Is the Slenderverse dying?

I don't know about you guys, but somehow, I can't shake of the feel that the verse is dying. I don't know about UF, but SlenderNation is kinda on the downside, many users seem to not log in for a lot of time, very few users log in per day than before, you know. I see very little theorising on video trailhead topics, compared to the past. Is this normal for this time of the year, or is something really happening?

It does feel like the fanbase is on the decline right now, but I don't think it will be permanent. Right now feels like a slow point as the Slender craze is about over and fewer series are getting off the ground, but that isn't enough to "kill the Verse". Slender Man continues to evolve as an urban legend because he's always malleable enough for new directions to be taken with him, so inevitably something will bring him back to people's attention.

@BlueMarble
it´s fun that you say it it on the decline, because i just added several newly found and rather innovative series to my list that have started just a short while ago :3

I´m with Peppercorn on that.

I bet the Marble Hornets film will revitalize it.

We also have the finale of Marble Hornets as well.

All you need to get something going is to promote something original. I've been following Tails on that and been checking out series such as Keratin Garden.

Oh you followed me? o.o STALKER!

Is the Kyubey/Firebrand avatar making it worse?  

nope, don´t worry

Well, if it does die, it's been fun.


EDIT: I abandoned the Slender Man wiki due to the appalling behaviour of one of the admins, but as far as this site goes, I haven't seen posts randomly being removed or the moderators breaking their own rules, so that can hardly be it.

xyzombie wrote:

I feel like most of this has been covered, but:

Of course, there's always a boost in dedicated fans. I gotten to where I am because of the Slender craze.

Well, considering the age group of the fans and creators, the amount of free time people have can dwindle, I mean, I would keep in touch with the series more but my "new" laptop takes 40 minutes to start up.

From my point of view it does seem like the Slenderverse is in a decline atm, but I feel it will rise back up at some point soon. My opinion for why is that Marble Hornets is starting to end and that is the big main juggernaut series Slenderfans follows and pay attention to, and with the feeling of it ending there's the feeling that a big chunk of the Slenderverse itself will be dead (though it'll still be fine despite what people may think in the moment). The other four big series are still going strong for the most part and there is still much to expect from them, and I feel that far from now by the time they end smaller series will become more prominent and the Slenderverse will be given an even bigger boost with creators adding more of their own content to keep everyone entertained. When I first found this website (around the time of myself having caught up on the big series) I very much tried to get involved in what I could and started watching the smaller series, though I guess my excitement has dwindled some so I don't post as much even though I'm still very actively watching the big series. My laziness will end some day and I will get caught up on the smaller series I started watching, and I will give more in-depth posts for all the series I watch.

Its definitely fallen back. The major reason is because of Pastamonsters.

For those who don't know, Pastamonsters is a relatively well-known Creepypasta comic on Deviantart. It receives about 15,000 views per page. The first page received a grand total of 46,000 views.

It makes the Creepypasta fandom look like a bunch of morons with all of the illiteracy in the fanbase, and the comic itself is filled with curse words, some shitty pushed in original character, and horribly ooc moments every other page. In fact, the artist doesn't even draw the pages anymore.

My point?

Everyone else thinks we're idiots now.

Todesfurcht wrote:

Its definitely fallen back. The major reason is because of Pastamonsters.

For those who don't know, Pastamonsters is a relatively well-known Creepypasta comic on Deviantart. It receives about 15,000 views per page. The first page received a grand total of 46,000 views.

It makes the Creepypasta fandom look like a bunch of morons with all of the illiteracy in the fanbase, and the comic itself is filled with curse words, some shitty pushed in original character, and horribly ooc moments every other page. In fact, the artist doesn't even draw the pages anymore.

My point?

Everyone else thinks we're idiots now.

I'm curious, would you consider Pastamonsters to have a bigger effect on the Slenderverse than something like Slender the game? Because I doubt Pastamonsters is taking people away from the Slenderverse or having them change their opinion on it if they're already a part of the fanbase.

JustinDGBZ wrote:

Todesfurcht wrote:

Its definitely fallen back. The major reason is because of Pastamonsters.

For those who don't know, Pastamonsters is a relatively well-known Creepypasta comic on Deviantart. It receives about 15,000 views per page. The first page received a grand total of 46,000 views.

It makes the Creepypasta fandom look like a bunch of morons with all of the illiteracy in the fanbase, and the comic itself is filled with curse words, some shitty pushed in original character, and horribly ooc moments every other page. In fact, the artist doesn't even draw the pages anymore.

My point?

Everyone else thinks we're idiots now.

I'm curious, would you consider Pastamonsters to have a bigger effect on the Slenderverse than something like Slender the game? Because I doubt Pastamonsters is taking people away from the Slenderverse or having them change their opinion on it if they're already a part of the fanbase.

I see the point you're trying to make.

The "Slender" game really fucked the fandom over too, along with Pewdiepie.
Though I personally think Pastamonsters had a more bigger effect because, although Slender was a lot more popular, most of the people who found out about Slenderman through it have left.
With Pastamonsters however, they don't leave, and the majority of the fans are stupid.

I liked Slender as a game but I hated the way people treated the slenderverse. I hope that the slenderverse does speed up again.

Todesfurcht wrote:

JustinDGBZ wrote:

Todesfurcht wrote:

Its definitely fallen back. The major reason is because of Pastamonsters.

For those who don't know, Pastamonsters is a relatively well-known Creepypasta comic on Deviantart. It receives about 15,000 views per page. The first page received a grand total of 46,000 views.

It makes the Creepypasta fandom look like a bunch of morons with all of the illiteracy in the fanbase, and the comic itself is filled with curse words, some shitty pushed in original character, and horribly ooc moments every other page. In fact, the artist doesn't even draw the pages anymore.

My point?

Everyone else thinks we're idiots now.

I'm curious, would you consider Pastamonsters to have a bigger effect on the Slenderverse than something like Slender the game? Because I doubt Pastamonsters is taking people away from the Slenderverse or having them change their opinion on it if they're already a part of the fanbase.

I see the point you're trying to make.

The "Slender" game really fucked the fandom over too, along with Pewdiepie.
Though I personally think Pastamonsters had a more bigger effect because, although Slender was a lot more popular, most of the people who found out about Slenderman through it have left.
With Pastamonsters however, they don't leave, and the majority of the fans are stupid.

Ah, I see what you're saying now. I personally assumed the OP meant dying as in a decline of viewers and not a dumbing down of the fanbase but in your case you'd be right. I think the Slender game was fine in itself, as links were included in the game to vlogs such as Marble Hornets and such, although Pewdiepie did do some harm. Pastamonsters does seem kinda idiotic and I can see fans coming through from there being as such.

I just looked up Pastamonsters, and what the absolute ever-loving fucknuggets was that? It's an absolute bastardization of the Fear Mythos itself. The Slenderverse is dying.

I'll take your guys' words for it on PastaMonsters (as it sounds like the perfect combination of things to piss me off) but I doubt it has a major influence on the fanbase as a whole. Let's face it, pretty much every fandom has idiotic fan works that miss the point of the series in their stupidity (my supr kawaii desu oc is in luv wiv jeff da killr dun like dun read) but as fan works they aren't relevant (or convincing!) enough to change the general perception of the fandom subject. If the "screamin @ slendr iz funneh" craze didn't irrevocably destroy the Slender Man's ability to be taken seriously (and trust me, we wouldn't be here if it did) then this won't, either.

I personally think that the Slenderverse will never die, but it will be left in a dying state. Eventually, only a couple of fanatics and creators will be left. The Slenderverse isn't getting enough attention. I think that Slendervlogs/blogs should be getting more attention, just because of the awesomeness they give us. The Slender games are what messed up the verse the most. When I tell my friends there's a Slenderman fandom, they say: 'WTF, there's a bunch of people who play 'Slender' all day?!'. It also shifted people's perspective about him, with people like Pewdiepie destroying the creepiness. However, people like him DID bring in fresh fans (like myself). I discovered the 'verse because of Pewdiepie's videos, and I started off with reading things like Encyclopaedia Slenderia and stuff like that. I think the Slenderverse needs positive promotion. It needs a name drop from someone really popular, like what Vsauce did (he included a segment from Marble Hornets in one of his videos and I think he recommended their videos and included the link in the description). Like some very popular Youtuber who has a review-type channel, and have him review some popular vlogs. This should revitalize the fandom quite a bit. However, it needs to be done in a way that brings in the proper kind of people, people who will stay.

BlueMarble wrote:

I personally think that the Slenderverse will never die, but it will be left in a dying state. Eventually, only a couple of fanatics and creators will be left. The Slenderverse isn't getting enough attention. I think that Slendervlogs/blogs should be getting more attention, just because of the awesomeness they give us. The Slender games are what messed up the verse the most. When I tell my friends there's a Slenderman fandom, they say: 'WTF, there's a bunch of people who play 'Slender' all day?!'. It also shifted people's perspective about him, with people like Pewdiepie destroying the creepiness. However, people like him DID bring in fresh fans (like myself). I discovered the 'verse because of Pewdiepie's videos, and I started off with reading things like Encyclopaedia Slenderia and stuff like that. I think the Slenderverse needs positive promotion. It needs a name drop from someone really popular, like what Vsauce did (he included a segment from Marble Hornets in one of his videos and I think he recommended their videos and included the link in the description). Like some very popular Youtuber who has a review-type channel, and have him review some popular vlogs. This should revitalize the fandom quite a bit. However, it needs to be done in a way that brings in the proper kind of people, people who will stay.

If the Marble Hornets film is done right I think the Slenderverse will get a big huge boost, in both attention and fans, and they will probably be introduced the right way. It should be a positive encouragement for both fans to view series and for new series to be made, as the new people who come into the fandom will know the correct info.

I wonder this, was Victor Surge okay with Slender game and it's reaction? I know that he was one of the producers for The Arrival but I think he never gave his opinion about the whole thing.

It seemed to me Victor Surge dropped off the face of the planet quite awhile back.

He'll probably rise again eventually.

Todesfurcht wrote:

It seemed to me Victor Surge dropped off the face of the planet quite awhile back.

He'll probably rise again eventually.

Well, He was a producer for The Arrival. I was looking Victor Surge/Eric Knudsen today and found this wikipedia page. So wikipedia is saying that the guy who created Slender man is a Canadian actor? I'm sure if Wikipedia is telling the truth or not?

Chieftain1 wrote:

Todesfurcht wrote:

It seemed to me Victor Surge dropped off the face of the planet quite awhile back.

He'll probably rise again eventually.

Well, He was a producer for The Arrival. I was looking Victor Surge/Eric Knudsen today and found this wikipedia page. So wikipedia is saying that the guy who created Slender man is a Canadian actor? I'm sure if Wikipedia is telling the truth or not?

On that Wikipedia page, if you scroll down to the bottom one of the sources is in fact
"The Slenderman Wiki". Wikia. Retrieved 28 December 2013."
HOWEVER, VictorSurge's Deviantart, the Wikia page, and his SomethingAwful account has NOT pointed toward him being the actor.