The original picture.
"Dollthing.jpg", is a scary photoshopped image that depicts a Japanese gofun doll with big, black, bleeding eyes and a large bloody gaping mouth. There are many different origins of the photo, despite being it old; the picture was featured on a majority of infamous Creepypastas and games, becoming a popular jumpscare image on the internet.
Origin[]
The first known use of the image appeared on a Japanese blog ("ExBlog.jp") by a user named, "AnotherR", around 2005 on Christmas Day. The blog depicts a "Read More" page for a Christmas present, showing the posted picture at the bottom of the page. The original picture shows Japanese text, roughly translating that "if you don't repost the picture into another forum at the end of the year, bad things will happen." And the piece of text at the bottom of the image claims that "there were many people that died from not reposting it." [1]
An example of a parodied picture.
Moving up to 2007, many people from Japanese sites, (such as 2chan, and Nico Nico Douga), were making different parodies of the picture. The original picture of the doll had different names shown below:
- #1 - (私を可愛くさせて) Let me be cute,
- #2 - (かわいくさせて 検索してはいけない) Do not search for cute,
- #3 - (かわいくさせて 元ネタ) Let's make it cute,
- #4 - (イケメントラウマ可愛くさせて) Ikemen Trauma let me be cute
Usage[]
Around 2012, the picture was used in an infamous Reddit creepypasta in the /nosleep/ thread called, "Gurgles and Bugman". A few years later without not knowing the actual source, many people said it came from the Gurgles and Bugman pasta itself. [2]
Around 2015, a Facebook user, named Ahenobarbus Henocied used the picture in his profile. The user got taken down because many people said that he was posting a lot of gore and child pornography pictures, and even sending them to other users who were active on Facebook, or those who have subscribed to him. [3]