The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Jeff the Killer: A Retrospective

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  @four-en-tee · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  BEN DROWNED Retrospective: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKHmmFkyKjc">https://youtu.be/XKHmmFkyKjc?si=djZuhO35blGIN97Z</a><br><br>=============<br>In the famous words of another fictional crazy man: &quot;I regret nothing.&quot;<br><br>I hope you all enjoyed this long, nostalgia driven retrospective! Do you think Jeff deserves another shot, or should we let sleeping dogs lie? What would you do differently if you were to reboot the character? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!<br><br>- 4nt<br><br>=============<br>EDIT: Just a heads up, the Ticci Toby rewrite has been postponed.<br><br>Initially I was gonna just do a revised version of the original story to cap off this year&apos;s 2024 Halloween Palooza. I don&apos;t like how the story handled Toby&apos;s tourettes, so I was just going to omit that from the narration and call it a day. But after watching both the Morgue Files and Pastra&apos;s rewrite, I felt inclined to throw my hat into the ring and flex my own writing capabilities. I do want to be able to write and publish my own original stories someday, so this seems like the perfect opportunity to work on that.<br><br>The Jeff the Killer shitpasta has also been cancelled for reasons I laid out in a recent community post. I won&apos;t be showcasing any MrCreepypasta clips in my videos going forward, the man is a freak and I had no idea until I recently saw Slimebeast&apos;s video on the matter. I apologize for even including clips of his in this video, he can rot in hell for all I care now.

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  @oscardepaz6805 · 2 years ago

  On the note of Jeff the Killer returning, Pastra is making a re-write of the story. It is said to be two hours long.

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  @nono9543 · 2 years ago

  I actually did an essay on Jeff The Killer and concluded that his popularity is largely due to his &quot;lack of defining character traits&quot;<br>Like his backstories come off as extremely generic and cliche but that&apos;s all the more reason for his young fans to project themselves onto him.

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  @EmberOldAccount · 2 years ago

  &quot;Can Jeff the Killer return?&quot;<br><b>6 days later</b><br>Jeff the killer returns in the Pastra rewrite.

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  @LainIzumi · 2 years ago (edited)

  I love how the two most popular creepypastas at the time were:<br>1) A cosmic entity that kidnaps children that we cannot understand even though it is humanoid.<br>2) An evil twink.

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  @ataxis8951 · 2 years ago

  The funniest description I’ve heard for Jeff the killer as a story is “it’s like if they decided make a superhero out of a school shooter” from meatcanyon.

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  @Pastraspec · 2 years ago

  I took this video as a challenge

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  @magicfishhobo381 · 2 years ago

  A lot of old creepypastas seem to suffer from &quot;This was made by a teenager who was inspired by another story, but didn&apos;t dig deep enough to flesh it out into it&apos;s own idea.&quot;<br>Meaning a lot of them ended up being teenage serial killers, forest monsters, and cursed game cartridges.

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  @paisley2659 · 2 years ago

  I have my criticisms for the writing of the Jeff the Killer story and general grievances with the plot but I can&apos;t deny the fear it instilled in me as a kid. &nbsp;The night I heard the story, there was a severe thunderstorm so a tree branch was scrapping against my window and I was absolutely convinced Jeff was real and wanted to kill me. &nbsp;So it definitely did its job as a horror story I feel.

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  @SecondBestArtMuseum · 2 years ago

  My head canon is that the bar of soap origin is true, but Jeff tells the birthday story whenever someone asks. &quot;Ah, man, it was so sick. There was this struggle with a gun, and-and this guy was threatening my family, right? And then my face was burned off, and-and I chopped off my eye lids. Why? Uh.... .... Go to sleep.&quot;

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  @nyancreeperpony · 2 years ago

  I will play devil&apos;s advocate for Clockwork, because and only because, I think the point of Clockwork was that she was supposed to be some sort of self insert trauma oc. While the story is bad and kinda tasteless, you can also tell through the writing that it seems to be based on something the author was going through, especially the sexual abuse aspect. <br><br>When you read all the gorey details, especially when it comes to the CSA, you can tell that this was written by a kid who was going though a lot in life. To put it simply, Clockwork wasn&apos;t made to be a serious story, it was made to be a vent piece. Which is why I tend to look at it with softer eyes. <br><br>Regardless, I hope the author is doing ok. Nobody deserves to go through that and I hope that the ridicule from the larger internet didn&apos;t get to them too badly.

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  @thisisntdana5222 · 2 years ago (edited)

  When I was younger I read that Jeff was badly bullied and that he killed bullies or those who were mean to people. He got his white face from having acid poured on his face. Then the rest just kept getting added on

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