How Eyeless Jack Became a Creepypasta Icon
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In this video I talk about the iconic creepypasta character, Eyeless Jack, and why he ended up becoming so popular despite the quality of his story.
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One of my favorite creepypastas that doesn't get enough recognition is "It Has No Face." I love the concept/idea of the monster being afraid of you
Found that recently.
Sweet jesus.....
@@caveychip7510is It that bad?
@@microcelltechnicalassistenceit’s not a bad story. Quite good actually. But I feel like the ending sorta ruins it. Because the author dumps a bunch of exposition at the end in the most unnatural way.
@microcelltechnicalassistence theres a very good animated version of it using the tf2 mercs
@@surgingtsunami7780 what is It about?
I find it funny that the creator basically threw their hands up and went "Screw it, go nuts with the established lore."
One of my best memories of Eyeless Jack were two horror levels in LittleBigPlanet, those being "GO TO SLEEP" and "WAKE UP".
Oh god I remember playing those EXACT levels
What do you mean eyeless Jack in little big planet?
@@microcelltechnicalassistence there were some user-made levels in LBP that were based off of creepypastas
@@Nox.x_ART for a moment, Just a moment i Forgot that Those things existed, and was in absolute disbelive thinking the games had oficial levels
LBP community levels used to be so peak
I love how everyone just kinda unanimously agreed that EJ was a chill dude who just wanted a snack
Now I'm hungy
I like to think he still has humanity in him, but he needs to eat others to satiate his hunger
He's a chill guy who lowkey doesn't give a fuck
yummy human kidneys :p
@@Mr.hudson3555is he my new character?
The origin story for Jack that I remember is that he was someone who one day accidentally lost his vision and because of that he has to eat human kidneys to stop his empty eye holes from hurting
What I remember was him being blind, and he finds out that eating liver helps his vision, so he gets kind of addicted to it, and then the butchers all run out of kidneys and to keep his vision he kills his mother and eats her kidney
Yeah, I remember that version of the origin. To me it didn't seem as good as the cult story though. No offense to that version, but the cult one is my preferred.
Creepypasta character: Exists
Fanfic writers: “IT’S FREE REAL ESTATE.”
I've been working on my version of EJ for a decade and at this point he's become an original character.
Things my Jack has :
-A significant other (dead but in denial about it) and a son (pre-teen and Going Through It)
-A waffle pan-shaped scar on his left cheek
-Fought God (and lost)
-Wrestled a genuine demon into submission
-A collection of vintage medical equipment
-Made a crib out of a ribcage
-Depression
-Medically accurate causes and consequences for his cannibalistic diet
-Bitten at least three cryptids
Sounds interesting, hope you post it someday.
I've bitten four cryptids, he ain't special
@@someoneawesome8717 Bro is Joe Baker 😭
wtf? you made bro Kratos but cheap knock off and a Demon fucker? i am laughing (no offense!)
What are even the medically accurate causes that cannibalism causes??
Can't wait to save this video to my watch later playlist and not watch it for three months
So real
HOW DO YOU I DO THAT
He's just like me fr
For real
You do be me tho. Lmao
Jack's story was legit kust "Show up, take kidney, refuse to elaborate, leave"
Like....FUCK that's terrifying on it's own
Man, I had zero interest in Eyeless Jack back in the day, but you’ve sold me on the character completely! Kudos to you, Pastra!
I kinda miss the old days when Creepypastas were popular
Then make them popular again :]
All it takes is a DaVinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Gentileschi, and a few others to make a Renaissance!
I'm currently trying to perfect an animatic for that very purpose :}
Fr. On a technical standpoint most Creepypastas are better written due to authors putting more effort into the format but there was a charm to the old 2008-2011 era ones that I'd argue hasn't been topped since the 2014 incident.
@@nono9543incident?
@@nono9543are you talking about the SlenderMan stabbing?
Speaking of fanfiction, maybe you could try writing your own version of Eyeless Jack! You could give it the same treatment as your Jeff The Killer rewrite, and invite some of your friends for voice acting like last time. Maybe sprinkle in a few references to your favorite fan interpretations of the original story, if you can find some you like. What do you think?
Yay, another video on the classics. I really love how recently you've been making videos talking about the creepypastas of that "era." Jack the Killer, Smile Dog, The Rake, Eyeless Jack. The ones that, for me at least, are the ones you think of first when you hear the word "Creepypasta."
i remember playing this area 51 game on roblox where in one of the gamemodes you could play as the entities and try to kill other players and this guy was on of the entities. i remember this guy being isanley mid, low damadge and has to be close to players to it them, but when he hits them he will blind their screen, whenever i played as him, i would just sit and wait for someone to enter the room and i would jump them with another player playing as a higher attack charecter.
eyeless jack has always been my favourite creepy pasta but i never actually read the original story for the longest time. i cannot tell you how disappointed i was when i read the original story
i loved hearing about EJ from all sort of fanfics and proxy stories which just shows how much the fans can carry an entire fandom
“How the creepy pasta community takes characters and stories that were poorly written or put together and make them into something far more interesting that their source material.”
Now where have I seen this before from you?
EYLESS JACK LETS GOOOO!!! hes always been one of my favs!
EJ my beloved, another banger
Eyeless Jack is one of my favorite creepypastas... for the concept only. Beforehand, I viewed Eyeless Jack as a nice proof-of-concept that was never fleshed out or expanded upon, and even after this video, while it's certainly nice to see the character with his own fandom, Jack himself still feels too bare bones to really be interesting. Sure, you can do whatever you want with him, but I would also like something more to the character beyond just the basics. That's just me though.
Props to the original creator of Eyeless Jack for providing notes for future exploration. This is collaborative art making at its finest!
I find the idea of Eyeless Jack being previously human makes him less scary for me. I was super into it when I was younger, he was and still is my favorite creepypasta character. But it's mostly because I love the original image.
Loterally was my favorite creepypasta younger, and never heard the original story
I love how you are transparent with being wrong and how it ties to how loose this creepy pasta is. Like eyeless jack really is just a prompt for the imagination of fanfics that have added to the original.
Can someone explain why jack eats specifically kidneys. Like kidneys aren't even like great food source like you can get more out of the skin heart or something
Always my favorite Creepypasta as a kid, glad that you’re talking about it
Mine was Jeff the Killer and The Rake.
0:15 You just summed up the entirety of creepypastas.
1:50 Again, every creepypasta.
Last time I was this early, Suicide Mouse was the scariest thing on the internet.
Honestly been really loving this whole Creepypastra event. It would have been so easy for you to just go through all these stories one by one, criticise them, make jokes about them and overall just look at the stories themselves but no. You actually have been looking at the context around them and why they are all so popular. Its really cool, keep up the good work!
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I actually recognize the music in this video from a Ghepo MC video on the Minecraft creepypasta, Destiny 6666.
Bro really described Sonic.exe in the first 20 seconds of the video
Wow, im actually super early
gotta say i love listening to your videos, your voice is super comforting and helps me sleep :3
I always forgot this was the original story for Eyeless jack since the one I always loved Mishi Mishi's story. Like its such a simple character but so well done and the design is so flexiable.
Can't wait for Halloween with Pastra videos ✨
It really does make me happy that you're going over the classic creepypastas and doing an in-depth analysis of them. Makes me wanna recreate some of the stories myself.
Pastra when are we getting the Sonic.EXE video????
Babe wake up new pastra video just dropped :00
Tbh ive been waiting for this one, i vividly remember that image of EJ being one of the first creepypasta images to actually scare me when i was like 10 lol
Yeah, back when I was exploring all the classic pastas, Eyeless Jack stuck out to me. Not the story, I had SEVERAL issues with the story itself, but I really vibed with knowing next to nothing about Jack itself. Makes it feel like some kind of cryptid encounter that those who experienced it and lived to tell of it had no clue what it was, but just what it DOES, what it looks like, you get very little, and that's fascinating!
I always find characters and concepts that provide barely any information on them shown in whatever their canon as the most interesting. It’s that mystery of not knowing enough about them that draws me in more than a more fleshed out concept because of one thing. Not knowing anything makes you want to know more. But when trying to find more you instead find nothing more. And that’s when your imagination can go wild and you begin trying to figure out and understand the character or concept and maybe even creating your own interpretations of it. The unsolvable mystery has hooked your imagination and mind in a way to try to solve it yourself by adding onto it. And I love how doing so can ripple outward and cause more and more people to add onto it to flesh it out. Sometimes doing so can to an extent make the character or concept more meaningful and deep and even more horrifying than it could have ever been had it been fleshed out by the original creator.
This is of course my own thoughts. Nothing is more terrifying to you than whatever your mind creates to try to solve the mystery of what exactly is waiting for you in the dark until you eventually step forward into the dark and see for yourself.
The immense quality, diversity, and utter fervor that is in so much of the A.R.T. for Eyeless Jack... oh, it has left me breathless! ^w^
Let us away to a Renaissance!
EJ is my favorite I dont know why he just kinda wedged his way into my brain. Great vid as always!
Seeing Pastra post, along with the post being about one of my favorite creepy pastas has to be one of the best experiences ever.
I actually remember reading a fanfic about EJ that was supposed to be his backstory.
I remember reading it when I was 12 or so and the story followed Jack as an ordinary young boy whose parents died in a car accident. He was later taken in by his uncle who began mistreating him and then later revealed to be the one who tampered with Jack’s parents car so that it would’ve caused the accident that killed them. Jack overheard this and went on a rage.
That’s about all I remember. I can’t remember what happened after. I just wanted to share one of many fanfics that had their spin on EJ and his backstory.
Two things that are cool about Jack:
• the way you can’t read his intentions as he has no eyes or mouth
• the fact that he doesn’t just outright kill you, he removes your organs which is terrifying but also makes you wonder what the hell is his motive
I listened to the MichaelLeroi "Bad Creepypasta" episode covering this Pasta. I would say "how the fuck did this crappy story become popular," but Sonic.exe - despite being BTFO'd from the wiki for quality control - still has the Creepypasta community's balls in a creative vise.
Unrelated, but I feel like this channel would be a guilty pleasure for Johnathan Crane. Like - after terrorizing Gotham, he'd just lay back, light a pumpkin spice candle, and patch a Pastra video.
he’s also fairly easy to draw which i think helped a bit in the fanart community
I think another example of Eyeless Jack having a different spin off story would be the Morgue Files, a story that I HIGHLY recommend.
I always find it so interesting how people will take such bare bone concepts like Jack and just run with them for their own stories
Ah, i remember Eyeless Jack and his famous catchphrase, "Oh god jesus, I can't see, I have no eyes"
IN BACK TO BEING A MEMBER AND ALSO HI NEW PASTRA POST!!!!
Bro i finished the rake vid, fell asleep and then this releases???
Oh my god seeing my favorite creepypasta with one of my favorite youtubers is the best!!! I so hope you check out Lazari story too! Creepypastas mixing creepypastas to create one big universe for all of the creepypastas from what i remember, slendermans mansion and zalgo cave.
Every other creepypasta is interpreted in a variety of ways.
EJ? He's cool, just give him your organ and you'll be fine. It's kinda crazy considering the og story has two people murdered.
If you think about it, Jack is actually very polite because he doesn’t choose to eat something that will kill you, he just needs a lil snack.
I made an oc who's missing his eyes and was struggling to name him, and then I remembered this creepypasta. His name is Jackson
“You somehow lost your kidney” has the same energy as “somehow palpatine returned.”
Moin managed to get here on almost time
Nice video too
Watching this while working at subway hits diffrent
I think that EJ took off the way he did also due to the fact that... he could be shipped with other creepypastas. He could be around age of other guys and made into a gay character, so he was a hit for so many people. I know, I was one of them.
He could be what😮
My favourite version of Eyeless Jack is David Near's version, which he made for his youtube series, The Morgue Files
Jesus. Here in 35 seconds.
I love Jack so much! I really wanna make my own Creepy Pasta, that does reference him because of it. I think it I’ll be fun!
I wonder if Pastra would ever cover Marble Hornets. I've never seen it yet, but I saw several videos and it seems like a good horror story
Imagine being named "Kidney", and someone mentions Eyeless Jack around you.
This video was cool!
Also I noticed Sonic.exe in the background and now I'm wondering if we'll get a video on him and the multiple iterations of Exe
thank you for going after some of the big creepypastas so I don't have to read them for my own projects
I saw some EJ fanart in the internet when I was younger
Funny enough, when I made an idea for my own creepy pasta, the character looked like it but with touches from Jeff and also Fnaf (the name was Blue Cat)
Now that I know EJ’s story, is funny to think how different they are. One is a more realistic version of horror. And the other plays with the ocult a bit more.
Two inhuman characters but in different levels
eyeless jack video let's goooo :D
Yippie!! Pastra posted! 😃
Kinda reminds me of Sonic.exe, a horror story that’s about a blue guy with black pouring out of his eyes that kills people. Only Sonic.exe wasn’t given ANY origin, so you couldn’t tell what he is and I like to think that Sonic.exe was probably a rom hack made on the original game to prank the author and the guy who mailed it is still alive and whatnot.
I think because so many of the most well-known pastas are so poorly written and/or lacking detail it leaves a ton of room for stuff like headcanoning, rewriting, and generally just everyone making their own interpretations of the characters. This also fosters a big fanwork-centric community because people like finding other interpretations of their favorite characters
id take eyeless Jack much more seriously if "im gonna steal your Kidney and eat it" didnt become such a throwaway gag of a meme
I feel like this creepypasta belongs in a horror movie or something.
Eyeless jack is one of my absolute favorite CreepyPastas for this exact reason! I’m a person who enjoys fanon silly stuff snd fanon actual horror content and can consume/create content for both halves. The way the fandom used Eyeless jack made me absolutely adore him and I’m so happy you agree. Definitely not the best creepypasta, but definitely one of the best fandom characters 🎉
3:58 Classic college experience! 🥰
EJ just sounds like he was made as a joke. Just something spooky does something weird and kills someone. It feels like a weird joke, almost like how The Rake originally was.
The vague backstory set up in pin points kind of turns Eyeless Jack into a species, like the Wendigo, where you can write any story, like Until Dawn, using the lore of Wendigos, rather than writing some specific story with beats determined by someone else.
I've realized through this series how little creepypastas I've read the story of. I think the only one I've read was hobo heart because I really liked the song heart has value, but I think that's the only one. I have a playlist of a bunch of creepypasta narrations, but I haven't listened to any of them, and I think I might finally start. This is the equivalent of being in a video games fandom, but never playing the game yourself, or watching others play it lol. Sorry for the tangent
My favorite art depicting Eyeless Jack is from an artist who compiled their work on AO3 with a lot of others pieces with different creepypasta/cryptid characters. The only reasons I cannot name them is because the pieces are really NSFW (gore or/and sexual). Which is a shame because they are beautifully detailed.
This is the same fandom that got so attached to terrible stories like Jeff the Killer, Ticki Toby, Clockwork, Sonic.exe, etc. I do not question why they got so attached to Eyeless Jack.
The main place I found Eyeless Jack from was a level series on LittleBIGPlanet from super-jack-55, with my favorite of their levels being (Wake Up - Jeff the Killer Vs Eyeless Jack)
and in these levels Jack was ngl kinda inconsistent. in his stand alone levels he's the monster trying to kill you, but in the ones where he's facing off against Jeff there are still times where he'll try to kill you, but there are other times where he straight up saves you.
I kinda liked him for that when I was younger, I always saw him as the lesser evil out of the two. But thinking back to it now he could've just been protecting you from Jeff and that one time you jumped off a roof just because he wanted to kill you himself. Maybe he wanted your kidneys? Idk finding out that was a part of his lore (from this vid) just sounds kinda dumb to me.
But I still think Eyeless Jack is pretty cool and this was a pretty good video as usual. (also 👍 if you remember those old Creepypasta levels on LBP)
I hate when i wake up just to find my kindny was taken.
Pastra eyeless Jack rewrite when?
Kinda hoping Pastra does a "Laughing Jack" video now
As usual, my favorite version of the character is the one in The Morgue Files
I think you should talk about the creepypasta duck pond (its really cool)
What's your workflow like for making these kinds of videos?
Been a fan for a long long while and I'm just really curious now
I’ve noticed Pastra added Sonic.exe to his background along with the other icons. Maybe a video centering him is upcoming, or maybe it’s out of spite due to previously stating his distaste for the character. Who knows?
Eu não entendo porra nenhuma de inglês, mas ainda vejo os vídeos por conta de um RUclips brasileiro que eu gosto e que ele te ama
Oh wait this is a new video! Cool I got here early-ish
Ah yes, just leave the body with a half eaten kidney without investigation or a funeral. It makes for great decoration while reselling the property 🤗
I wonder how long this Creepy-Pastra phase will go on, lol
New subscriber Pastra
I'm surprised you haven't covered car door hook hand door.
I want to ask that you please do a writting of this because i belive you could make a great story from this
EYELESS JACK I LOVE EJ SCREAMS
I miss old creepypasta culture where the stories belonged to everyone
My friend cosplayed Eyeless Jack for Friday the 13th lmao
it would be really cool for you to invest the fazbear fright book it would be really cool to know your opinion!
I have turned Trevor Hendersons Theatre Patron into a story, it would be cool if you make a video on it
(FYI it might not be written that well though)