User blog comment:A-Lord-Over-Birds/Jeff the Killer - Debunked (and dismissed)/@comment-5000412-20140807051357/@comment-5825217-20140807143640

I will admit, when I was new to the wiki, I went right for the popular ones, and since I tended to be up at 3 in the morning and also during a weeks-long stretch of unbroken thunderstorms, Jeff certainly unnerved me for some time.

However, I wrote this - in fact, the reason for this post is written at the top of the post itself, under the notice - because some people seem to think Jeff is real. I know a few people in real life who think he is, and when I asked why, they said, "Well, why wouldn't he be real?"

I did not write this to fuel hatred of the story; I personally dislike it because it's cliché and the writing isn't great (I won't say badly - it's not nearly as bad as the pastas that flooded the site before the crackdown, or some that still filter in). I mostly avoided literary criticism (except the "thing of bleach" bit, that just got to me xD) and went for the scientific.

"However, when an individual wishes to be scared, and lets their mind a bit more lose on realism and real-world accuracy, the strangest, most impossible images can leave a mark."

Nice point. And it's okay if someone can do that while sitting on their computer or tablet or whatever, provided that during normal daylight hours, around other people, they can wrap their heads around the fact that these stories aren't real.