US Schoolgirls stab classmate to please Slenderman

Atlas23 · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:35

Two 12-year-old girls in the US state of Wisconsin have been accused of stabbing a classmate in order to please an online fictional character.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier have been charged with attempted murder and face up to 65 years in prison.

The unnamed victim was stabbed 19 times on Saturday and left in the woods.

The girls reportedly planned the crime to demonstrate dedication to Slenderman, a character who appears in stories on the website Creepypasta.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27684258

Something Awful has posted a statement, written by Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons, where he calls the accused 12-year-olds "dumb as hell" for believing in the Slenderman myth.

In the article, called Please Don't Kill Anybody Because of Slenderman, Parsons says: "Found footage Youtubes, shaking cameras and bad Photoshops of people with socks on their head standing in the woods should not be fooling anyone.

"Especially not 12-year-olds who should be better at the Internet and media culture than actual adults."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27710607

Literal WTF. I wonder how many people actually believe a lot of the creepypasta stories..

[FnG]magnolia · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:42

Theophany · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:47

That sleep deprivation creepypasta makes my skin crawl. All that Slenderman stuff is no less weird...

porushinobu · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:48

about the 2 girls who attacked their classmate, honestly...wtf

as for the victim I am both sorry and I have to also say well done for crawling from that forest despite the 19 stab wounds and severe pain she must have been suffering at the time. Get well soon.

MookJong · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:49

The likelyhood is that if it hadn't been slenderman it would have been something else this girl would have latched onto.

However, I guess the internet offers an almost unlimited mythos for these type of people to get drawn into. In the 80s or 90s it would have been just a book or film.

porushinobu · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:54

MookJong said:
The likelyhood is that if it hadn't been slenderman it would have been something else this girl would have latched onto.

However, I guess the internet offers an almost unlimited mythos for these type of people to get drawn into. In the 80s or 90s it would have been just a book or film.

Or some nearby cult/ religion

Efour · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:55

Was COD... 100%

randomshenans · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:56

What's creepypasta? :/

Atlas23 · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:57

randomshenans said:
What's creepypasta? :/

Creepypasta is a popular subgenre of copypasta which consists of short horror fictions and urban legends mainly distributed through word of mouth via online message boards or e-mail. In recent years, some authors have re-appropriated the genre into an effective pretext for bait-and-switch trolling.

-From KnowYourMeme (not linking as there will undoubtedly be swear words)

Theophany · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:59

Efour said:
Was COD... 100%

Nah, GTA. GTA hasn't taken any heat for a while.

randomshenans · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:59

Ah, OK... makes sense... ha

antijoke · 6 Jun 2014 at 08:59

randomshenans said:
What's creepypasta? :/

Atlas23 · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:00

^ Heinz Slenderhoops?

XeNoN89 · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:02

randomshenans said:
What's creepypasta? :/

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porushinobu · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:03

Atlas23 said:
^ Heinz Slenderhoops?

very nice, I would buy those, even if there is a free murder with each tin.

Sankari · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:03

"Especially not 12-year-olds who should be better at the Internet and media culture than actual adults."

LOL. Delusional comment.

Atlas23 · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:07

Evangelion said:
LOL. Delusional comment.

I would say yes, they could be more internet-savvy than their parents, but as they are 12, they are also incredibly impressionable, and open to believing anything they may read.

[FnG]magnolia · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:11

That's not a website's fault though. Also, unsurprising reports of mental instability in the main aggressor being aired.

porushinobu · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:13

[FnG]magnolia;26411188 said:
That's not a website's fault though. Also, unsurprising reports of mental instability in the main aggressor being aired.

yup totally not suprising, she still deserves hard time though for commiting this atrocity

Sankari · 6 Jun 2014 at 09:23

Atlas23 said:
I would say yes, they could be more internet-savvy than their parents, but as they are 12, they are also incredibly impressionable, and open to believing anything they may read.

But to say that they 'should be better at the Internet and media culture than actual adults' is simply absurd. For legal purposes you're typically considered an adult from the age of 18, and I'm willing to bet the average 18 year old is far more adept with the internet and social media than a 12 year old.