By Robert Scucci
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They say you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet because there is so much floating disinformation there, but sometimes we cannot help each other. Since humanity has had the ability to tell stories, folklore and tales of great forms of entertainment that reflect our own life as a means of giving meaning to our existence and all the existentialaries we face daily . 2016 Beware of the SlendermanAn original HBO streaming on max, aims to unpack how much folklore has no via the Internet has real consequences when fiction is considered a fact, and how serious the consequences can be when a mythological creature like the Thin man takes a life of himself despite the fact that he has always been a work of fiction.
Beware of the Slenderman Go to the creation of the thin man, the mythology that surrounds him and the painful incident known as the thin man that took place in Wisconsin in 2014 when two girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, have Hidden their friend, Payton “Bella” Leutner, 19 times to appease the fictitious nature that would have influenced their behavior.
Slender Man started as a Photoshop competition
The origin of the thin man can be found on the forums something terrible in 2009, when Eric Knudsen entered the Paranormal Photoshop competition which inspired him to create the creature. Beware of the Slenderman Explain that the creature – a tall and skinny man, faceless and tried in a costume – has become so popular because online users have started writing their own folklore on being who reflected their own fears and anxieties of a Similarly to traditional folk stories.
While the popularity of the thin man began to grow, the imagination of Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, who became obsessed with the thin man, who led to their attempted murder of Bella. Feeling as if she were under the fate of the thin man, Morgan Geyser has become more and more paranoid and claims that she was invited by the thin man to kill Bella before meeting him at his home, thin manor .
Where were their parents?
The parents of Geyser and Wesier are largely questioned Beware of the Slenderman, And their main concern is how to manage the supervision of the online activity of their other children after the stabs. Increasingly concerned about the amount of screen time that their children must have through iPads and other devices for their studies, they wonder what they could do elsewhere outside the supervision of their children 24/7. But as the documentary deepens Morgan Geyser’s psyche at the time of murder, we learn that she was suffering from auditory and auditory hearing loss that she did not say to her parents – who are all the accounts of active parents and attentive -.
Interrogations Interference
Although there are no first -hand accounts of Bella (who fortunately survived) Beware of the SlendermanWe learn through interrogation images how Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier reacted to the crime they had just filled shortly after their apprehension. Given the severity of their crimes, they were both tired in adulthood, but not without a long legal battle to determine how many girls were in a stab.
Beware of the Slenderman provides a unique overview of how sometimes internet memes and Urban legends can become uncontrollable and have real consequences. What I appreciated the most was how the thin man was formulated as an isolated incident without blaming the creator of the thin man, Eric Knudsen. Although there is no clear answer on how the stabbing could have been prevented given the course of events that Beware of the Slenderman Try to give meaning, it always serves as an edifying story about the speed with which truth can become more strange than a collaborative work of fiction.
You can broadcast Beware of the Slenderman on max.
