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rkmobius
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 		What next?
So now that it's over, how are people getting their fill? I'm sorry if the mods think this belongs in other fora, but I'm not sure how many people look at them.

I stumbled across The Origin Files just recently, and not only was I very skeptical at first, I almost didn't get through the first few episodes.

I'm very, very glad I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnbI3XUTaWs

It's a travesty that more people don't know about this judging by the view count. Promise I'm not affiliated with the amazing, poor sods who made this, they really deserve a lot more recognition. I hope you give it a try - there's also an end, and things get explained. They take risks. Lots of them pay off. Shit happens.

Again, it's a slow beginning but the "filler" ends up being important, and made the characters a lot more interesting than Jay, Tim, or Alex. I say that as a backer of the MH Kickstarter, and someone who got a thrill when Troy and Tim answered one of my AMA questions. Anyhow, it's set in Montana, they use the setting well, and the effects, editing, and acting were really, really good.

Or am I just suuuuuper slow to this boat and you beautiful people already knew about this?

Anyhow, this isn't just for this series, what other series are people using to sate the MH void? Apart from EMH and TT, that is.

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Now that's done, I'm going back to good old American network TV. I even bought my first analog set in several years. For some reason the reception here in Eastern New England is worse than I remember it being...

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 		I've kinda fallen off the whole Slender Man thing, personally. I'll still keep up with Keratin Garden as long as that keeps being made, but I'm not having any high hopes for EMH, TT, or the like. (No offense to the puppetmasters if any are reading this. You guys are cool, especially Adam.)

It was fun for a few years, but unless something really groundbreaking happens (more so than Marble Hornets), I think it's a genre I'm just not really into much anymore. Who knows? I might be surprised.

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rand__althor
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 		Now that Marble Hornets is over, I've kind of lost my enthusiasm for these Slender Man series. Is it because there are so many of them? Is it because I wanted more from the end of Marble Hornets, and just don't want to be disappointed by other series?

Of course, I am the main host of the Marble Operator podcast, and we are still discussing three other series (TribeTwelve, Dark Harvest, and Andersen Journals), and a lot of people want us to discuss EverymanHYBRID (and we probably will at some point, that's just an overwhelming task at this point), so I'll still watch those until they end, because I've been a fan for so long (and not just because I've interviewed Adam of TribeTwelve and Chris of Dark Harvest).

Slender Man series were fun for a while, but I get the point, I get the idea, I get the premise. There's not much else you can do with that concept that hasn't already been done repeatedly. Occasionally I will go to the Slender Man Mythos section here and look for new series, but I've not seen a new series that catches my attention.
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rand__althor wrote:
Slender Man series were fun for a while, but I get the point, I get the idea, I get the premise. There's not much else you can do with that concept that hasn't already been done repeatedly. Occasionally I will go to the Slender Man Mythos section here and look for new series, but I've not seen a new series that catches my attention.


Agreed. I find it hard to get excited about any of the newer series I've seen, though the guy who did "Handprints" and a few other series and the woman doing "KeratinGarden" deserve credit for their efforts to bring a fresh approach (I really liked some of the distortion used in the latter--the coloring and the sounds were very different). But everything seems so derivative of Marble Hornets and the others, otherwise.

A new way to go would be to make Slendy some sort of parasitic mystical being bent on controlling the world--by which I mean like Palmer Eldritch in Philip K. Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. But then you'd have to humanize Slendy way too much. But it would be a very different Slendy than someone appointing proxies and leading kids to the woods, etc.

I'm not sure I'd really want to see that, though. So maybe minimizing Slendy and making him one entity among others would be more fruitful? There are apparently people working in the "Fear Mythos." I personally don't get excited about those much, but that of course is not a comment on quality.

EDIT: Though it's not a Slendy series, I really wish the guys who do JustAcquaintances would start it up again. Even though it was starting to get a bit derivative with (spoiler imminent)
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, it was a very fresh story that was engaging through its first season and for much of its second, and had gotten to a very cool cliffhanger with its very abrupt last scene of the most recent entry posted (#30). The acting's very consistent, the dialogue's believable, the scares and creepiness are very real (especially in the first season).

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rand__althor wrote:
Now that Marble Hornets is over, I've kind of lost my enthusiasm for these Slender Man series. Is it because there are so many of them? Is it because I wanted more from the end of Marble Hornets, and just don't want to be disappointed by other series?

Of course, I am the main host of the Marble Operator podcast, and we are still discussing three other series (TribeTwelve, Dark Harvest, and Andersen Journals), and a lot of people want us to discuss EverymanHYBRID (and we probably will at some point, that's just an overwhelming task at this point), so I'll still watch those until they end, because I've been a fan for so long (and not just because I've interviewed Adam of TribeTwelve and Chris of Dark Harvest).

Slender Man series were fun for a while, but I get the point, I get the idea, I get the premise. There's not much else you can do with that concept that hasn't already been done repeatedly. Occasionally I will go to the Slender Man Mythos section here and look for new series, but I've not seen a new series that catches my attention.


I find I still like Slender Series, but it seems like the other "Big 5" have gone inactive. Hard to keep it up if there's nothing put out.

I would hate it if they just quit because Marble Hornets is over.

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Blackout_2014 wrote:

I would hate it if they just quit because Marble Hornets is over.


I for one highly doubt that any of the remaining series in the "Big 5" will quit simply because MH has finished it's run. They've all invested entirely too much time and effort to simply let their respective series die out like that. At least, that's how I feel about it.

Moving on to the larger point brought up here, I actually came back to uF about a week ago after a rather long hiatus (alternate reality is fun, actual reality is much more tiresome! Wink ) and noticed the lack of alot of activity then there used to be round these parts. I think an even bigger question is; After so long, is the ARG itself waning, let alone Slender Man Mythos? It seems as if there are a few things going on (I still can't believe that one Strange Phone Number game is still going on), yet not only does the whole Slender Man Mythos seem to be dying out, but ARGs on the whole seem to be kind of going the way of the dodo compared to even a year ago, let alone a few.

Is it that we were oversaturated with games, regardless of quality? Was it that everyone and their mother decided to make a Slender vlog? I've seen a fair few good vlogs, and a fair few rather horrible ones (which I will not name on either account) and I'm not entirely sure, I'm much too tired, and I know I'm rambling, but I wonder why it seems as if there is such a decline in both these genres? (for lack of a better term.)

Your thoughts, uF?
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ButtPirate
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 		i've been a fan of both EMH and TT but they're not good recently. EMH is going nowhere storywise, TT mostly due to inactivity and a goofy anime vibe i've been getting from the show lately.

i watched My dad's tapes for a while but stopped halfway because of poor acting and some really boring filler videos.

i don't know what the hell to watch next, i'm probably done with slendervlogs, i'll probably stick to vice documentaries until trosephim start the new series, but who knows when that'll be...

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 		Honestly, Marble Hornets mostly felt like the appetizer to EverymanHYBRID, so I'm holding up pretty well.

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 		I found The Origin Files around January 2013 and I have to say it is probably my favourite of all the Slender vlogs. Glad you appreciate it as much as I do Very Happy

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 		So how long before this forum dies?

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rand__althor wrote:
Slender Man series were fun for a while, but I get the point, I get the idea, I get the premise. There's not much else you can do with that concept that hasn't already been done repeatedly.

I disagree. There's always a different direction you can take a concept in.

Personally, if I were to make a series, I would drop the distortion, the memory loss, the proxies, and the Slender Man appearances altogether. I would strip it down to a one season story about a parent who has lost their child, and is investigating the disappearances of children in the area. I feel it could be (gradually) very creepy piecing together what exactly the Slender Man is, and how long it's been around. The parent would never see the Slender Man (outside of pictures, maybe,) since it only appears to children, like the original mythos. As opposed to Marble Hornets, which became an over-the-top drama, I suppose this would be closer to a documentary.

(I haven't watched any Slender Man series outside of Marble Hornets, so if there is a series that focuses on the child-abducting aspect of Slender Man, I would greatly appreciate a link!)

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Lithp wrote:
Honestly, Marble Hornets mostly felt like the appetizer to EverymanHYBRID, so I'm holding up pretty well.


Pretty much this, to an extent. It's a shame EMH currently has such a huge-and-persistent crossover boner, though.

With the countless months-long waits between EMH's updates, however, I will admit I'm losing a bit of interest in the mythos as a whole. I was crazy over ol' Slendy when I discovered Marble Hornets and later EMH and TT 3 or so years ago during my later high school days (don't really follow TT anymore), but I think I've over-saturated myself since then. Hell, the most recent Slender Man adaptation that legitimately scared me was the game Slender The Arrival; Marble Hornets' third season was rather well-written, and the characters were well-developed, but there weren't all that many "scares" for me aside from Entry 64 which just unsettled me a bit. EverymanHYBRID is more disturbing than scary in my experience, which is fine.

In terms of The Arrival, though, quite a few of the sections filled me with actual terror on-par with when I first discovered Marble Hornets. It was a fucking glorious horror game, but it's not looking like I'll be experiencing such terror ever again within a webseries. That's okay, though. As long as the premise is good, I'll watch on.

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Lithp
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 		Yeah, I thought about that soon after I said it. I'm pretty busy/have other things to watch right now in general, so I almost hope that EMH doesn't update, so that I don't have to set aside time to watch it. Which explains why I'm not really noticing. I was looking for other series a little while ago, but that got put on hold.

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