Kalo Narcin
Member
alright. I live near Waukesha in Wisconsin, and I live relatively near were the slenderman stabbings took place. I need to just make this clear.
Alrighty. I can honestly say that the thing with the slenderman stabbing really disturbed me. I can't even imagine how the victim feels, along with her parents and the two girls. It's one of the most twisted and demented thing I've ever seen, it really is.
That being said
It is absurd that the notion of shutting down creepypasta was even brought up. Two girls, who were most likely phsycotic, attempted a murder and blamed it on FOLKLORE. Just because creepypasta has a slenderman fanbase doesn't mean that it is encouraging violent behavior. This is one incident, and a sick one at that. Instead of blaming the site, perhaps we could just take the facts and realize that these two girls were not mentally healthy! As a frequent user of the site, and I see it as just stories and literature, nothing that I see in any of the articles would I ever take seriously, nor would anyone else. It's like "that man jumped off a cliff in this story, I'm going to jump off a cliff". It simply doesn't happen and we just need to accept that this is something we need to learn from, instead of pointing fingers to avoid the problem.
Alrighty. I can honestly say that the thing with the slenderman stabbing really disturbed me. I can't even imagine how the victim feels, along with her parents and the two girls. It's one of the most twisted and demented thing I've ever seen, it really is.
That being said
It is absurd that the notion of shutting down creepypasta was even brought up. Two girls, who were most likely phsycotic, attempted a murder and blamed it on FOLKLORE. Just because creepypasta has a slenderman fanbase doesn't mean that it is encouraging violent behavior. This is one incident, and a sick one at that. Instead of blaming the site, perhaps we could just take the facts and realize that these two girls were not mentally healthy! As a frequent user of the site, and I see it as just stories and literature, nothing that I see in any of the articles would I ever take seriously, nor would anyone else. It's like "that man jumped off a cliff in this story, I'm going to jump off a cliff". It simply doesn't happen and we just need to accept that this is something we need to learn from, instead of pointing fingers to avoid the problem.