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[RatheadSyndicate]

Actually, I agree with Phenom, sincerely (well, mostly sincerely... dude, a lisp? That's your rationale?). It's not that the mythos, or the fanbase (although, with the knee-jerk anger some posters jump to at the very mention of racial inequality, who can be sure about its individual subscribers) are somehow inherently racist, it's just unfortunate (and worth pointing out and acknowledging) that these stories are so homogeneous.

Part of the problem, if you'll allow me to riff for a second, is that (I would guess) the overwhelming majority of internet nerd culture are white, heterosexual, young men. I don't reaaaaally have any evidence to back that up, but even the Something Awful forums (where this phenomenon began) has a running gag about their core membership consisting of white dudes with neck beards wearing fedoras. If we operate under that assumption, which I think is fair, most people who are exposed to the Slenderman mythos are white dudes. And of these white dudes, a small percentage decide to make their own vlog or blog.

It would be incredibly refreshing to see a well-produced Slenderman vlog starring pretty much anybody else. C'est la vie.

[NoMoreGaems]

Actually, I suppose there might be some racial aspect to the mythos. I was just thinking, Slenderman looks white... maybe that's along the same lines of the Agents, from the Matrix, he's white for the same reason he wears a suit, to look like an important, intimidating person.

I don't really have anywhere to go with this train of thought, but I think there could be something there.

[qaqa on Android]

Qaqa again. I don't think the stories are homogenous per se, I think that's unfair - the big 3 are all doing different things, and the people are very different. I don't think we can marginalize these people on the basis of color, gender or orientation. Looking at it from a great distance you might say the larger cultural makeup of the vlog mythos tends to be homogenous, but once you look a little closer the good series are anything but.

And again, I don't fault any of the creators for this. The only thing stopping a female, or African-American, or Latino or Asian or GLBT, etc. Slendyfan from taking their shot is themselves.

[NoMoreGaems]

Well... they are *geographically* homogeneous. All of them take in the American East, and two take place in the southeast.
But that's less than nothing in terms of... anything, I suppose.

[Phenom]

[BrochachoNacho]

[Luipaard]

[BrochachoNacho]

[Luipaard]

[sje46]

[qaqa on Android]

I disagree with a lot of that, sje, but it's not worth arguing about. I also don't think Phenom was blaming anyone.

[BrochachoNacho]

[AfterHours]

[Luipaard]

@BrochachoNacho, It's so lonely! No one understands why I show up at work electrified after a late night of new videos. No one understands why I have EMH wallpapers on my computer. ~No one understands~ /world's smallest violin

Out of all the things to catch on it had to be Rebecca Black? That sucks man, I'm sorry. D:

@AfterHours, I'm a lady myself as a matter of fact, so there would be at least one girl in the cast! Dunno if I would be the main character though. That would terribly pretentious, wouldn't it? :O I hope I can work with other ladies, and diverse ones, but at this point I'll take what I can get...

Slender Man in Texas...maybe we should give him a cowboy hat.

[Phenom]