The Rise & Fall of an Iconic Horror Meme
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once people started calling him "slendy" was when I said "yeah, I've had enough."
Slendychan Senpai!~
But he is slendy-daddy
I think the nonsense peaked when people kept referencing Slenderman's mansion for all the "Creepypasta characters" as if it was Foster's House of Imaginary Friends.
Totally agree. The creepypasta fan girl kawaii BS destroyed most creepy pastas
Akamaholic LMAO
I feel like the hype for Slenderman died when the stabbing happened tbh. Like, it was all too real at that point and it was a collective "whoa this is way too far" and nobody wanted to really talk about it after
Late, but Slenderman as a character icon was already kind of on the downswing, but after the stabbing happened it pretty much left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Hard to make haha slendy jokes with the "a twelve-year-old kid almost died because of this meme" elephant in the room.
My cousin was a year behind those girls. She was going to go to that school too. Slender man has always hit a little too close to home for me
@@TwighlightLugia also late, but i remember seeing many blogs about that and how they left the creepypasta fandom bc of the stabbing.
I still think Slender Man is great idea, but like all fiction people take their obsession with it too far. Glad that girl survived.
@Weeaboo Annihilator no shit Sherlock
I have a theory that Sony just made this Slenderman movie just so they could keep the rights to him as a character so in a few years, after getting more character rights, they can make a Creepypasta Cinematic Universe.
Please no.....
Cant wait til the Momo movie
@@thedanhibiki6960 Obunga: The Movie
Well at least no matter what the Jeff the killer movie will be way better than the original story, everyone is still going to hate it though
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
Those "when you see it" pictures are giving me major nostalgia, lol.
you will shit brix!
If you like that type of thing you might wanna check out Trevor Henderson
Bro, the “when you see it” gifs were worse, they jumped scare you when you spotted the thing
LOL yeah loved those pic.
19 stabs & still survived!?
You go girl!
Survived and made a full recovery!
Hans Gunsche you can very much die in a matter of second when stabbed in the stomach please dont test this
god was not gonna let her die because some bitches believed slenderman was real
@Hans Gunsche I mean your right you have a pretty good shot at surviving stab wounds in the stomach area. Still if your aorta or spleen is damaged you probably gonna die on your way to the hospital. So no stabbing stomached please
Jon Ouellette xD
Just sad that one girl could’ve lost her life to an internet meme.
Vicodyn This is why we can’t have nice things.
I get the feeling that if Slenderman isn't around, those two would've use other figures as part of their collective hallucination instead
Jeroz True. They’d use whatever was convenient for them.
Nah mate, she almost lost her life due to mental illness. If there was no Internet meme they would have killer her for Satan or something alike
@@warrust " if we sacrifice her we can join edward amongst the vampires." (Sorry for wall of text tldr dude obsessed with danny phantom that became a mass murder)
Or hell look up randy stair. "Mass shooter" who killed 3 people and himself because he was obsessed with the danny phantom character Ember McLain . He believed if he killed enough people hed be reincarbated as a female ghost and join their army "embers ghost squad" watch his manifestos and read his shit. He was an angsty edgy prick tbh. Or she . She was trans so forgive the hes above but yea good case of someone taking any fandom or whatever way to far
You know how palpable the frustration is when the video begins with the phrase "Sony being Sony"
They'll find a way to fuck it up. Amy Pascal is involved, and she was behind that horrible abortion of a Ghostbusters remake. They've already pretty thoroughly mishandled Spider-man, so I wouldn't hold out much hope for Venom. They'll end up casting, like, Eddie Murphy or something.
I’m STILL bitter about them canceling that Popeye movie made by the creator of Dexter’s Lab...
Look at it this way at least Popeyes wasn’t ruined by Sony
*sigh*....
Slenderman, like the Blair Witch Project back in 99', took the genre and created an interactive experience out of it. The main difference being, the Slender Man experience was being created as it went by creators and fans alike. The mythology itself was interactive and tangible. It was old world myth-building for the internet generation with campfires simply replaced by memes, creepypastas, and UA-cam videos. While the Slender Man himself my never quite reach the heights and longevity of other horror icons, I think it'll always remain a fascinating footnote in interactive storytelling.
GG13: The Haunted World of CW he will always be a urban legend that left a mark on the internet
Very true. Adding that there are also a few UA-cam Series' that are the most impactful and also (in my opinion,) the best interpretations of the Slenderman mythology. If anyone reading this hasn't checked out EverymanHybrid, or TribeTwelve, make sure to.
The essential problem with the Slender Man and similar characters is that their horror is based on their 'unknowability'. It's a disturbing visual image, but what does it want? What is it? Where did it come from? The fact that these questions are unanswered is what makes the character effective.
What killed the character was the fact that, because of its collaborative nature, anyone could add to its mythos. They could answer these questions. And the more the character went from being an unknowable but amorphous threatening image to a series of 'canonical' aspects, the more it became humdrum and blase.
On an almost entirely different character, we can see the same thing with Doctor Who. Originally, a mystery man who showed up out of nowhere and did things, over the decades, the characters mythos has been added to. We now know who he is, where he comes from, what his background is, what he can do... and this has served to diminish the characters' greatest strength. His unknowability.
THAT, was a fantastic comment
The campfire metaphor is almost exactly right. There are very much two slendermen. The one Designed and the one the fans created on their own.
I think Slenderman is the epitome of how overexposure and being pulled into the pop culture mainstream can really harm a property. What made Slenderman unsettling in the beginning was, as you said, you felt like he could be anywhere, and you just might not see him, and his design is fairly intimidating, not to mention the mystery behind the creature. It's sad that in the movie he's reduced to a bland composite of Freddy Krueger, Samara Morgan, and Pennywise(which to be fair, came from much better movies), and the poor CGI actually makes him look rather silly. It also adds nothing to the lore, and he sadly becomes just another horror movie ghoul, not really being scary, but simply existing to jumpscare the audience. They had a chance to actually add to the lore of the character, but they blew it so they could make a cheap cash grab. It's sad when a series that has a much lower budget actually manages to be scarier and add more to his story than a big-budget production.
Imo I don't think that's sad. I think that's the beauty of it. The best horror often comes from small, humble sources. Whether its a student film done with passion and love, or a story written by someone from the other side of the planet, its far more believable because it feels like you've "discovered" the mystery. Like you just found a strange, old book in the quiet corner of the library. The horror almost feels personal, and that makes it all the more impactful. That's what is so special about horror on the internet. It makes you feel like a lonely kid discovering something weird, and making the world around you feel a little bit more fantastical.
@@writershard5065 I agree, but there are no hints in the film that would help piece together the creature's backstory, while in the original story and the MarbleHornets series, There's bread crumbs which lead to a bigger picture. Compare this to something like David Lynch's stuff, with your analogy, that's like picking a fresh new book out of multiple fresh new books, but you simply prefer the one you picked. Definitively speaking, a good mystery is one where there's multiple interpretations, but someone should be given a reason to think their theory is credible. Even flawed interpretations at least have a reason. But There's nothing in the film that hints at the bigger mystery, and Slender Man is really there for little to no reason. We want to know where he came from and what he is, but the movie mostly sticks to using him for cheap scares. If you're not going to make things clear-cut, at least give the audience a reason to come to their own conclusions.
@@writershard5065 What about five night's a freddy's
if i was really into horror and slenderman and stuff id be pretty dissapointed
i still am dissapointed lamo
slendermans a good concept and all but hes mostly forgotten and uninteresting
+@@boslyporshy6553 FNAF is not only cringy but it makes no sense as there's inconsistent plot holes and dumb theories not to mention the abysmal fanbase.
Marble Hornets still fascinates me to this day. It’s a very subtle but frightening and disturbing series and I’m still blown away by it to this day.
It's pretty much the only thing that still makes me jumpy at night. I quite like a lot of traditonal horror as they're interesting from a sort of sci-fi / high concept point of view but Marble Hornets is different.
I agree! I haven't read the comics yet, but I really want to
Yesssssssssss
One of the Best multimedia project horror projects to come out of early internet
The only internet horror I ever really liked was Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. I'm glad that series didn't get oversaturated like a lot of online horror.
Rosy Delamarter Agreed i like how they stopped making them once it got to popular
I don't like that philosophy because if something's good, I want it to be rewarded and the people who create it to be rewarded. Obscurity is the greatest punishment of media
well... you have a point, but the fact that they ended the series when it got too popular doesn't mean they won't be successful ever again. They probably are very successful working in other projects right now. Doing DHMIS has definitely put them on the map if nothing else.
The series was awesome. I am glad I found it when it first started. Got to see it through the end. I actually was introduced to the creepy side of the internet thanks to ifunny like 9 or 10 years ago lol.
@@DogWick is there any source that they ended it because of popularity? I assumed it ended because the story was done.
Just to add, the creepypasta community came together and raised money to help pay the victim’s medical bills.
That’s admirable.
The Search And Rescue Woods stories are my favorite creepypastas of recent years. The stories themselves weren't often outright creepy, but the more you thought about them, the more they got under your skin. They often dealt with events and creatures that defy explanation, and most of the time ended with someone dead or missing. And they opened the door for people to talk about their strange and unexplainable experiences within the deep forests of America.
*Don't touch them. Don't look at them. Don't go up them.*
A bit more creative than the "oh it's a 'squatch" that the Missing 411 books that inspired them basically alluded to.
The Search and Rescue stories are the only ones that give me chills. Also it’s only creepypasta to scare me since I was too young to tell if they were fake.
Hands down the best no sleep stories ever written. so memorable and creepy
Agreed. Best pasta.
Stay away from the stairs, wink wink.
I believe SCPs are the most prominent form of internet horror that exists right now. They are becoming wildly popular, so many UA-cam channels have popped up based just on SCPs and they are growing quickly. It's almost an art to balance the tone of an SCP, dry, scientific and quantitative with creepiness needed to be a good horror story. Effective SCPs take something ordinary like blinking with SCP-173 or a headache with SCP-632 into something deadly or unnatural. Its a unique genre that could only exist on the internet and its pretty great.
SCPs were great - emphasis on the "were". Maybe a decade ago.
@@acex222 You don't know what a decade is, do you
@@wholehorse331 what's your objection to my comment?
@@acex222 What's yours
@@wholehorse331 a decade is ten years. SCPs have been around for at least ten years.
Marble hornets was the first series I dove deep into on the internet and I still love it to this day
I marathon it every October, lol
Lazerdisck not to mention had a legit good and scary slenderman movie
A beautiful series which in the end was so under appreciated in the right ways
Antoine Boucher I can't answer for that although the movie is good as a standalone
@@roxas4930 No it didn't. It's movie was absolutely awful and a disgrace to the Marble Hornets name.
I knew Slender Man even before the 2012 game, and the "great concept, but overexposed" is exactly what killed him.
Back then, Slender Man was basically the incarnation of the fear of the unknown. There were no informations about him, just some crepy, low quality pictures. No story, basically no contest. It was a creature that appeared randomly, with no clear powers or goals other than kidnapping children. The Marble Hornets channel did justice to the Slender Man. It was set in a realistic environment, with the monster showing different kinds of powers, but never explaining what it was or where he came from. This is the fear of the unknown, a belivable environment with something unbelivable happening, and it was used greatly. When the game came out i was having a lot of fun because the monster that i really liked was at the centre of the spotlight, and it was crazy seeing so many people discovering him and being terryfied by him. But more and more games came along, more stories about him were written, and he became less and less mysterious. For someone he was the ghost of a dad who died in a fire while saving his son, for others he was just a demon. But every single of these stories that tried to explain what Slender Man was or why he was evil only hurt him. He was once an almost lovecraftian monster, but then people saw him just as a weird dude with no face (And the fact that he had no face wasn't exactly true. He had one, but it was never visible because the photos were in low quality). I didn't see the movie, but i don't even want to. The trailer makes it seem like you can "summon" him in some ways, basically making him your personal pet demon.
I kind of agree with you. He didn't have a face, because that is what the lore eventually came to. The early pictures did depict him with one. EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve came along, as well as the other Slenderverse series, and that helped it even further. It started giving a little bit of hint at explanation, but never enough to clearly explain anything. We learned of other dimensions and started developing headcanons as to how he did certain things, but we could never truly explain it. To me, that was the high point of it all. But then it started getting popular. And leave it to the internet to take something interesting and completely ruin it.
The 8 pages and the arrival are the only ones worth playing in my opinion. The Arrival just had this really nice atmosphere to it that I can still enjoy today.
God of the Cripples The original slenderverse args were so good, holy shit
I thought it was the fanbase that killed him. But, I agree with you.
I feel bad for Slenderman, he was actually a pretty good horror figure that turned into an oversaturated meme that everyone wanted to get famous using it... It was a lot like a joke being told a hundred times in a week.
About creepypastas, I really like the Ben Drowned and Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (even though I'm not sure if it counts as a creepypasta), those two are awesome.
I was always a fan of the Holder series, myself.
Too bad he inspired someone to create "the offenderman"
Ben Drowned was the one going round when the concept of Slender was cooking.
Hey idk if you read this anymore but there was a really good creepy pasta series I read on 4chan a long ass time ago and I just found it again recently so I'm sharing it with you
creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Penpal
to me it was a lot more fun to read in those creepy pasta 4chan post screenshot format but hey it's veryyy good
im pretty sure that slenderman is just how shawn bradley has been passing the time since hes left the NBA
Lmaooo
Why did this movie come out now?
It would have done so well back in slender’s prime!
I believe the stabbing caused them to rewrite the entire thing? I know that it went through dozens of changes and I think they just want rid of it now.
i really doubt this. The movie is a pile of crap, and it is obvious the makers held no love or respect for the material at hand.
Aki F ,Exactly ,they really stick with this one.
Aki F I
I think it's the same thing with the emoji movie. The studio was unaware of the nature of Internet culture as opposed to normal culture. Things stick around for much less time, and then they are not viewed with the same sort of sentimentality. Slender man is an "old meme", while had it been a movie, book or something else that became popular offline then it would still be a beloved part of people's childhoods etc.
Well, Ryan, I spent most of my free time yesterday binge watching your videos, and it seems I was rewarded with this. Slender Man was the first obsession of mine which I could indulge by delving deep into the internet to quench my thirst for knowledge. I spent most of my high school career looking up Slender Man lore, playing the games, reading the blogs, watching the videos, exploring the history... I even ran an ARG with my friends for a while, and I still have two binders full of scribbled pages from that, as well as some suitably creepy pictures and footage. The Slender Man was a huge part of my life, and that's the only reason I spent some of my hard-earned cash to go see Sony's godawful take on it.
It's sad to see the death of a beloved phenomenon like this, but that's the nature of the internet, I suppose. The Slender Man was one of my biggest interests for years, and for a while I was a walking encyclopedia of all things Slender. But seeing this video really put into perspective just how fleeting the entire experience really was. The Slender Man has come and gone, like so many of my other obsessions and interests. But he'll always have a special place in my heart. (And my low-budget cosplay closet.)
I don't think this movie will kill it completely there's still a lot of US remember the way things were. And if horror has taught me anything the Monster always comes back after you think its dead.
I think Slender Man's (the meme, not the movie) greatest value is as a gateway to other horror properties. It's very simple, and very accessible, and if you're on the younger end of things and haven't really explored the genre, it's a good litmus test as to whether it's worth it. If you find Slender Man to be more than just unsettling, the horror genre might be a bit too much for you. If it piques your interest, then you start looking at some more classical horror properties: zombies, vampires, etc. I legitimately don't understand anyone out of their teens who thinks Slender Man is the pinnacle of horror.
I feel like the SCP Foundation is a matured version of the ideas created by Slenderman and other creepypastas
SCP is very well done. One of the best horror stories I've ever read came from there; SCP-093.
Embarrassingly enough my gateway into horror was Five Nights at Freddy’s, then Creepypastas to Lovecraft then to nearly all Horror elements
I thought Slender Man was downright terrifying when I was 12, and I still love horror.
daffyphack I think this goes for Creepy Pasta in general. Creepy Pasta, well written ones anyway, are a GREAT way to get someone into horror and ghost stories.
“Alex yelling at Slenderman” is still a classic
Firebrand flipping Slenderman off is also a classic.
You know normally when I see videos analyzing slender man, I don't watch them. Cause I've simply heard it all before. But when I see that Ryan Hollinger has done a video in the topic, I must watch. Because I know that it will be the most intellectual experience I can get.
Yeah, because disliking something BECAUSE it's popular is definitely an innovative and pioneering mindset, real cognitive titans we got here, lmao
the dan hibiki We'll just to specify, I don't hate anything because it popular. Sometimes there's a good reason why it's popular. I simply dislike most slender videos cause they are overdone.
I was talking about the creator of the video, and don't get me wrong I like his videos but he has some faults. I also can't really understand what you specifically mean by "overdone" since it's an extremely vague term.
Red Star has also seen rick and morty from beginning to end?
I personally still love Slenderman but it's a shame he became overly shoved into the public and then those two girls ruined it with their actions, forever tainting the once scary entity with a dark cloud.
When it comes to creepypastas though, I mainly go for the NoSleep ones, such as _The Showers,_ which has an urban legend feel about the main character attempting to find a location that his old history teacher recited for halloween. It actually got a sequel years later.
Ted's Caving Page - shit still scares me. First and only creepypasta I've ever read.
The big problem I had with Ted the Caver was just some of the pictures were from angles that were just wrong by the chronology of the story. It was an interesting read at the time I first encountered it, but I guess I analyzed it too much and ruined the mystery of it all, I was a Lovecraft kid and "Unimaginable horror" or "indescribable terror" is what I grew up on in the 80s, so by the time we hit the internet and got these new legends and stories, I just wanted to figure out what made them not work. :/ I still like some of them though, and I was there when our beloved Slenderman was born into this world.
Yeah, that one was really good
I have a hard time believing you’ve only read one creepy pasta.
Ted the Caver was a little bit underwhelming for me. All the hype kinda let me down. It's alright, but I don't really see why everyone holds it as the peak of creepypasta horror.
Came here to say this. My first creepypasta, back in the day when I'd listen to Coast to Coast every night. Shit freaked me out! Of course these days it probably doesn't hold up but back then, definitely spooky
How to ruin a scary characters; Ship them with another figure and draw them with 'mmmm kawaii desu!' eyes.
Lawl i rember that moment r.34 i guess
It didn't help when the Proxies like Masky, Hoody, Ticci Toby and the like were portrayed by fangirls as misunderstood. Something about them loving cakes as well.
They were supposed to be "scary" characters, but the internet being the internet I can't look at a an creepypasta character the same way like I used to when I was like 10 there were some that really scared the shit out of me but, now I'm older and I can't look at a creepypasta character without seeing them without them looking like pony's, OC's, cute, and also dancing to GANGNAM STYLE.
UwU
@@emmanueltapia4035 Allow me to introduce you all to a guy on DeviantArt who doesn't Ship Horror character's with other figures. Doesn't give them Anime Eyes. And actually makes incredibly scary creepypasta character drawing's that are interesting to look at- www.deviantart.com/cinemamind
All done by a D.A user known as Cinema Mind. Please folks. Go to check out this guys drawings. They're extremely well done and aren't made to to be disgustingly super cutsy.
Just be warned be warned that some of his drawings are gigantic nightmare fuel.
Finally a full analysis of Slender Man! I've been waiting for ages to see what someone thinks on the subject. Thanks Ryan
I always got chills with the Russian Sleep Experiment.
Finally someone else who knows Marble Hornets existed. I always felt I was talking to brick walls when I explained to people the rules of slender man while growing up and the series when all my friends would talk about is the game :/ this was before I could do forums...
Welcome to the Internet. Most people here know about Marble Hornets.
The Fantastic Paul been here for years, not a lot of people do.
Yeah. That's what us Slenderverse fans get for being part of a small fandom. Everyone thinks that it all comes from the crappy games and movies, and has no idea about any of the good stuff. And you can never really convince them to watch it for the life of you. They just don't care. Honestly, I get way more mad about it than I should sometimes. One of my favorite characters and fandoms, and it just gets stomped on by all the idiots that think they know their stuff because they played the video game that one time.
Cripple Jesus I know exactly how you feel. I never call people out on this but yea... I feel the same way with SCP and Rick and Morty. People always seem to just... miss the point.
As overexposed as it is, I still find The Slenderman to be completely terrifying. The stories, ARGs, games, still have an air of unknown fear to them, and they will remain scary.
Slenderman's time has come and gone, but it still lurks there in the dark corners of the web... Waiting.
Weaving.
Great to see Marble Hornets featured so prominently! Slenderman may not hold the appeal it used to back in the early years, but I still love Marble Hornets to this day.
As far as creepypasta goes, two that really stuck with me were Anansi's Goatman Story and Candle Cove. (I also remember being deeply unsettled by the NES Godzilla Creepypasta, though the horror for me came more from the sprite art visuals than the writing.)
I couldn't care less about Slenderman at this point, but when I saw the video was by Ryan Hollinger, I just had to click! Great vid as usual.
I couldn't care less*
For a brief amount of time I was terrified of Slenderman the same way I was with the Weeping Angels. I knew they weren’t real, but I found it hard to fall asleep regardless.
In terms of recommending creepypastas, there isn’t really another akin to Slenderman that crossed over into urban legend, but one of the more well-written and objectively good ones to read would definitely be ‘1999’. It’s a more sickening horror story in the vein of Texas Chain Saw Massacre but it’s one of the better horror stories out there.
i know this is 9 months ago tim the faver is the most well written id say
I adored Marble Hornets and ARG's, and I still do. Marble Hornets, like most others, introduced me to this new branch of horror on the internet. These interactive stories full of puzzles, mysteries, and all the stuff I found so interesting at the time. I really have high expectations since I watched Marble Hornets for the "slenderman" narrative. I just adore Marble Hornets' Operator more than I do any other form of the dude. Tim and Brian's whole thing was so interesting to me as well. The story of Marble Hornets was so interesting and not just about how a spoOooOOky faceless tall dude just randomly abducts you or whatever. It had depth, and I love it. To add, I haven't really been scared of creepypastas for a long time, but I always do try and find the weirdest SCP's I can find, since I'm in love with the concept of the SCP Foundation as well. Really weird stuff. I think when I first discovered SCP I was most creeped out by the flesh that hates, SCP 610. Great video.
The first words I heard after [watching Slenderman] exiting the theatre were 'That movie was shit. Complete and utter shit'
I couldn't agree more. I had so much free time, yesterday when I saw it, and it was wasted watching this dumpsterfire of a movie with my family
The audience in the theatre I was in had a similar reaction.
Though I walked into this movie knowing it was going to be bad.
19 stab wounds in nothing compared to...
28 STAB WOUNDS
stress level: *_69420%_*
I’m glad someone else had the same train of thought lmao
GODAMNIT CONNOR
Please, try thirty-six, sorry thirty-*seven* shot wounds.
@@voidjockey82 I'm sorry, is that a Hellsing ultimate abridged reference?
I always really liked candle cove. granted it's been years since i read it. there was also one akin to candle cove about some guy in a bear costume? i liked that one, don't remember what it's called. not really a creepy pasta per say but still worth mentioning. borrasca on the nosleep reddit messed me up so bad. absolutely LOVED it.
Is it 1999? With the kids show with the bear?
thats it!
Candle cove is terrifying. Channel Zero did an ok job at using the source material.
Nah, fuck Channel Zero's version of Candle Cove. Not even just the dumb twist and all the child murder for no reason, but also how badly it fails at trying to rip off Twin Peaks with the people in the town.
Channel Zero: No End House was a fucking banger, though. Totally makes up for that first season.
Tribetwelve and the Everyman Hybride were also good slender series.
See now I've gotta watch the video again to check if any figures appeared in the window behind Ryan at any point.
Look at the computer screen in each cut...
Oh. My. Lord. (It's Slender Man.)
Excellent video as usual.
Personally, I enjoy most good horror stories on the internet. The longer creepypasta that immerse you in their world are written so well it’s hard to call them just internet stories. These are the likes of Borrasca, Penpal, and I just bough my childhood home. There are a lot of amazing shorter ones on r/nosleep that give the same sense of dread and terror. My favorite of these are My patient thinks he’s asleep, A Shattered Life, Papa G, The Cat Lady, Airsekui, and The Whispered Fears of Wayward Boys. Also, the Tommy Taffy series is one of the most horrific things ever written.
I hope this gives you a taste as to how much good writing can be cultivated by the internet.
What was that one MrCreepyPasta narrated about the guy who goes to some cabin in the mountains and gets stalked.by some weird creature? I specifically remember the creature trying to ask the guy his name through the door, and it was trying to imitate his voice, Cabin Getaway could be the name of that story. But yeah, Borrasca was SO good! I'll have to look into.some of those.you mentioned that I haven't read/listened to yet! CreepsMcPasta narrated a great story a few years ago called On a Hill, written by Michael.Whitehouse. Would highly recommend that one of you havent.
Johnny Bensonitis I don’t know if I’ve heard it, I’m gonna check it out. I love MCP!
@@13MoonGold Yeah, he is SO good! I listen to so many of those guys because I use their narrations to sleep at night. MCP, CreepsMcPasta, MrBlackPasta(when he uploads lol), Dr. Creeper, Nature's Temper(check out Tales from a rural police officer, it's great!), Creepy Ghost Stories, and ClancyPasta. There's more but these are the first ones that come to mind. I friggin LOVE so many creepypasta stories, authors have gotten so creative!
I heard that penpal was based of events in the authors life
If you're looking for classic r/nosleep, check out the I'm A Search And Rescue Worker series - it's got a definite feel of the Missing 411 books/theories to some of it, and other bits are just pure weird/gross/wtf. The writing is excellent and immersive, and the comments have nearly as many creepy, suspension of disbelief stories and theories as the posts themselves, as well as some truly hilarious bits. You will never look at a forest, or at stairs, the same way, ever again, I promise.
Slenderman has only been done well three times imo: Marble Hornets, EverymanHYBRID, and TribeTwelve.
There's several more in the slenderverse with good writing and pacing.
MLAndersen0 was pretty quality for what I can recall
What am I, chopped liver?
stiklius Hmm, haven’t heard of that one. I’ll have to check it out.
B Skizzle True. Tribetwelve is one of my favorites.
Jesus how did I not find you before? I'm literally binging your videos. They are just so well made. Well done!
I remember when I first heard about the psycho girls stabbing their friend. This was a few years since I had watched any of the Marble Hornets stuff or read any of the slender man blogs or any of that. I always thought most of the earliest stuff on that was the best. Again, after the real height of the whole online craze. That all being said, I thought those girls were the most insanely idiotic people I'd ever heard of. The thing was, slender man wasn't just another urban legend, he was a made up meme, and 2 seconds of google research can take you right to the origin of the character. It was just so stupid. At least the poor girl survived.
Yeah I played dumb games with other girls too; like we thought we were psychic when I was 11 and a friend of mine was convinced Inyuyasha was actually real. The thing is it was all childish games and no one got hurt in the end.
Great video, glad you talked about Marble Hornets. Also, my favorite creepy pasta is "The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen".
I was browsing /x/ back when smile.jpg was first posted, and it's stuck with me ever since, I think in large part because of how it was originally posted. Sure, you can find the whole thing in one place now, but on 4chan it was posted into bite-sized chunks that made for very effective building of dread in-between commentary from other users. It was an incredibly effective whammy of dread, especially back when the internet was still relatively young and creepypasta as a concept was brand new.
Not sure if that's the same as smiledog, but for some reason that thing got me so bad back in the day that I don't have the courage to go check.
It's the same thing, just a different name. Creepy as hell.
Little late to the video, but Marble Hornets has a canonical comic following one of the surviving characters and their life after, made by original creator Troy Wagner. I highly recommend following its progress.
I'd have to say that either Creepypastas that are heavily inspired by H.P Lovecraft or the ones that really make you feel like there is something always out there are the scariest ones for me. Hell, even the ones that are short can be creepy if the ending is ambiguous.
Case in point, the one where a girl wakes up in the middle of the night to tell her dad about a bad dream she had, and she says "Whenever I told you about this in my dream, the monster wearing mummy's skin stood up in bed."
At this point, the sheets beside the dad begin to stir, and the story ends abruptly. That is an effective cliffhanger to get the skin crawling, -no pun intended.
The Russian Sleep Experiment is still my favorite creepypasta and I'd love to be the one who gets to adapt it to the big screen
The stories by Search and Rescue Woods are my favourite internet horror yarns. Maybe it's because I'm an avid camper/hiker, but there's just the right mix of mystery and unsettling detail there in a location that lends itself so well to any possibility the mind can dream up.
I don’t know why, but Laughing Jack was the only creepypasta that ever legitimately scared me
Been binge watching your videos for like 2 days. I love the topics you discuss
Thank you!
I personally find something hair raising about the story “Candle Cove”. The use of children’s programming on public broadcast, the shared experiences of dozens of people online, and the final revelation... it did a great job of creating a threatening atmosphere without actually explicitly harming anyone in the narrative.
Who else really just enjoys ryan's videos?
Thank you, releasing videos give me panic attacks so this makes me feel better to hear folks like them!
Ryan Hollinger np ryan we appreciate the effort you put in each video👍.
I did, gave me a reason to write a sad comment about the passing of this tall old man. Thanks for the video, Ryan!
Same. The production and effort are much appreciated.
I Can watch your videos all day dude
Thought you were preparing a jumpscare cause you kept changing your desktop wallpaper.
Ryan watching your videos has really enlightened me on the eccentricities of certain films as well as turned me on to films I’d never heard of (like the headless horseman film you looked at). I love your content. Keep it up!
Thank you!! I’m all for those sweet eccentricities rather than the “look! Filmmaking!” approach!
heh funny that you mentioned marblehornets since that is what i put up as one of the best found footage horror shows(?). when it was going it really worked to give you enough reasons to keep on watching figuring out what is happening to the characters.
I love binging all of your horror videos late at night
Party!!
Ryan Hollinger my life is so exciting
Absolutely brilliant, exactly what I was thinking. Subscribed :)
Ryan kills it most of the time. He has some genuinely great content.
Ryan can we get a video on Silent Hill? Please?
agreed
OH MY GOD YES
YEEESSSSS
This video DIDN'T show in my notifications and im MAD. i was at my girlfriends for 3 days and came back to 1 notification, and it wasnt this. whats the point of ringing the bell if youtube still don't show you the damn videos?
Ryan your videos are the absolute highlight of my recommended whenever they come out
as soon as I heard about legitimate *Slendy* x Reader fanfictions, I knew this charater was irreversible dead.
This is an amazing video and very well researched. You are absolutely an amazing creator! 💜
Sony could have revived it, I think. If they hadn't gone the cheap route and tried tying it into the real crime associated with it.
It was lazy and disgusting. If they had tried to be creative and take it in their own direction it might have succeeded
TBH, one of my favorite creepypastas has gotta be Bogleech's "The Burgrr Entries," because it's a masterpiece of both high concept and maintaining tension, though it's kind of sad that the really great website that went along with it is basically dead. It's got a semi-sequel in the same creator's ongoing webcomic Awful Hospital (Which is excellent BTW) and is part of a larger "Noisy Tenant Mythos," which is basically like if you had Sid and Marty Krofft adapt HP Lovecraft in terms of whimsically nightmarish cartoony horror.
Also, there's a super-underrated one by a friend of mine called The Game Of Mush, which you all should check out as it is excellently unsettling cosmic horror. He even made an expanded video adaptation of it, which I think you should all watch: ua-cam.com/video/PebiaYNR-_s/v-deo.html
"people moved on"
snap shot to tribe-twelve and EMH.
I'm actually considering watching 'slender man' BUT just for research purposes ;)
But als always, great video
Edit: Favorit creepypasta is "I'm a search and rescue officer", coming from a rural area woods could always scare the shit out of me in the right context... Those f-ing stairs...
Im a big fan of those
I remember being genuinely scared of Slenderman as a kid
Slender Man is probably going to live on in some shape and form. Anyways, while I used to be intrigued by the dark twist of Jeff the Killer, and even dressed up as him for Halloween once, Anasi’s Goatman Story, The Russian Sleep Experiment, and Persuaded are the ones I like the best now, with Goatman being the overall scariest.
Ah, yes, another victim of Internet Trope #54:
1: Thing is created.
2: Thing gets popular.
3: Original creator is left behind as Thing gains traction.
4: Something goes horribly wrong outside of the Internet.
5: A few people are either murdered or arrested.
6: Concerned Parents/Normies, religious or otherwise, demonize the Thing.
7: Thing is on a downward popularity spiral.
8: Thing fades into obsurcity.
8.5: There's probably a couple shitty movies somewhere in there.
9: Thing finally dies. The End.
I was intrigued with the idea of slender man when i was younger and loved most of the marble hornets series, but man the new movie was kinda putting meaning and themes where there weren’t any
One of my fav Creepypastas from when I was younger was Candle Cove. I feel like if I read it now it would not seem nearly as scary lol but it was one of the stories that always stood out to me. Creepypastas where basically my gateway into horror and I am so thankful for that community for writing these stories for us all to enjoy
Great video! Just recently discovered your channel, and my wife and I have been making our with through your back catalogue since. As for a favorite creepypasta, I'm a big fan of "The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas" and the "Pen Pal" series on r/nosleep.
The Knocking Girl is a story that struck a chord with me. It's not like a home invasion story, but all the same it told of a danger that would approach you when you should be feeling safe from monsters and such. Like when you are temporarily isolated in otherwise social situations. Only when you relax are you in danger. The combination of such a ....thing and the description of the way it would stare at you really stuck with me for a long time.
Hey Ryan I just wanted to say you do some of my favourite videos at the moment and I hope you get all the views. All of them. Love your stuff
Thanks!!
No problem man, you deserve so much praise. Also if you’re still there I’d love to know what you think about Cabin in the Woods, one of my favourites
For the record, the girls stabbed their friend not to protect themselves from Slender, but in order to become his minions.
I think you should make a video about the horror of the SCP Foundation
I grew up watching Marbel Hornets on UA-cam, so I gotta say Marbel Hornets. I sat in my home WAITING for new entries so I could see the characters. In my opinion, a horror, ARG, or even a game series that makes you want to invest time in them and wait for them is a good horror series. If you wanna sit there and wait and watch an episode, entry or whatever, and the ARG makes you WANT to engage in an activity that, well, in this case terrifies you, it's good and worth it. As someone who was always on the more horrific and horror related side, Marbel Hornets shaped me and my childhood. It was the only thing that really made me want to go on the internet and say ''Hey, this is interesting!'' but to be honest, it's rarely seen nowadays anymore. It upsets me, really. I wish there were more series like Marbel Hornets. But ones that fit today's society, to make them, too, want to engage.
Ryan Hollinger is an absolute lad.
Incredible Video.
Bionicle next
My favorite internet horror
I like how he was inspired by superhero comics, specifically The Question from DC. I think a superhero perspective might have been awesome to see in this theme.
That slender man movie was like 6 yrs late
Great video man I love the urban legend videos especially when mixed with old news footage and homevideos from the 90’s and early 2000’s mostly. Idk if it’s just how old I am or what but it makes me feel like I’m the same age as when those things were on tv and around me at all times. Helps bring the inner child out and creep me out more. Good work dude.
Hey man, I would really love if you could talk about a little less realized theme in horror: Machines and Mechanics. Movies such as The Cube, 13 Ghost, and Saw all use very strange mechanical devices as a way to kill off characters, and this is one of my favorite things in horror. Not only the amazement of complex machines, but there purpose. Who created it, and why? These questions along with unknown yet deadly devices make for one of the most puzzling horror experiences. Yet I cannot find any good representation for this small genre. So an in-depth look at this along with a few recommendations would make for a great video. Thanks broski.
My favorite creepypasta is, I believe, The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas. The story is vague enough to get the imagination going, while still being concrete enough to be decipherable. It also has a bit of that minor theme you've noticed in the original Slenderman edits: the nature of the supernatural/horrific aggressively invading a place of relative safety and understanding, but on a much more drastic scale than just one entity.
You are the first person I've seen to also enjoy that story. Disappearance, along with the original 'the Showers' creepypasta, were always two of my favorites and it's kinda nice seeing at least one of them appreciated. Cheers!
Marble hornets is such a gem
My favourite creepypasta would have to be "Autopilot" because it's such a plausible concept
Dude, you're from Britain and you're putting this up at midnight?
I got work man.
Still gotta watch it though, I've binged since "I have no mouth"
My sleep cycle is fucked tbh...
Ouch.
EverymanHybrid and TribeTwelve are probably two of the best args out right now, and they have been alive and kicking for a few years now. Both have recently gone on a long lore-induced hiatus, but it makes each upload so great
Finally, a reason to live!
I personally think the most scariest Creepypasta is the most unknown or least acnallaged, mainly because of the fact that there is little information about it.
Whenever I hear slender man, I always think about LaurenZside’s Creepypasta series’s and how sweet, charming and innocent he was in both of those series’s. Her videos redefined slender man in the most entertaining way ever. 😂
That's an issue I always have with the horror genre. As soon as you explain, understand, and can therefore defeat or avoid a monster, it loses a lot of its potential scare power. As intelligent beings, there's nothing quite as hopeless as having no clue what's going on, which brings you back to this child-like level of fear.
Similar to sitting down to a big test that you don't know any of the answers to, but this time the answers try to kill you? Maim you? Kidnap you? Something horrible.
And the internet latches on to things and tries to flex its collective creativity to fill in the gaps, which can be kind of cool. It's interesting to see what clear-cut conclusions smart people can come to. But it devolves more into the lore surrounding the monster than the monster itself.
And honestly, how many times can you see the same clip of the Minions before it's not funny anymore? Overexposure makes us have more of a tolerance for things. When you see a 7 year old wearing a slenderman morph suit, you know that it's not a scary concept anymore.
Jeff the Killer replaced him four years back anyway.
marble hornets was an amazing series, so well made by only a few people. it really changed the way so many saw slender man, youtube creators and creepypasta in general. every time i watch it, it leaves me with a sense of dread and suspense. one of my favorite series on youtube, no doubt.
SA Wardega used to be so funny bro
I don’t know if it’s a creepy pasta, but people taking about their tulpas is a creepy thing to read about.
Love your videos! Been watching a bunch of them! Thank you so much for the great work!
Fantastic video ✨
Well done and interesting, as always. Always a treat to see a new video from you in my queue!