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[JosiahMiller]

[awakeasaurusrex]

But then you weren't a Dark Harvest follower before the crossover, so the crossover simply promoted one of the series in question, it didn't make you go from disliking Dark Harvest to following it.

[Oransel]

[Lithp]

[lachesis]

[SilentMedusa]

My own personal opinion is that if you can't tell your story without telling someone else's story, there's something wrong with your story.

Also, the number of creators (in any genre/medium) who think they can do a crossover well is significantly smaller than the number who actually can.

[Argoz]

There's not a single crossover to my knowledge that has worked, and I've seen over 100 series in the past 2 years. Most of the time the creators throw out logic to make them work. They often do this for popularity, fanservice, or just because they fucking can. Yeah... I have a serious bias against crossovers and series who choose to do them. I'd just recommend to avoid them completely, just stick to the references instead.

[Clairabel]

Each creator has a reason for wanting to crossover - if it means altering the story to fit the crossover then they are the gods of their own universes and have the right to do whatever they damn well please with their own work.

[awakeasaurusrex]

You've got the right to do what you like with your own work, but you don't have the right to insist that people agree that it was a good idea. Sometimes creators make bad decisions, and viewers have every right to point it out when creators are flushing their own creations down the toilet.

[JosiahMiller]

[Carnahan]

[Oransel]

[Lithp]

It's not really the same character, it's just the same type of monster, just like vampires are a type of monster with minor variations in different series. Slenderman runs the gambit. In some stories--& I'm speaking mainly of Creepypasta, here--he eats people, in others he's an extra-dimensional horror, in some there are more than 1 of him, in some he's a plant, etc.

Slenderman's MO differs in EMH as opposed to Tribe Twelve. In Tribe Twelve, he has a cult of followers, frequently uses his tentacles, can change his size, & I'm told he's referred to as "The Administrator." In EMH, these things are never used, & instead we get the addition of the trash bags & the black vomit. The Tribe Twelve Slenderman also seems to be more aggressive, but it's hard to tell.

Now, people usually tell me that there's nothing that explicitly says that he only has a single MO, but I think that's a lazy excuse. It doesn't prove that this is the same character so much as tell me to pretend that the differences do not exist. Also, if that's the justification that they're going with, then it implies that we won't get answers on things like the Sigma radiation, because Slenderman having a backstory would restrict the freedom to do crossovers.

That's just what I can glean without watching Tribe Twelve. It would be simply miraculous if they somehow avoided having dozens of inconsistencies, despite not synchronizing their writing styles from the beginning. Let alone for all of the series that are crossing over to work perfectly in this fashion. Shit, half of the time you can't rely on authors not to contradict themselves. And I'm talking professional, critically acclaimed, popular, & all that jazz.

As for advertisement, I found Marble Hornets through word of mouth & EverymanHYBRID through TV Tropes. The crossovers, assuming that they don't just piss me off, usually don't tell me anything that make the series stand out from others. Some kind of Slendervlog directory would be nice. If people will really watch something just because of a crossover, why would the Suggested Videos function of YouTube not be sufficient advertising? Is it some kind of rationale like, "If the Hybrids think it's good, then it must be"?

[Clairabel]

[Lithp]

It's the most literally true assessment of the situation, but not terribly informative.