Where Did The "Smiledog" Image Come From?

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[music] Hey guys, Blame on George here. [music] A few years ago, I talked about the mysterious origins of the Jeff the Killer image, which did pretty [music] well. Sometime later, I did a whole iceberg based on mysterious images with unknown origins, which also did well.

So, it seems like you guys really like these image mysteries. [music] Well, today I want to talk about one of the biggest and longest lasting image mysteries, Smile Dog. jpeg.

[music] Now, I'm far from the first person to have ever talked about this, but Smile Dog is a classic. It's super nostalgic for me. I remember reading the story back in the day, and I think the search for the source images is fascinating.

[music] For those who aren't familiar, it all began on January 7th, 2009, when an anonymous person shared an eerie post on the 4chan paranormal board. The post was a simple question that read, "Hello, can anyone here tell me about something called smiled dog or smile. jpeg?

A friend of mine said something about it once and mentioned this board. " This anonymous 4chan post is often seen as the birth of the Smileoc story. The 4chan thread following the initial post mentioned an amateur writer known only by his initials JML.

The real name of this amateur writer was never shared in the original 4chan post, but this person had apparently uncovered something disturbing while doing some research into an image known as Smile. jpeg for his early college assignments. JML's interest in the Smile Dog JPEG case started in 2005 when he heard about web-based phenomena in the 10th grade.

Several rumors and posts online claimed that the Smile Dog JPEG image showed a paranormal entity called Smile Dog Dog. The victims who had allegedly seen the image all described it as a doglike creature that looked similar to a smiling husky illuminated by the camera's flash. This creature had human-looking teeth and there was a beckoning hand in the images background emerging from the darkness.

The victims also claimed that viewing smile. jpeg was said to cause acute [music] anxiety and the onset of temporal lobe epilepsy. The image was widely shared in the '90s through chain emails.

But the subject line which read, "Smile, God loves you. " JML's research into the Smile Dog case led him to a Chicago woman named Mary E. Mary claims that she first came into contact with Smile.

jpeg [music] after she clicked on a hyperlink that was posted on a Bulls and Board system in 1992. Mary was the only one out of 400 people who also clicked the hyperlink who spoke openly about her experience with Smile. JPEG.

After reaching out to Mary's husband, Terrence, she agreed to let JML interview her during the summer of 2007. Their initial meeting didn't go to plan as when JML arrived at her apartment for the interview, she changed her mind and locked herself in her bedroom crying. Both JML and Terrence could hear Mary through the door, muttering gibberish about certain nightmares she'd been having, and she refused to come out of her room and talk to him.

Mary's husband, Terrence, apologized for her strange behavior before JMO left the couple's home. He didn't hear from Mary until March 2008 when she sent him an email. [music] Mary started the email by apologizing for the way she acted.

[music] She then revealed everything to JML, telling him how she'd been tormented [music] for 15 years by Smile. Dog ever since she clicked the hyperlink. She explained how both Smile do.

Dog and the beckoning [music] hand appeared in her dreams every single night. And in these nightmares, Smile Dog talked to her. Mary went on to tell JML how Smile.

Dog isn't really a dog despite its name. and how she was still uncertain as to what Smile Dog truly is. About halfway through the email, Mary described how Smile Dog urged her to quote, "Spread the word, telling her that this was the only way she would [music] be free from her torment.

" Mary then said how she knew Smile Dog wanted her to show the image to someone else because she had been mailed a floppy disc with no return address that contained Smile. jpeg. JPEG.

[music] Towards the end of the email, Mary talked about how she thought about giving the image to a coworker or even her husband Terrence, but the idea revolted her. Mary then wrote about how hard this whole ordeal had been, [music] but that she'd stood strong for 15 years. She even came clean about how she planned on giving JML the floppy disc when he came for the interview, but changed her mind at the last second [music] because she was ashamed and couldn't bear the thought of ruining his life.

In the closing lines of Reml, Mary warned JML, urging him to stop his investigation into Smile. jpeg as he may eventually meet an individual who isn't as strong as she is. someone who wouldn't hesitate to carry out Smile Dog's request by sharing the image.

The final sentence Mary wrote was quote, "Stop. Why are you still hole? " [music] before signing off.

About a month later, her husband Terrence told JML that Mary had [music] unfortunately taken her own life. he'd seen the email and urged JML once again to heed Mary's advice. Terren said he'd read the email and even burned the copy of Smile.

jpeg that had been mailed to Mary. He even recalled how the floppy disc let out a disturbing hissing sound similar to an animal as the flame engulfed it. JML confirmed Mary's death in an online obituary in a couple of Chicago newspapers and decided it was time to stop looking into Smile.

j. a JPEG. However, nearly a year after Mary's death, JML would receive another email from someone called Ela here82 with the subject smile.

Elsa her claimed to know that JML had been looking for Smile. jpeg. He told JML how he'd seen the image and how it wasn't that bad, so he was just spreading the word.

He then ended his email with a smiling face emoji and JML could see the image attachment titled smile. jpeg. He considered downloading the image as he wondered [music] if he too would be able to spread the word just like Elsa 82 had done.

[music] And with that, JML's tale with the infamous Smile Dog came to a close. So there you have it. and a bridge version of the Smile Dog Internet Legend.

The full version can be found on the official Creepasta website if anyone listening wants to [music] know more. But now that we covered the major parts of the story, I'd like to delve deeper into answering these two pressing questions. What is the original Smilejpeg?

And where did this image come from? Tracking down the original smile. jpeg can be a bit tricky because if you type the words smile dog into Google search bar, you'll be greeted with a dozen variations, all claiming to be smile.

jpeg. One of the more popular versions is the Chimera variant where the affforementioned Smile Dog looks more like a mountain lion than a husky. Another widespread version of Smile.

jpeg JPEG that I often came across was the inverted variants, a black and white image where the beckoning hand is placed above the smiling husky rather than behind it. These variants are just the tip of the iceberg as there are probably hundreds of Smile Dog images out there, all claiming to be the original Smile. jpeg.

In addition to the hundreds of variants that have popped up over time, the name associated with the original Smile. jpeg JPEG has also changed. In the original story, the image was named Smile.

jpeg and the paranormal entity was called Smile. Dog. However, with every new Smile Dog tail that was shared online, new aliases were introduced to the lore.

And Smile Dog is sometimes referred to as Smile. AVI, Smile Dog. jpeg, JPEG or Saiyan depending on which version of the story is being told.

To find out the truth, I traced the earliest versions of Smile. jpeg that were shared on the internet during the first few months of 2009. Back then, there were only two versions of the Smile Dog image, the grainy Polaroid variant and the highly saturated red variant.

There used to be an endless debate over which of these two images was the original during the first few years of the Smile Dog Legend. Some people argued that the scanned Polaroid variant was listed as the original image on both the creepos wiki and the villains wiki. Others were convinced that the red variant was the original that had been attached to the 4chan paranormal board.

They also argued that the Polaroid variants was a remake that was posted a little while after the original had started circulating online. Before the actual creator of the story revealed which of the two images was the original in 2019, it was very difficult to tell who was telling the truth in the early 2010s as both images originated during the first few months of 2009. Visiting an archive of the 4chan thread on the way back machine didn't help matters either as the original image post was broken.

So, I decided to trace both variants as far back as I could to see if I could find the exact dates both images were first posted online. During my search, I tracked both variants from the early 2010s all the way back to January 2009 when the 4chan post was made. I started with the scan Polaroid version, which I began referring to as Smile Dog variant 22.

09. I first uncovered this early post from July 14th, 2012. It was uploaded to Deviant Art by Tempest Pitakei with a caption that read, "The original smile.

jpeg a JPEG dog. On August 16th, 2011, Smile Dog Variance 22. 09 was shared again on photobuckets by an anonymous person under the username Kitty Litter.

As I continued, I eventually came across an altered version of the grainy Polaroid image that had been uploaded on the 20th of August, 2010. I was intrigued as this particular post was attached to several claims stating that this was the unedited version of the scanned Polaroid image and that it predated Smile Dog variants 229. However, it was pretty clear to see that these claims were false.

And after doing a little digging, I found out that it was an artist's rendition of the original image that had been cropped and edited. The earliest post small dog variant $22. 99 that I could find was uploaded to Flickr on the 22nd of June 2009 by Liam Harris 1987, roughly 10 months before the Small Dog story was posted on April 28th, 2010.

This is why I refer to the image as Smile Dog variant 22. 09, as that's the earliest date, the grainy Polaroid image can still be found on the internet today, at least to my knowledge. Even though I came across a slew of evidence that proved Smile Dog variant 22.

09 was referenced several times online before June 22nd, 2009, I could not find any other verifiable records of the scanned Polaroid image that predated both the story on creepa. com and the creation of its creasta wiki page on August 27th, 2010. To make sure I didn't miss any traceable posts that predated Liam's flicker upload, I repeatedly ran the Polaroid version through several reverse image search engines like Taii, Google Lens, Yandex images, Bing Visual Search, Copy Seeker, but nothing older than the Flickr post ever came up.

In the end, I wasn't able to definitively uncover the very first post of Small Dog variants 22. 09. And even though I was sure there was still an older post out there somewhere, finding it was not impossible.

That said, I was able to uncover a slew of early threads and comments that confirmed the Polaroid version was a remake of the original red variant. I put together several anonymous comments ranging from 2009 to 2013 from people who attested to seeing the red variant first on the 4chan board in 2009 before the Polaroid version began gaining traction online. One of the earlier comments I came across was posted in 2011 by Nate, who compared the new Polaroid version to the red version he'd initially seen in the 4chan thread on January 7th, 2009.

Not really that creepy. I read the pasta related to it. And paired with the original picture, one without the smile shopped onto it, it was mildly unsettling.

But that's it. Another similar comment was made under a Reddit post asking when the original smile. jpeg was changed.

Then one user confirmed that the red variant was the only image that existed when he first came across the smile dog creepy pasta. There was even an archive 4chan thread where an anon commented, "Got to love all fake smile dogs. " under a post of the Polaroid version.

Many comments in the thread agreed, claiming that the red variant was the original smile. jpeg, preceding the second, more popular version. Even though the Polaroid version wasn't the original smile.

jpeg, several questions remained as people often wondered where this version had even come from. But the identity of who created the Polaroid image was never uncovered. Despite endless hours of research, no one has been able to find anything concrete.

But over the years, there have been several speculative theories regarding the Polaroid's origin. One of the strongest theories claims the letters PO, which can be seen in the image, are the initials of the artist who made the Polaroid. I tried searching for any similar photoshopped images with the PO initials and compared them to active artists in 2009, but nothing concrete came up.

I changed focus after a comment suggested PO means paranormal option. The name paranormal option sounded oddly similar to infamous paranormal forums like Paranormalis and Unexplained Mysteries in the late 2000s. Back then, bizarre images often appeared in those niche forums around 2009.

I tried tracing the Polaroid to a similarly named forum, but this was another dead end. I also came across a couple of Redditors over the course of my search who claimed to have found the original Polaroid. The first post was shared to r/gypasta on May 17th, 2022 by Al Hiroimus with a description that read, "Did I accidentally find the image used for smile.

jpeg? " Attached to his post was an image comparing the Polaroid variants with another greeny image of a generic husky. I already knew this is one of the hundreds of false claims on Reddit, but I still looked into the image and just as I expected, I didn't find anything substantial.

I later uncovered another Reddit post shared on December 23rd, 2024 by investigator number 3850. This individual claimed to have seen the original Polaroid version. He even added a link to the original Polaroid, which led me to this image.

I knew these claims were also speculative at best, but after doing a little digging, I traced the supposed original image to a 2017 post on a blog called Life with Siberian Huskys. This was just another false claim, as there was no history of the image before 2017. To find the Polaroids image, I tried a new approach.

[music] Revisiting the original January 2009 4chan thread and carefully examining the comments. I found a few interesting ones. The first thing I noticed was the differing opinions and mixed reception to the original Smile.

jpeg. One comment talked about how the red image freaked them out, while another comment felt the picture sucked, [music] writing, "It looks more like a pig than a dog to me. Good story, but the image sucks.

Even though the original story had already stated that Smile Dog wasn't really a dog, a lot of Anons weren't satisfied with the image and want Smile Dog to look a bit more like an actual dog. So, they began creating their own versions. Another anons comment seemed to confirm this as it read, "It's interesting that some exit data reassuring people it is fake makes them want to fake it better and spread it around considering the story.

" While I wasn't completely sure that this comment directly supported my theory, I think that in an attempt to fake it better, one of the several add-ons created the Polaroid image. This would also explain why both images are often used together in certain Smileoc stories, where the Polaroid image is referred to as Smile Do's original form and the red variant as [music] his demon form. Tweaking creepy pastas and their accompanying images was a common practice back then as even though people knew the stories were fake, many still attempted to make them more believable.

I also came across many comments from An-ons discussing scrubbing the photos exit data and turning the image into a GIF to make it even more frightening. One particular chain of messages piqued my interest as someone suggested using a version of the image without any exit data and naming the file smile or smile. dog.

j. JPEG. These messages were followed by a response that read, quote, "Doing it right now.

" And a few minutes later, an image with different dimensions and file size than the original red variant was posted. The image link on the archive post was broken, and I couldn't confirm whether this was the original Polaroid variant or simply the same red variant with it exit data scrubbed. I did however write down the thread ID of this particular post which was 1276055.

I searched for plebs archive. mmo and desarchive. com for the thread number despite knowing it was unlikely since 4chan doesn't officially archive most posts.

Third party sites like desarchive and forple independently archive some content. However, no results matching the details were found in their databases. At this point, my only option was to break the scan Polaroid into four conceptual layers to identify the base assets the anonymous poster likely used.

This was a more practical approach than repeatedly trying to find the Polaroid's original post. The image was constructed in four layers. The background was a dark room interior.

The second layer was the husky's head, likely cropped from a then popular stock photo. The third layer featured warped human teeth, probably from a stock dental image, and the fourth and final layer was the beckoning hand. Upon closer inspection, the hand appears entirely different from the one used in the red variants.

While it was difficult to make out the full hand due to the images graininess, it seems to be reaching towards the husky rather than making a gesture seen in the original smile. jpeg. I ran each of these assets through multiple reverse image search engines.

However, every result ultimately led back to the Polaroid itself. No matter how much I tried to isolate individual elements such as the husky head or the human teeth, I was unable to trace them back to any identifiable stock or source images. The most likely explanation then is that the anon who created the Polaroid repeatedly recompressed the image using aggressive degradation, a common image manipulation practice in the early 2000s.

While this is just an assumption, the extreme graininess suggest the creator intentionally made it so in an attempt to keep the source images hidden. This process would have destroyed much of the original fine detail, making our attempts to trace the individual source assets extremely difficult and virtually impossible. I later came across a similar theory in a comment posted by Spade 666 on July 3rd, 2010.

Spade, who identified himself as a Photoshop expert, examined the Polaroid image and deduced two things. One, that the PO initials were added using a translucent brush. and two, the creator made deliberate efforts to obscure fine details.

Even so, he was also unable to identify the base images. All I was left with were my own speculations. Maybe this Anon's comment from the original 4chan thread was the answer.

However, with the image link broken, I can never truly confirm whether this was the original Polaroid variant of Smile. jpeg. [music] The Polaroid variants being created just a few hours after the initial post would explain why both the red variants and the Polaroid variants are so closely linked and why they are often interchanged as the original, even if the red version came first.

That said, without proof, my assumptions are no different from the many theories circulating the internet today. With nothing left to uncover, I began looking into the origins of the red variants. I already knew it was posted on January 7th, 2009 at exactly 9:34 p.

m. So, the only question I had now was, "Where did this image come from? " But, as I dug a bit deeper, I realized the question I should have asked was, "Where did these images come from?

" The original smile. jpeg was essentially a Frankensteined image that meshed several source images together in addition to some good Photoshop editing. The identification of all these base images is still an ongoing process, but a couple of them have been uncovered.

One of the first assets to be found from the original Smile. jpeg was the curtains in the picture's background. The source image was revealed to be the cover art for a 2008 EP titled Sitting Alone in a Dark Empty Room.

The EP was released by a band called Balum Aub and can be found on this website. The EP was released on the 1st of January 2008, about a year before the original Smile. jpeg was posted onto 4chan.

The next source image was the human teeth using the original Smile. jpeg. There were two different images that could potentially be the source.

On a now archive 4chan thread, there were several conversations about which assets were used in the original smile. jpeg. And on August 1st, 2013, an Anon posted this comment.

I found it already. People already know the smile dog dog. [music] I can post the same image used for his teeth, too.

The Anon's comment was then followed by this image with another comment that read, "Same teeth used in the picture. " This image can be traced to a blog called the teeth of Steph. It was here that I found out that the teeth belonged to a woman named Stephanie who had been blogging her braces journey.

While Stephanie's blog was last updated on March 12th, 2012, [music] I could tell the image itself was taken much earlier, probably back in the mid-200s or early 2009, but I wasn't able to confirm this. I also wasn't convinced that the image the Anna posted was the original asset due to several irregularities when comparing the image to the original smile. jpeg.

[music] However, I did come across a much older image of Stephanie's teeth on her blog that felt like a much better candidate. [music] This image was taken before Stephanie's braces went on and according to her blog, she got her braces on January 22nd, 2008. This confirms the image existed long before the original smile.

jpeg and its similarities make it a much better candidate for the source image. I'm assuming again, but the Ann probably got these two images mixed up since they were both from the same blog. The image of Stephanie's teeth was widely believed to be the source image in the early 2010s.

But as the search for the base images continued, several recent theories point to this stock image. It dates to August 8th, 2012 when it was posted on a now defunct website called worth1000. com which hosted Photoshop contests and digital art.

This dental stock image has been used almost everywhere. And while I was only able to trace the photo back to 2012, I assumed its origins was much older, possibly dating back to 2007. Then there's also this third potential source image.

While it appeared to be a strong candidate with several claims that it was the most likely source image, I wasn't fully convinced. I could understand why many people believe the creator of Smile. jpeg used this particular image.

However, I believe the events happen in reverse. As the creator of this image likely pulled his own assets from the original Smile. jpeg, this image can be traced to an artist called Plasma Reaper.

I then used Tennai's reverse image search to pinpoint the oldest post and the results led to the artist's now defunct Deviant Art page. The image was titled Face of SCP 895 and was first posted on July 28th, 2012, roughly 3 and 1/2 years after the original Smile. jpeg had been posted.

At the end, I was left with Stephanie's teeth and the dental stock image. These were the strongest candidates. But even then, when I tried to compare the two images by overlaying them over the original Smile.

jpeg, neither of them was a complete match. I'm not saying they aren't the source assets, but due to the creators distortion and manipulation, it's very difficult to say for certain which of the two is the actual source image. The third and most important source asset was the dog.

Since the original 4chan post in 2009, hundreds, if not thousands of attempts have been made to find the source husky using the original smile. jpeg, a couple of anons on 4chan thought they solved the mystery in the early [music] 2010s, as back then, the general consensus was that this meme image was the source husky. This funny dog meme has been online forever, and I was able to trace the earliest surviving post to a random thread on February 5th, 2008.

which proved it did predate the original smile. jpeg. However, there were still some doubts and some people weren't convinced.

Another popular theory back then was that the source husky was taken from one of the many skeptical dog memes circulating the web at the time. This blue-eyed husky was often said to be the source back in 2009, but this theory was debunked after people found out that this image was initially posted in November 2009. The mystery of the source husky remained unsolved for years until February 8th, 2022 when Reddit user not hurting anyone 5678 showed a post onto r/creppy pasta writing, "I think I found one of the images used to make Smile Dog.

The eyes and facial markings look exactly the same. " I'd also like to note that several similar posts confirming this image as the source husky had already been shared several times online before 2022. However, the Reddit post shared by not hurting anyone 5678 is the most prominent post to site as it was broadly identified and confirmed, at least to my knowledge.

The exact date of the initial reveal is still unknown as no one knows the origin of the source husky image since it was likely a private photo. So, I decided to site this post as the major reveal rather than the many niche posts that were uploaded earlier. Several comparisons and overlays have proven without a doubt that this was indeed the source husky used in the original smile.

jpeg. This popular meme image was often shared across several forums on 4chan around the same time the smile creepy pasta was posted. The photo of the Siberian husky can also be dated back to April 15th, 2008 with the oldest surviving upload being a post on petop.

com. However, the remaining source assets, the beckoning hand and Smile Dog's body, are still unknown. One of the more prominent theories is that Small Dog's torso was heavily painted over using Photoshop's smudge tool and the low opacity brush overlays.

as this was probably the creator's attempt to mask the source image. Attempts to identify the hand meanwhile by isolating the source and running the image through reverse image search also proved futile as the source asset could be anything with one theory stating that it was probably the creator's own hand. Therefore, the only person who could solve these mysteries is the same person who created this image.

During the years following the initial 4chan post, both the Smile. creepasta and the original Smile. jpeg were credited to an anonymous person.

However, 10 years later, the creator, a man named Michael J. Lutz, posted this tweet on October 22nd, 2019. Since we're having a Smile Dog moment, here's an answer I gave a while ago when someone emailed me to ask why I made it.

[music] Michael explained how he was reading a lot of creases on 4chan's export when he wrote the original Smile Dog story and how it had occurred to him that the Smile Dog idea would work in that format. He'd read enough stories to reverse engineer the genre, which is why Smile Duck's story began as an anon, sharing a bizarre tale before the big reveal at the end of the post. Michael also revealed that the main character in the original story, who was only referred to as JML, was just a fictionalized version of himself, J.

Michael Lutz. Michael then confirmed in the following tweets that the red variant was the original smile. jpeg, JPEG, making it clear once again that the Polaroid variant was simply a remake.

Even after Michael's tweet, a lot of people remained skeptical, as it wasn't the first time someone had falsely claimed the rights to a story in its image. However, Michael had pretty solid proof that he [music] was indeed the original creator. In 2023, while responding to an email from YouTuber KTB, Michael revealed that while Small Dog's internet legend began after the 4chan post in 2009, the initial birth of the story actually happened a few months earlier on September 2008.

Michael was a student at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, when he first posted the original story on his student web page. He also linked the story to his personal Facebook page as he wanted to see if he could trick any of his friends. Michael's student page where the original Smile Dog story was initially shared was hosted by his college in 2008.

And while the hosting server has since been wiped, Michael still has a photo of the original post that predates both the public release of Smile. jpeg and the original 4chan post. That said, there are still some people out there who argue that Michael's claims are false, as they site the XF data of the supposed original Smile.

jpeg from the 2009 4chan thread. Tracing the XF data of this image did reveal that the file was created on September 28th, 2002 before it was last modified on March 9th, 2003. It's possible this was probably one of the Anon's attempts to fake it better by altering the images exit data in an attempt to add to the Smile Dog lore.

Once again, this is just my speculation. No one really knows which image this metadata was taken from. In the same email thread between KTB and Michael, he also confirmed that he still had all the source images he used to create the original smile.

jpeg. However, when asked why he hasn't shared them publicly, Michael said he doesn't share the source images widely in case he ever ends up in court over the story or the original image. He went on to explain why he keeps these assets close, stating that he knows certain individuals in Hollywood are always looking to capitalize on seemingly authorless or free IP.

Michael also added that he prefers Smile Dog to freely remain in the hands of the Creepasa community, which is why he's kept these assets for so long in case he ever needs to fight for this in court. However, he did reveal that most of the base images have already been found. And he even went on to confirm the meme husky image as the sourced husky for the original Smile.

jpeg. Michael did say he may release the original source assets to Smile. jpeg JPEG in a controlled manner after the mystique has faded in 5 to 10 years.

[music] Even though the majority of questions surrounding the image have been answered, it's still wild to think that a fictional story and a creepy image that were cooked up by a college student had a real effect on millions of people who saw it. There used to be a very thin line between creepy pastas and reality back then. And the simple power of suggestion went a long way in making these stories [music] feel real.

As silly as it is nowadays, this would explain the comments I came across where real people share just how terrifying Smile. jpeg JPEG was back in the day with many claiming they saw both variants in their dreams. All of these accounts left me curious and I wanted to know if anyone watching had similar experiences.

So, it'd be great to hear about your own personal experiences when you first saw Smile. jpeg. And for those who've never encountered this image before and are just seeing Smile Dog for the first time, don't forget to spread the word.