Slender actually originates from AGS !?!

[Monsieur OUXX]

As you know there's a lot of hype around the "Slender" game, and the "Slender Man" scary character.

I've done a quick search on the forums, but didn't find any reference to this : According to "Know your meme" ( http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man ), even though the Slender Man is an old urban legend/myth, his design as we know him (the tall guy with a white face and no eyes) was invented by Yahtzee and other contributors to the AGS collaborative series "Chzo Mythos" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chzo_Mythos ).

I was so baffled I thought I'd share. I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't know that.

[Snarky]

It doesn't sound like terribly reliable information, since they get basics facts wrong (e.g. calling Yahtzee's Trilby/Chzo games a "collaborative series"). The current version of the knowyourmeme page only mentions The Tall Man from Trilby's Notes as an example of the meme, not as having contributed important original characteristics.

[Monsieur OUXX]

It doesn't sound like terribly reliable information, since they get basics facts wrong (e.g. calling Yahtzee's Trilby/Chzo games a "collaborative series"). The current version of the knowyourmeme page only mentions The Tall Man from Trilby's Notes as an example of the meme, not as having contributed important original characteristics.

I've read too fast about the "collaborative" thing. They don't say it's collaborative, I have no idea where I got that from. [EDIT: I misread the Wikipedia article: They say it's a collaborative title, not a collaborative game]
But it all comes down to the fact that the oldest SlenderMan-looking character in the computers world is from Trilby's notes. Pretty cool

[Eric]

I've never seen Victor Surge, who created the first Slender Man images on Something Awful, reference Chzo. The character he used in the first photo-manipulations was taken from the 1979 movie Phantasm and pretty much the rest of the Slender Man mythos was, as Barthes writes, "Drawn from the innumerable centres of culture." That is to say that it's likely that Chzo, Phantasm, and Slender Man are all developed from fears and images shared by more than just their creators.

[DBoyWheeler]

I knew it!  I KNEW it had to have been inspired by Cabadath!