User blog comment:Sloopernicus/The Shallowness of the Jeff the Killer Fandom/@comment-9982338-20140502181204/@comment-9780519-20140502193037

Honestly, I don't think the potential was there. At it's core, it's another "I was wronged and seek revenge" stories. Nothing too new or exciting. Just more indentifiable with the younger generation. According to KnowYourMeme.com, Jeff first came about in October of 2008. The Dark Knight came out (in America at least) in July of 2008. That was perhaps the biggest movie of the year, and the character everyone was going crazy about what Heath Ledger's Joker. My honest opinion about Jeff the Killer is that it was just a generic slasher story with the killer modeled after the Dark Knight's version of the Joker (white skin, Glasgow smile) because that was the hot thing at the time..