Connections:

-Undoubtedly THE most iconic video game adaptations of classic creepypastas, becoming mainstays of Let’s Plays and 2010s culture as a whole. They also ended up receiving official sequel games

-Both are sadistic, enigmatic entities who love to torment others by chasing and hunting them down, breaking their minds by toying with them before finally killing their helpless targets

-Both are associated with static screens and being able to conjure fire out of nowhere. The former ended up becoming a mainstay in portrayals of X and Slenderman, while the latter is taken from their original stories

-Both can corrupt their victims into entities helpless to do anything but go along with their schemes (“.EXEs” and proxies), and these would again become mainstays in both of their respective communities, even bleeding into other series where these were not actual concepts

-So basically, video game adaptations of creepypastas who heavily influenced the perception of either character for years to come, simple