The Slender Man is an online myth that began as merely ... As such, he has no set background story, although in most iterations, the tall, gaunt specter — with no face and excessively long ...

And in the background, the tall figure lurks ... We proposed the idea that Troy and his friends might have been meme-ing when they took Slender Man off the Something Awful message board and ...

The Slender Man meme that caught the Internet by storm in ... youngsters have lived in fear of his figure lurking in the background of their photographs because it means he's finally coming ...

The camera focuses on the actors and the narrative exposition their conversation provides, but in the background ... in Slender Man — which is disappointing, given how creatively the meme ...

But whatever they say, everyone generally agrees on one point: that Slender Man, perhaps the Internet ... an interview with the Web site Know Your Meme, later adding: An urban legend requires ...

Why people are so drawn to the scary meme. June 9 ... he mysteriously appears in the background of people’s photos. “The notion of dressing up as Slender Man –- maybe for Halloween ...

The character is usually dressed in a dark suit and tie and often appears in the background of images, hiding in the shadows. In many Slender Man tales, he is not seen until someone shines a light ...

It was only a matter of time before some major studio made a movie out of Slender Man, the frightening internet meme about a faceless ... always be looming in the background, like the killers ...

He lurks in the background ... to its (Slender Man's) origins as evidenced by the very public Somethingawful thread. But what is funny is that despite this, it still spread. Internet memes are ...

But now the legend of "Slender Man" is heading to the big screen ... turning Slenderman into a haunting meme whose face and story was reshared by others and took on a life of its own.

Sylvain White's horror film 'Slender Man' attempts ... faceless figure into the background, then added captions vaguely referencing horrible crimes. World-conquering memes have been built on ...

In this case, though, when you glimpse the character of Slender Man (Javier Botet) in the background of photographs ... from a “creepypasta” Internet meme that originated in 2009, and it ...