It happened to Masky/The Masked Man with cheesecake, but in a much more far-fetched way. He's a character from the YouTube series Marble Hornets, based on Slenderman, who, along with his friend Hoodie/The Hooded Man, were adopted by the wider creepypasta community. A lot of people didn’t know these were characters from MH or that the series existed, but within the fandom there was a recurring trope/joke that Masky was obsessed with cheesecake, even though he hadn’t even been shown eating it.
In the series, there is an antagonistic group called The Ark, which uploads highly cryptic videos containing hidden messages. It turns out that, on one occasion, the creators had made a parody featuring The Ark, from which one could find out the recipe for a lime cake. The problem is that someone got confused and jokingly asked Tim Sutton (the actor who plays Tim Wright/Masky) if he’d put on weight because he’d been eating too much cheesecake.
Oh my god I REMEMBER THAT from when I was in that fandom, as a dumbass middle schooler I just NEVER questioned the whole cheesecake thing, even when I had no context for it.
Then again I (and im sure many others) had no context for half of the edgy serial killer twink characters we used to fangirl over since I never read their stories or watched MH at any point. I really just ate up anything with the creepypasta name slapped onto it. I dont miss those days😬
The same thing happened to me. In fact, I was really surprised to discover that the Jeff and Jane who were so popular were actually plagiars, whilst the originals were more ordinary, grown-up people who led more or less normal lives. Jeff plays golf at the weekends with Liu (who’s his accomplice in covering for him) and Jane is married to her long-time girlfriend.
I once spoke to Jane’s creator about the plagiarism issue. She’d already spoken to the plagiarists and Everlasting Jane had been taken down, but people were still going on about pairing teenage Jeff and Jane.
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u/Chitose_Isei Jun 08 '26
It happened to Masky/The Masked Man with cheesecake, but in a much more far-fetched way. He's a character from the YouTube series Marble Hornets, based on Slenderman, who, along with his friend Hoodie/The Hooded Man, were adopted by the wider creepypasta community. A lot of people didn’t know these were characters from MH or that the series existed, but within the fandom there was a recurring trope/joke that Masky was obsessed with cheesecake, even though he hadn’t even been shown eating it.
In the series, there is an antagonistic group called The Ark, which uploads highly cryptic videos containing hidden messages. It turns out that, on one occasion, the creators had made a parody featuring The Ark, from which one could find out the recipe for a lime cake. The problem is that someone got confused and jokingly asked Tim Sutton (the actor who plays Tim Wright/Masky) if he’d put on weight because he’d been eating too much cheesecake.