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[[File:Katy Robinson.png|thumb|247x247px|'''Katy Robinson''''s photo which is widely rumored to be the original un-Photoshopped image. | [[File:Katy Robinson.png|thumb|247x247px|'''Katy Robinson''''s photo which is widely rumored to be the original un-Photoshopped image. | ||
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'''Jeff the Killer''' is a classic Creepypasta character created by a | '''Jeff the Killer''' is a classic [[Creepypasta]] character created by a [[YouTube]]r named "Sesseur" around October 2008 that was based around a Photoshopped image of a pale man with no nose and black eyes with white and black pupils, a long canine-like smile, with a white coat on in a dark room with laundry hanging with the light of the moon illuminating it from a window in the background. | ||
Despite the picture becoming a part of a Creepypasta story and originating potentially from a Japanese website, it is now known as a widely popular internet jumpscare image, and has even inspired costumes, entire movies, and even political moments as well, and has moved on into the status of more of an urban legend in the same way as the Slenderman, also a very similar case as well. (Although no real crimes were committed based on this.) | Despite the picture becoming a part of a Creepypasta story and originating potentially from a Japanese website, it is now known as a widely popular internet jumpscare image, and has even inspired costumes, entire movies, and even political moments as well, and has moved on into the status of more of an urban legend in the same way as the Slenderman, also a very similar case as well. (Although no real crimes were committed based on this.) | ||
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There are many theories as to where the original image came from. All of these are still yet to be proven. | There are many theories as to where the original image came from. All of these are still yet to be proven. | ||
Before the Creepypasta appeared, the image is known to first appear on a Japanese site around the year 2005, along with another one which is believed to be the "less-photoshopped" one.<ref>screamer.wiki/index.php/File:White_powder_2005.png (Contains scary image)</ref> There are two page links of the images, including a timeline<ref>archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22256544</ref> to where they supposedly came from. | Before the [[Creepypasta]] appeared, the image is known to first appear on a Japanese site around the year 2005, along with another one which is believed to be the "less-photoshopped" one.<ref>screamer.wiki/index.php/File:White_powder_2005.png (Contains scary image)</ref> There are two page links of the images, including a timeline<ref>archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22256544</ref> to where they supposedly came from. | ||
It is also rumored to be of an overweight Japanese girl in a room with hanging laundry who spammed her image across the Japanese imageboard, 2chan in 2004, before making its way to 4chan throughout the later years, and there was a Photoshop contest where people took turns Photoshopping her photo to see how “good” they can make her look. Although this theory is still yet to be proven. | It is also rumored to be of an overweight Japanese girl in a room with hanging laundry who spammed her image across the Japanese imageboard, 2chan in 2004, before making its way to [[4chan]] throughout the later years, and there was a Photoshop contest where people took turns Photoshopping her photo to see how “good” they can make her look. Although this theory is still yet to be proven. | ||
There is currently a subreddit that is trying to find the original image.<ref>reddit.com/r/OriginalJTKImage/ Subreddit. Contains the Jeff the Killer image.</ref> | There is currently a subreddit that is trying to find the original image.<ref>reddit.com/r/OriginalJTKImage/ Subreddit. Contains the Jeff the Killer image.</ref> | ||
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The oldest documented appearance on the entire internet about Go to Sleep is on the Japanese site pya.cc where two versions of the image were posted. The first publication, made on September 10, 2005, by Maruhorando, was named 白粉そ の ２) while the second was published on November 16 of the same year by Omega Boruto. Both were two years before appearing on YouTube and three years before the Jeff the Killer creepypasta emerged. | The oldest documented appearance on the entire internet about Go to Sleep is on the Japanese site pya.cc where two versions of the image were posted. The first publication, made on September 10, 2005, by Maruhorando, was named 白粉そ の ２) while the second was published on November 16 of the same year by Omega Boruto. Both were two years before appearing on YouTube and three years before the Jeff the Killer creepypasta emerged. | ||
On August 2, 2007, a Japanese video named | On August 2, 2007, a Japanese video named [[wikipedia:NNN Extra Broadcast|NNN臨時放送]]) was uploaded to [[YouTube]]. This one tried to simulate an intrusion of a television signal putting disturbing images, among them, the one published by Omega Boruto. By this time, it is believed that the image was better known in Japan than in the rest of the world. | ||
A year later, in August 2008, Newgrounds user killerjeff posts the image on the site claiming to be a photograph of him. It is believed that this is where the Jeff the Killer creepypasta arises since in October of that year a story based on that image was uploaded to YouTube. Around this time, the page [[ | A year later, in August 2008, [[Newgrounds]] user killerjeff posts the image on the site claiming to be a photograph of him. It is believed that this is where the Jeff the Killer [[creepypasta]] arises since in October of that year a story based on that image was uploaded to [[YouTube]]. Around this time, the page [[Anne.jpg]] was also created, a screamer that was spread on 4chan and other forums with the phrase "Go to Sleep" that was intended to scare users who surfed at night. | ||
Since 2008, Jeff the Killer's creepypasta has become too popular, becoming an icon of this sub-genre of stories. | Since 2008, Jeff the Killer's creepypasta has become too popular, becoming an icon of this sub-genre of stories. | ||
