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'''Jeff the Killer''' is one of the classic [[creepypastas]] and a common thing in [[screamer]] tradition. Jeff the Killer refers to an image of a pale man with no nose and black eyes with white and black pupils, a long canine-like smile, and 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. He is a serial killer who sneaks into people's homes and whispers, "Go to sleep." before killing them with a knife. Sesseur was the first person to create a story behind it, but it does not revolve around him being a serial killer. A remix version, which was way more popular than the original itself, revolves around a tragic story behind Jeff, which led him become a serial killer due to his insanity.  

The first person to create a story around it was a [[DeviantArt]] user Sesseur.<ref name="Gizmodo">Newitz, Annalee. “Who Is ‘Jeff the Killer’? and Is His Picture Haunted by a Real Death?” [[Wikipedia:Gizmodo|Gizmodo]], Gizmodo, 16 Dec. 2015, <nowiki>https://gizmodo.com/who-is-jeff-the-killer-and-is-his-picture-haunted-by-1016241494</nowiki>.</ref> In the original story, a person named "Jeff" was hauling a gallon of acid into his bathroom to clean his bathtub. Suddenly, Jeff accidentally slipped on a bar of soap, fell on the floor, and the gallon of acid splashed over his face. Jeff's neighbors began hearing him cry for help, and they took him to the hospital. The incident happened while his brother, Liu, was at work. The accident has led Jeff to never looked the same way again.<ref name="Horror Stab">Gobbo, Lorenzo. “Jeff the Killer – Leggenda Creepypasta o Fenomeno Reale?” Horror Stab, 12 Mar. 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.horrorstab.com/storie/creepypasta-ita/jeff-the-killer-leggenda-creepypasta-o-fenomeno-reale/</nowiki>. </ref> The first story does not revolve around Jeff being a serial killer. However, one of the fans of Sesseur, named GameFuelTV, wrote a story about Jeff in a completely different way to the original, such as Jeff becoming a serial killer because of his insanity.

In the fan's story of this [[creepypasta]], a child named "Jeffery Woods" was a 13-year-old teenager who lived in a normal Surburuan town with his parents and his brother Liu. Jeff had thought of the idea of moving into another neighborhood after his father got a promotion, which his family agreed to, and moving on. On his first day of school, while hanging out with his brother, the three bullies approach the two and mug them at knife point. Jeff urged the feelings and began fighting them, paralyzing three of them. He and his brother exited the scene to board the school bus for the ride to school. A day later, police arrived at Jeff's home, where the two were accused of attacking the bullies with no manners. Jeff even tried to convince the police that the bullies were mugged, but the police failed to believe him. However, Liu snitched on Jeff by making them believe that he was the one to blame for the whole incident, which drove Jeff into depression and stress. His mother suggested moving into a party to make him feel better. However, Jeff managed to run up to the bullies, brutally beat him up, and he managed to kill one of them. Then, Jeff lured the two other bullies into the bathroom and began wounding them, but he was doused with alcohol and the bullies set him on fire.<ref name="ScreenRant">Cotter, Padraig. “Who Is Jeff The Killer? Creepypasta's Evil Villain Explained.” [[Wikipedia:Screen Rant|ScreenRant]], 21 June 2019, screenrant.com/jeff-killer-creepypasta-villain-origin-explained/.</ref><ref name="CBR">Wilkinson, Chase. “6 Terrifying Creepypasta Stories That Need Movie Adaptations.” CBR, 30 Nov. 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.cbr.com/creepypasta-stories-that-need-movie-adaptations/</nowiki>.</ref> He woke up from the coma at the hospital, where he saw his mother informing him that Liu was released after it was revealed that Randy was the one responsible for the incident that happened with his brother After taking those bandages off, he found out that his face had become disfigured from the burns, which has a ghostly pale,<ref name="ScreenRant" /> but Jeff oddly seemed to like his face this way. After being told to go home, Jeff's mother saw him burning off his eyelids and carving his own face with a smile.<ref name="ScreenRant" /> This led his mother to tell his father that he had become insane and needed to be killed. Jeff heard this and killed them. Jeff became a serial killer that sneaks into people's home and tell them to "go to sleep" before killing them,<ref name="ScreenRant" /><ref>Cotter, Padraig. “Who Is Jane the Killer? Creepypasta Character Explained.” [[wikipedia:Screen Rant|ScreenRant]], 17 May 2019, screenrant.com/jane-killer-creepypasta-origin-explained/.</ref> such as Jeff going into Liu's room before telling him to "go to sleep" before being fatally killed with the knife plunged into his chest,<ref name="CBR" /> finishing the story.

The back-story behind Jeff was first made by [[DeviantArt]] user Sesseur, but he was not the author of the story above. Sessuer's story, which was uploaded to [[YouTube]] on October 3rd, 2008,<ref name="Daily Dot">III, Fernando Alfonso. “4chan Hunts down the Origins of an Internet Horror Legend.” The Daily Dot, 1 June 2021, <nowiki>https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/</nowiki>. </ref> was completely different than the one shown above, such as Jeff accidentally spilling a gallon of acid into his face while cleaning the bathtub,<ref name="Horror Stab" /><ref name="Daily Dot" /> while the famous one, which was written by a fan of his earlier work, is about the consequence of Jeff's becoming an insane serial killer. Jeff's real name in the actual story was Jeffery C. Hodek, rather than "Jeffrey Woods" in that manner. On August 14, 2011, the image was posted to 4chan with the text "Go to sleep". This phrase had became known as Jeff's signature catchphrase after the famous story featured Jeff using the phrase before killing Liu in the end of the story.

*'''Original image, a less-photoshopped one''': <nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20180118092048/https://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=17882</nowiki>

*'''The image used for the character of Jeff''': <nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20210618155920/https://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=20716</nowiki>