User blog comment:Sloopernicus/The Shallowness of the Jeff the Killer Fandom/@comment-3999760-20140503031410

I first saw the JtK fandom as satire or a joke. I didn't really think people could adore such a generic pasta villain. As I got into the Creepypasta community (mostly this wiki), Jeff the Killer was praise highly and I never really understood why.

Then the Jeff (as well as slenderman) spinoffs came, and by god it was a problem. The spinoffs and fanfiction became a severe problem in 2012, so much that we eventually enforced the "Anti-Spinoff & Blacklist" Rule. We then went into a mass deletion of JtK (and other notable pasta monsters) spinoffs and fanfiction.

Of course the fandoms of the popular pasta monsters were in uproar, but no one was loud and obnoxious as the JtK fandom. Problem after problem, troll after troll, deleting pasta after pasta, we finally were able to successfully enforce the rule.

I have deleted more Jeff pastas then I could count, and still even after the disapproval and distaste of the pasta by the admins and users of this wiki, as well as other Creepypasta communities, the pasta is still one of the most popular.

I feel that Jeff the Killer should not be the notable example of Creepypasta. I think the community could do better than fangirling over a clumsy, poorly written, unrealistic story on the Internet.