User blog comment:EtherBot/Should Jeff have been Deleted?/@comment-10950063-20150110152345

It's not history. It's a story. If it were a good story, then it would have, but it's not.

Does it have significance, yes, but again it's really bad.

We're not talking about a medium like film here, something with a cultural impact that changed the world. In the case of film, there's a reason why "Birth of a Nation" doesn't get tossed out. Even though it's racist, it was a milestone for film-making.

This is creepypasta. Who cares about the significance of a bad story? We still have BEN Drowned, we still have Smile Dog and The Rake. Eventually, you have to let terrible stuff go. People keep clinging to it like it's the fucking Magna Carta. Oh, it's so important, it started so much. No, it didn't. People would've still AND DID come up with horror stories on the internet apart from Jeff the Killer.

By this kind of thinking the first Goosebumps book is one of the most important books in history. It was a huge series of books, it's so important. It spawned all these imitators, it's a part of literary history! No, it's throwaway trash for children. Just like Jeff the Killer

It's not like it has been wiped from human memory. It's other places on the internet. It's just not here anymore and I don't think anyone is worse for it. I doubt anyone who reads the better stories on this site would stumble of JtK and go, "OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING? ALSO, I'M REALLY APPRECIATING THE BULLSHIT HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS!"