User blog comment:Dorkpool/A Bit on Jeff the Killer/@comment-4998996-20180312034959

I have kept it no secret that I dislike Jeff the Killer and pretty much everything surrounding him. The original story was poorly written, full of plotholes, not at all researched, and just felt like I wasted my time by reading it. There is also the fans of him that went overboard way too often for me, the amount of times I had to ban someone pretending to be JtK from chat is surely close to at least a hundred times. I'd mention the fanart of him but honestly the fanart of anything ranges from absolutely amazing to just "why are you like this" and everything in between. To me Jeff the Killer is like some embarassing historical fact for this site that most of us do our best to forget, a good real world example of this would be how Australians try to forget or completely ignore The Great Emu War happened.

The Jeff the Killer rewrite contest was a fun thing when it happened but after it was all said and done I hoped it would be forgotten once more, as I find it would be better for people to make works of their own that come from themselves rather than derivative works of other stories. As much as I like Banning and some of his stories, and I agree with 90% of what he said below, I don't think he should be making a series on it. That being said there is nothing wrong with him doing it or people making derivative works, it just isn't my cup of tea and what I would come to read on this site or any other. The first time I even heard/read his story was when it was read on youtube by Slimebeast and a few other people, which Banning and Empy handled poorly after the fact to the point Slimebeast had all his stories removed from his site at his own request. That whole situation could have been handled better on all sides, with the people who read it at contacting Banning either before reading it or posting the youtube video to let him know themselves that they had done so out of common courtesy and with Banning doing well, not what he did. That being said I do not agree with their assesment of the story at all. Banning's is far better than the original and I think everyone in the comments of his story being all "the original was better" need to stop lying to themselves. The original was deleted for the very reason it was not good by any stretch of the word.

I will never understand the love and reverance for the character, even after reading your post. You are right when you said he is ridiculous but not in a good way to me. Saints Row 2 and 3 are the best examples of something that is ridiculous in a good way, the third the most. They are ridiculous and they roll with it because they know it is ridiculous. Jeff the Killer is ridiculous but he certainly was written by someone who was aware of how ridiculous it truly was. Jeff the Killer is/was a 13-14 year old murderer who's little brother got sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit without any court ruling or investigation, three other kids jumped over a fence on skateboards to shoot up a child's birthday party, let's not forget that one of the bullies was described essentially as a rotund bowling ball of a person. All those things were ridiculous but they were written to be absolutely serious and "cool" for god knows what reason. It truly baffles me that the story and character are so well loved by some people with things like that happening.