Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25020361-20140604101457/@comment-1038387-20140604103520

Short version: two 12 year old girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin read a horror story about a child-killing spirit called Slenderman on Creepypasta (which is associated with Wikia. They believed it, and thought they were proxies of Slenderman. They wanted to kill another 12-year old, but were unsuccesful.

Creepypasta already has a thread on the subject. They already have plenty of disclaimers. And seriously, can the source material or the company hosting it be held responsible if someone misinterprets a fictional story?

The problem with this is "aaah, they read something on the internet" and the self-appointed moral guardians of the world immediately have their culprit. It's not that simple. It's never that simple.