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Mary E. received the writer with a lengthy email explaining her experience with the image, such as not being able to sleep for 15 years. She claimed that the dog demanded her to "spread the word",<ref name="Bustle" /> supposedly encouraging her to show it to someone else. The week after her incident, she was received a floppy disk with one file on it,<ref name="Bustle" /> which probably was for her to show it to someone. She recalled that some victims of the BBS board had been stop posting and then committed suicide.<ref name="Bustle" /> Mary also refused to give the writer a floppy disk as part of his research, because she was concerned about "plotting to ruin your life". Later that month, Mary's husband informed the narrator that she had committed suicide.<ref name="Bustle" /> Her husband named Terence recalled having burned down the disk, but until it was a "stinking pile of blackened plastic". It ends with the writer saying "Could I spread the word? Yes. Yes I could." and the photograph itself underneath. | Mary E. received the writer with a lengthy email explaining her experience with the image, such as not being able to sleep for 15 years. She claimed that the dog demanded her to "spread the word",<ref name="Bustle" /> supposedly encouraging her to show it to someone else. The week after her incident, she was received a floppy disk with one file on it,<ref name="Bustle" /> which probably was for her to show it to someone. She recalled that some victims of the BBS board had been stop posting and then committed suicide.<ref name="Bustle" /> Mary also refused to give the writer a floppy disk as part of his research, because she was concerned about "plotting to ruin your life". Later that month, Mary's husband informed the narrator that she had committed suicide.<ref name="Bustle" /> Her husband named Terence recalled having burned down the disk, but until it was a "stinking pile of blackened plastic". It ends with the writer saying "Could I spread the word? Yes. Yes I could." and the photograph itself underneath. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:SmileDogOriginal.jpeg|thumb|200px|The original image of Smile Dog’s “True Form”.]] | |||
As the story explains, the image had been spreading around in the [[4chan]]'s /x/ board in 2008.<ref name="Bustle" /><ref name="petslady" /> [[wikipedia:Urban Dictonary|Urban Dictonary]]'s entries of Smile Dog described it as "one of the first [[creepypasta]] chain letters" and having "a reputation for driving those who view it insane", with the most earliest one on the site was submitted on January 15, 2009. A famous story of Smile Dog was created on April 27, 2010, and was then added to Creepypasta Wiki on August 27th 2009. Smile Dog was also used in [[SCP-450]]. a popular [[YouTube]] screamer, which was added as one of the scary pictures in the slideshow. | As the story explains, the image had been spreading around in the [[4chan]]'s /x/ board in 2008.<ref name="Bustle" /><ref name="petslady" /> [[wikipedia:Urban Dictonary|Urban Dictonary]]'s entries of Smile Dog described it as "one of the first [[creepypasta]] chain letters" and having "a reputation for driving those who view it insane", with the most earliest one on the site was submitted on January 15, 2009. A famous story of Smile Dog was created on April 27, 2010, and was then added to Creepypasta Wiki on August 27th 2009. Smile Dog was also used in [[SCP-450]]. a popular [[YouTube]] screamer, which was added as one of the scary pictures in the slideshow. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
