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A bunch of photos in which Slender Man has appeared in the backgroundNaturally, parents and schools have responded aggressively. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel heavily criticizes the local school and highlights their provision of iPads to students: “While school officials supplied iPads at the beginning of the year and promised to monitor them periodically, they never did.” The devices have apparently since been confiscated. The Journal Sentinel goes on to point out that "psychologists say parental monitoring of electronic devices is essential to the safety of children. Parents need to know what their kids are viewing and discuss it with them.”Fox6Now.com reports that numerous schools have banned the CreepyPasta website and a number of others, but quotes school district superintendent Todd Gray pointing out that there’s actually nothing about the sites that would have raised any red flags prior to the attempted murder. Gray adds, "We can write all the policy we want, but the fact of the matter is we have no control over students when they’re out, off school grounds.”The problem with all of this is it misses the big picture. The most popular Slendervlogs have viewer counts well into six figures, many of them likely to be old children or young adults, and we don’t see hundreds of kids taking to the woods with kitchen knives… or at least not outside of the fevered imaginations of Daily Mail hacks. Whatever happened to these two children to make them into killers was almost entirely unique to their particular circumstances.Nothing on these sites told them to kill a child; they decided that for themselves, and the truth is we have absolutely no idea why. We may never know, and that’s maybe the most surreal and difficult mystery in all of this.Follow Martin Robbins on Twitter.