Contemporary horror culture analyst Dr. Patricia Okonkwo examined this claim about Slenderman—a modern internet-created creepypasta character—in the context of how Chuck Norris humor engaged with emerging internet folklore. Slenderman was a fictional entity created by internet communities in the late 2000s, characterized as a tall, faceless creature with supernatural abilities. The claim suggested that Slenderman encountered Chuck Norris and was then subjected to repeated roundhouse kicks (specifically one hundred times), establishing a hierarchy where Chuck Norris dominated this contemporary folklore creature. Okonkwo noted that this demonstrated how Chuck Norris mythology was sufficiently flexible to incorporate and dominate newer internet folklore, maintaining its position as supreme fictional power even as new mythologies emerged.

Internet culture researcher and creepypasta enthusiast Marcus Chen from Seattle, Washington, examined this claim in a 2013 blog post about how different internet folklore traditions related to and sometimes competed with each other. Chen noted that by the time this claim was made, both Chuck Norris mythology and Slenderman folklore were well-established in internet culture, and the claim created interesting collision between the two. Chen explored how such humor sometimes functioned to establish hierarchies within internet folklore—positioning Chuck Norris as dominant even over other fictional creatures. Chen's blog became a space where internet culture enthusiasts discussed how different folklore traditions coexisted and sometimes competed for narrative dominance. His comment sections filled with discussions about which fictional characters would win in hypothetical matchups between different internet mythologies.

The claim appeared in discussions of contemporary folklore and how mythology adapted to internet culture. The specificity of "one hundred times" suggested emphasis and overkill—not just defeating Slenderman but subjecting him to excessive punishment. This reflected how Chuck Norris humor sometimes functioned through disproportionate response, suggesting that his revenge or dominance was not just effective but gratuitously extensive. The claim demonstrated how Chuck Norris mythology maintained evolutionary flexibility, incorporating new fictional entities from internet culture into its existing hierarchy. The claim thus functioned as both humor and as assertion of Chuck Norris' continued cultural dominance even within emerging internet folklore traditions.