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[The Pied Piper]

The scariness is gone

[Noonem]

Eeh, I never found Slendy all that scary, I find what he did to people who came in his way scarier, that's why I actually think Marble Hornets is meh, I need more emphasis on the characters.

But, dood. Some things stop being scary after a while, just like some things stop being funny after a while.

[qaqa]

No.

Goodbye!

[Alloflifedecays]

The more fantasy it gets, the less scary. I'm looking at you, mainstream-blog-canon.

Horror wouldn't be hard to do, but people don't seem to want to write them. They want crossovers and complex mythologies.

[SoulHammer]

I think people are forgetting what made Slendy really frightening in the first place; extreme paranoia, fear of the unknown and the fact slendy can tear your world apart if he so chooses. I'm not against slendy stalking characters (as in looking through windows), I actually find them extremely terrifying. But when he does nothing but stand there for 20+ episodes it really is quite a buzz kill.

[JustJim]

[Acora]

Slender Man is almost never going to be as scary to me as he was the day that I first went on an archive binge with Marble Hornets. Still, I enjoy it a lot more then I do most Hollywood horror movies, and there are times that still genuinely frighten me.

[Alloflifedecays]

The problem is people are trying to create something bigger than a scared guy wondering whether or not there's an otherworldly creature peering in through his window. Narratively interesting, but there's less mystery. Hiking Fiend did it pretty good. Self-contained, minimalist, and perfectly paced. Most bloggers, myself included, just aren't good enough writers.

[Carnahan]

I don't think he lost any appeal, just the scarcity of his content has become bastardized. Unfortunately, blatant "bads" overwhelm the honestly "goods" and since it's not mainstream (yet) there's no real divide between the filtering.

[Jsor]

Honestly, I never found him scary. Intensely fascinating, yes, but never really scary.

There's something about cosmic horror I don't find scary, I think it's the "you're fucked" angle. If I am so cosmically, fundamentally SOL if the entity were to do something to me, why bother worrying about it? It's a bit sobering when you run through scenarios of "how would I beat Slendy and survive?" When you realize there are basically are none if he REALLY wanted to eviscerate you, you just stop being scared and resign yourself to your eventual fate.

[JulieDowey]

[Luipaard]

[RaptorRed]

That is the thing about pretty much anything that frightens me.
At first its completely horrifying.
You encounter something that completely bewilders you.
All you know is that you are scared and understand nothing of it.
It is with the fact that you don't understand anything about it that shakes you so deeply.
As time goes on you learn things about it.
It moves from something without explanation to something that is easy to define.
With the knowledge of it you become less confused by it and therefore less frightened.
Instead of it being frightening it became something that just interests me.

at least thats what happened when i first got into slenderman.

[J.Fawkes]

I think he may not be scary to you, as is the case with me.

When I first dived into the Slender Man mythos, I was absolutely terrified. This Slender Man became the embodiment of what fear was, is, and will be. To this day I cannot look at a man in a suit standing at a bus stop without assuming the worst.

But Slendy has become more of a fascination than a figure of terror. There are times when he still scares me like no other, but I've involved and immersed myself so much in the mythos that I find it more interesting to see slendy rather than fear-invoking, I am compelled to want more, and I think that want takes some of the fear and replaces it with yearning.

It's not that Slendy has become less scary, it's that we've become more interested.

[Cutboy]

^ i can't agree more with this guy. the first and second times watching marble hornets had me scared to death and i couldn't sleep for weeks.

but the more stuff i watch about him, the more he's just a fascination, especially since i keep waiting for some vlog to portray him in a frightening manner that gives me the same sense of fear that he did the first time i saw him. lately no video has really done that for me. entry 37 of marble hornets probably was the scariest thing i've seen in a while, but it only lasted about 2 nights.