>Be some Japanese dude in 2005 and socilaise online with your imageboard buddies
>Take part in the Photoshop contest one day and post a rough edit of your annoying ex's photo you still have on your computer trying to make her look like a yokai
>Forget about it
>The edit becames popular and spreads to other Japanese boards
>The digitally disfigured face of your ex becames the stock jumpscare image for independent Japanese horror makers
>Four years after, some chud from Australia finds your edit, renames it "Jeff", and tries to pass it as his original artwork on Deviantart, Enciclopedia Dramatica, Newgrounds and Youtube
>So, your edit explodes in popularity on the western Internet
>One more year after, some burger teenager writes an atrocious "story" based on the picture that reads like a mix between a cheap imitation of Stephen King novel and a bad South Park fanfiction
>The story, despite (or maybe even because) its atrotious quality, explodes in the popularity even stronger and perpetually attaches itself to the image
>The digitally disfigured face of your ex becames like the third most popular Internet folklore character after Slenderman and Sonic.EXE
>You do not know about any of this, neither does your ex
The evolution of the human culture is really the weirdest thing in existence, isn't it?
lucky guy had a gf at some point
>>736768He probably had sex too
That's how art works.
>>736766Nobody even knows the full story, because it was years ago. That's the beauty of humanity, we are storytellers.
>>736766Is that the actual origin of the image? I remember for the longest time uyghas were confused on where exactly the OG jeff edit came from.
>>736814No, I still think it's unknown. Nobody knows as of now.
>>736817It originates from a Japanese imageboard