Experience the rest of Slenderverse: A Documentary Film Series... Episode I: Building the Slenderman: ruclips.net/video/zfhhdPaGd8E/видео.html Episode III: The Rise and Fall of Slenderman: ruclips.net/video/SLgJQqJ_alU/видео.html
Slender-man deserves more, actually, Question, if you can make all of the best Slenderverse makers come together, can you all team up and make a new Slender-Man series? Like Marble Hornets ?? Just a curious question, that’s all. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Y'know, as I'm finishing this I've come to realize that the Slenderverse community almost has basically the same story as your average niche underground music scene that gets mildly popular. You have one band (Marble Hornets) that invents a new style of music and becomes popular enough to inspire a wave of bands from a particular area to imitate them and form a scene around their local proximity and shared style - I'm immediately reminded of how an Irish band, My Bloody Valentine, invented shoegaze and inspired a bunch of teenagers from the Thames Valley area of England to play shoegaze themselves and form a very incestuous scene. And the Sham House would be like the Slenderverse's American Football House (midwest emo). Even when the style becomes uncool and the scene dies, you still find people who came up in that scene continue to collaborate on later projects (think of Fripp and Eno, or what happened with basically all prog rock bands in the 80's). Hell, you even have that one band who years later has their leader get exposed for being a predator - it truly has it all.
"I've met a lot of people that are still my friends today, and I've met a lot of people that if I read 'em in the newspaper tomorrow I'd be like, 'good.' You know what I mean? [...] But to me, that's what community brings. That is community." I really liked this quote.
I've been a Slenderman fan since 2015, Alex Hera's work is probably one of the most important things I've had the opportunity to watch. We love you Alex for the work you've done!
Kind of interesting how uninvolved the marble hornets guys were in all the drama and activity of the slenderverse, being one of the biggest creators and all
They had their own issues... They just waited until after Marble Hornets to do the "band fights, breaks up, tries again, breaks up again" thing. :p The follow-up project, not Slenderman related (can't remember its name), was incredibly rocky and never finished. Didn't have a full vision, creators all disagreed on what to do, and some (relatively minor all things considered) financial impropriety with funds (using business funds to cover some personal debts iirc) kind of tanked things. Honestly dunno what the current status of all that is, I know Tim wanted nothing to do with the others for a while. I assume since he's in this, and there's a Creating Marble Hornets behind-the-scenes documentary thing the Marble Hornets account is posting about that things eventually got worked out, but yeah. They weren't 100% immune to drama, just knew to focus on their own thing and own vision for their initial project.
@@Matoyak Right, wasn't the follow up Clear Lakes 44? I remember the first couple episodes feeling kind of empty, but really didn't wind up paying much attention past that
@@tympestbooks1727 I remember being hyped as hell for it back in the day and by episode 12 there was still no story, no understanding of characters and no clue to what was even happening. Even night mind couldn’t explain what was happening, nobody could
great job on this series so far, genuinely. if you ever wanna talk "modern re-imaginings" of slenderman, i'm always down to throw some shit out about 10 tapes (where the antagonist concept was basically "totally not slenderman... unless👀")
Being part of the Slenderverse was easily one of the highlights of my entire life. I will never forget it, and thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. It's absolutely beautiful. I will say the 'end blogs' thing always stung though. Joke or not, the vlogs were the big fish. It always felt like punching down.
Oh hey Nightscream! I'd completely forgotten about the "no more blogs" thing until the doc; I don't think I ended up being asked about it because I remember it irritating me at the time too (I can laugh about it in retrospect).
@@koernerkomedy Hey! Yep, it's me. I never ended up leaving the username behind. Oh yeah, I feel that. I'd forgotten about it as well until they brought it up. At the end of the day, I hold no grudges and am grateful to be a part of it, even on the sidelines. Really, that's what the Slenderverse was: equal parts horror and drama, both OOG and IG/IC.
Its so sweet to see that all the creators are still proud of themselves to this day, most people would look back and be ashamed of themselves. Im glad this isn't one of those cases
On one hand, I completely agree with NM. The Slenderverse brought so many creative people together and they crossed over into each others' series. It's something so unique to them. If it never happens again, then it just makes it that much more special as time goes on. On the other hand, There's still a lot of fantastic creators out there doing cool stuff with Unfiction and it would be cool to have some crossover, even if it's very limited. Something as small as seeing someone from another project in a coffee shop for a split second in a video that shows it's canonically in the same universe, even if it's not directly involved. And from there, sharing themes or "rules." I just think there's a lot of potential and love the idea of "smaller" creators helping each other out.
Earnest stories of online communities of this era really resonate with me. Something I almost had and could easily fall into a nostalgia spiral idealizing, but I've seen in person the rough edges that come with any community this diverse and enthusiastic. I appreciate you including both the highs and lows of those type of communities.
One of my favorite series back then was KeratinGarden Unfortunately it never really ended conclusively and faded away like others, as the creator moved on to other things. Channel is still up though, and people interested in the history should still check it out.
It's kind of interesting to me that all the 'cult' versions I've seen have been the kind of traditional hooded robed semi-medieval type tropes, when they could have all been wearing dress suits and ties with the masks instead. Like; visually I think it would be interesting to see them mimicking it's form of dress to pay tribute. There could even be a thing where all the suits have to be tailored and flattering or the wearer becomes a sacrifice.
im guessing it stems from the low-budget nature of most of the slenderverse stuff. it was far cheaper to get masks and robes for a group of people vs suits
Maybe not suits but like, business casual wear. Button ups and polo shirts. The important thing would be that they adhered to the dress code to show cult-like behavior. But in any case I think perception of what a cult was back then was limited to scary group that worships devil whereas now societally we're more aware of how cults and cult-like behavior can take any form.
it will take me a week to process this. thank you for creating this (AND IM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR YOU SHOWING THE BATHROOM SCENE IM SO HAPPY I LITERALLY GASPED THANK YOU THANN YOU THANK YOU)
I’m surprised it’s not more talked about in the greater Slenderman mythos. Last I remember, it branched out into at least 3 subplots involving separate factions of friends and foes very loosely tied by Caught’s storyline. It was wild.
as a new jerseyian it truly rules how many slender series were based in nj!! such a niche thing that absolutely rules. ive been to where the emh finale was filmed lmao.
i knew about marble hornets from the beginning, even when i didn’t know that it was marble hornets. madame macabre was my first introduction to creepypasta, specifically their comic The Seer. i saw masky and hoodie and didn’t know that was their origin, but as i got older like middle school, maybe a little earlier is when i actually found marble hornets. and then in 2019 i found everymanhybrid and since then the slenderverse has meant so much to me. emh was so influential to me because of the acting. the emotions portrayed, the grief ACKNOWLEDGED beyond screaming, genuine emotion especially from evan because he truly lost the most. all of those things. thank you for making three parts to this i just started a new job and this helps a lot
i’ll truly never forget finding MH, EMH, and DH back in early 2011. so happy DH is finally wrapping. it was an era of internet horror that’ll never be matched. truly a “you had to be there” sort of thing. what a wonderful walk down memory lane. thank you for making this.
@Alex & Crew: very well done! The Slenderverse creator's group gives me some hardcore World of Warcraft circa 2005-ish. A group of folks working toward a common goal that occasionally made crazy little trips all over the U.S. to visit each other and be nerdy together. Very enjoyable to watch and wonderful to hear the genuine joy in the voices of the creators who were involved. Thank you very much to everyone involved for bringing such a lovely story about community to life.
I have watched all your full length documentaries so far and let me just say man, this is your thing. You make incredible documentaries! Also it is so cool that you got all of those creator interviews! As RUclips has shifted into a lot of long form video essays, seeing you make actual like high level production documentaries is great. I hope as you go on you get the recognition you deserve
I still vividly remember the first all nighter I pulled was so I could specifically catch up on the Marble Hornets series, and essentially study the concept of slenderman like I was preparing for a test. It was just me, my phone, a notebook n pen, and a can of pepsi keeping me up. Real glad I discovered it all on a friday night so school didn't get in the way lmao I got obsessed with slender and Creepypasta real quick
This was so wonderful. What a beautiful and unique look at one of the most ubiquitous pieces of internet culture around. Fantastic work, so excited for Part 3!!!
I like How Alex Hera made it all into the behind the scenes and how it all came to the creation of such series. You're a good person in Doing such work and their work is what inspires me to learn the video productions. Despite series being made long time ago, I won't give up on not making one of mine. Slenderman from Victor Surge photo editing is what started it. Hope i can join into this group and become part of it!
I was literally obsessed with slender man like a couple of years ago and he gave me so much nightmares because I watched so many videos of him and theories about him but that didn’t stop me from still watching them and how come I’m finding this documentary now I’m so late😭😭
Join us for "Out of Game: The Slenderverse Aftershow" on twitch.tv/slenderverse_oog at 8pm PST/11pm EST today, 6/21! Featuring special guests Chris Hammarberg, Heather Mooch, Lee Esposito, Alex Madden, Marissa Botelho, Dylan Sindelar, Gio Kraska, and Austin!
I just wanted to give a special shout out to Valeria Santiago for shoutout out OneHundredYardStare around 14:37 in the live chat. I really came to love that series and I’m happy it’s getting a proper shoutout. Also one of the female-led Slender Man series I think?
It's really crazy to think that nothing really picked up that big afterwards, as mentioned in the video. I mean even in Austria, where it's a bit of an internet backwood and even people outside ARGs and unfiction webseries had heard about Slenderman and seen at least a few videos of these creators. Hell, I remember myself searching for Slenderman videos cause I heard about it and seen a few clips here and there from those series, but didn't know what webseries were, so I just was thinking it's like the alien or bigfoot videos where people record a supernatural thing and pretend it's real, but was faked XD
Jumped on the train in late 2010 and tried filming a few things with my friends. Point is the slender slenderverse has been part of my life for so long that seeing these videos again has been the biggest treat. Bless ❤
I vaguely remember hearing about the drama in the tiny chat/ fb & even tho I wanted to join ( I had a blog that was 100s of posts long even if I don't think it was very good ) I denied any offers b/c I could tell how dramatic it all was.... ALTHOUGH I WAS in the slender forum private Skype & a mod on the site & boy I can tell you, even just among fans, it was non-stop bullshit parade of memes & gossip & a lot of cheating & dating friends' exs. tbh the mh guys had the right of it, staying out of it was the best move tbh.
As someone who was very active on the Slenderman Wiki around 2012-2014 and subject to all the absurd amount of drama there, its sort of validating to know that the people behind the slenderverse projects were also dealing with that sort of stuff 😂 That being said i also met some of my closest friends who ive now known for over a decade on the Slenderman Wiki. So this video really hits.
I'm genuinely so inspired by this series so far. I just want to get up and do something creative with people now lol No clue of what medium, or even who as I don't know that many people haha But I'm just super inspired and motivated to want to DO and CREATE something which is amazing. Especially as I am someone who deals with depression. I personally thank you for putting this documentary together, and all of the creators of the community 💚
It's so sad how adam, from tribe twelve, who was a big part of this story ruined his part due to his own actions. An important person to the history of the slenderverse, but someone who only got left out due to his own actions.
Slenderman and the series he spawned was massive to my teen and young adult years. Got me seriously into horror, helped me find people to geek out with, even at one point kept me from making a huge mistake. I couldn't exactly see how these stories ended if I ended my own, y'know? People have poked fun at that 'saved my life' bit, but I don't care. I'm glad I stayed, either way.
I loved the mythos of the Slender-verse and I've always loved how creative everyone could get and it wasn't limited to just one crowd. It heavily influenced my art style. While I don't draw SFW stuff anymore, I still admire how wonderful and creative most people are in the space.
I've been loving this series, and I'm aware that this is just my ADHD talking, but that jar of peanut butter on Marissa Botelho's table in the background is KILLING me, lol
I still look back at my days of being part of the Slenderverse with so much fondness. I got the Operator symbol as my first tattoo bc it was just that important to me.
Darkharvest posted a video update shortly after the first instalment of this, and Marblehornets launched a kickstarter for a behind the scenes book this week. THE SYNERGY!
i counted the days for THIS day, i'm so excited, i'm not a expertec speak and write in inglish but the little i can understand make's me feel so happy 🐀💗
God damn, these last 2 videos were a blast from the past. I remember getting super into slender man when the 8 pages game came out. I was alway interested in scary stories, camp fire stories and folk tales since I grew up on a lot of hispanic horror tales and when the internet grew its own horror scene. I was ecstatic
Hot take: Chris Hammarberg is Nick Nocturne. I mean....NM has covered every other big Slender series, but not DarkHarvest00. And if Chris were to drop his voice slightly and put on the affect....I just wouldn't be surprised at all to find out this is the case.
...i think youre onto something i was listening to this docu in the background while i draw and i was sometimes confused on whether it was Chris or NM talking 😂
I am loving this documentary! I was huge into Slenderverse back in the day and thought I knew all about it but I learned tidbits of info I didn’t know!
Dare I say the slender verse changed my life and how i perceive what’s scary and what’s not. I hope it resurges one day in one way or another. Me and my friends are actually trying to make a modern day web series about slenderman. The first episode is out. And I hope we can one day revive it with others ❤️
That's awesome. I got inspired to make my own series too and, ironically enough, the first episode's out too. It's called In the static of my daymares. What's yours called?
There's a lot of weird stuff and urban legends around here, and it's the reason things like "Weird NJ" exists. Not to mention our weird connections with horror in general. We have the obvious ones like the Jersey Devil and Blairstown as the setting for "Friday the 13th". Then there's things like "Shades of Death Road", which is the ACTUAL name of a road with a dozen legends around it, and is conveniently located just south of Blairstown, lol.
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Experience the rest of Slenderverse: A Documentary Film Series...
Episode I: Building the Slenderman: ruclips.net/video/zfhhdPaGd8E/видео.html
Episode III: The Rise and Fall of Slenderman: ruclips.net/video/SLgJQqJ_alU/видео.html
Slender-man deserves more, actually,
Question, if you can make all of the best Slenderverse makers come together, can you all team up and make a new Slender-Man series? Like Marble Hornets ??
Just a curious question, that’s all. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Y'know, as I'm finishing this I've come to realize that the Slenderverse community almost has basically the same story as your average niche underground music scene that gets mildly popular. You have one band (Marble Hornets) that invents a new style of music and becomes popular enough to inspire a wave of bands from a particular area to imitate them and form a scene around their local proximity and shared style - I'm immediately reminded of how an Irish band, My Bloody Valentine, invented shoegaze and inspired a bunch of teenagers from the Thames Valley area of England to play shoegaze themselves and form a very incestuous scene. And the Sham House would be like the Slenderverse's American Football House (midwest emo). Even when the style becomes uncool and the scene dies, you still find people who came up in that scene continue to collaborate on later projects (think of Fripp and Eno, or what happened with basically all prog rock bands in the 80's). Hell, you even have that one band who years later has their leader get exposed for being a predator - it truly has it all.
That final statement really got me lol
@@sanc3375 yeah, it especially hurts when Tribe Twelve is my fav slenderverse series (Fuck adam rosner btw)
I never knew HOW close many of them actually were/are. It's really interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff regarding the community of creators.
I feel so old hearing these kids talking about “it was the 2010s, so social media hadn’t really taken off” 😂
Me still using ICQ...
"I've met a lot of people that are still my friends today, and I've met a lot of people that if I read 'em in the newspaper tomorrow I'd be like, 'good.' You know what I mean? [...] But to me, that's what community brings. That is community."
I really liked this quote.
I've been a Slenderman fan since 2015, Alex Hera's work is probably one of the most important things I've had the opportunity to watch. We love you Alex for the work you've done!
Same here:,) 2015 seems like yesterday sometimes but it's been such a long time jesus christ
1:23:49 "Cause if he doesn't mean anything to you then what's the point?" and that's why Stan Frederick ruled, as did HiImMaryMary
Kind of interesting how uninvolved the marble hornets guys were in all the drama and activity of the slenderverse, being one of the biggest creators and all
they knew.
They had their own issues... They just waited until after Marble Hornets to do the "band fights, breaks up, tries again, breaks up again" thing. :p The follow-up project, not Slenderman related (can't remember its name), was incredibly rocky and never finished. Didn't have a full vision, creators all disagreed on what to do, and some (relatively minor all things considered) financial impropriety with funds (using business funds to cover some personal debts iirc) kind of tanked things. Honestly dunno what the current status of all that is, I know Tim wanted nothing to do with the others for a while. I assume since he's in this, and there's a Creating Marble Hornets behind-the-scenes documentary thing the Marble Hornets account is posting about that things eventually got worked out, but yeah. They weren't 100% immune to drama, just knew to focus on their own thing and own vision for their initial project.
@@Matoyak Right, wasn't the follow up Clear Lakes 44? I remember the first couple episodes feeling kind of empty, but really didn't wind up paying much attention past that
@@tympestbooks1727 I remember being hyped as hell for it back in the day and by episode 12 there was still no story, no understanding of characters and no clue to what was even happening. Even night mind couldn’t explain what was happening, nobody could
@@Matoyak Well this is the first time I'm hearing about this. WHY IS IT NOT AT 100K YET?!?!
It's so nostalgic seeing all these creators again great job on this documentary.
I swear I know you from somewhere
Wild seeing you here
great job on this series so far, genuinely.
if you ever wanna talk "modern re-imaginings" of slenderman, i'm always down to throw some shit out about 10 tapes (where the antagonist concept was basically "totally not slenderman... unless👀")
Id love to see more creators like Alex Hera here to make video essays on 10 Tapes. It was an amazing story ;)
👀
Still gotta finish 10 Tapes, your work is genuinely brilliant and is an inspiration for me (yes Nick sent me to you :p)
Being part of the Slenderverse was easily one of the highlights of my entire life. I will never forget it, and thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. It's absolutely beautiful.
I will say the 'end blogs' thing always stung though. Joke or not, the vlogs were the big fish. It always felt like punching down.
Oh hey Nightscream!
I'd completely forgotten about the "no more blogs" thing until the doc; I don't think I ended up being asked about it because I remember it irritating me at the time too (I can laugh about it in retrospect).
@@koernerkomedy Hey! Yep, it's me. I never ended up leaving the username behind. Oh yeah, I feel that. I'd forgotten about it as well until they brought it up. At the end of the day, I hold no grudges and am grateful to be a part of it, even on the sidelines. Really, that's what the Slenderverse was: equal parts horror and drama, both OOG and IG/IC.
Patrick Bateman being the alternative personality of MLAndersen is very funny now.
Its so sweet to see that all the creators are still proud of themselves to this day, most people would look back and be ashamed of themselves. Im glad this isn't one of those cases
On one hand, I completely agree with NM. The Slenderverse brought so many creative people together and they crossed over into each others' series. It's something so unique to them. If it never happens again, then it just makes it that much more special as time goes on.
On the other hand, There's still a lot of fantastic creators out there doing cool stuff with Unfiction and it would be cool to have some crossover, even if it's very limited. Something as small as seeing someone from another project in a coffee shop for a split second in a video that shows it's canonically in the same universe, even if it's not directly involved. And from there, sharing themes or "rules." I just think there's a lot of potential and love the idea of "smaller" creators helping each other out.
The "Worlds Collide" community section is genuinely heartwarming. Thank you for putting something like this together, really flooding back memories.
Earnest stories of online communities of this era really resonate with me. Something I almost had and could easily fall into a nostalgia spiral idealizing, but I've seen in person the rough edges that come with any community this diverse and enthusiastic. I appreciate you including both the highs and lows of those type of communities.
1:42:09
Ah I see, your making a film *INSIDE* a documentary!!
And this is the *REAL* (in video) Slender-Man.
One of my favorite series back then was KeratinGarden
Unfortunately it never really ended conclusively and faded away like others, as the creator moved on to other things.
Channel is still up though, and people interested in the history should still check it out.
It's kind of interesting to me that all the 'cult' versions I've seen have been the kind of traditional hooded robed semi-medieval type tropes, when they could have all been wearing dress suits and ties with the masks instead. Like; visually I think it would be interesting to see them mimicking it's form of dress to pay tribute. There could even be a thing where all the suits have to be tailored and flattering or the wearer becomes a sacrifice.
im guessing it stems from the low-budget nature of most of the slenderverse stuff. it was far cheaper to get masks and robes for a group of people vs suits
Maybe not suits but like, business casual wear. Button ups and polo shirts. The important thing would be that they adhered to the dress code to show cult-like behavior.
But in any case I think perception of what a cult was back then was limited to scary group that worships devil whereas now societally we're more aware of how cults and cult-like behavior can take any form.
@@mandarinduck yess imagine they carry golf clubs as weapons xD
it will take me a week to process this. thank you for creating this (AND IM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR YOU SHOWING THE BATHROOM SCENE IM SO HAPPY I LITERALLY GASPED THANK YOU THANN YOU THANK YOU)
I love how deep this goes in the minds and feelings of the people involved. How it shows connection in this universe
Wow, never thought I’d see a mention of CaughtNotSleeping here. It’s been years since I was involved with that community, seen that name last at all.
I’m surprised it’s not more talked about in the greater Slenderman mythos. Last I remember, it branched out into at least 3 subplots involving separate factions of friends and foes very loosely tied by Caught’s storyline. It was wild.
7 day gap between videos is really impressive, thank you for all your hard work
as a new jerseyian it truly rules how many slender series were based in nj!! such a niche thing that absolutely rules. ive been to where the emh finale was filmed lmao.
i knew about marble hornets from the beginning, even when i didn’t know that it was marble hornets. madame macabre was my first introduction to creepypasta, specifically their comic The Seer. i saw masky and hoodie and didn’t know that was their origin, but as i got older like middle school, maybe a little earlier is when i actually found marble hornets. and then in 2019 i found everymanhybrid and since then the slenderverse has meant so much to me. emh was so influential to me because of the acting. the emotions portrayed, the grief ACKNOWLEDGED beyond screaming, genuine emotion especially from evan because he truly lost the most. all of those things. thank you for making three parts to this i just started a new job and this helps a lot
Evan dapping up slenderman gave me such joy
i’ll truly never forget finding MH, EMH, and DH back in early 2011. so happy DH is finally wrapping. it was an era of internet horror that’ll never be matched. truly a “you had to be there” sort of thing. what a wonderful walk down memory lane. thank you for making this.
Alex is over here giving me ideas for a new project.
Time to dive in
@Alex & Crew: very well done! The Slenderverse creator's group gives me some hardcore World of Warcraft circa 2005-ish. A group of folks working toward a common goal that occasionally made crazy little trips all over the U.S. to visit each other and be nerdy together. Very enjoyable to watch and wonderful to hear the genuine joy in the voices of the creators who were involved. Thank you very much to everyone involved for bringing such a lovely story about community to life.
I am in love with this series so far Alex, thank you for documenting a large part of my childhood. This makes me smile so much
I have watched all your full length documentaries so far and let me just say man, this is your thing. You make incredible documentaries! Also it is so cool that you got all of those creator interviews! As RUclips has shifted into a lot of long form video essays, seeing you make actual like high level production documentaries is great. I hope as you go on you get the recognition you deserve
oh yeah tomorrows gonna be a good day
I still vividly remember the first all nighter I pulled was so I could specifically catch up on the Marble Hornets series, and essentially study the concept of slenderman like I was preparing for a test.
It was just me, my phone, a notebook n pen, and a can of pepsi keeping me up. Real glad I discovered it all on a friday night so school didn't get in the way lmao
I got obsessed with slender and Creepypasta real quick
This was so wonderful. What a beautiful and unique look at one of the most ubiquitous pieces of internet culture around. Fantastic work, so excited for Part 3!!!
as a creator in the field i am so inspired to keep going after watching this
alex went three hard
I love hearing about series I never got into such as dark harvest. This is a great second part!
I like How Alex Hera made it all into the behind the scenes and how it all came to the creation of such series.
You're a good person in Doing such work and their work is what inspires me to learn the video productions.
Despite series being made long time ago, I won't give up on not making one of mine. Slenderman from Victor Surge photo editing is what started it.
Hope i can join into this group and become part of it!
I was literally obsessed with slender man like a couple of years ago and he gave me so much nightmares because I watched so many videos of him and theories about him but that didn’t stop me from still watching them and how come I’m finding this documentary now I’m so late😭😭
Join us for "Out of Game: The Slenderverse Aftershow" on twitch.tv/slenderverse_oog at 8pm PST/11pm EST today, 6/21!
Featuring special guests Chris Hammarberg, Heather Mooch, Lee Esposito, Alex Madden, Marissa Botelho, Dylan Sindelar, Gio Kraska, and Austin!
I just wanted to give a special shout out to Valeria Santiago for shoutout out OneHundredYardStare around 14:37 in the live chat. I really came to love that series and I’m happy it’s getting a proper shoutout. Also one of the female-led Slender Man series I think?
"warning contains flashing lights"
*proceeds to put it over a background with flashing lights*
Survival of the fittest
It's really crazy to think that nothing really picked up that big afterwards, as mentioned in the video.
I mean even in Austria, where it's a bit of an internet backwood and even people outside ARGs and unfiction webseries had heard about Slenderman and seen at least a few videos of these creators.
Hell, I remember myself searching for Slenderman videos cause I heard about it and seen a few clips here and there from those series, but didn't know what webseries were, so I just was thinking it's like the alien or bigfoot videos where people record a supernatural thing and pretend it's real, but was faked XD
Jumped on the train in late 2010 and tried filming a few things with my friends. Point is the slender slenderverse has been part of my life for so long that seeing these videos again has been the biggest treat. Bless ❤
Todays chat was fun, I learned Slenderman is Transgender thanks to Alex Heras universe. Thank you for making him relatable ♥
Oh boy oh boy, another doc. excited to watch (just starting it now)
I vaguely remember hearing about the drama in the tiny chat/ fb & even tho I wanted to join ( I had a blog that was 100s of posts long even if I don't think it was very good ) I denied any offers b/c I could tell how dramatic it all was.... ALTHOUGH I WAS in the slender forum private Skype & a mod on the site & boy I can tell you, even just among fans, it was non-stop bullshit parade of memes & gossip & a lot of cheating & dating friends' exs.
tbh the mh guys had the right of it, staying out of it was the best move tbh.
The fact there was a time we’re a campaign in a slenderman website for who was the moderator 😂
As someone who was very active on the Slenderman Wiki around 2012-2014 and subject to all the absurd amount of drama there, its sort of validating to know that the people behind the slenderverse projects were also dealing with that sort of stuff 😂
That being said i also met some of my closest friends who ive now known for over a decade on the Slenderman Wiki. So this video really hits.
I'm genuinely so inspired by this series so far. I just want to get up and do something creative with people now lol No clue of what medium, or even who as I don't know that many people haha But I'm just super inspired and motivated to want to DO and CREATE something which is amazing. Especially as I am someone who deals with depression.
I personally thank you for putting this documentary together, and all of the creators of the community 💚
It's so sad how adam, from tribe twelve, who was a big part of this story ruined his part due to his own actions. An important person to the history of the slenderverse, but someone who only got left out due to his own actions.
Slenderman and the series he spawned was massive to my teen and young adult years. Got me seriously into horror, helped me find people to geek out with, even at one point kept me from making a huge mistake. I couldn't exactly see how these stories ended if I ended my own, y'know?
People have poked fun at that 'saved my life' bit, but I don't care. I'm glad I stayed, either way.
I loved the mythos of the Slender-verse and I've always loved how creative everyone could get and it wasn't limited to just one crowd. It heavily influenced my art style. While I don't draw SFW stuff anymore, I still admire how wonderful and creative most people are in the space.
I've been loving this series, and I'm aware that this is just my ADHD talking, but that jar of peanut butter on Marissa Botelho's table in the background is KILLING me, lol
It’s for my dog to take her medicine 😂
I'm really looking forward to starting my weekend off watching this!
Excelent video 🤙🏻
I still look back at my days of being part of the Slenderverse with so much fondness. I got the Operator symbol as my first tattoo bc it was just that important to me.
I like the side story of the 4 creators starting their chanels and making a crossover
omg. this is the video I've been searching for
I’m watching Kyle Walls qna stream while waiting for this video premiere lol. I’m on a slenderverse high right now 🤞
Darkharvest posted a video update shortly after the first instalment of this, and Marblehornets launched a kickstarter for a behind the scenes book this week. THE SYNERGY!
@@z-beeblebrox I SAW THAT 😍😍
Troy from marble hornets just raised enough funds to start writing a book about it too. I’m so excited!!
YOO I actually got here before the next one premiered! Can't wait to watch it.
Hey man, just wanted to say that these vids have been amazing. The quality and editing is top tier, can't wait to see what you put out in the future.
i counted the days for THIS day, i'm so excited, i'm not a expertec speak and write in inglish but the little i can understand make's me feel so happy 🐀💗
Can someone give me the time stamp to the bath tub scene ? I can’t find it and was told it was in this documentary
1:31:28
I remember being on the unfiction forums, watching these and just getting absorbed into their worlds! It's cool to see the behind the scenes stuff.
im shaking violently (this is feeding my hyperfixation)
1:14:53 REALLY MY INTERNET WENT OUT AND MADE ME MISS THE MOMENT THEY STARTED TALKING ABOUT CREEPYPASTA
X0
59:50 Theory: Tharol is Slenderman himself
Although I didn't come in at the start of it, I felt I was a part of something special. I was introduced to it thanks to my love of found footage.
1:31:28 Dylan I’mma need you to release this now!!!!!!!!!
God damn, these last 2 videos were a blast from the past. I remember getting super into slender man when the 8 pages game came out. I was alway interested in scary stories, camp fire stories and folk tales since I grew up on a lot of hispanic horror tales and when the internet grew its own horror scene. I was ecstatic
Hot take: Chris Hammarberg is Nick Nocturne. I mean....NM has covered every other big Slender series, but not DarkHarvest00. And if Chris were to drop his voice slightly and put on the affect....I just wouldn't be surprised at all to find out this is the case.
...i think youre onto something
i was listening to this docu in the background while i draw and i was sometimes confused on whether it was Chris or NM talking 😂
I am loving this documentary! I was huge into Slenderverse back in the day and thought I knew all about it but I learned tidbits of info I didn’t know!
i overslept and didnt catch it live... 😔
Okay, I cried
I am glad that despite all the shenanigans, Evan still managed to follow a good exercise and nutritional routine :)
Dare I say the slender verse changed my life and how i perceive what’s scary and what’s not. I hope it resurges one day in one way or another. Me and my friends are actually trying to make a modern day web series about slenderman. The first episode is out. And I hope we can one day revive it with others ❤️
That's awesome. I got inspired to make my own series too and, ironically enough, the first episode's out too. It's called In the static of my daymares. What's yours called?
Slender transed my gender
same 😔😔
By Sarah And The Safe Word
Loving the Jersey love happening here
I missed the live broadcast AGAIN
DAMMIT
So these were just people coping with living in new jersey?
As a New Jerseyite, this is just the daily life in New Jersey.
There's a lot of weird stuff and urban legends around here, and it's the reason things like "Weird NJ" exists. Not to mention our weird connections with horror in general.
We have the obvious ones like the Jersey Devil and Blairstown as the setting for "Friday the 13th". Then there's things like "Shades of Death Road", which is the ACTUAL name of a road with a dozen legends around it, and is conveniently located just south of Blairstown, lol.
What happened to Tribe Twelve? I notices they’re not mentioned in the video despite being really important
It's explained in part 1 of the documentary.
@@nah6024 ohhhh I totally missed part 1 lol
He talked to a minor inappropriately and was creepy with younger fans to
I was expecting thar Patrick/HABIT crossover to happened all my life
i NEED to know the ending song🙏🙏🙏🙏
dylan i missed you sm 😭💔
Kinda sad I didn't get to watch this live
Life Is Kind 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Despite the name, I always thought of Slenderman as more non gendered
caughtnotsleeping MENTIONED
so does anybody here in the comments know slenderverse series still going or if there are any new ones ?
thanks for this, I loved living through that era
I just gonna say, WOW, what an incredible content of Slender, such an underrated channel.
HELLO EVERBODY
AHHH I'M SO EXCITED
I was here!!!
same !! :3
I can't take it anymore/pos
1:28:53 I'm gonna use my homestate of NJ as an excuse for my love of creepypasta from now on lol
51:10 Wait, slenderverse creators DATE EACH OTHER??
Hey it might not be wise to give the flashing lights warning... while flashing lights at the same time
AHHHH SO EXCITED!!!!! 🫶🫶🫶🫶
I’m sad about tulpa effect, it was good.