Jeff K. is one of several fictitious update writers for the popular humor website Something Awful. Created by Something Awful founder Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka on May 28, 1999 on PlanetQuake, Jeff K. is a parody of teenage Internet users, particularly script kiddies and online game players. Jeff K is possibly based on the much earlier Usenet B1FF although the similarity may be coincidental. The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... Something Awful, sometimes abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website based in the United States. ... Richard Kyanka (born May 11, 1976), better known by his nickname Lowtax, is an Internet personality, and owner and operator of the humor website Something Awful. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... In computing, a script kiddie (occasionally script bunny, script kitty or skiddie) is a derogatory term for inexperienced crackers who use scripts and programs developed by others, without knowing what they are or how they work, for the purpose of compromising computer accounts and files, and for launching attacks on... B1FF or BIFF was the most famous pseudonym and the prototypical newbie on Usenet. ...

Jeff K. once claimed to be a "l33t hax0r" (an "elite hacker" in leetspeak) but is now 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, 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. A hacker is a person who creates and modifies computer software and computer hardware, including computer programming, administration, and security. ... Leet (or 1337) generally refers to a linguistic phenomenon associated with the underground culture centered around telecommunications, manifested primarily on the Internet. ... Sic is a Latin word meaning thus or so, used inside brackets — (sic) or [sic] — to indicate that an unusual (or incorrect) spelling, phrase, or other preceding quoted material is intended to be read or printed exactly as shown and is not a transcription error. ... In typography, all caps (short for all capitals; often written as ALL CAPS) refers to text or a font in which all letters are capitalized. ...

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. Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ... Penny Arcade is a webcomic written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. ... For the concept in software engineering, see user-friendliness. ... Look up faggot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Obesity is a condition where the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals is increased to a point where it is thought to be a significant risk factor for certain health conditions as well as increased mortality. ...

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 Jeffk is gone, many imitators on the internet keep him alive. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the fifth video game in the Grand Theft Auto series. ...

The name "Jeff K." might be a reference to Sun software engineer Jeff Kesselman, who is responsible for writing network code for great games such as Duke Nukem 3D, Total Anahilation, Red Alert 2, Half-Life, Unreal Tournement 2004 and World of Warcraft he is also notorious for making frequent spelling mistakes, such as "teh" and similar, in newsgroup and forum posts. Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

External links

• Jeff K.'s homepage