Where Did This Image Come From?

[@blameitonjorge]

Twitter: @blameitonjorge Patreon: www.patreon.com/blameitonjorge I know, I know, it's been a while. I was working on a completely different video that ended up being scrapped lol.

[@Ørbit.in.h3ll]

Love your videos man, keep it up🔥

[@IG_ArticleParticle]

Good to have you back nonetheless. Great idea for a video, I've actually been wondering where the origins of many creepypasta came from and if you were to make a series surrounded around the deconstruction of various ones, it would be severly entertaining imo.

[@togekissbliss]

Its always great to have you back. Would you ever make a video on scrapped/rejected video ideas?

[@ZoogWeekendz]

What was the scrapped video about? It’s now lost media too……..😑😗

[@askerror1987]

Welcome back, Jorge!

[@catatoblob8598]

So the moment "pretty face" was mentioned, I was immediately reminded of the "cursed" images that came out of the "make me cute" challenge on 2chan. Basically, 2channers would take a minority creepy image and make creepy edits to it. People would then edit eachother's edits until something universally, memetically creepy emerges through natural selection and the original image is totally lost.

[@jeispace9960]

the "date me" caption on the website checks out for it being part of the make me cute challenge

[@cowbearrie]

that's exactly what i thought this was

[@vampiregirlfriend815]

this is a pretty good lead, if someone dug enough into it

[@catatoblob8598]

@@vampiregirlfriend815 I just brought this up for anyone who might want context or want to find similar cursed image rabbit holes to dive into. From what I understand, 2chan's paranormal message boards fill up quickly and are archived poorly, so it produced a lot of iconic cursed images with lost origins. If you're interested, most of what I know came from watching the hunt for the unedited version of the "make me cute" cursed image on the Kowabana youtube channel which specializes in translating Japanese urban legends.

[@SpookiePossum]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of the “make me cute” 2chan image.

[@kedsarama]

Sesseur has one of the most bizarre Newgrounds accounts I've ever seen. Dude wrote some of the worst stories ever with random creepy images attached, posted a lot of really gross "NSFW" images (look at your own risk), and then just totally lied about the Jeff the Killer images after years of internet irrelevancy. Also, if his age listed on Newgrounds is accurate, he made up Jeff the Killer when he was like 12-14 years old.

[@adonivan_]

Looking into what you said, there really is only a couple of "disturbing" images on his account, if disturbing is just weird art, and for some reason, Koopa Rule 34.

[@marinamaged962]

What a resume

[@sewerside01142]

Sounds like a cool guy

[@Gorehoundula]

I don't doubt for a second that a kid wrote it. The Jeff the Killer meme is fucking insufferable and is only a thing because of the actually horrifying and pretty cool screamer face that it ruined by riding its coattails like a leech.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

12-14 years? That would explain the creepypasta‘s insufferable writing.

[@LightningZetton]

Thing that scares me about photos like this is..... Where was it taken? Same for missing people photos I've seen in top videos and I wonder "where was it taken? What day? What time? What year?" Nice video btw

[@AxxLAfriku]

I am being humble when I am telling you that I am the most powerful strongest coolest smartest most famous greatest funniest Y*uTub3r of all time! That's the reason I have multiple girlfriends and I show them off all the time! Bye bye pha

[@Kodaigon72]

I always thought the image was taken in a closet

[@gold0098]

@@AxxLAfriku This is a prime example of a Chad

[@thatonerotom8999]

@@AxxLAfriku how you haven’t gotten a ban is beyond me

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@AxxLAfriku you’re a legend

[@海苔-k3d]

What surprised me the most about this story is that this picture actually existed since THE EARLIEST YEARS OF THE INTERNET. Imagine, sites are completely different, KZbin is not yet created, many people don't even know how to use their computer properly but there are already horrors like that.

[@dothedotxom]

The early internet had a certain vibe, I’m bummed that I can never go back to those times

[@kittykitty168]

@@dothedotxom fake internet theory

[@Theriople]

@@kittykitty168 what?

[@FartSniffer365]

​​@@dothedotxomreal af. People will never know what the Internet was actually like back then without having been there.

[@Clickmoi]

@@dothedotxom pedo commentary

[@jojofrances9918]

I was always a little unnerved by the image, but never scared. The pretty face one unnerves me even more. The green eyed on downright made me jump and gave me a bit of a shiver. If there is is one way to mess with me or really unnerve me and set me on edge, it is to do something with the eyes that makes the pupils more noticable like that. In certain contexts I think weird contacts are cool, others not so much. And green eyed Jeff leans towards the not so much category.

[@TheRealSantaGaming]

The smiling dog’s what gets me. I donno why, I love dogs

[@nipsmcgee2996]

Smile dog gave me visions and nightmares for months. Fucked me up

[@sonicwave779]

@@TheRealSantaGaming That one really fucked me up as a little kid.

[@CI1YT]

Same bro, smile dog scared me so much

[@5Demona5]

I read this comment before getting to Green Eyed Jeff and was confused as to why it was so unnerving... until it came up. JFC! THAT WAS UNNERVING!!!

[@BoxoSpoons]

“Yeah, it’s a picture of a mask I made.” -Sesseur talking about an image so heavily photoshopped it’s basically a drawing

[@Roosterboi21]

If that picture was a mask I guarantee he'd be trying to sell that thing to the highest bidder in a heartbeat. Also how do you put a mask in a closet and then it gets lost? That's about as believeable as the creepypasta.

[@Ofjeiwofndkwond]

The discord says sesseur lied about everything.. he lied about the third image, the mask and etc.

[@Evycakez]

i dont believe he actually made it, it looks heavily photoshopped vs it being a mask then photoshopping it from there. I didn't believe it for a second.

[@GalaxyPolar]

I believe he lied about it because he licenses merch off the Jeff character when bought with a deal. For example, Spirit Halloween makes Jeff The Killer masks. They must’ve had to have gotten his permission and he must’ve got a size of the dough for it. BUT if it ever came out that the image was previously copyrighted material not owned by him, or its of someone's likeness that can sue, he would be in potentially a bit of legal trouble. So for legal reasons in order for businesses to continue to give him deals like Spirit, he's been lying about the origins.

[@InsanityPlusOne]

@@Roosterboi21 I mean if it's the late 90s portable closets that are floating around the NZ I could see it, easy to knock their locks locked and like nobody has the key for theirs... I know they are a common closet cause I had one as a kid and bought another as a late teen starting to flat... Like a good chance if a bully spartan kicked you into a locker made like these closets it would just lock from the force of the shaking, some closets are poorly made.

[@sassytabasco]

"Gets acid on his face, and lit on fire, causing him to go insane" I think you just illustrated the writing quality we're dealing with here pretty efficiently

[@Astro.babyyy]

The original story is actually very well written.

[@squamham8426]

Just sounds like a terrible rehash of Jack Nicholsons Joker origin

[@ChodeMaster]

@@Astro.babyyy lol

[@candlecove7590]

@@Astro.babyyy no honey💀it isnt

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

@@Astro.babyyy Not really. It sounded like something from your usual angsty teen trying his/her best to pretend s/he's that quiet kid in the class who has a dark secret. Don't get us started with the many hilarious spin-off pastas that came after it too.

[@bradencw]

there’s something about this image that still unsettles me every time i come across it. the tiny, incredibly high contrast pupils looking directly back at you has this primal ability to grab my attention no matter how hard i try to look away

[@dogman3362]

I think this eye shape makes the monster subconsciously look like a predator. All predators have forward-facing eyes like that, and plus, these tiny pupils make him look like a shark, tbh. So even if you are looking away, your brain immediately locks onto those eyes, since in Nature, anything with eyes like this would be like an apex predator.

[@RonnieBeard-x9v]

He is kinda a predator he eats human and grouls

[@leftysheppey]

@@RonnieBeard-x9v grouls? 😂

[@smart.but.stupid]

I think he looks goofy tbh lmao

[@starmaker75]

yeah even if the creppypasta being silly and the memes i have seen, the image still unnerves me. Their this uncanny vibe to it that get to me

[@bellyjelly0812]

This is genuinely one of the ONLY images from creepypastas that scares me, I've never seen one so bad. The only thing that gives me comfort is that the characters name is canonically "Jeff the killer" which is extremely stupid

[@bluefrog1766]

The reason this photo really unsettles me is that the person who introduced the story to me would hide printouts of his face around the campsite we were staying at.

[@bookle5829]

The title is as stupid as the creepypasta story lol

[@tanner201x8]

How’s it dumb?

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

Jeff the Killer kind of sounds like a ripoff of Jack the Ripper

[@aliencitointergalactico]

@@bluefrog1766 yoooo that's so sick haha, i would literally piss myself if i saw him while camping he's so unnerving 🕴️

[@zoey_2538]

Hope this doesnt get absolutely buried in the comments - considering miyama's anecdote about it being a meme in japan and it even being posted on bulletin boards, i think any investigators would have their best luck digging through any local papers/school newsletters/whatever might be archived around the time from japan. It's possible in an area where the photo was popular someone had written something mentioning something about the original video. I dont know japanese and im not an internet sleuth but i hope this gets solved in my lifetime 😭

[@godemarcus4245]

I second this

[@maymay5600]

I remember a year ago a video said it came from Japan along with other Japanese memes

[@TheAnonim23]

Why would a newspaper publish a story about some early 2000s anon board meme?

[@zoey_2538]

@@TheAnonim23 it seems like it wasnt a one-off post but something pretty popular at the time. If people were going around sticking shock photos everywhere it's relatively likely that some newer local journalist investigated it and wrote a small segment on it. Or some kid who thought it was funny wrote it for their school newsletter. Other than that, this trail seems pretty dead right now, so it couldnt hurt to check anyway

[@Gustoberg]

@@zoey_2538 and not to mention that if there were many parents complaining about the image it is almost sure sometime in somewhere in japan the news would write an article, making it even more spread in japan, so if someone finds anything concerning a supposed news article the story is most likely true

[@Mushroomhead671]

It’s really funny how the backstory of the Jeff the Killer image is far more interesting than the story itself

[@thestrangler2688]

tbf the story was clearly written terribly by a child with no intent of it becoming as popular as it is

[@blakguyfromfortnite9340]

@@thestrangler2688 Facts

[@Mushroomhead671]

@Nom3xTheDon I wouldn’t be surprised if it was super underwhelming. It’s probably some dude’s dog that was photoshopped for the story. Then again, I didn’t anticipate this much backstory to Jeff’s image

[@PotawatomiThunderNew]

I agree. I don’t understand why Jeff The Killer is such a popular one. It’s pretty generic, unrealistic, and it just sucks.

[@Mushroomhead671]

@@PotawatomiThunderNew more than likely it’s because most of the people who liked the story were young teens who are just starting to get exposed to darker stories where the best outcomes doesn’t always happen. When Creepypastas were popular, it was kinda considered taboo to read them as a kid, kinda like watching something like Family Guy or South Park. An origin story about a serial killer that wasn’t too deep was enough for that demographic to latch onto.

[@Alexandra-rb7ju]

I remember I used to believe that everything in creepypastas were true, and nearly had a panic attack on Halloween 2012 when some really tall person dressed up as Slenderman and harassed everyone in school by walking up to them and staring directly into their faces. No one ever found out who the cosplayer was, and no one ever came forward and admitted to it. It happened right around the time when Slenderman had a huge cult following, and just two years before that girl attempted to murder a classmate of hers. Both the Slenderman dress up and the attempted murder happened in the same town I grew up in.

[@ShawnTufford]

Dude this could be an entire conspiracy theory lol

[@wolfe6819]

Interesting that a school would let someone with a mask that completely obscures their face walk around and mess with students. I guess an 8 foot tall person in a suit would be easy to miss, so maybe they just didn’t see him.

[@chihuahua3239]

Dang I'm Minnesotan, but Wisconsin is crazy 😧

[@apho-sappho]

@@chihuahua3239 As a wisconsinite this is very true 😭

[@RaccoonWithRabies]

So Sesseur just lied about taking the picture? Why? He could've just as easily said "Oh I dunno where it came from, I found it somewhere online lol". This honestly makes him look pretty scummy, just taking credit for something he didn't make and giving false leads to people actually interested in finding out the real story behind it. Amazing video, as always. I'm glad the Katy suicide thing got debunked, that story always seemed pretty off to me. Especially since "Katy" doesn't even look all that similar to Jeff and the post is written in such a 4chan manner.

[@momomo1312]

I think saw somewhere that he has a story of lying, alot of people don't actually belive that he made the creepypasta

[@WobblesandBean]

Considering how badly written the story is, I'm not surprised the little pissant took credit for it. Teenage boys are kind of awful like that.

[@CodeDoneMorally]

Idk why anyone would believe that the day after she committed suicide her "sister" decided to post about it on 4chan. Thats so stupid.

[@chopthedog4750]

Yeah I kept thinking about how dumb that was

[@adrianoropeza8558]

At least he could have come up with a more believable lie like he just shopped a photo of some random person or himself, but no, he instead came with the whole mask thing when the pic is obviously edited.

[@thunderczar9272]

The fact that Sesseur just straight-up lied about a clearly photoshopped image is just bizarre. Would anyone actually believe that it was a latex mask? It's featureless with that uncanny, bashed together with differently lit elements. The internet is weird.

[@dirtysploof5890]

i was fried and believed him for like 2 seconds before realizing how retarded that is

[@aswertyuiol]

To be honest, I don't think it's that weird. Being that the pasta is from 2008, it's entirely possible he didn't even remember where he got the pic from and just made something up, or he really did misremember it as a picture he took himself. I know I barely remember what I did in 2008.

[@AbdullahYoussof]

@@aswertyuiol why does it feel like you are Sesseur

[@insaneclownhoty]

Probably autism lol

[@wheedler]

@@aswertyuiol Explain the normal not-weird rationale for making up a convoluted obviously fake story when you don't have the answer to a question.

[@ChrisShwafer]

Great my childhood fear of the image just came back after seeing the unedited one

[@plebianmarsh2373]

Your comment is gonna blow up

[@UltraMeWeSwagMan]

here before it blows up

[@mmmcola6067]

@@UltraMeWeSwagMan Hero likes creepypasta?!!111 never seen before (shocking)

[@pineapplesodah]

It’s like 1AM here guess I’m going to have a sleepless night tonight

[@catoticneutral]

but we don't even have the unedited one yet? We just have more edits of it.

[@operationmadboyzlive1295]

I recall seeing the 3rd picture on a Japanese site similar to 4chan, but when looking for the site, I couldnt even find it. I remember Jeff did have long black fingernails and he was holding what seemed to look like an organ or a human inside. Whatever it was, I hope somebody finds it because I sure remember seeing it somewhere on the internet on my old Windows XP. That day, I was looking for something surprising or funny to not be bored and that picture did the exact opposite and made me fearful and unsettled. I remember first seeing the white powder image and later the 4chan Jeff, which made me think people just simply thought the flesh picture was too scary or something like that. I forgot all about it until I watched this video and now I remember it. I’m still unsure if the picture is maybe somewhere on 4chan or somewhere else. I barely can speak or read japanese anymore, but there’s gotta be someone who remembers this picture and can speak Japanese still or understand it.

[@julieblair7472]

Sesseur is obviously full of it. What does “black substance to simulate blinking” mean? Anyone with half a brain can tell it was done in a paint program.

[@toamatoro570]

Having half a brain is practically gifted these days.

[@michaelafton83]

lmao

[@thatstrangebuggirl4150]

@@toamatoro570 common sense isn’t very common

[@banjogyro]

Sesseur is the most underappreciated character of the book

[@unknown6390]

Being the author of "Jeff the Killer" and making money off of licensing a character you never even designed the image of is a pretty desperate combination of stupidity and greed

[@stonent]

So Sesseur claims he made it with a mask and has been telling people this for a long time, but yet admits later having older copies of it pretty much proving he lied the whole time that it was his.

[@kaibaswife]

I always found that guy to be suspicious. I remember all the Jeff fangirls back on 2014 deviantart trying to be noticed by him.

[@avant4035]

yeah, really weird how the vid doesnt even call him out about it or acknowledge the conflicting info and just continues on.

[@Minchken]

He never admitted to that. Why are you spreading lies to discredit?

[@mr.shekels5490]

He never said when he made it, he just said that he made it. It’s still possible that he made those images and just used them a few years later

[@sourgreendolly7685]

@@mr.shekels5490I- what?? You can’t have a ‘when you made something’ without actually making that something. He claimed he used a latex mask, he lied.

[@IsaoSoichiro]

The Jeff the Killer image has never looked particularly scary to me, but the green eyed Jeff genuinely spooked me lol

[@alwaysinseptember11]

yeah same. the powder face is terrifying too

[@tbknick6703]

I thought i was over my fear of the jeff the killer pic and then BOOM...green eyed jeff, im spooked again-

[@elmaa5642]

SAME I literally had to cover my eyes when it was on screen

[@rayherostudios8135]

EEEEEWWWWWW

[@jejtherusheddoodle23]

The one with red teeth scared me the most.

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

The idea of a well known thing having it's origin be a total mystery is scarier than the pics or the story.

[@doopsnoggllc]

Jeff The Killer is among one if the most recognizable images on the internet imo. It’s amazing to me that the search has gone on this long without a proper conclusion. Hopefully one day someone will track down that original video. Very entertaining as always!

[@doopsnoggllc]

@@FIGHT3R49ER aw ty :)

[@mr.classicragememerook96]

The image for Momo makes Jeff the killer's image look like child's play xD

[@JC-11111]

People are idiots. They don't know how to search the internet for anything. How would they find the actual facts when they can't find the broom they want to buy? Smfh.

[@Im.Smaher]

@@mr.classicragememerook96 Momo isn’t scary at all

[@Im.Smaher]

@@FIGHT3R49ER Once you see the full sculpture, it starts looking a little goofy. At least there was no full body for Jeff

[@TheLemonyBard]

It’s so odd to me that Sessuer felt the need to lie repeatedly, it’s like he was trying to add to the creepypasta by making the image’s origin creepier than the story itself

[@RyukyuStyle]

this is what lead me to not believe in anything anymore lol. because if there is anything i know is real, is the fact that some people will literally make up things for no reason at all. So i dont believe in anything paranormal or ufo's or bigfoot or none of that because after all this time there still isnt any real evidence despite everyone having super nice cameras in phones that everyone carries around.... Thus everyone who claims anything paranormal is either mistaken, or outright lying. and i think thats the orgin for everything paranormal, is people believe that no one would randomly make up or fake something for no apparent reason, they give them the benefit of doubt and then next thing you know, another myth is born that people strongly believe in despite there being literally no evidence lol. its a pretty interesting psychological phenomena

[@sourgreendolly7685]

The attention desperate will do what ever draws attention ig

[@WobblesandBean]

Because he's an arrogant little conkwocket who wants to steal credit for everything. Apparently, many people don't even believe he wrote the original story.

[@NiiRubra]

I don't mean to be too judgey, because that's definitely not the goal of this video, but I get the feeling that both him and that lady were just teens looking for attention, and maybe he made a return to that for that interview.

[@xenos_n.]

@@RyukyuStyle yep, the world is full of liars and the supernatural doesn't exist. Welcome to reality, lol.

[@SleepyMook]

For an admittedly pretty cool and kinda terrifying looking image, the actual story of Jeff the Killer is super underwhelming. Feels like a teenager wanting to make their own oc of The Joker.

[@ElkAndTurt]

lol

[@Bellaevvy]

LMFAO

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

jeff the killer is just someone's jokersona

[@jackcinephile7554]

As a teenager, I considered trying to fix the story by writing a sequel. It was supposed to follow scp agents who are trying to catch Jeff the Killer to get him to therapy. I gave up on the idea when I realized there's nothing you can add to the story to fix it.

[@vizthex]

for real.

[@Snowflake4-20]

They actually found a lead on a girl named Mariko in the r/OriginalJTKImage subreddit and right now is possibly the closest we have of the original Jeff the Killer. It would be cool to see this in a future update :)

[@FreeJunction]

I know about this, many people keep saying it can’t be Mariko but it has to be. So what there’s no clothes in the background, they probably cut and pasted her into that background. However that begs the question. Where did the picture with the clothes come from.

[@thatguywiththebluestickmanpfp]

​@@FreeJunctionI was asking the same thing 😮

[@Lugbzurg]

12:05 Somehow, THAT looks more eerie than the "main" "Jeff" image. Probably because, despite being more distorted, the more famous image is... well... more familiar. seeing this slightly-off version pretty much has an uncanny valley effect, despite looking more "normal".

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

yeah

[@liamwhittaker8691]

Honestly, the one at 13:54 unsettles me way more; I don't know about you, but it has a way more "Uncanny Valley" vibe to it in my opinion...

[@SoappEaterr]

White Powder 2 shook me to my core when I saw it, I don’t know why, but I felt like I wanted to scream.

[@elijahkoufos4638]

It looks like L

[@trapchurches555]

Yeah it’s worse than the original

[@MellyVuong]

WELCOME BACK OMG 😭😭 i was just doing another horror marathon and got your notification I'm SO HAPPY

[@Unklethebob]

OOGA

[@AzureQuality]

Epico

[@Rafaelmartinez-gs2df]

U got a playlist? I wanna join the marathon

[@MsDancealot]

Eyo got a playlist for that marathon? 👀

[@zerpent5767]

got that marathon list by chance?

[@sarenhs4535]

Remember the heart dropping feeling we had when we were younger seeing scary pictures. Kinda miss it.

[@PreownedHonda]

I do not.

[@heyitsgremmy]

I also do not.

[@aigeneratedgirlie]

why do you miss it..

[@crypticcorvid]

@@aigeneratedgirlie Idk, I also feel the same. It's like feeling upset if a roller coaster doesn't throw you around enough or if a horror movie isn't scary. It's a lack of strong emotions and missing a time where goofy internet curses felt like an actual threat, lol.

[@sarenhs4535]

@@crypticcorvid yeah. Growing up on the internet was pretty wild, the over saturation of scary videos and wild amount of easily watched gore videos I feel like has made me jaded at an early age.

[@MisterPucks]

as a kid, when I saw the imagie I was SO scared to sleep at night, I would literally cover my head over my blanket, and the worst part is, I when I would do that not long after, it would start to get really hot under the blanket. I had a sleep paralysis, and behind me was jeff the killer. As a kid I was terrifed. But now when I see him, I laugh. lol

[@stonk2467]

Same

[@maxmoon2356]

@@stonk2467^^

[@sweetheartmashupsbabe]

I remember I was always so terrified of going anywhere without an adult, even going down the stairs at night to get stuff, I was paranoid Jeff would come kill me lol

[@craftah]

i guess i was the only kid who wasn't scared of jeff the killer. i literally laughed as a kid when i looked at that photo

[@okjeffy6581]

I once had a fear that if I woke up Jeff would be standing right next to my door. Was always scared to sleep.

[@1991birthday]

Wow, so weird hearing creepypastas being a thing of the past because they still feel recent to me. I remember the rise in popularity happening around my later years of high school then it just exploding during the early 2010’s, I ended up getting very absorbed into them when it was requested I write a few urban legend-esque campfire stories for an event & I fell down a crazy rabbit hole of creepypastas. Doesn’t feel like that much time has passed but hey, blink & you’re suddenly 30 I guess.

[@supdog8786]

Ok?

[@Margen67]

Delibird needs HUGS

[@RealBladethegamer]

Yeah, hard to believe that Creepypastas reached their peak almost a decade ago! I feel old too!

[@rudelittleant3654]

right?? i got into the fanbase in my early middle school years, around...2013. it's so weird realizing how long ago that was.

[@abottleofcrystalpepsifrom1799]

i think the white powder 2 image is honestly scarrier than the popular one personally. the more realistic facial proportions let it better seep into uncanny valley territory for me

[@hbups1123]

copied

[@adonaiyah2196]

Greeneyed jeff sent me into a fckin coma when his face appeared i like died

[@aubreamber]

@@hbups1123 I know saying this is annoying but, no one really cares.

[@hbups1123]

@@aubreamber ok kid

[@GippyHappy]

I agree it's a bit creepier but I think to me it's just because it's not so overused so I'm getting scared all over again

[@NekoNihhal]

Ugh, was anyone else completely traumatised by this picture? I remember being absolutely TERRIFIED of that image and jumpscare, just looking at it makes me sick and I'll probably sleep with lights on tonight.

[@timothyt666]

I remember when I was younger I was able to get out of being scared because I thought the story was real BUT took place a long time ago, so I was just imagining a very old jeff the killer and knew that he was too old to kill. I never actually read the story I kinda just knew the basics of him killing his family and cutting off his eyelashes or something, so that he couldn't sleep which didn't make much sense but ok.

[@hilotakenaka]

Yeah same here

[@kakazet]

I felt into some KZbin commenter's trap once. He encouraged some KZbinr (and ofc other people reading their comment) to check an agar.io clone by the name of Agorio (with a dot before "io"). Unfortunately, it was a fricking Jeff the Killer screamer. Loud as heck, changing between normal and inverted colors. It was really traumatizing. My heartbeat sped up of course, and, what is more funny, my browser wanted to prank me too and didn't want to close itself, so I just pulled the battery out of my laptop.

[@Sundy5744]

It scared me a lot when I was a kid but now as an adult it's pretty meh. Just a creepy face, it's not really a big deal to me anymore y'know? Or maybe I've just seen it so many times that I'm desensitized to it or something I dunno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@ThisisSigma200]

yeah and seeing the video and thumbnail recommended to me for the past couple days wasn't helping me either lol

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

I love that one of the most iconic images in internet history is probably just some random woman who decided to take a selfie 20 years ago.

[@bubbabibleman5970]

Not only is Sesseur a bad writer, he's also a pretty bad liar.

[@FookMi69]

Very wise words, Bibleman.

[@fia5594]

Wise words indeed. I felt betrayed when I heard he lied.

[@Louzahsol]

Imagine believing anyone from 4chan

[@ramdom_assortment]

@@Louzahsol They sure are good at fooling the mainstream idiots though.

[@OPOP-xh5hc]

@@ramdom_assortment only idiots believe in 4chan post

[@TheCompleteWeirdo]

i remember being around 11 or 12 and this was the first screamer i clicked on, it was flashing so fast and scared me so bad i couldn't even look at my screen and my mom had to come in and turn it off for me. couldn't sleep that night and was scared to go downstairs or in the shower alone for at least a week. ended up being pretty paranoid for about half a year before forgetting about it or brushing it off. 10/10 scarred me.

[@muno8564]

Saaaame

[@Future_Doggo]

Was it find minecraft?

[@AlternativeSack123]

I remember someone linking me that same screamer back in 2011 or so, made me jump so hard I threw my headphones across the room

[@moon.2674]

@@Xernlu1 they were a kid when it happened. kids find things scary

[@drunken-raccoon]

That happened to me a while back too. Funny story, I was with a friend and her brother was being a jerk. I watched that video a few weeks back. So I told her to play the video in his face to scare him. He was completely unfazed by it and proceeded to play a different video and try to scare us.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

The funny thing is: much like Clockman and Cracks before it, it is entirely possible that the origin of the photo is something completely innocent that was turned deranged via the many photoshop layers and creepypasta ties. What if it's a photo of a beauty commercial, hence why she's so close to the camera? Or an in-between, something like a soap opera and the screenshot is of the actress breaking character right before a jump cut? You never know.

[@mryoshi1221]

it looks like its taken inside of a closet. so maybe it was someone just taking a selfie for their website, and the image got passed around? and then layers and layers of editing got added.

[@symbiote3220]

most clues point to Geisha

[@soundwavesuperior28]

@@symbiote3220 ?

[@Little_Eris]

@@soundwavesuperior28 Cause most Geishas happen to paint their face with White face paint and hav red lips.

[@symbiote3220]

@@soundwavesuperior28 if it’s confirmed it’s Japanese origin, the white face and lipstick is dead giveaway if it was only altered a little

[@GGdiamondore]

Here's a tip: back then there were Japanese memes that would make ugly creepy pictures into pretty ones. Jeff the killer may be one of those memes, which explains the earlier version of the Jeff the killer image

[@Doombringer_r]

I always found "Jeff the Killer" to be extremely terrifying until I actually read it a week after discovering him, after that I kinda felt cheated just because of BAD it was

[@infernoROBO]

Yeah. The story is pretty bad lol

[@declanjones8888]

Also unrealistic in my opinion

[@Doombringer_r]

@@declanjones8888 Duh lol

[@cheesytacos6498]

Same

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

Dude same. It was such a bad story

[@aline_04]

This image always gives me so much anxiety and sense of fear, I think it’s the uncanny twisted smile

[@lilcubbins]

For me, the 1st and 3rd versions are scarier than the one we know

[@sirlimen333]

For me it's the eyes

[@gideonnaziri2453]

The earlier ones are worse imo cause they feel more off

[@thegrayowl1557]

From what I've gathered, it's the eyes and smile, combined with the lack of other facial features that makes it so unsettling. It could be a phobia or something, because every picture that's like it, from that one SCP 087-B monster, to the Mandela Catalogue, gives me the exact same feeling as this one, and it seems like I'm one of the few that's really creeped out by it

[@swibishdumbhorse]

All pictures give me anxiety and chills imo

[@FinalLychee]

Considering how many people remember seeing the original image, it's likely it's still sitting somewhere deep in the internet on an old website or archive.

[@clairmoon06]

Once posted, it'll never be gone, they just dont know where to find it anymore

[@lordsubl1me]

found it

[@FinalLychee]

@@lordsubl1me fr?

[@griffintgm9467]

@@FinalLychee he’s clearly lying lol

[@anon1066]

Yep, it’s got to be out there somewhere. Only Mr. Mulholland would know where to start looking. I’m sure people are scouring old archives of Japanese forums and media sharing websites to find the original screenshot or video (finding the original video will be incredibly hard, or impossible due to Flash no longer being supported). I do feel like it will be found some time this year, hopefully. I’ve been following this search on and off for a couple years now and it would be amazing to finally see the original unedited image/screenshot.

[@williammckinley3564]

I actually remember seeing what I think to be the original back in 04'. It was on this old gaming forum, a forum of which if I forgot the name of. The thread was titled "scary images from games" or something. Hope this helps the search. I'm PRETTY sure it may be the original. It kinda looks like the "pretty face" image but it was less white and looked more human.

[@someonelol1796]

do you have any idea what the website was called?

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

Too high quality to be an early-00s game

[@babyblue91105]

@@Bruh-zx2mc maybe it was a flash game?

[@eelamite]

lmoa this isnt even reddit so why is this guy tryna say cap? cringe lol

[@zavor5786]

albinoblacksheep?

[@PlutoniumSlums]

The only creepy pasta that scared me pretty badly back then was smile dog. Just a strange photo of a dog that ominously stares at you from it’s flesh, bodily tissues and bones.

[@void9938]

Omg I would scroll past that picture as fast as I can. I always thought it was a pig.

[@kriszenn1125]

read the smile.jpg creepypasta

[@nocap1449]

Me too but the photoshopped one that was all red

[@thereseemstobeenanerror1219]

Off-topic but, I found the actual dog. If anybody wants to see.

[@wolfhack9581]

@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 show me pls

[@Gaizure]

Never thought a overused image would turn out to be actual lost media

[@k0mpleti0n66]

This along with the distorted photo of smile dog absolutely HORRIFIED me when I was a kid. I straight up couldn't sleep the night I saw that image. I was afraid he was in my closet or something

[@percinhaler30]

Yes bro. I literally slept in my parents bed for weeks after those images. Creepypasta really fucked me up as a kid

[@neoxus30]

For some reason Squidward Red Mist scared me more. I was scared of him. Even knowing that he wouldnt kill me, he would kill himself. But was still afraid)

[@Spidercake54]

@@neoxus30 still can’t be Nickelodeon referenced red mist briefly in one of the recent seasons

[@burninglogs8593]

I would imagine smile dog opening my door and killing me or appearing out my window as a kid

[@rainman4529]

Fucking same man I used to sleep with my parents because of this

[@vampvhs]

12:06 this feels like a Mandela Effect, imagine this image shows up from now on and everyone is made to believe that this is the Jeff the Killer image and always has been, it’s so weird seeing a completely different version of the image, it gives off a totally different feeling, not as purely scary, but definitely off-putting and creepy. It’s crazy how a simple picture from a popular creepypasta has such a deep and complicated backstory, this is what I think I love about the internet most, the smallest things can have the wildest rabbit holes with all kinds of plot twists and right when you think you found the end, it’s a false end and the hole goes even deeper

[@jisageek]

Ah yes the single image that traumatized me as a child and led me to spend several YEARS sleeping with the lights on since I was afraid I would be murdered in my sleep. Good times.

[@ChubuPeng]

same. i clicked on a screamer link once which terrified me so much. i got better at looking at the image over the years but oof. still unsettling at times.

[@NinOyaaa]

I always get scared of this picture, the picture is taken gives me fear. The setting for it is almost perfect. The background is static, filled with unrecognizable things. Always gives you fear. Jorge again with an amazing video.

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

The picturr and story were always stupid

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

@@HoxMouse I had this classmate in like 3rd and 4th grade who idolized Jeff the Killer. He was the only legit bully I ever encountered. I just remember this one time he was told to sit out PE and I saw him breaking a plastic ruler and then pretending to give himself a glasgow smile with it. So Jeff's main demographic is probably emotionally stunted kids with a lot of unresolved anger

[@chingmuankim4927]

@@TheElectricCheeseProductions22 picture creepy story stupee

[@NinOyaaa]

@@TheElectricCheeseProductions22 Story stoopid. It shares alot concepts from other scary stories and are overused. Picture cool B)))))))))

[@onstandby2177]

My first question now is: why would Sesseur lie? It’s very obvious he did not make the image, so what does he gain from a mask he doesn’t have, and pictures he doesn’t remember the date of? Second question: is there a way to reverse Photoshop pictures? And if we can, would that even be able to help identify that woman? Someone on the Japanese web has to have seen the original, unedited version.

[@BryanOmega6]

Well you can’t just reverse photoshops

[@onstandby2177]

@@BryanOmega6 not like undo what’s been done, but try to alter it back to the way it should have been. Like instead of hitting the back arrow, working our way back to a somewhat original picture is what i meant, sorry it wasn’t very clear

[@underwirez]

pathological lying.

[@Shadow_Grandmaster]

@@onstandby2177 Probably if the image was newer. Unfortunately the original image was probably taken in early 2000's when Photoshop and other programs were fairly new. We'll probably never see the original photo of this person. It is creepy indeed, but maybe its best it stays that way.

[@BibleStorm]

"Someone on the Japanese web has to have seen the original, unedited version." Watch the video again. Pretty sure your answer is in the video.

[@hozonkai9967]

I was 14 in 2011, and this image scared the crap out of me. Even at 27, it still gives me chills

[@AxeAlex555]

Same bro 😢

[@misscaution704]

I always found the Jeff the Killer images disturbing even now, so much in fact that I often had to use MiniPlayer while watching parts of this video. But the search for the original image has always fascinated me, and I find it very interesting how one of the most iconic images in creepypasta history has one of the most mysterious origins. Honestly it sorta has motivated me to rewrite Jeff the Killer for fun, despite me being absolutely terrified of the image.

[@jredactedlredacted8148]

Lmao same, I got my hand covering the screen tbh!

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

I'd be down to read that rewrite if you get around to doing that.

[@ScatterBrainedYouBetterFollow]

what even is there to rewrite might as well just create something original at that point

[@SapphireeCos]

I'm personally not scared of that picture I've seen it so many times! The part that scares me is the fact that someone made this and decided to scare people with this. It's a really weird picture and we all see it but don't know the background

[@moonbunny24]

I think the image being called "prettyFACE" doesn't have much to do with the slit mouth woman. What I immediately thought of was the Make Me Cute meme that shows a scary doll and challenged 2chan users to make her "cute," which often led to her being photoshopped to look even scarier. Maybe the Jeff image comes from a similar thread. Alternatively, from my limited knowledge of 2chan, posting the image as a "photo of a pretty girl" as a joke seems to entirely fit the vibe of the website.

[@keen9166]

I remember seeing a picture very pale asian woman smiling on picture on 4 chan around 2006 before it was quickly taken down

[@WallaceBreenFromKentucky]

That's dollface and has nothing to do with it that picture's origin was already discovered it was an heavily photoshopped face of a dole

[@Enzombie]

@@WallaceBreenFromKentucky Where did you see that?

[@RaichuWasCancelled]

The doll that was being made "cute" was probably Ahenobarbus Henocied I think

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

yeah, when i heard it was called prettyface i thought of make me cute too, that image was terrifying to me when i was little

[@cheifs_utd]

I remember this image being used as a “screamer” jump scare, and way after that when I saw it again being reused as Jeff the killers face. Which just made it seem funny when I saw it again when I was a bit older.

[@rox5760]

It's pretty insane to think that we're already past the age of creepypastas. Slenderman is still new in my mind.

[@MrBro-ni8vf]

how is he new lol

[@jpowell6418]

Lol Blair witch for me

[@new__guy]

@@MrBro-ni8vf time can feel funny that way. its like hearing about the ps4 almost being a decade old, it still feels relatively new but its getting farther and farther everyday. its just perspectives

[@MrBro-ni8vf]

@@new__guy woah thats deep

[@swagman5417]

Sonic.exe still kicks around a bit with the EXY games and such

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

I feel so bad for katie that people were using her image as a “joke” and associated her with things she wasn’t even involved in, including fabricating a story where she KILLED HERSELF because she was fat. I’m glad she’s doing well. Edit: I know her name isn’t actually Katie, I just forgot her real name.

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

@YouAlwaysLose Imagine being this cringe

[@mhmtakeyatime9000]

@YouAlwaysLose ya sure about that?

[@xivk1]

@YouAlwaysLose man go get a life

[@randomguyonyoutube7501]

@YouAlwaysLose come dude your messed up

[@pikajew3578]

@YouAlwaysLose Based. Don't listen to these hypersensitive losers, they wouldn't have been able to handle the internet during the 2000s without a safespace.

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

Green-eyed Jeff is genuinely more unsettling. I guess it's because it looks more human and realistic, while also still being inhuman and unrealistic enough to be in the uncanny valley.

[@airhead1218]

exactly my thoughts

[@MisterCrowns]

i shat myself when that image appeared instantly

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

@@MisterCrowns Bro, same.

[@upas9655]

Ngl its looks dumb

[@SimianRagestien]

4:03 There is supposed to be a comma "You do the rest from there, worms" referring to the readers as worms.

[@sanidhishinde9782]

oh, really nice

[@Tea_Noire]

The original creator of the image being Japanese makes sense since a lot of ghosts and spooky beings in Japanese media traditionally are depicted with stark white skin snd dark hair, and if they have any facial features they're usually dramatic and "wet-looking."

[@theaidenandreshow4001]

thats what she said

[@shlbYT_]

@@theaidenandreshow4001 lol

[@RadJordy]

I remember being really freaked out by the creepypasta and the image still makes me shudder to this day. But when I was on vacation with my family as a kid, I was telling my brother about the pasta. I asked aloud "but if whatshisname was killed by jeff, then who wrote the story?" and my dad just happened to walk in the room, saying "MY DOOOOOOG DID" in this really silly voice. Needless to say, it declawed the story in my head and all I can do know is chuckle at this unintentional instance of my dad despookifying something for me. Precious memories.

[@jommisalami]

This makes me happy^^ 😄💖

[@MammonCity]

THEN WHO WAS THE PHONE

[@mibukdesjarlais534]

Is your dog named Smile by any chance??? 😉🐕

[@RadJordy]

@@mibukdesjarlais534 Ok maybe, but that's wholly unrelated.

[@mibukdesjarlais534]

@@RadJordy Okay I was just joking....😅

[@sizzis2045]

I think it's highly underestimated how volatile digital, and especially online, data can be. The more time it passes, the harder it is to search stuff, between data storage failures, link rot, and whole companies shutting off their servers after years of service and throwing their drives who knows where. I had been thinking so for a long time, but the Internet Archive really is a boon in that regard. If only the staff at the Internet Archive could provide a search engine function that could search inside of the archive pages' text, it would make it perfect. I'd be willing to pay even a premium fee for that, myself.

[@VEV-cu6no]

Agree

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

People say nothing ever disappears on the internet. Nothing disappears *if people cared to archive it*.

[@solidonaso]

i second this

[@lutho7693]

That's why "Saki Sonabishi" aka. "Go for a punch" is probably lost for ever (if it even existed).

[@MM-jf1me]

​@@idontcheckmynotificationsExactly. "Nothing disappears on the internet" is only cautionary advice: nothing scandalous/embarrassing for you is guaranteed to just "go away" on the internet as long as someone out there has incentive to save/spread it.

[@fathiazrul3947]

It's been a years,I still got heart attack when seeing his face without the jumpscares

[@verylostdoommarauder]

I wonder how many former Jeff fangirls would be surprised to find out that the guy that they were all thirsting over was actually a middle aged woman.

[@dtxspeaks268]

I'm just wondering why preteen and teenage girls were thirsting over a demonic looking killer who looks like a mix of Jigsaw's puppet, Darth Nihilus, Heath Ledger's Joker, and barn owl.

[@fromthethirdplanet]

@@dtxspeaks268 welcome to the internet

[@lamibonxd]

@@dtxspeaks268 fanart depicted him as a cute emo boy, and since it was late 2000’s, fangirls obviously loved it. most fanart that i’ve seen shows him with emo fringe black hair😭

[@dtxspeaks268]

@@lamibonxd Jeff fanart was from the early to mid 2010s, not the late 2000s. The Jeff creepypasta was written in 2011 and didn't get big until 2012.

[@megan253]

HAHAHA

[@driggersdavid6]

This image has haunted me for many years but the fact I had the bravery to watch this is really making me feel like an adult nowadays

[@ronnyjazershorts4145]

Hi

[@siampayak8925]

Congratulations

[@emonora100]

Same man am tryin my best

[@DatDirtyDog]

*head pats* Good job buddy!

[@orbitalwig8333]

LMFAOOO RIGHT

[@trianglearchives5776]

This image always used to make me tense up as a kid, especially when coming across it unexpectedly on the internet. Did anyone else have the same problem?

[@peakautism]

yeah. i was scrolling through my recommended and this video was in it. scared the life out of me lmfao

[@OfficialFrenchGovernment]

no

[@neuronoc.7343]

A lot of us.

[@joroc]

No. I'm used to tv shows about images like "Menina Fantasma do Corredor" when I was a kid

[@rainbowrotcod]

yes, it was horrifying to me

[@coolgaming642]

The backstory for this photo is even more creepy than the photo it self

[@omegaslash777]

I find it funny how the mystery of the original Jeff the Killer image is far more interesting than the Creepypasta imo

[@BabyCharmander]

I mean that’s not particularly hard, given the original story is just the kind of thing you’d expect to hear from a 12-year-old who thinks they’re the epitome of edge.

[@bookle5829]

the creepypasta story is pretty crap lol

[@yannickgrignon2473]

Well, you know what they say about truth and its strangeness relative to fiction

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@AsrielLSD Which one?

[@CourierSiix]

@AsrielLSD yeah, maybe if youre 5

[@kademcarthur5362]

The mysterious origins of the image is way creepier than the actual story.

[@jeispace9960]

videos uploaded to the internet were much more untraceable back in the early 2000s. it was probably just a random vlog that gained some traction and then the woman deleted it because they began making fun of her appearance.

[@jonmax22]

2009: This creepypasta’s scary!! 2022: This brings back memories.

[@berniesq]

The truth😭🏃

[@dtxspeaks268]

More like 2009: this pic is scary 2012: this story is scary 2014: this story actually sucks! 2022: good memories

[@talmankk564]

its kinda a meme

[@Poyopoyo007]

I made a homemade eyeless jack mask a few years back

[@Un._overseer_mas]

epic killer jeff

[@awesomeeevee133]

This seems like a good video to be watching at midnight. Somehow the earlier versions of the “Jeff the Killer” photo are more unsettling than the current one

[@mini-_]

It has been years since first seeing this image and its many accompanying creepypastas, but it still sends shivers down my spine.

[@TazmilyGum]

Same. It’s like arachnophobia, you see it and instinctively jump.

[@ElRiki77]

you sound like every bad creepypasta "it still haunts me to this day"

[@mini-_]

@@ElRiki77 And then the light flickers on and off!

[@mryoshi1221]

me too. so many other images and stories just make me laugh. but this picture...... is unsettling. especially the "original" one.

[@halolime117]

I think the picture is funny lol

[@mooneh549]

That second earlier version is almost more unsettling Update: that green eyed one is fucking horrifying

[@electrokinesis5797]

Lmao glad I'm not the only one that got creeped out by it

[@AIRYHFJONEIRL]

this made me laugh

[@avy8601]

Istg it looks a bit like Micheal Jackson to me ;-;'

[@spongewaffle]

Green eyed Jeff wants to take a pic with cardi b in his cardigan

[@AIRYHFJONEIRL]

@@spongewaffle NOOO HELP HES JUST WEARING A CROP TOP AND APPLE BOTTOM JEANS TAKING PHOTOS WITH NICKI MINAJ

[@sydposting]

I absolutely adore forensic examination of early internet artifacts like Jeff or Smiledog, because it's never just as simple as "spooky photoshop of stock image" sorts of things. I came of age in the dial-up era, and so many of these things touch this liminal place in my memory, of some obscure source image I saw when I was 12 that's since been morphed or played up by the renaissance of social media. (As an Internet Old I have to laugh at Sesseur trying to pull off that latex mask story. The image is clear photoshop, I can tell by the pixels.)

[@laurabartlett8033]

i really think it’s an edited photo of mariko, this girl who was bullied for her appearance on early 2000s japanese internet

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

The moment when the image of a creepypasta is far more superior than the story itself. The whole point of creepypasta is all about the mystery. We never know whether our worst nightmares are real or not, but it haunts us forever in our minds. It's like a camp fire story on the Internet.

[@herrschmidt5477]

no...no it's usually pretty obvious that it's a story written by a teenager^^

[@lebro4401]

Ben drowned is the only creepypasta I know that has world building and nuance to its story.

[@mikea7739]

Jeff the killer never really scared me, but the two “alternative” photos are terrifying. I don’t know which one is worse!

[@doctorquacks87]

I'd say both

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodb7585]

@@doctorquacks87 white powder looks like a winning smile

[@Cyfrik]

The "green-eyed" one definitely unsettles me the most.

[@Victor-es2xe]

The 2008 version

[@Victor-es2xe]

I had nightmares when I first saw it

[@jujuondatbeat45]

You know it’s gonna be good when the video title is straight to the point from blameitonjorge

[@OrangeCoupe]

Now being in my 20s seeing this thumbnail made my heart drop a little. The picture of Jeff the Killer traumatized my middle school years and physically made me unable to sleep when I first read the story. I’m not sure what it is about the picture but the eyes stared into my soul. Since forgetting it in nearly a decade I guess I finally grew up because this video was great and really informative. Thanks Jorge

[@char_shine]

Wow, it always slipped my mind that he was supposed to be 13 years old. I just remember teenage girls who were obsessed with him for all the wrong reasons and that made me assume he was much older.

[@GenesHand]

For some reason kids then to get obsessed with horror characters nowadays, like the popularity of five nights at Freddy, hello neighbor or poppy playtime. I see my little cousin watching that stuff while it would have scared me shitless at his age lol

[@imwaiting549]

Same i actually thought he was wayy older until i did my “research” and found out hes 13 much younger than I originally thought

[@imwaiting549]

@@GenesHand SAMEE. Anything scared me including chucky. That movie gave me trauma 😭

[@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou]

Fr

[@jadenbryant9283]

@@imwaiting549 doesent help that he's a really good fighter for his age

[@mc.gemstone]

I had no idea that the lore for that image was that deep and complex. I knew that it was some photoshop image of sorts, but had no idea there was even more to the story. But hey most things in life, including stuff like this always have interesting backstories.

[@SG-cw6xk]

The image is more interesting than the creepy pasta itself, but the creepy pasta never was that well written anyway

[@mc.gemstone]

@@SG-cw6xk Yeah the back story of the image is far more interesting than the image. But then again the writer behind it at the time was a teen when they wrote it, I think? I believe they did do a remake of the story somewhere.

[@tignarita]

honestly EJ and Jeff have the creepiest images. the way EJ just... leans over you is just so unsettling, and makes you feel like you are infact lying in bed, looking up at a horrible demon, and it also makes you wonder what happens next? did he kill you instantly or did you look at each other for a while? when I was nine that picture scared me so badly I had to stay with my mum in her bed for like a week. neither Jeff or Jack have the best stories, but what fans did with them is spectacular.

[@deathdrivesapontiac]

I'm still stuck in my 2010-2012 mindset of any video with a 'scary' or 'dark' topic having like 3 jumpscares. On edge throughout this whole video haha. Great job rounding up all this info!

[@Breh3543]

The middle and lates 2000s was an era I would always love especially the early 2010s

[@Bagofnowt]

I STILL live in the comments section

[@_UnknownStory]

Gonna be honest, Jeff the Killer was the first image on the internet I can remember genuinely spooking me and keeping me up at night. But I've seen it so many times that I've become desensitized to it. Green-eyed Jeff respooked me for a moment. I know it's likely an alteration of the original, but it's not like the original isn't some sort of image that itself was manipulated as well.

[@KraziShadowbear]

Personally, I'm curious where the "bloody-teeth" smile comes from. The one with the "updated" Jeff the Killer image and used with the ""SmileDog2" image as well as being used with other creepy images with dot eyes or just used to edit creepypastas and horror imagery.

[@legoman-87]

i think it comes from an scp but i could be wrong

[@UNIT5FAN]

It's from a creepypasta called Smile.Jeff

[@lilit905]

@@legoman-87 its an scp.

[@anguswett]

@@legoman-87 SCP-087-B I think

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

There’s a theory that Jeff’s mouth comes from a Finnish rapper in the early 2000s. His mouth was like that because of a genetic condition

[@Sebedits1-g2r]

Update: Someone was able to show the old deleted comments from the unedited photo The comments seem like the original photo might of been even more scarier because people described the original as a: Asian women with white makeup with white bulging eyes and a very creepy smile it seems like there where originaly 4 photos but in different angles And the people who veiwed the photo later had nightmares of it. This is what we have as of right now unfortunately.

[@THEnicholasvancosky]

Citation needed

[@gamesux420]

calling creepypastas a "small fad" feels like an understatement

[@Freddie7191]

Imagine that Katy Robinson story were true, and the first thing that her family member did after she committed unalive is post about it on 4chan. That's the true horror, cause I can absolutely believe someone would do that.

[@gilbert3672]

Yeah but the real story is still as horrifying. Some random person made up the entire story of a girl committing suicide and pretended to be their sister whilst using the image of some random girl from google images. The fact that some psychotic dude made up a whole scenario like that in their mind is actually horrifying and he may be somewhere walking around in our society.

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

It would be very silly. Killing yourself because some strangers on the Internet made fun of you for your unhealthy decisions? It would maybe make sense if it was a very long-term situation, but it wasn't.

[@smaurf2499]

@@gilbert3672 I'm pretty sure the "so and so committed suicide because of what you said" is somewhat of a meme on there, and I don't think that was the first time the image was posted on the website.

[@exodus1055]

@@user-fe8gx3ie5v well if a whole website makes fun of you and your photo begins to travel across other websites and you begin to be the "fat chick" on the internet it really takes a tool on you irl

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

@@exodus1055 4chan doesn't really do this in a grand scale, unlike Tw*tter/R*ddit, unless you get doxxed by users of the site because of a particularly immoral action, like they have done with the guy who was torturing cats. Making fun of you in an evening isn't enough to make you want to die, especially when you can simply leave the site if something people tell you bothers you that much.

[@antruys646]

that image haunted me for years when I was younger. Got jumpscared while trying to pirate some videogame by sketchy and very incorrect means (I was like 11 and stupid lol leave me be) was a very simple loud noise and flashing between inverted and uninverted colours of that image. For some reason it stuck in my mind. Still gets my heart going looking at it.

[@JohnFortniteKennedy_]

I mean it doesnt look as scary as i saw it back in the day, but it still makes me uncomfortable looking at it

[@sberky98]

i just wanna know what game has a piracy screen thats jeff the killer flashing

[@antruys646]

@@sberky98 no it was a website with a fake link. I was that stupid

[@jaow2443]

@@antruys646 Was it perhaps the agorio website? I remember when I was younger when agario was all the hype and someone told me to look up that website. I was traumatized afterwards lol

[@antruys646]

@@jaow2443 I think it was before that. I don't even remember lol was shortly after the Sims 4 came out cause DanTDM played it and I needed it in my life but I was like 11 and broke af. My laptop would've combusted anyway had I managed to get my hands on it so maybe it's for the best

[@TheTruest500]

14:02 made me stop sneezing mid sneeze

[@RTstudios-xs6fw]

Lmao

[@Jumbopoptv]

Jeff the killer was what got me into watching creepy stuff, always wondered where it came from, glad to see people are trying to figure it out

[@JaxontheOkay]

the NNN broadcast story is a million times scarier than anything jeff the killer has ever brought to the table. i'm getting chills just thinking about it. what seems to simply be credits for a movie are revealed to be future deaths. are they predictions? is whoever started the broadcast going to be responsible? i love it

[@jacksonshangraw3420]

no nut november broadcast????? lol

[@dr.seytan4310]

Its cool story

[@dimitrikaras6199]

literally deathnote lmao

[@_a.lel_]

It's basically the persona 4 midnight channel

[@ojomaze7777]

by the way, kamikoto knives are made from the cheapest stainless steels available. They're legit ripping you off with that pricing lol. The type of steel has a lot of chromium in it, which means it's better at not rusting, but, it also means the metal is "softer", which means it doesn't stay sharp as easily. Also, just, by the way: Any cheap kitchen knife bought at a regular store will have a similar quality. source: Shadiversity's video on the topic.

[@skeletonking2501]

Just like Jeff the Killer: Good pic, bad quality

[@TheSultan1470]

Alright, knife expert

[@ojomaze7777]

@@TheSultan1470 I am but a humble messenger quoting others and their advice, which is: kamikoto is a complete scam lol

[@TheSultan1470]

@@ojomaze7777 ok cool

[@ojomaze7777]

@@TheSultan1470 no u

[@Wahtsupreef]

13:55 got my soul leaving out of my body dude 💀

[@Suspiria-Baybee]

Looking back, I can’t believe this image scared me as a kid. It’s the cheesiest shock image I have ever seen: Giant eyes, glasgow grin and ghostly white face. Now that I’m better exposed to horror, I’ve seen much scarier, better faces (Sleepaway Camp and Ju-On: The Grudge come to mind). That being said, you can’t deny how iconic the Jeff the Killer image is, and the fact it is still being discussed today proves the impact it has had on internet culture and our generation.

[@Kane093-s2d]

yeah also it's upsetting when you learn about the backstory of this image because this image was originally made to cyberbully a girl on the internet

[@TazmilyGum]

@@Kane093-s2d the video kinda debunks that story but another instance of the same thing (except on an older woman) may have happened.

[@Kane093-s2d]

@@TazmilyGum nvm I found out that it was a distasteful vile joke that was made up by 4chan users who stole a picture of a girl on myspace but it's still upsetting tho and the girl is getting cyberbullied in a way

[@autisticgaming2004]

It still creeps me out and I'm nearly 18, god I'm a wimp.

[@BabyCharmander]

I mean, it was certainly unnerving to run across it when you weren’t expecting it. I always knew it as the “GO TO SLEEP!!!” face, which I swear predates that awful creepypasta (which still to this day baffles me as to why anyone liked it-it was so nonsensical and poorly written??)

[@sikly_frsh]

Am I the only one who thinks the “pretty face” (or white powder 2) picture is a lot scarier than the Jeff the killer one (well it’s more unnerving if anything) Maybe it’s cus I’ve seen it a million times but the Jeff one isn’t even scary anymore lmao

[@Nakia11798]

Nah, the image isn't really scary in the first place. It's too unrealistic and kinda silly.

[@pazoni]

@@Nakia11798 the second one is a lot scarier cuz it looks arguably more realistic. And the eyes aren’t beady eyed and rather a bit more creepy.

[@miepstrean]

White powder 2 is the scariest to me lol

[@lol3342]

For me, I find the Green-eyed Jeff scarier than the more well known Jeff image (even tho the green-eyed Jeff image may fake)

[@sikly_frsh]

@@lol3342 yeah, that one was also pretty creepy

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

This mystery about the original Jeff the Killer image feels more captivating then the original creepypasta story itself. Also, the theory about how Jeff and the Pretty Face image being possibly partly inspired by the Slit Mouthed Woman urban legend makes a lot of sense; both of them are facially scared with a grin, both have a running line about asking their victims if they’re beautiful, and both the Slit Mouthed Woman and the early version of the Jeff the Killer Story have a supernatural Bloody Mary quality to them. In a way, Jeff the Killer is basically the edgy Americanised version of Slit Mouthed Woman. 😂

[@desolatemess9612]

So onision telling the story of the slit mouthed woman

[@LucasIsHereYT]

The series of images in the beginnings brought back so much buried fear in me that I legitimately started hyperventilating and turned on all the lights near my room.

[@gregzotter6189]

The saddest part is...people actually do end their lives due to bullying. I cannot stress this enough: if you or someone you know has been through this, don't give up. If there is one thing I've learned, it's this: there will always be people who say mean things because you are different. And sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there are many more people who don't judge people based on how they look or where they came from. Those are the people whose words truly matter.

[@mattzr1550]

@@ColdEmperor why do disgusting unloved unwashed anime loving incel men always gotta be so concerned about other people's health when they haven't left the house in years

[@cosmicjenny4508]

Yeah, 4Chan and all of its spin-offs, especially KiwiFarms, are the scum of the internet and should be shut down for this very reason.

[@ColdEmperor]

Bullies come in all sorts of forms. Idk any bullies who fit your description Matt. Rich kids, athletic kids, clique kids, girls especially are vicious, etc.

[@ColdEmperor]

Interesting how my comment was deleted. KZbin censorship at its finest. “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” Suck it KZbin.

[@violetbitch9492]

@@ColdEmperor oh i sure know those type of bullies tho. Not everything is about your experiences

[@Kake_the_Cartoon]

It’s a little ironic that in this video Jorge is talking about Jeff the killers face, and the sponsor has to do with sharp kitchen knives.

[@Skrot7]

George?

[@richardtherichard26]

Almost as if you can choose your sponsors when you have multiple offers or something…

[@WobblesandBean]

Jorge*

[@absolutelynothingherelol]

even more ironic considering its japanese steel knives

[@kidferocious]

A few things that I would like to get off my chest here: 1.) It’s great to hear from you again. 2.) Knowing that Heather White is alive & well is good to know. 3.) The picture of Jeff being based on the Slit-Mouthed Woman makes sense, given how it came from Japan, & the Slit-Mouthed Woman is a well-known Japanese picture. 4.) Sesseur really lied his way through the origins of the picture. 5.) The Green-Eyed Jeff is arguably scarier than the more well-known picture. 6.) I remember Goose Boose showing two pictures on his video about this topic, including a picture showing an unedited version of the Jeff picture, complete with normal eyes & a visible nose. 7.) I’m honestly waiting for the video where the completely unedited picture of Jeff to be found, along with the supposed third image. 8.) Considering how you did a video on Gloomy Sunday, I wonder if you’ll do other videos on music topics. I know, the final thing wasn’t related to the video, I’m just interested.

[@EvalonGames]

The "unedited" version from the Goose Boose video was someone's photoshop attempt at trying to recreate what the ACTUAL photo might have looked like.

[@kidferocious]

@@EvalonGames Okay.

[@JanSzafraniec-m4f]

I love how a video about a killer is sponsored by a knife company lmao

[@EggWizardYT]

11:56 !!! Oh my god, that's it! For years and years I knew that the main image used for Jeff wasn't the first version of that picture I saw! I had seen it so many years ago, before Jeff was even a thing, and for the longest time I just wondered if it was some kind of Mandela effect where I'd remembered it wrong. I'm actually so glad to see it again.