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

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
04:04 Muddied Origins
06:11 Explosion in Popularity
10:18 Character, Copycats, & the Creepypasta Fandom
25:45 The Downfall of Jeff and Creepypasta
30:38 Will Jeff the Killer Return?
33:54 Closing & Credits
34:49 Channel Update

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I swear, people are either gonna love or hate this video. There's no in between when it comes to Jeff the Killer.

Here it is, the long awaited Jeff the Killer retrospective! I said months in advance that I had a lot to say about this character (both positive and negative), and the time has arrived for me to express those thoughts and make my case for why I think this character - despite all his problems - deserves another shot.

Anyways, be sure to check out this year's Halloween Palooza when it drops this Halloween! I promise the mic quality will be good this time (hopefully).

Take care and I'll see y'all in the next one.

- 4nt

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Clips Used:
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Music Used:
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Art Used:
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Additional Sources:

"What is Unfiction | ARGs and the History of Online Storytelling" by Night Mind:    • What is Unfiction? | ARGs & the Histo...  

The two citations from the Slender Man wikipedia page cited in this video:

1) Chess, Shira; Newsom, Eric (27 November 2014). Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-1-137-49113-8.

2) Rogers, Katie (2016). "'Slender Man,' a Horror Meme, Gets Ready to Step Out of the Shadows". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2016.

The Rake Reddit Page:   / what_is_the_difference_between_the_rake_the  

(NOTE: the association between the Rake, the Wendigo and the Skinwalker is actually a misconception in the creepypasta community, but I figured it needed to be brought up regardless. It was what I believed as a young teen during the height of creepypasta, and I'm sure there's others that believed the same thing, so I thought it was important to mention. Not that any of these three are even real to begin with, lmao.)

The Google Trends line graph comparing search history between the terms "creepypasta" and "emo": https://trends.google.com/trends/expl...

The Psychology behind Why We Love (or Hate) Horror: https://hbr.org/2021/10/the-psycholog...