every youtuber on earth) than they do from the early stories.

Not sure how that necessarily speaks upon the incident, but I find it important to think about nonetheless.

-E