(One of the nice things about the kunekune is that it is the rare Japanese urban legend not set in a girls' bathroom.) The kunekune is a scarecrow-like being who appears out in rice fields as a long, slender figure with a white head and wispy tendrils twisting (the name "kunekune" comes from the Japanese word for "twist") in the wind, even if the wind isn't blowing. The kunekune began appearing in 2003 in stories on the internet in what basically amounted to creepypasta threads much like the one Slender Man would appear in six years later. However, despite its popularity among creepypasta fans and its prominent place in EMH, the Rake has a long, steep climb to claw its way up if it wants to topple the Slender Man from pride of place as king of the hill. There, it makes a number of appearances and the original creepypasta is heavily referenced using the names of several characters. The Rake - who, though the original source of the story is unknown, seems to predate the Slender Man - got dragged into the Slender Man mythos via EverymanHYBRID. Sleep tight with that thought in your head. In the original story, the Rake is a frightening but vaguely humanoid figure, described as being "a naked man, or a large hairless dog of some kind" with a "disturbing and unnatural" body position, "as if it had been hit by a car or something." He is generally encountered by people who wake up in the middle of the night and find him sitting on their beds. One such claimant is the Rake, apparently so called because of his long, scrapy claw hands and not because he is an untrustworthy but boyishly charming cad who wears his hat at a jaunty angle.
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These three series, plus others such as DarkHarvest00 and MLAndersen0, have been the primary driving forces behind what people "know" about the Slender Man and how he acts and operates, and have influenced how he is depicted in other media, such as video games and indie movies.
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Rounding out the "big three" video series is EverymanHYBRID, which also introduces some other spookums into the mix. The second most popular Slendy series is TribeTwelve, notable for its introduction of the concept of proxies.
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Marble Hornets ran for many installments across multiple YouTube channels and a Twitter account, incorporating ARG elements and amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views by fans ardently straining to spot the Slender Man hiding in the background.
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The first (popping up in the very same forum thread as the original images) and arguably most influential of these was Marble Hornets, a long-running series about a film student who finds himself haunted by visions of a long, faceless man in a black suit.