Where Did This Image Come From?

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video. If you grew up with the early years of YouTube, then you may remember a little fad called creepypastas. They were online horror stories spread across the Internet, and at the time, they were incredibly popular on YouTube.

Today, they have mostly fallen out of favor and disappeared from Internet history. That is, except Jeff the Killer, the story of a 13-year-old killer with a severely disfigured face. The character has become relevant, not because of his story, but because of the

image

that accompanies it. For the past few years, people have been trying to figure out

where

exactly this

image

came from. The search has been long and arduous and I am far from the first to talk about it. Let's start with the basics. Creepypasta Wiki states that the story originated in 2011. We all know how it goes.

Jeff and his family move to a new town

where

he and his brother are terrorized by local thugs. During one of these attacks, Jeff gets acid splashed on his face and then set on fire, causing him to go crazy and giving rise to his iconic look. He puts a smile on his face, kills his family, and goes on a killing spree. Jeff's character has become the face of the creepypasta community. Several spin-offs, sequels, and fan-made projects have been made due to the popularity of the story. However, this is not even the original story. According to its author, a Newgrounds user named Sessuer, he first posted about Jeff the Killer in 2008.

He writes; "The story of old Jeffy. He likes scary stories, like ghost stories or horror movies. Have you ever met him in person? This man is what other people call bizarre. He's like a game of Bloody Mary, except you must perform it in the Turn off the lights and sit with your legs crossed. Repeat the saying three times while turning your head back and forth; and trying to hurt you. Making him stop is just standing there and congratulating him. Not doing so will result in a nightmare excursion. You do the rest from there." I'm not even sure what that last sentence means.

However, it's safe to assume that Sesseur has the original photo, right? Well, what was he like? When the Internet began investigating this mystery, many initial clues were considered. But the one that really stood out involved an alleged woman named Katy Robinson. The story goes that in early 2008, Robinson posted this photo of herself on 4chan's /b/, or Random Board. 4chan users proceeded to ridicule her by heavily editing the photo of her into, presumably, the iconic image of Jeff the Killer. Some time later, someone made a post on 4chan claiming to be Robinson's sister. The user writes: "Attention 4chan.

Yesterday I found my sister in her room crying her eyes out. I asked her why she was feeling depressed and she told me it was because she was fat. I got furious and demanded she tell me who was making fun of her. of her. She said she posted her photo on a website called '4chan (dot) org'. She went on to say that the website made fun of her and posted 'shops' of her photo. Take a good look at this photo because this beautiful woman, my. Sister, he committed suicide last night." For a time, it was commonly believed that this was the origin of the Jeff The Killer image.

However, there was never any proof of his death or his existence. When Googling Katy Robinson, most of the search results were just about the Jeff the Killer picture mystery. Despite this, the urban legend persisted. To further muddy the timeline, Sesseur was interviewed by fellow YouTuber ScareTheater in late 2015. During this interview, ScareTheater asked, "The image you used in your original Jeff the Killer video has become the iconic image of Jeff. Where did you get the picture?" ?" Sessuer responded: "The image was made using a white latex mask and large plastic eyes with a rubbery substance that simulated blinking.

There was also a black ring around the eyes that covered the exposed red eyelid. After it was made, two or three photographs were taken and published, and the rest is history." ScareTheater asks: "There has been some controversy about the image. Apparently, the image is a photoshopped version of a girl named Katy Robinson, who was bullied and ultimately committed suicide. Do you know what is it? If so, do you have something to say? say about this?" Sessuer responds: "I know this little drawback of a rumor very well, and I can assure everyone when I say that the rumor is completely false.

I have no idea who made up the rumor. Most likely a troll, since the person who got the information about the Katy Robinson rumor was a regular 4chan user and isn't exactly someone to take seriously." While it's never directly stated, it's given to understand that Sesseur took the photo himself wearing a white latex mask. Additionally, in late 2019, YouTuber Gage uploaded an interview with Heather White, the real identity of Katy Robinson White said that her photo was stolen from her account. from MySpace and uploaded to 4chan as a sick joke. Katy Robinson's suicide story was completely made up.

Plus, her photo dates back to a parody website called True Christian back in 2004, where a "pastor" actually says some things. All in all, this clue has been completely debunked and it's good to know that she is alive and well. So Sesseur made the image of Jeff The Killer himself and posted it in 2008. In an interview with UK Horror Scene, says: "The photographs taken were gone and the mask was put away in the closet after use, so it was definitely long gone. If I had that mask with me, I don't know how valuable it would be." This is where things start to get weird.

Some time later, a strange YouTube video was found translated as "NNN Special Broadcast". This video was uploaded in August 2007 and, around the four-minute mark, the image of Jeff The Killer appears briefly. At the time, this was the first known instance of the image appearing online, prior to the Sessuer Now "NNN Special Broadcast" story. " is actually an urban legend in Japan. The story goes that one night, a Japanese citizen turned on the television and found nothing but static. Colored bars suddenly appeared on the screen. Followed by an image of some type of factory and a drop-down list of names.

This continued for several minutes before ending with a text message saying something like "this is to the future" or "these are the victims of tomorrow." The broadcast suddenly ended and the static resumed. . Our video accurately follows the myth and even includes some spooky images and music to show off. But it's simply a fan-made recreation, obviously inspired by the legend. In the end, there are even text messages saying that all the names were fictitious. Regardless of the video's backstory, he reignited the search for the original image of Jeff The Killer. Additionally, this was the first time that the image was potentially of Japanese origin.

Two years earlier, in November 2005, the image can be seen again on a strange website called pya.cc, posted by a user named Mr. Omega Bolt. This was found by 4chan anon in 2018. What is peculiar about this specific image is that by looking at its EXIF ​​data, some interesting details can be found. First, this image was made with Photoshop 6.0, which was released in 2000. So maybe Jeff The Killer is a few years older? Or whoever created the image simply used an older version of Photoshop. Secondly, it seems as if Jeff The Killer had a different name at some point; "pretty face".

Some wonder if this name derives from the famous Japanese urban legend, the “severed mouth woman”; the story of a woman whose mouth is cut from ear to ear. She will ask her victims if she is pretty and depending on their answer, she will kill them or set them free. So maybe Jeff has something to do with this legend, but this is pure speculation. Back at the website, searchers started checking it for other clues and found this. This is a second older version of the image posted by a user named Mr. Mulholland in September 2005. It is called "white powder (2)".

Compared to the first version, the eyes are completely different, the mouth is not as distorted, and there are a little less shadows on the face. Interestingly, a 5chan thread about the occult and paranormal has a broken link to an image called "prettyface." And using the Wayback Machine, this link actually led to this version of Jeff the Killer. Now, there are rumors floating around the internet about a third image of Jeff The Killer that could predate the first two. But what that image looks like is up for debate. According to an anonymous on 4chan, it will depict Jeff, "sitting next to a dirty bathtub holding something that looked like a piece of meat.

He also had grotesquely long fingers." When asked, Sessuer added that "the third image is no longer in my possession. I think the third image was only posted once on some website back in 2005, 2006? I'm not too sure. I'd love to see it." image surface someday I also remember that there were sharp black nails on the hands. The injury occurred on both hands, but it was only superficial damage, burned skin, reddened skin. So the hands look a little bumpy because of the. acid splashes on parts of the hands." To this day, no such image has been found and the search team largely considers it a hoax.

Then there's this. Known as Green-Eyed Jeff, inside from the community, some have wondered if it predates the 'white powder (2)' version on the pya.cc website. After some debate, it is generally considered a hoax due to the blurriness of some of the details, especially around Green-Eyed Jeff's jaw. It appears that whoever made this image deliberately erased parts of his lower face and his clothing if the 'white powder (2)' image was made after Eyed Jeff. greens, so whoever made it must have been pretty good at fine-tuning the image and adding details, I guess. As interest in the mystery gained attention, a subreddit and Discord server dedicated to the search formed thanks to their efforts. , the team discovered some peculiar findings.

First, the image of Jeff the killer can be seen again on several Japanese websites in August 2005. This is currently the earliest known date. Additionally, several testimonials were collected online from people who claimed to know or even have seen the original image. It is true that Google Translate is not the best, but let's try to take a look at some of them. On a Japanese livedoor blog, a user writes: "I remember seeing the image before processing on 2chan from 2004 to 2005, but it was buried online." In a thread about urban legends on the Internet, of course, Jeff the Killer was mentioned.

One user writes, "The original image of the last one is a photo of an Asian woman with coarse hair, loose teeth and thick strands that I had seen a long time ago when the Internet began to spread to the general public. Even if I search for the original image, I couldn't find her at all. I wonder if anyone knows her." But most surprising of all are the comments made by Mulholland, the same user who posted the image of the 'white powder (2)' on pya.cc. The search team managed to track him down on Twitter to ask about the image and, according to him, "Long story short, in May 2005, a cropped image from a video of a middle-aged Asian woman appeared in Japan.

At that time, his face was white. I edited a little in Photoshop to post on pya. I remember the woman in the video approached the camera only once, but unfortunately, I don't have it now. It doesn't seem to exist on the Internet. posted on various bulletin boards as a surprise image. This image was circulating as a Japanese meme back then. To summarize, there is a video of an older Asian woman with a distinctive white face who, at some point, approaches the. camera. A screenshot of that video was taken and edited into an earlier version of Jeff the Killer.

This image spread on the early Japanese Internet as an image.surprise. before reaching our Internet and that's pretty much where search is currently. Unfortunately, I don't have any answers to show here. I'm sorry. The team is mainly trying to find where this mysterious video is, or at least the photo of the Asian woman. If anyone watching remembers such a video or has any useful information, please let the team know or post in the comments, I'm sure they'll appreciate it. The search for Jeff The Killer, like the camera heads, has been one of my favorites because of how strange it is and continues to be.

And it really challenges the notion we've all heard that once something is online, it stays there forever. Clearly not if you've been a viewer of this channel for a while and I grew up on creepypastas so that's cool. Anyway, this is clearly an ongoing mystery. So any updates will probably be posted in the comments or on my Twitter @blameitonjorge. For now, Jeff, it looks like the killer's origins will remain a mystery.