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====Jeff The Killer controversy==== | ====Jeff The Killer controversy==== | ||
{{Main|Jeff The Killer#4chan controversy}} | {{Main|Jeff The Killer#4chan controversy}} | ||
[[File:Katy_Robinson.png|215px|right|thumb|The controversy started after it was believed that the person in the Jeff The Killer picture was Katy Robinson (pictured), who had committed suicide after being bullied on 4chan.]] | [[File:Katy_Robinson.png|215px|right|thumb|The controversy started after it was believed that the person in the Jeff The Killer picture was a nonexistent person named Katy Robinson (pictured), who had committed suicide after being bullied on 4chan.]] | ||
4chan quickly became involved with [[creepypasta]] [[Jeff The Killer]] shortly after an anonymous claim that the image of Jeff was revealed to be an extensively unedited picture of a woman named "Katy Robinson", who had committed suicide in 2008.<ref name="Daily Dot">III, Fernando Alfonso. “4chan Hunts down the Origins of an Internet Horror Legend.” The Daily Dot, 1 June 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/</nowiki>.</ref><ref name="Gizmodo">Newitz, Annalee. “Who Is ‘Jeff the Killer’? and Is His Picture Haunted by a Real Death?” Gizmodo, 16 Dec. 2015, from <nowiki>https://gizmodo.com/who-is-jeff-the-killer-and-is-his-picture-haunted-by-1016241494</nowiki>.</ref> However, some users claimed that it was a picture of a dog with a broken jaw.<ref name="Daily Dot" /><ref name="Gizmodo" /> A story was created by a few /b/ users to explain the origin of this image: A woman named "Victoria" was a live-streamer on [[wikipedia:Stickam|Stickam]] and used 4chan as a way to self-promote herself for fame; One user posted a screenshot of her face with the caption "''Am I pretty?''", Later, users started posting their own photoshop versions of the image, with one of the users posting the actual, old version of Jeff's face with the caption "''Now you are.''" Victoria quickly found out about the post and disappeared without a trace.<ref><nowiki>https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/comments/bd5wzp/jeff_the_killer_new_image_origins/</nowiki></ref> | 4chan quickly became involved with [[creepypasta]] [[Jeff The Killer]] shortly after an anonymous claim that the image of Jeff was revealed to be an extensively unedited picture of a woman named "Katy Robinson", who had committed suicide in 2008.<ref name="Daily Dot">III, Fernando Alfonso. “4chan Hunts down the Origins of an Internet Horror Legend.” The Daily Dot, 1 June 2021, from <nowiki>https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/</nowiki>.</ref><ref name="Gizmodo">Newitz, Annalee. “Who Is ‘Jeff the Killer’? and Is His Picture Haunted by a Real Death?” Gizmodo, 16 Dec. 2015, from <nowiki>https://gizmodo.com/who-is-jeff-the-killer-and-is-his-picture-haunted-by-1016241494</nowiki>.</ref> However, some users claimed that it was a picture of a dog with a broken jaw.<ref name="Daily Dot" /><ref name="Gizmodo" /> A story was created by a few /b/ users to explain the origin of this image: A woman named "Victoria" was a live-streamer on [[wikipedia:Stickam|Stickam]] and used 4chan as a way to self-promote herself for fame; One user posted a screenshot of her face with the caption "''Am I pretty?''", Later, users started posting their own photoshop versions of the image, with one of the users posting the actual, old version of Jeff's face with the caption "''Now you are.''" Victoria quickly found out about the post and disappeared without a trace.<ref><nowiki>https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/comments/bd5wzp/jeff_the_killer_new_image_origins/</nowiki></ref> | ||
