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[Hoogalindo]

Why is there no more Rake content?

[Leminnes]

I think it is because The Rake is not NEARLY as "mysterious" as Slender Man is. Nor as iconic or ubiquitous. It has much to do with Slender Man's means of "attack." Or more specific, his lack of attack. Slender Man watches. He causes paranoia and anxiety.

Pretty much, what I mean, is that mysteriousness and cryptic nature of Slender Man spawns ARGs because it intrigues and scares people. The Rake, while scares people, does not cause nearly as much intrigue.

At least that's how I see it.

[Retail Zombie Slayer]

Re: Why is there no more Rake content?

[TheFallenenvoy]

The Rake's partnership (?) with slendy is not implemented by other vlogs for two main reasons.

1) It's very much an EMH trademark now and 2) We still don't know what The Rake's relationship with slendy ACTUALLY IS.

Elementary, my dear watson.

(Just read the question through again...it's probably because he's not a clean slate to build on like with slendy...he's merely a brutal force to throw around)

[NoMoreGaems]

The Rake definitely has his own innate mystery, that can be exploited quite well at times.

However, the real reason is that the Rake is a much harder costume to make. Slenderman, you can hammer together out of common materials, but the Rake is quite difficult.

[Leminnes]

[Wesley the Bard]

Well, I'm inclined to disagree with those who are "surprised" there's not a lot of other content, especially here.

It'd be like a single series introducing Freddy Krueger (whose relationship with slondors we aren't sure of until they reveal) and then other series implementing him on a whim.

[12th]

[punxtr]

The Rake is a lot more mysterious and subtle than many of you believe... like others have said, he's not in many vlogs because his costume would require a lot more than Slendy's.

[Leminnes]

[THmanslayr]

I want to know why the rake was worth making something out of anyway. The original creepypasta was really boring.

[Leminnes]

[punxtr]

[Leminnes]

[KrisTrauma]

A couple things:

-I believe the Rake to be just as mysterious as the Slenderman. He's kind of our Bigfoot: you know it's there (maybe) but you never get a clear shot. Plus not knowing what it wants makes it just as mysterious as ol' faceless.

-The fact that slenderseries do not incorporate the Rake is because EMH did it already. Leminnes tried to make a case of it, but MH did NOT invent SM, they perfected it. EMH did NOT invent the Rake, but they incorporated it into a SM series (which can still be done by someone alse, but it would be shunned as a wannabe copycat). To prove my point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGtsL4fxTA

Now, I would like to see The Rake as its standalone mythos. I really don't see why not. As I mentioned earlier, it could work very well as a search for Bigfoot or Blair Witch type of series...