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Everyone knows Jeff, right? He's the internet's second favourite bogeyman, a fictional murderer known for disembowelling people in their beds and, well, not much else. Even the most avid fan of online horror fiction would be forgiven for not having too firm a handle on the mythology - popularity aside, most of the attempts to flesh out his backstory have been fairly generic and juvenile - but his physical appearance is not so easily forgotten. In fact, Jeff's face might be the single most iconic image of the internet's creepypasta community, with his pathologically wide, toothy grin; his pallid, featureless flesh; his eyes, stark, orb-like and devoid of sanity or reason, blazing from the black pits of their sockets. There is something genuinely, primally chilling about the image that has helped its popularity spread far-and-wide, emblazoning dozens of stories on creepypasta.com, serving as the de-facto mascot of Reddit's popular /r/creepypasta sub, and arguably overtaking The Exorcist's Regan MacNeil as the most popular subject of YouTube screamer videos.
Given its ubiquity, it's surprising that the history behind Jeff the Killer's hideous visage was so little known until recently. Thanks to a spot of internet archaeology by users on 4chan's /x/ imageboard last year, the likely truth has emerged at last, and it is every bit as interesting as the fictional mythos it inspired. And it may be even darker than you imagine
The earliest known appearance of the Jeff character is in the above video from 2008; a rather primitive affair, featuring nothing more than a series of still images set to a soundtrack of "I Guess You're Right" by The Posies. Overlaid text introduces Jeff's brother Liu, details Jeff's fondness for gutting his victims and gives a very basic explanation as to his appearance: he fell into a vat of acid (!) whilst cleaning his bath. Later 'pastas have elaborated on this basic plot, but the skeleton is quite obviously laid down in this curious slice of early YouTube ephemera.
The video affirms that the iconic picture has been associated with Jeff the Killer since the very inception of the character; in fact, considering the video's lightweight, tongue-in-cheek narrative, it is apparent that the image, rather than the story, was the main hook of the Jeff legend from the outset. Thus, the picture itself seems to have been the founding stone of the entire Jeff canon, and probably pre-dates the creation of the character himself.
So where did it come from? Well, perhaps the most interesting thing about Sesseur's video is that it features two versions of the Jeff picture, the familiar one and this apparent prototype version with more cartoonish facial
features.
Fernando Alfonso at The Daily Dot cites an /x/ and Reddit user named ninetofivehero who links this image to one at the centre of a minor drama (minor by 4chan standards) that played out on /b/ in early 2008. Allegedly, a young woman by the name of Katy Robinson posted a photo (or photos) of herself to the imageboard, resulting in a stream of abuse from /b/tards mocking her weight.
Ninetofivehero connects the unedited photo posted by Katy's brother or sister to the prototype Jeff the Killer image appearing in Sesseur's video. Whether the former is the same photo originally posted by Katy herself remains unclear, but if it is, the Jeff image may originate in one of the 'shops to which her sibling refers. In any case, there is a certain similarity which, although not immediately striking, is hard to unsee once detected.
So the source behind the most famous creepypasta image out there turns out to be the final selfie of a young girl bullied to death for her appearance, and we never knew it. It just seems too "perfect", too much like the start of a creepypasta in its own right, doesn't it? Well, it's hard to be certain, but the likeness is definitely compelling. Note, in particular, the shape of the outline of Katy's face and the location of the mole to the left (her right) of her mouth. It may not be from the very same image, and the facial features are clearly from another source, but to me (and most of the users on the /x/ thread), the infamous Jeff the Killer picture certainly does look like a photoshop of Katy Robinson... or, rather, it looks like a photoshop of that unidentified young woman in the first photo.
Because this is the caveat, and it's a biggie: outside of sources linking her to Jeff and the 4chan "suicide" episode, there seems to be very little evidence to confirm that Katy was ever a real person.
Of course, it would be neither the first nor the last time a victim of cyberbullying has been pushed to the point of suicide, but such tragic events tend to generate large amounts of press interest, as in the cases of Megan Meier, Dakota Moore and Erin Gallagher, amongst others. By contrast, not a single news source seems to have picked up on the Katy Robinson story. Nor does a cursory search of 2008 death records (admittedly limited only to US states) turn up a Katy or Katie (or Katherine or Kathryn or Kathleen or Katalina etc.) Robinson under the age of 50 passing away in that year.
The only plausible trace of a pre-/b/ existence is this derelict Myspace page. Since Myspace's owners pushed the reset button in mid-2013, most content from the era in question (comments, blog posts, etc.) has been wiped. Katy's profile picture remains, but just so happens to be the very same photograph used on 4chan; the one-and-only unedited image we have of her. So even here, there is nothing, or nothing left, to confirm that the page is anything more than the creation of a troll made after the fact, or possibly the profile of an innocent third-party named Katy Robinson whose photo was pinched by a bored 4chan photoshopper back in 2008. Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has no history on the page and Google searches on her username (lovleytoxic) turn up only unrelated accounts on other sites.
Still, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and 2008 is ancient history in internet timescales, so corroborating evidence for the story may once have existed. However, it does seem odd that someone who would willingly post photos of herself on a forum as notoriously anarchic and inhospitable as 4chan would not also be the kind of person to leave a considerable trail elsewhere.
We should also not lose sight of the fact that fishing for reactions is pretty much an institutional practice on 4chan. Even in the /x/ threads that started this whole search you can find users pretending to be naïve newfags to elicit a response from other users. With this in mind, the post by Katy's alleged sibling is particularly suspicious: the pompous "Attention 4chan" opening; the dramatic, measured narrative with its shock ending; the placing of the url and imageboard jargon in quotations to highlight the writer's unfamiliarity with them; and the comical contrast between the unflattering photo and the gushing reference to the subject's beauty, all smack more of troll than of bereaved sibling.
So Jeff the Killer is probably "Katy Robinson", but in my opinion she is probably not the tragic suicide victim many believe she is.
Naturally, a small shred of doubt persists on that latter point; a shred that adds a huge amount of extra creepy to the familiar Jeff 'pasta. The tale of a young woman seeking validation, hounded to suicide by faceless trolls, and finding in death only the further indignity of becoming a subject of horror and revulsion, is a rather effective horror tragedy in its own right, one seemingly tailor-made for the internet age. Even taken as a fiction, one might say the Katy Robinson/Jeff the Killer tale offers a more relevant moral, a more bitterly delicious irony and a more chilling critique of human nature than many "real" creepypastas out there on the web.
