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'''Smile Dog''', also known as ''smile.jpg'' or ''smile.dog'', | '''Smile Dog''', also known as ''smile.jpg'' or ''smile.dog'', is a [[creepypasta]] character that appeared as an image file. The character appears in the story of the same name, in which some recalled its appearance as being a Siberian husky with an evil human-like grin. Another version has the dog's fur turned into red-tint and edited to have a bigger, eviler smile, which all users claim to be its "true form". Smile Dog is one of the classic creepypastas that were made in 2008, when it first spread around the imageboard website [[4chan]]. The original image claimed to have caused someone's nightmares when viewed, ranging from insanity to suicide,<ref>Bohen, K. P. (2020, December 12). <nowiki>[https://screenrant.com/jeff-the-killer-10-infamous-creepypastas-that-dont-hold-up-today/ "Jeff The Killer & 14 Other Infamous Creepypastas That Don't Hold Up"]</nowiki>. [[wikipedia:Screen Rant|ScreenRant]].</ref> according to those who saw it. However, the image is currently lost and has no origin whatsoever.<ref name="petslady">WarrenKeith, petslady.com/articles/horror_smile_dog_meme_60169 "The Horror Of The Smile Dog Meme"]. Petslady.com.</ref> | ||
==Story== | ==Story== | ||
Smile Dog has numerous stories written by writers to explain it, but one of the most famous was written by an amateur writer. In the famous one, which was written in first-person,<ref name="Bustle">Peters, L. (2016, January 16). <nowiki>[https://www.bustle.com/articles/135749-is-smile-dog-real-heres-the-truth-about-the-classic-creepypasta-its-terrifying-image-file "Is "Smile Dog" Real? Here's The Truth About The Classic Creepypasta & Its Terrifying Image File"]</nowiki>. Bustle.</ref> involves a writer who narrates in the story that he had met an old woman named Mary E. in the summer of 2007, who was one of the 400 people that saw the original image of Smile Dog, when she was at the small Chicago-based [[wikipedia:Bulletin Board System|Bulletin Board System]] in 1992, which Mary was a sysop for.<ref name="Bustle" /> Mary was the most cited victim who saw the image, which some people referred to it as "smile.dog", and she had been mentioned in many Chicago newspapers’ online obituaries. The image was spread across on the /x/ of imageboard [[4chan]] on 2008,<ref name="petslady" /><ref name="Bustle" /> but the writer claimed that this is not what the original was, rather than it being a supposed close recreation, because it did not have the effect the original smile.jpg "''is believed to have''", such as "''sudden onset temporal lobe epilepsy and acute anxiety''". This image was reported to cause someone's "very vivid and disturbing nightmares" when viewed, and victims who allegedly saw the image described the hand on the image as "beckoning.", and some others claimed it to be the hand of the devil. For example, an anonymous hacker once flooded with the supposedly original smile.jpg on the forum of the site [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]], causing most of the forum users to go insane and epileptic. The story also said that this image was originally spread as a chainmail in the "mid-to-late 90s", followed with a link to the image. | Smile Dog has numerous stories written by writers to explain it, but one of the most famous was written by an amateur writer. In the famous one, which was written in first-person,<ref name="Bustle">Peters, L. (2016, January 16). <nowiki>[https://www.bustle.com/articles/135749-is-smile-dog-real-heres-the-truth-about-the-classic-creepypasta-its-terrifying-image-file "Is "Smile Dog" Real? Here's The Truth About The Classic Creepypasta & Its Terrifying Image File"]</nowiki>. Bustle.</ref> involves a writer who narrates in the story that he had met an old woman named Mary E. in the summer of 2007, who was one of the 400 people that saw the original image of Smile Dog, when she was at the small Chicago-based [[wikipedia:Bulletin Board System|Bulletin Board System]] in 1992, which Mary was a sysop for.<ref name="Bustle" /> Mary was the most cited victim who saw the image, which some people referred to it as "smile.dog", and she had been mentioned in many Chicago newspapers’ online obituaries. The image was spread across on the /x/ of imageboard [[4chan]] on 2008,<ref name="petslady" /><ref name="Bustle" /> but the writer claimed that this is not what the original was, rather than it being a supposed close recreation, because it did not have the effect the original smile.jpg "''is believed to have''", such as "''sudden onset temporal lobe epilepsy and acute anxiety''". This image was reported to cause someone's "very vivid and disturbing nightmares" when viewed, and victims who allegedly saw the image described the hand on the image as "beckoning.", and some others claimed it to be the hand of the devil. For example, an anonymous hacker once flooded with the supposedly original smile.jpg on the forum of the site [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]], causing most of the forum users to go insane and epileptic. The story also said that this image was originally spread as a chainmail in the "mid-to-late 90s", followed with a link to the image. | ||
