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[Ol'Slendy]

The massive load of Slenderblogs is getting annoying.

[Slendery]

I think they're all trying to jump on the Slendy bandwagon before it gets really popular and big.

[Grim Joker]

MarbleHornets made it hugely popular, and then it's two children, EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve really sent it out there. Now everyone wants to get in on it. I wouldn't say it's a bandwagon, really, it's just that everyone is discovering this amazing story potential at around the same time.

[Ol'Slendy]

Only 1 out if every 100 get popular..... and are good. I thought about makig one, but I lack the creativity skills and time to do it.

[Sumias]

There are a few that I have seen that seemed capable of being really promising, but last I checked, both were inactive.

[awakeasaurusrex]

This is exactly why I'm glad someone stepped up and started reviewing them in the form of the Slendy Reader.

The thing about blogs is that it requires minimal resources and prep time to get one started - sit down, write, publish to blogger, and you're off - so obviously lots of people try to do them. And precisely because it's so easy to whip up a blog post and put it, lots of people doing blogs don't really have a firm plan. They don't come up with a story structure, they don't put a lot of thought into pacing, they don't come up with a plan for how the story's going to end and I think a lot of the time they don't think about how the blog's going to look to a reader - whether that reader is a Slendy-aware veteran or someone who has no idea about this Slender Man thing.

The last thing is also something that bugs me - so many stories, blogs and vlogs, assume that anyone reading has watched Marble Hornets and the other major vlogs. I'd prefer more stories written with the view of being equally entertaining to someone who's really up on this shit as it is to someone who's completely new.

[5_pak]

I was honestly thinking about doing a Slenderblog and actually spent a month on like 6 characters, each with a blog, posting every few days, so they had established character and conflicts but knowing it would all end up for nothing since there's no room anymore for new blogs I gave it up. Also school got in the way.

I think we'll start seeing a down turn soon but I bet once EMH and MH2 finish it'll increase again.

[Atomyk]

Okay, which ones have you read?

Because some are good, you are no doubt generalizing a bit.

[Das Omega]

Some are good. The keyword is some. There are an increasingly large amount of them which are just awful.
It still hasn't reached the point where it's become impossible to follow all the blogs; I'm able to keep up with them thus far (mainly by skimming the lower quality ones ), but as long as stuff like the 23rd doesn't happen too frequently, it's still physically possible.

[Atomyk]

I'd avoid the ones that jumped on the Core Theory bandwagon.

I even think White Elephants is mocking its older mannerisms now.

[DandA]

I don't have the patience for Slendy Blogs. I just find the medium really awkward. Thats not to say that there are no good ones, (cause I'm sure there are), but just I prefer vlogs. That being said I only really follow EMH and MH.

I hear TribeTwleve is good, but I saw the first two videos and was too much of a MH rip off for me. I also heard that it gets better after awhile, but I can't get over the black background white font and "submissions," plus I feel they brought on the Slendy stuff too soon (distortions, operator symbol, etc.)

[5_pak]

Tribe Twelve DOES actually improve after it gets past the "Entry" videos. There's a stiflingly bad video where he goes out of his way to point out each occurrence of Slender, which is too much like "Did you see what I did there?" acting.

But, after wards, it comes into its own a bit. It's by far the weakest of the "best" out there, but it's still good.

[Sumias]

I enjoyed White Rabbit Asylum, A Lack of Lexicon, A Storytelling of Rooks, and in particular, Watch This City Burn/Dreams in Darkness. White Rabbit and Rooks were surprisingly well-written. Lexicon had A, who was a smartass prankster that was very interactive, so I loved that.

[5_pak]

Honestly, I think this may be just me, but am I the only one to whom writing STYLE is much less of a concern on the blogs than other things? Content I judge more strictly, but I honestly am not so tight about style as I would be on, say, a novel. Because after all these are blogs. They're not mass published journals.

So unless the writing is actually a barrier to the story (which I have seen, don't get me wrong) I don't have an opinion on the style itself. Only what it says.

[SickSlickMan]

SOME are okay. I'm really hooked into Lost Within the Green Sky and Make it Count, which I think are pretty well-written and developed. And contrary to popular opinion, I really don't mind the Sage blogs. Yeah, they're a different take on the mythos, but I don't really think it's doing any harm (as long as Slendy isn't ACTUALLY killed for good, because I think we all learned that lesson with that one blog whose name I forgot).

But the majority, yeah, the influx is bugging me a bit. If they actually put work into the characters and their stories, then that's fine, but most jump right in, which annoy me.