Russ Stillman Yup - well the 12 year old girls thing -she was
  just blaming an easy target. Slenderman nor Creepypasta had
  nothing to do with it. At 12, she knows full well that adults
  will believe it if you blame video games, comic books, movies,
  tv, etc. And the adult world is falling for it. It's annoying
  because Creepypasta is simply a bit of harmless fun of telling
  spookier and spookier stories - a few of them I couldn't finish
  myself! "