![]() ![]() In 1993 the Child's Play series (in particular Child's Play 3) was linked, in both court and the national press, to the appalling murder of toddler Jamie Bulger. But the actions of the two friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, sparked widespread debate about the Slenderman character and his influence, and reignited a conversation surrounding children and "dangerous" media that recalled the era of the so-called video nasties. In 2014, however, the lines between fictional horror and real-world tragedy were blurred after two Wisconsin girls, both aged 12, cited the character as the inspiration behind the violent attempted murder of a third girl, also 12. A fictional bogeyman, born in the netherlands of the internet, he inspired stories and legends that originally proliferated like memes, or like spurious alarmist “news” stories. ![]() Slender Man, or Slenderman, is a very modern nightmare. ![]()
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