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Title
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Mostek_Max_Internet Lore, Viral Hoaxes, & Urban Myths
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Description
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This collection documents notable digital-born phenomena from the history of the internet, including viral hoaxes, online urban legends, and social media myths. By capturing tweets, forum posts, videos, memes, and articles that chronicle these events, the collection preserves an essential dimension of digital folklore and provides insights into how misinformation and internet storytelling shape contemporary digital culture.
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Creator
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Max Mostek
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Date Created
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2025-03-23
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Subject
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Artifacts in this collection illustrate patterns of online human behavior, communication, community creation, and information dissemination. They hold archival significance by demonstrating how myths and legends evolve in digital spaces and influence real-world actions and beliefs.
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Type
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The nature of these artifacts are predominantly born-digital, ephemeral, and representative of informal online communication and cultural expressions. Specific classes used include: interactive resources (websites and Reddit threads), images (digital images and screenshots), moving images (YouTube videos and TikToks), and text (news articles and blog posts).
The Mandela Effect: Reddit r/MandelaEffect Megathread Members of the subReddit r/MandelaEffect discuss their various experiences remembering personal and world events and experiences differently than what is known publicly as accepted fact.
The Mandela Effect: Compilation Video of Mandela Effect Examples YouTube channel, List 25, created a compilation video of commonly seen or bizarre Mandela Effect examples.
Slender Man: Marble Hornets Entry #1 This video is the first entry to the video series that depicts the fictional story of Jay Merrick, a young man attempting to find out what happened during the filming of Marble Hornets, an unfinished student film project helmed by his friend, Alex Kralie. The found footage style video series forms an alternate reality game describing the filmers' fictional experiences with the Slender Man.
Slender Man: Original Post The original post includes two black and white images of groups of children to which the creator photoshopped a tall, thin, spectral figure wearing a black suit and added text, supposedly from witnesses, describing the abductions of the groups of children and giving the character the name The Slender Man.