YMMV / Jeff The Killer (2011)

• Adaptation Displacement: This story is the defining version of Jeff the Killer despite not being the original. It invented Randy, Keith, and Troy as the Starter Villains who disfigured Jeff, as well turning Jeff's parents into actual characters.
• Angst? What Angst?: While Jeff's parents are described as sad and disappointed when his brother Liu gets arrested, they seem to get over it surprisingly quick. For the rest of the story, they mostly act concerned in regards to how it affects Jeff and otherwise treat the situation nonchalantly. Even if one were to interpret them as unloving parents, it still doesn't make sense that they don't at least appear worried.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • When Jeff butchers his own parents, and most likely his brother.
  • Randy, Keith and Troy cross it by attempting to beat Jeff to death at a party, and threatening to shoot anyone who tries to interfere.
• Narm:
  • There's a great deal of snark regarding just how over the top Jeff's origins are, and how hard it is to take the unrealistic writing seriously.
  • Randy's dialogue in general ("well, well, well, looks like we've got some new meat.", "I don't go for even, I go for winning." etc) can come off as cheesy and over the top. Of course, it can veer into Narm Charm.
  • The fact that the bullies, who are around Jeff's age, carry weapons with them. Knives aren't too far-fetched, but guns. Or the fact that nobody is capable of breaking up a fight between children. Granted, they had guns, but the violence should never have escalated that quickly in the first place.
  • The initial version hosted by the Creepypasta Wiki, said by the member who submitted it to be the original written from memory, used the word "knifed" instead of "stabbed" consistently, including by the police. Jeff, who is a teenager, also refers to his parents as "mommy" and "daddy" and speaks in a very childish way even before being injured. The original had already been hosted on creepypasta.com for quite some time before, and the writer admitted to have taken some liberties with it.
• Padding: Jeff's dispute with his parents on what to wear to the party feels like this. So much focus is put on how Jeff's parents are overdressed for a child's birthday party and try to push for him to dress similarly that a Genre Savvy reader would expect this to lead to something (such as the party being a red herring) but it goes nowhere and could easily be cut out of the story without affecting it.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Jeff's mother, who decides that the best course of action when she sees him cutting his mouth is to get her husband to shoot him.
  • Jeff himself. He's meant to be seen as a Tragic Villain who snapped after the trauma he went through. However, many people think he loses the "tragic" angle when he murders his family, implied to include his brother Liu. While killing his mother could be seen as a twisted form of self defense given that she told her husband to get the gun and kill Jeff and he just caught her saying this, his father did not agree to her request or even have a chance to before Jeff killed them both, and barring some minor negligence, he really had nothing to do with his son's suffering. The fact that he is hinted at the end to have killed Liu as well especially makes people abandon sympathy for him considering the fact that Liu took the blame for attacking Randy and company and went to juvie for him.
• Word of St. Paul DeviantArt user Jerureal interviewed GameFuelTv, who confirmed that he, his brother Travis, and two friends made Jeff. He also confirmed that Liu's fate was ambiguous on purpose.

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