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[Oscar Langley]

The momentum that existed in 2010 is long gone.

[Geneaux486]

I feel like the slender man has been overused anyway. Too many vlogs try to give it a purpose, give it a personality, goals, and desires, make it a "he" instead of an "it". And/or they make it move around entirely too much. With the slender man's design, there's a fine line between creepy and goofy.

As an incomprehensible threat, something completely alien whose purpose and effects can't be clearly perceived, the way Marble Hornets did it, the creepiness was preserved to the very end. But seeing him close a door by flopping his head back and forth, or seeing him spider-crawl over people in his Sunday-best? Not so much.

That isn't to say I'd like to see slender man vanish from works of fiction, but if it's a choice between that and watering it down to the point where it becomes a living joke, well, I'd rather shudder at the creepy memories than roll my eyes at the sight of slender man bum-rushing someone while phallus in quintuplicate wriggles around on his back.

But from what I gather, a lot of people disagree with me on that, so my actual answer is no, I don't think slender man will meet its end any time soon.

[Jordan]

[SignerJ]

It's not dead. I think that there is still a lot of potential, if creators take the right channels. The biggest problem is the whole "meme status" for the Tall Man and, face it, that won't be going away for years even if the entire mythos dies. The publicity has made the scare factor more difficult to create. I honestly think that the best thing for the future of the mythos is for it to go back underground, where there is a lot more creative leeway.

Nevertheless, as long as people keep creating, it definitely isn't the beginning of the end.

[Dacad]

[Geneaux486]

[awakeasaurusrex]

I think we're increasingly unlikely to get anything majorly revolutionary happening in the specific slendervlog format. The format's been done to death by pastiche after pastiche and whilst Slendy does have the advantage that he's a fairly easy horror character to include in your YouTube series, he's also increasingly obvious and played-out.

I think there's likely to still be a fandom cranking out stuff, but very little of it will be of any interest to anyone who isn't a hardcore fan of Slendervlogs in the first place. The next exciting horror YouTube series will probably have an entirely different premise and format.

To be fair, this has been the case for a good while. But the end of MH might prompt a mild decline as people who were mainly interested in MH and only dipped into other vlogs for fixes between entries drift away.

[knightmare]

I've never seen any slendy-related series other than MH. I came across MH before I even knew about Slenderman. I might one day check out some of the other series, but I don't really have much interest in them.

[Xman]

[awakeasaurusrex]

[JAL13]

As long as TT (Tribe Twelve) keeps up the bad acting, the cliches, and having Noah swear every 5 minutes I think I'll keep watching for the lolz.

EMH would have been good if it didn't collab with TT and become part of it's universe. Evan is a good actor on his own.

MH was the more believable out of the three and made me feel like I was right there with the characters.


Never watched DarkHarvest because I learned it was part of EMH's and TT's universe and didn't think it was worth it.

[lonsumtravlr]

[Jordan]

[Psychic Denim]

Personally I liked EMH, Dark Harvest, AND Tribe Twelve, but they update so infrequently I can't even keep track of the plots anymore (and I'm not re-watching a whole series for each entry either)

They all have something other than Slenderman as an antagonist (EMH's Habit and maybe the Rake, DH's cult of israphel , and TT's whatever they are) and I think Slenderman itself will never be as interesting as Marble Hornets makes it. Marble Hornets killed Slenderman because nobody else can do it as well as Trosephim did. Time to move on to other found-footage monsters, everyone. I do like the antagonists in the "big three" but the series themselves have really lost momentum. I don't even know what's going on in EMH anymore

[lonsumtravlr]