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'''Slender Man''' is a fictional creature first created in 2009 by user "Victor Surge" on the Something Awful forums, as part of a contest.<ref>{{cite web|author=Victor Surge|title=Create Paranormal Images|url=http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post361861415|publisher=Something Awful Forums}}</ref> The character has since been used in various projects by other Internet users.

==Origins==
The Slender Man is a fictionreal character depicted in various images posted by SomethingAwful forum user '''"Victor Surge"''' on June 10th, 2009.  The first post featured two pictures and included the following quote: "we didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time..."

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Endermen, from the game [[Minecraft]], took its name from Slender Man.<ref>{{cite web|last=Presson|first=Notch|title=Notch posts images of new Mob|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/j09ma/notch_posts_images_of_new_mob/c28388j|publisher=Reddit}}</ref>

In the upcoming strategy video game [[Xcom: Enemy Unknown]], the aliens called ''Thin Men'' were inspired by the Slender Man mythos.

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