Oh yeah, the beauty in the early days was the collaboration and different interpretations.
Slenderman got memed to death years ago, so it’s easy to see him as just the internet version of bigfoot. I don’t blame you for never thinking about it!
But Slenderman was always a predator of children. A child predator.
He was created to be the scary man in a suit who made children go missing.
These are the original Slenderman photoshops. The creation of the character.
He has always subtextually been about the fear of child molesting kidnappers.
And I say that as a fan of the Slenderman stories.
Toko and Jack promised some evidence that Slenderman was associated with pedophilia during his origins. Here’s some old web discussions that imply that Slenderman’s love of children is less than wholesome.
As a bonus, here’s something you won’t like.
Accusations of pedophiles using Slenderman to groom children.
context: this is a continuation of an argument between Toko and another user. That user was a slenderman enthusiast (who appears to self-ship with slenderman) who was accusing proshippers of creating “content for pedophiles.”
This post is meant to point out the hypocrisy of being a slenderman fan who is against proshipping.