I love this game so much!

God damn it.

Oh, boy.

Oh, no.

(Finebros) You are going to play this game.

What? Are you serious?

(nervously) Wait. No, no! No, no, please, please, no!

No... (speaks indistinctly)

I don't know how to play, no.

(hyperventilates)

Oh, my God. I'm so scared.

I don't know how it even starts yet and I'm already scared, man.

This reminds me of "The Hunger Games."

I'm gonna, like, get eaten by one of those dogs.

I don't even know where to go. (chuckling) Where am I going?

Am I going the right way?

This kind of reminds me of my home.

I live, like, deep in the forest.

(singsong) Come out, come out, wherever you are.

I feel like I'm actually in the dark.

This isn't as scary as I thought. What is that?

No. Okay, never mind.

I'm shaking. (chuckles nervously)

Is that the wind? Is that the wind that I hear?

I think that's the wind.

I don't want to go in this building. I really don't.

- (footsteps) - There we go. There's a page.

(intrigued) Oh. There's the first one.

- (pulsating echo) - Ah.

- (pulsating echo) - No. No, I remember now.

Oh, now he's gonna come.

- (pulsating echo) - (gasps) Oh, my God.

It's thundering.

- (pulsating echo) - (whimpering)

- (faint static) - What is that?

Uh-oh.

Please don't be in here when I get out.

Is this it on the wall? What is that?

- (Finebros) I don't know. - Do I go straight?

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh, God!

- (headphones clatter) - (high-pitched static)

- (pulsating echo) - (footsteps crunching)

- (claps) - (Finebros laugh)

My fault. Messed up the microphone.

- At least I got one. - (Finebros chuckle)

I was about to quit, too, man.

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh! What the (bleep)?

(high-pitched static)

Am I going the wrong way, you guys?

I'm, like, shaking right now.

I don't know if you can see it, but I'm kind of shaking.

I'm not liking Slender Man.

I haven't even seen him, but I already don't like him.

Why does it have to be so dark?

- (Finebros) You got one. - Yay!

(Finebros) But it's not over.

- Aw. - (Finebros) You need seven more.

Come on. Where are you?

I don't understand where I'm going.

There's a page.

"Follows."

♪ (jolting chord) ♪

(high-pitched static)

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - (whimpering)

(high-pitched static)

(nervously) Guys!

Don't be there.

Oh, no! No! No, no!

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run!

I really-- I didn't even find any notes.

(Finebros) Oh, you're okay. Keep going.

- Oh! Oh! - (Finebros) He's right there. Go.

Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.

I'm really lost. I'm just walking aimlessly now.

(sighs in relief) Page two.

That's so sc-- I don't like--

- (brief static) - Wha?!

- (brief static) - Oh! What the f--

What the f--

Oh, this is a deathtrap right here, I swear.

Okay, I'm just gonna leave that place.

Oh, God, there he is.

(high-pitched static)

I knew I shouldn't have gone towards the tunnel.

Oh, no, I'm in a fence. Oh, my God, what am I supposed to do?

(gasping) Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

He's gonna find me.

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh, my God.

(high-pitched static)

(footsteps crunching)

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I don't see him.

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh! Oh-ho!

- (high-pitched static) - What the heck?

Please don't be in here.

Oh, my God. I thought there was something behind me. (laughs)

(sighs) Okay.

(pulsating echo)

Oh, no! No! No! No!

- No! No! No! - (high-pitched static)

(muffled scream)

There he is.

(pulsating echo)

Thank God.

- ♪ (jolting chord) ♪ - Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh... (gasping)

Oh, my God, no.

Yeah. Oh.

Oh, my... what is...

No. Go, go, go, go, go.

Ah, there he is.

God. That scared me.

Aw.

Did it just die? Did the flashlight just die?

Well, gentlemen, I think it's all over.

I can't see anything, and he's behind me somewhere.

(footsteps crunching)

It's just a matter of time before he catches me.

I'm smacking tree-- oh, my God.

- (high-pitched static) - Oh, my God.

(wheezy gasping)

I love and hate this game so much.

Ooh, my heart just dropped.

(resonating rumbling)

- ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ - Oh, sh--

(Finebros snickering)

It's over? "Pages: zero out of eight." Really?

My hand is shaking.

I was so freaked out.

(Finebros) So, do you know what that game was?

No.

Skinny? Slim?

I mean, it said "Slender" in the front.

- "Slender." - "Slender."

"Slender."

(Finebros) And how do you know about this game?

- I heard it on YouTube. - On the Internet.

Someone was, like, tweeting about it.

(Finebros) So, have you ever played the game before?

- No. - No.

- No. - No. (giggles)

- No. - No.

No, and I resisted playing it till this day.

- Yeah. - It's my third time playing it.

I have played it on my phone once and didn't sleep for two days.

(Finebros) And what is the purpose of the game?

To scare you.

To scare the living (bleep) out of you.

I don't know. You told me to find a piece of paper.

To find the eight pages, which I failed miserably. (chuckles)

(Finebros) And how did it make you feel when you were playing?

On edge.

Frustrated, 'cause I was like, "Where is the paper?"

I was pretty creeped out.

Very, very scared.

Scared. How else would I feel?

Am I supposed to be happy or something?

The sounds they had

I didn't think were going to affect me as much as they did.

Just, "Boom."

Just constant bass is just nerve-racking.

(Finebros) So, the villain in the game is called Slender Man,

which is an Internet meme that's been around for a while

that some people have even started to like to say is real.

Oh, my gosh.

(Finebros) And people will post pictures

of sightings of the Slender Man.

Someone just walked by. (chuckling) Oh, my god.

(Finebros) What have you seen?

What do you know about the Slender Man mythology or whatever?

It was like some mythological creature,

and it was like this man who's really tall

with a suit and everything and no face.

He was there before mankind.

He kidnapped children and whatnot,

and there's, like, several accounts of it too.

Like, there was this picture--

Oh, God, I just got chills from it. I don't like it.

There's this picture of a park and there's a bunch of kids.

In the picture, he has four or five arms,

and the kids in the picture later on went missing.

Those are just Photoshopped. I've seen those pictures.

Photoshop. Oh, my God.

(Finebros) What is it about the Slender Man

that is making people care so much

that they're creating so much content about him?

He's scary and people seem to like being scared.

They probably make it up just to make people afraid of it,

'cause they're mean.

I like it because it's so scary.

It's so fascinating about the whole mythology stuff about it.

There's mystery behind it,

'cause you don't know if it's real or not, kinda like Bigfoot.

It's a whole community.

People can talk about it together and whatever.

I think it's a way for people to connect.

(Finebros) One of the main things people do with this game

is they'll film themselves playing it,

and then upload their reaction to the Internet.

So, we're gonna show you

a quick montage of people playing "Slender."

(man in video) ...just to get me. Oh, dude, it's safe. Safe.

- Aah! Oh, my goodness. - God, scared me.

(people in video screaming)

(laughs)

- Destiny, please. - Tobuscus, yeah.

- Aah! What the hell?! No! - (laughs) I feel you.

- (groaning) - PewDie-- PewDiePie.

- (screams) - (gasps)

I'm happy these people reacted worse than I did.

(man in video) Oh, God. Open the (bleep) door!

- (laughs) - What the (bleep)? What is this?

- (screaming) - His head.

- Oh, God! He's right there! - (chuckles)

- (laughs and curses) - Oh, he has tentacles!

Oh! I never saw that before. What?

Poor guy.

(Finebros) Why are people uploading

videos of themselves getting scared?

Uh, 'cause it's hilarious.

All YouTube videos-- the reason they upload it is to get views.

(Finebros) Do you think that everyone was being legit scared,

or were some of them pretending to be scared?

I feel like a lot of them were exaggerating,

'cause if they were videotaping themselves,

they knew what was happening.

Tobuscus, I felt the after part was a little overdone.

But I bet you most of the people are legitimately scared.

(Finebros) So, this game is a fairly simple game

and there's not much to it and it's short, but it's so popular.

Why do people love playing "Slender"?

I didn't love playing "Slender."

I don't know why people love playing "Slender."

Because it's so hard to win and it's so fun to play

because of the suspense, I guess.

There's not a whole lot to do with it,

so, like, anyone can play it.

The simplicity of it could, like, attract them.

It attracts a lot of people that maybe aren't into gaming that--

- (cracks up) - (Finebros) There's nothing there!

People like to be scared, you know?

People like to have that adrenaline rush.

I don't do well with scary movies.

I got nightmares from "Harry Potter."

(Finebros) And what advice would you give to somebody

who is about to play "Slender" for the first time?

Just don't do it. Just don't.

Just run away. Just run.

Don't ask why you're going to get the eight pages;

just go get them.

Don't play it at night.

You will... you'll die.

Don't play it alone at all.

Or in the dark... you two.

(Finebros) And finally, will you ever play "Slender" again?

- Probably not. - Never.

- God, no! - No!

Maybe to see if it has the same effect.