Jeff K.
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Jeff K. is a fictional character created by Richard Kyanka, primarily appearing on the website Something Awful. The character is a parody of teenage internet users and script kiddies.
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Jeff once claimed to be a "l33t hax0r" (an "elite hacker" in leetspeak) but now claims to be a "COMPUTAR CONSULTANT BECUASE HAX0RING SI ILLEGAL!!!" (sic). Jeff K.'s writing style is characterized by generally horrible spelling, flipping the positions of letters in words, replacing "er" with "ar" in some words (ex. "usar" and "summar"), and alternately writing in all caps and all lowercase (contrary to popular perception, he did not generally replace letters with numbers as in leetspeak). He is also known for combining words to create insults such as "clownboat", "cakeass", and "slobbergoat", and bad web design skills. He has coined several phrases that have entered more widespread usage in other Internet communities.
Other sites sometimes join in on the joke, and pretend to be hacked by Jeff K. The features on Jeff K.'s site are a mixture of game and film reviews, previews, and interviews. Jeff K. also draws "Wacky Fun Computar Comics", which occasionally imitate popular computer- and gaming-oriented webcomics such as Penny Arcade and User Friendly. Also constantly mentioned on the website is Jeff K.'s best friend, Jerry, who (according to Jeff K.) is a "fagot" and a "fat littal boy". There are often hints that Jeff comes from a rather dysfunctional family.
As of 2005, Kyanka has all but abandoned the character, since essentially no one still seriously writes the way Jeff K. does (if they ever did) and the widespread imitation of Jeff K. and parodying of the "leet" stereotype by the Internet at large has made the humor too overused; in Kyanka's own words, "the Internet has murdered him". [1] However, Jeff K. did briefly come out of his "retirement" for an October, 2004 review of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and again in October 2005 for a roundup of the summer's hottest games. Although the original Jeff K. is gone, many imitators on the internet keep him alive.
See also: B1FF
