After the emergence of the Internet era, each of us can capture the bizarre events around us through mobile phones and other devices in time, and can find their reasonable explanation on the Internet very quickly. With the rise of new media, such as memes, blogs, and video games, it has added a three-dimensional narrative to these bizarre stories. Slender man was fictionalized around 2009 by a user named Victor Surge on a website called Something Awful. Many users recreated Slender Man, and the legend of Slender Man and new so-called live photos and videos soon circulated online, as well as fan fiction and movies, comics and games. When people started to recreate, this Slender Man went from a mere picture to a meme, to a worldview, and the whole story became more complete because of people's re-creation. On the one hand, the Internet has expanded the world, allowing information to be seamlessly disseminated by consensus around the world. At the same time, it shrinks our world, allowing groups of people that would not have been possible to gather to form small groups. Through the communication role of new media, the collective group unconsciously believe in those stories. In many regions such as Africa and India, there are monsters embodied in people's collective consciousness, and in the Internet age, people use software such as Photoshop to create images like Slender Man and give them "life forms". As a result, myths become easier to create.
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