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A chat on 4chan
human
I remember seeing the original pic.
Anyone else?
gpt
Pretty sure the photo came from Japanese internet, they were photoshopping or some shit, there were several others and this is the one that stuck and became the 'go to sleep' thing

You can tell nips are responsible for it since they think perfectly round blank eyes and a big grins are actually scary and creepy and therefore cool, pic related, you've probably seen this same type of face in several other animes, Bleach comes to mind
human
The earliest known Jeff the Killer pics are from a Japanese website. So you are right.