So for example, your Twitter handle will have a 'you' that is probably different from a 'you' that you share if, say, for example you have a Facebook account, or is different from a 'you' that you would share if you're on a particular forum of something that you like – some music that you like, or food that you like, or whatever it is.
First appearing on the forums of Something Awful back in 2009 as part of a creepy Photoshop competition, he was eerily tall, dark suited, and lurking in the background of photos taken near murder scenes.
Slender Man appeared on the forums of Something Awful in 2009 as part of a spooky Photoshop competition, a freakishly tall, dark-suited figure lurking in the shadowy backgrounds of photos taken near murder scenes black tentacles writhing behind his back and a blank featureless face.
What should a patient do when their doctor advises a certain diet, but 10 people on a forum recommend something else entirely?
"The Infrastructural City," co-published by the L.A. Forum on Architecture and Design, offers something else: A doggedly detailed guide to Los Angeles as a physical thing.
The story of Slender Man's origins is by now well-known: the "horror figure for the selfie age," as described by the New York Times, emerged during a Photoshop contest on a web forum called Something Awful.
He adds seriously: "Listen, if we're on stage at the Forum or something and something goes out, that's kind of all right... but you can't do that at the Royal Opera House".
Furries have long been a punching bag for the internet, and are a frequent target of ridicule on forums like Something Awful and image boards like 4Chan.
Now he hunched over a desk wedged between an overturned treadmill and two turtle tanks, scanning through conservative forums on Facebook for something that might inspire his next post.
Having to endure the pain of revisiting an assault of any kind, particularly in a public forum, is something I would not wish on my own worst enemy.
