# Marble Hornets - did anybody here catch on to this meme? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898 "2010-06-29T04:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/21 "2010-06-30T02:24:49Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I like suspense. But how can there be suspense when I already know what’s going to happen? The little Youtube slider has fifteen seconds to go and three . . . two . . . one . . . yep, there’s Max Headroom standing outside the window there. If you’re only paying attention to the reveals of Slendy, you’re missing the story. There’s a great deal of subtle story development there. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/22 "2010-06-30T04:31:35Z")
Watched them all today. Found it very interesting. I have a question, but I don’t know if I should ask it, since it seems not everyone has watched to the end yet… BTW, there are also short videos from totheark that have to be watched too. . ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/23 "2010-06-30T04:35:41Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > Watched them all today. Found it very interesting. > > I have a question, but I don’t know if I should ask it, since it seems not everyone has watched to the end yet… > > BTW, there are also short videos from totheark that have to be watched too. > > . Spoiler the question! ETA: (Meaning, use Spoiler tags.) ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/24 "2010-06-30T05:14:41Z")
It has to do with the house… The first time he goes to the house, it’s at night and he finds all kinds of blood all over the bathroom. Yet he goes back again, and again at night. How stupid is this guy? On this visit, the blood is cleaned up, but he gets attacked. Then he goes back a _third_ time, albeit in the daytime for a change. He really seems like a glutton for punishment, but I don’t think the average reasonable person would have even gone back after the first time. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/25 "2010-06-30T10:32:00Z")
I remember reading the Slender Man thread as it first evolved. It was really quite gripping and spooky. I loved some of the woodcuts from sightings back during the days of the Black Death. If you didn’t know it was being made up as it was you’d think it was a real phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/26 "2010-06-30T14:37:17Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > It has to do with the house… > > The first time he goes to the house, it’s at night and he finds all kinds of blood all over the bathroom. Yet he goes back again, and again at night. How stupid is this guy? On this visit, the blood is cleaned up, but he gets attacked. Then he goes back a _third_ time, albeit in the daytime for a change. He really seems like a glutton for punishment, but I don’t think the average reasonable person would have even gone back after the first time. Well, [spoiler]he’s an investigator. He’s not exactly reasonable. He’s motivated to get to the bottom of the mystery, and that is what gets him in trouble, of course. Just like all Lovecraft’s investigative protagonists getting involved with ancient death cults and mysterious, eldritch happenings, etc. in order to find out what happened to their rich uncle/nephew/best friend/colleague/long-time correspondent/what have you. It’s the nature of the type of story. As for going back at night the second time, yeah. I was a little leery of that too. Especially when the space-time anomalies started cropping up before he was attacked. Time to leave, dude![/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/27 "2010-06-30T17:03:39Z")
I was starting to think the guy’s dumber than Tonto… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/28 "2010-06-30T17:33:05Z")
“Tonto, you go to town!” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/29 "2010-06-30T17:38:01Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > I was starting to think the guy’s dumber than Tonto… Well, sure. It takes a certain obtuseness to continue pursuing an otherwordly horror from the Outer Dark after you’re already aware that _it’s watching you_. Honestly, given that it had already appeared several times in broad daylight, well fuck it. In for a penny, etc. “I’ll just swing by the late-night drive-thru at Taco Bell and then go explore the haunted, spooky rift in space-time with a shitty flashlight. Want me to bring you back a quesadilla and some ectoplasm?” ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/30 "2010-06-30T20:43:55Z")
Thanks for sharing, Ogre. I’ve had fun watching all the entries over the past 2 days. > [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I remember reading the Slender Man thread as it first evolved. It was really quite gripping and spooky. I loved some of the woodcuts from sightings back during the days of the Black Death. If you didn’t know it was being made up as it was you’d think it was a real phenomenon. Would you have a link, by chance? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/31 "2010-06-30T20:51:38Z")
The Slender Man was created out of whole cloth by a poster named **Victor Surge** on the Something Awful forums. His first post was on page 3 of [this](http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1) thread. Now there are literally hundreds of 'shopped photos, fanart pieces, etc. out there devoted to him (and they vary WIDELY in quality, needless to say). ---
**Author:** ![Blut\_Aus\_Nord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Blut\_Aus\_Nord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blut_Aus_Nord)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/32 "2010-06-30T21:38:14Z")
Just watched the series last night. I was laughing throughout most of it, especially the visually distorted bedroom scenes that he “doesn’t remember”, but the creepiness sets in once you’re done and actually start to imagine what it would be like to actually experience that stuff first-hand. Gives you the willies. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/33 "2010-07-01T08:16:28Z")
The “narrator” also has a twitter account #marblehornets that adds to the story.\* I’ve heard from the narrator on the SA boards, and the story isn’t over yet. Stay tuned. Thanks, **Ogre** , for starting this thread. I’ve been a fan of MH since almost the beginning, but didn’t think anyone on the SDMB knew about it. \*It’s interesting (to me) to note that one of Jay’s (the narrator) twitter followers is #totheark. But #totheark hasn’t posted anything to twitter and doesn’t let anyone follow him. The #marblehornets account is also the only one he follows. And to those who think it’s too slow/subtle, it REALLY picks up in the later entries. ETA: Remember, this series is being done by a group of college students strictly for the enjoyment of doing it. Taking that into consideration, I think it’s remarkably well-done. Roger Ebert agrees. [http://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/5495205792](http://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/5495205792) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/34 "2010-07-01T14:55:29Z")
I get a 404 on his review page. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/35 "2010-07-01T15:24:39Z")
Edit: Duh, nm. Followed the link from the Tweet and that isn’t working for me either. I tried Googling results off the [suntimes.com](http://suntimes.com) site and it’s not turning up there. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/36 "2010-07-01T15:26:29Z")
ETA: never mind. I just saw your ETA, **Ferret**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/37 "2010-07-01T17:50:09Z")
I checked his blog’s archive and found the [entry immediately after the date of the Hornets review](http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/11/id_like_you_to_meet_your_best.html). The first comment says something about his blog being all messed up, and he replies that he had issues getting online and now it’s been fixed. I wonder if it got lost in the process? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/38 "2010-07-01T18:35:54Z")
How…_mysterious_! The Slender Man is after Ebert! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/39 "2010-07-01T18:42:50Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > How…_mysterious_! The Slender Man is after Ebert! Perhaps the Slender Man is… Siskel’s ghost? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marble-hornets-did-anybody-here-catch-on-to-this-meme/544898/40 "2010-07-01T22:21:19Z")
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