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The Anatomy of an Internet Urban Legend

Interent urban legends like Slender Man get absorbed into the public consciousness and stay rooted in the imagination. Here is how to make an urban legend.

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The Anatomy of an Internet Urban Legend

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  1. The Anatomy of an Internet Urban Legend WWW.KONECTEAZE.COM

  2. THE ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET URBAN LEGEND WWW.KONECTEAZE.COM

  3. THE ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET URBAN LEGEND Interent urban legends like Slender Man get absorbed into the public consciousness and stay rooted in the imagination. Here is how to make an urban legend. You’ve seen the memes. You’ve heard the stories. Now, there’s a feature movie out in theaters. I’m talking about Slender Man, that pesky specter that’s an insidious version of Mister Stretch (Google it, kids). He’s tall, unnaturally thin, and sports a featureless head and abnormally long arms and legs. In some cases, he is depicted with tentacles coming out from somewhere on his backside (don't ask). Slender Man first reared his lumpy, Play-Doh head as an Internet meme back in 2009 on a thread in the Something Awful Internet forum. According to Wikipedia, the thread was a Photoshop contest where users competed to create the scariest paranormal image. The rest, as they say, is history. Ol’ Slendy took on a life of his own, inspiring what essentially amounted to countless pieces of fan fiction. He sank his proverbial teeth into the collective consciousness. I’ve always been fascinated by how these Internet urban legends take root and go viral. There doesn’t seem to be any specific formula to follow, which is fair enough, but there still seem to be some general characteristics that most of them follow. WWW.KONECTEAZE.COM

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