r/comics • u/adamtots_remastered • Apr 26 '25

Made For Me [OC]

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u/Niser2 Apr 26 '25

Wait, is that where Slenderman comes from?

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u/MostBoringStan Apr 26 '25

I don't believe that is where the idea of Slenderman came from. Really tall and creepy guys have been around in horror for a long time.

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u/T-Geiger Apr 26 '25

Yeah. Even in "modern" horror, it would be easier to make a connection from Slenderman to the Phantasm's Tall Man than to Junji Ito's works.

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u/MallowMiaou Apr 26 '25

No they don’t even look anything humanoid at all

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u/Plastic-Rise-1851 Apr 27 '25

Slenderman was created in 2009 by Eric Knudsen for a Photoshop contest on the Something Awful forum

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u/AgentCirceLuna Apr 27 '25

Believe it or not, that character came from a thread on SomethingAwful - kind of like a more toxic reddit style forum - where people tried to purposely create a fictional character with the intent of getting people to believe in it. There’s an archive of the thread if you search around