THS posted:

something awful is dying and irrelevant but this is like a corpse giving one last massive fart

THS posted:

something awful is dying and irrelevant but this is like a corpse giving one last massive fart

Al Borland posted:

Yet somehow SA still manages to lead to horrible things. Our farts seem to stick around and stink the place up for ages after we're gone.

Korthal posted:

notZaar posted:

Did slender man come before or after that guy from Yahtzees game that looked exactly like slender man?

Pirate Jet posted:

i think youre thinking of minecraft and the answer is before

because notch is king sperg

WaffleZombie posted:

Too bad they would never find his house, let alone a home...

notZaar posted:

No in definitely thinking of that Yahtzee game about the haunted hotel

quote:

She said she was scared people would blame literature like hers for the way people wrongly blamed the music of Marilyn Manson for the shootings at Columbine.

The Washington Post posted:

The complete, terrifying history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that compelled two 12-year-olds to stab their friend


He lurks in the background of gritty black-and-white photos — a gaunt, too-tall figure with skeletal limbs. Some say he lives in the woods and eats children, a kind of demon descended from eastern European myth. Some say he stalks human prey indiscriminately, wherever he can find it: in basements, outside half-open windows, along lonely streets late at night when only occasional headlights cut across the road.

Some say he has no face. Others, that his face looks different to everyone who sees it. But whatever they say, everyone generally agrees on one point: that Slender Man, perhaps the Internet’s best and scariest legend, is indeed a legend — an invented character who can be traced back, quite linearly, to an obscure forum where in 2009 users Photoshopped old pictures and improvised a back story for their creations.

Tragically — and chillingly — two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wis., seem to have missed all of that. On Saturday, according to local news reports, the girls lured a friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in some kind of tribute to Slender Man. The girl they stabbed is hospitalized in stable condition. The perpetrators will be tried as adults.

(...)

In real life, the story begins in the forums of Something Awful, a humor site for people who enjoy joking about things like Dungeons & Dragons, porn and 3-D printers. But the forums can take trickier turns — they’re well-known for tricky Photoshopping and general prankery.

(...)

THS posted:

something awful is dying and irrelevant but this is like a corpse giving one last massive fart

ce gars posted:

I 3D print my D&D porn, what of it.

ce gars posted:

I 3D print my D&D porn, what of it.

The Washington post posted:

Dungeons & Dragons, porn and 3-D printers

James Woods posted:

I have all three of these things within arms reach.

Pycckuu posted:

Something awful made the news, congratulations everyone!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/slender-man-online-character-wisconsin-stabbings

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Slender Man – referred to fondly as “Slendy” by those in the know – quickly became one of its most popular tropes, with thousands of stories, artworks, YouTube creations and even a series of video games created around it.