Finding the Origins of Strange Images

The artist on the Patrick image is called nickar, he posted on his Deviantart in 2007. His page and even the original post (Minus the image) were saved on the Web Archive.

Some of these images made me cry genuine tears of fear as a child and now they just look dumb as hell 😭 man being a kid on the internet was MAD

Correction: it really IS Todd Howard. The original obviously isn't, but his face has been edited onto it. Notice how the Todd-variant at 7:53 seems to have two ears and is smirking, compared to the original at 10:30, who has a much more stern expression. Todd also seems to be gazing off into the distance, while that guy is focusing on something.

Both variants of the realistic Patrick (aka PATRIXXX) image were created by DeviantART user Brushcommander. The first version was created on a previous account of his whose name I can't recall at the moment, but I remember it was created around December 2007 - January 2008. The later version (updated version, as he called it) was created on June 12, 2009. The same user also created a popular creepy image of Squidward holding a knife, which appears on Google images if you search his username. He's since moved accounts a third time and is now known as 'Thorsten-Denk', though he isn't really active anymore. UPDATE: Brushcommander's previous account was called 'Nickar' and the image was originally uploaded on April 25, 2007. Thanks to everyone who told me!

I can 100% remember seeing the realistic patrick image back in the day on 9gag along with a realistic spongebob, squidward and mr crabs in the same post. As far as I can remember, the post said, they were created by an 3d artist as a parody.

Any early 2000s images kinda make me feel weird

BRO THE PLANKTON HAS BEEN MY PFP FOR MONTHS

Spengebab type images have always freaked me out godssss

Unironically do an entire Teletubbies cursed images video, I'm so here for it

1:58 Tineye does not show the earliest instance of an image that Tineye could find instead, tineye searches the web for images, and when it finds one it generates a date based on when it finds it and that does not mean that it is the earliest instance of that image on TinEye. it might even list earlier examples after the image that you found.

" i could do a whole video about cursed teletuby photos" DO IT PLEASE

I find it funny that I too had made that cat my wallpaper as well as the epic face thinking it was the coolest background.

The Patrick image is also known as "Evil Patrixxx" and is the mascot of the Trollpasta wiki.

I swear every image scared this guy as a kid

Two of my friends actually recall watching a video by pixeloo (the realistic Mario creator) which was some sort of speed art showing him making the actual image itself. They remember him grabbing images of actual people and morphing them into Mario. I legitimately cannot find anyone else who recalls this but considering it’s not just one person who remembers it but two people who remember the exact same video, I have a good feeling it’s legit. If anyone in this comments section has any idea about this, please let me know because I’d love to help solve this mystery for my friends

Your editing style and aesthetic are some of the best I’ve seen on all of YouTube. Always love seeing your videos

damn the nostalgia really hit with the sunglasses cat

I was watching educating yorkshire (i think yorkshire anyways) yesterday and they had that picture of patrick on a wall in one of the class rooms

It lowkey blew my mind that the guy in the Teletubbies costume WASN'T a photoshopped Todd Howard. That guy must be the most not-Todd Howard Todd Howard looking man in existence.

15:12 ohh man that photo on the bottom right, i remember that from a really old mp3 i saw on yt. Still slaps to this day