I've decided that for this blog to have an even amount of news on either side of the spectrum (Both Ponies and Slenderman), I'll need to combine the two into one post each time. Thus, these 'Hybrid Posts' are born.
First off, Slenderman stuff. I've realized that not a lot of people know what exactly the Slenderman Mythos are. I would like to take a moment to explain them a bit.
The Slender Man (commonly dubbed Slenderman) is a mythological creature created by the Something Awful Forums in 2009. It was introduced as a tall, humanoid figure in a suit, with no discernible facial features. In some pictures users posted, he also had tentacle-like appendages coming out of his back. He is known to stalk children (And more recently, High School to College age students), and either lead them out of their homes (to which they are never seen again) or kill them. When stalking older individuals, however, he tends to stand near them in public or in open areas where the victim can see him. This continues until either the victim is so mentally weak that he can easily get to them, or they kill themselves. He has also been associated with fire, and is known to show up in places shortly before they burn down.
What does this have to do with anything I'm interested in, you ask? Well, some talented individuals with video cameras set out shortly after Slenderman was created, and made several popular YouTube horror series surrounding the Mythos. The three most prominent ones (Which are linked in the sidebar) are Marble Hornets, TribeTwelve, and EverymanHYBRID.
Marble Hornets centers around a character named Jay who receives a large number of tapes from his filmmaker friend Alex Kralie, before Alex moves away and is never heard from again. The tapes contain mostly raw footage from Alex's student film Marble Hornets, but some tapes contain... other things. This series is easily the most popular of the three, and the second season just finished last month.
TribeTwelve centers around Noah Maxwell, a college student living in Florida. The YouTube account was originally created for a project about the twelve tribes of Israel, shortly before Noah's teacher canceled the project entirely. Shortly after this, Noah is informed that his cousin and only close friend, Milo, died of a medication overdose. He decides to use the channel as a memorial for his cousin, and begins to upload the only footage he has of him and Milo to the account. However, Noah begins to notice something else on the footage. This series has become the second most popular as of late, mostly due to the growing convolution of EverymanHYBRID's plot.
EverymanHYBIRD centers around Jeff, Vince, and Evan, three friends living in New Jersey who set out to make a fitness series for people on a budget. Being fans of pop culture and horror, they decide to put a fake Slenderman in the background of their videos in order to add a bit of an 'easter egg' effect to the show. What they don't realize, however, is that Slendy himself doesn't take very kindly to that. This series is third in popularity, mostly due to a very spread out and somewhat hard to follow plot. I myself still think it has a rather high entertainment value, however.
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I think that's enough Slenderman stuff to keep you readers occupied for a while. I don't have a lot to write about in the realm of pony, but the two most recent episodes can be found
here and
here. I know most (if not all) of you won't watch them, but I figure I would be doing a misdeed by writing about something without the proper source. Until next time, reader.
