Slenderbloggins

Slenderbloggins begins as an earnest out-of-game analysis of the Slender Man Mythos. Andy is a college student who becomes interested in the Slender Man while watching and reading various vlogs and blogs, such as Marble Hornets and Just Another Fool. He confidently asserts that Slender Man is not real and that his interest in the subject is purely academic.

He proceeds to collect and catalogue information about Slender Man from various sources and review assorted Slender Man works. He significantly discusses the Tulpa Effect, the theory that Slender Man has been willed into existence by the fandom's collective attention and belief, as well as Slender Man's thematic association with trees. He also gives detailed recaps of episodes of Marble Hornets as they aired.

As the work progresses, Andy becomes increasingly paranoid, fearful, and unstable, and eventually experiences his own Slender Man sighting. He forms relationships with several commenters, some of whom may be proxies or perhaps just pranksters. The series maintains a degree of self-awareness and lampshades its own tropes frequently, while closely blurring the line between reality and fiction.

In December, Andy makes an out-of-game post clarifying which aspects of the story were fictional, improvised roleplay, or real factors outside of his control, thus concluding the fictionalized portion of the blog. From that point on the blog continued to update for a few more months, but the content was purely nonfictional analysis.

Despite being the obvious focus of the work, Slender Man himself has a minimal presence within the story of Slenderbloggins. True to its initial conceit, the focus is kept on Slender Man as a character, and through that conceit the author explores various ways in which the internet can become a source of fear. The paranoia caused by consuming horror media is convincingly blurred with the details of Andy's paranormal experiences, leaving the reader with just enough doubt as to whether there is any fiction at all.

The Tulpa Effect factors heavily into Andy's beliefs and concerns about Slender Man, as he references the potential effects of this theory frequently. A focus is also placed on Slender Man's association with missing children. After his own sighting, Andy sometimes refers to Slender Man with capitalized pronouns, as in He/Him.