Talk:Fear Creation Theories/@comment-1988716-20140124171841/@comment-9340689-20140124181212

I didn't say they had to all believe in that exact being in that exact way at the exact same time.

Just it has to be a certain figure, or possibly a bunch of similiar figures. Or just a concept of a character that begins to take form. It doesn't have to be that specific.

Obviously not all the minds would agree, and the fear would only fit some of the characteristics people imagine.

However, this could explain different fear interpretations. The interpretations exist because different people see different things when they meet the fears, because they have different ideas about them. That would explain why in some stories Slender Man kidnaps children and in others he attacks young adults. Or how in the original Slenderman stories, he has a face but it just doesn't appear on film, while now, Slenderman has no face at all.

I never said they all had to believe in an exact figure looking and acting a specific way.

It's more like, someone comes up with the idea, a lot of people like the idea, people start believing the idea, and slowly the idea becomes reality. The Fear can change as general perceptions of that being change.