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A review by eastwooddoll
Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet by Trevor J. Blank, Lynne S. McNeill
5.0
admittedly, i did not get to finish this book. the community college class i was taking was about to end, so i had to return it to the college library.
i had the greatest time reading this. you don’t even know how excited i was to get my hands on a copy! i’ve been interested in internet history & sociology (with a focus on creepypasta/the slenderverse) for years. it didn’t occur to me till last year to actually try seeking out scholarly works related to the subject. digital folklore spoke to me immediately. parts of this book are literally rants i’ve been on in my head, just in academic language.
if you asked me to speak about the “telephone game”-esque dispersion of character backstories among 10-16 year olds online in 2015…i would never shut the hell up. getting me started on anything related to the 2015 creepypasta fandom, really, will cause me to put even the most patient person to sleep
i had the greatest time reading this. you don’t even know how excited i was to get my hands on a copy! i’ve been interested in internet history & sociology (with a focus on creepypasta/the slenderverse) for years. it didn’t occur to me till last year to actually try seeking out scholarly works related to the subject. digital folklore spoke to me immediately. parts of this book are literally rants i’ve been on in my head, just in academic language.
if you asked me to speak about the “telephone game”-esque dispersion of character backstories among 10-16 year olds online in 2015…i would never shut the hell up. getting me started on anything related to the 2015 creepypasta fandom, really, will cause me to put even the most patient person to sleep