User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-5643552-20190304154824/@comment-36627132-20190319083419

So it was already voted off the site but never removed? Ok. It doesn't matter anyway, shortly it will be vacation time for the school children and the admins will be too busy deleting the cascades of bad creepypastas (most of which will no doubt be Jeff inspired in some way or another)  to bother with an old story like that one.

You really aren't missing anything by not reading it, Skeletons. A lot of people, such as myself, don't really think that the remake was anything special, and not much improvement over the original.

If you are curious, the only real diffrences I can think of at the top of my head between the original and the remake are: Jeff and Liu are trashmouth hoodrats, the police officer is related to one of the bullies, the deformation scene is different, Jeff is deformed by a flare gun, and Jeff doesn't kill Liu at the end. The changing of Jeff's deformity burns the bridges between the story and the original image (you know the one a lot of misinformed people think is a photo of a dead girl?) which kind of makes it feel lacking.

As for the contest itself, I wasn't a member of Wikia when it happened but I was a visitor on this site and I knew from the get-go that it was going to be a miscarriage. Although I think they should consider putting the 2011 story back up for historical purposes, I don't think stories like this have any place on this site. Yes, I know that sounds contradictory.

As misbegotten as I think that contest was, I also think it was a missed opportunity. It could have been the perfect opportunity for a lesser known author, or at least one that was gaining popularity, to have their day in the spotlight.

"and the fact that the contest runner was allowed to enter in the first place was just the cherry on top of the shit cake." I doubt anyone is going to disagree with you. It was pretty obvious from the start who was going to win. When I found that out I stopped paying attention to the contest and already assumed which one the winner would be. No doubt all the staff members gave it their votes (I don't know this for sure, but I think it is a safe bet). We all knew the other rewrites never had a chance. I think the worst part about it is that it spawned sequels which users would have gotten in trouble for writing even if they were of the same quality.

My memory of the contest is hazy so some of what I said might not be completely accurate. Just recounting how I remember it happening.