Jeff K.

Jeff K. is one of several fictitious update writers for the popular website Something Awful. Created by Something Awful founder Rich Kyanka, Jeff K. is a parody of teenage Internet users, particularly script kiddies and online gamers.

Claiming to be a "l33t hax0r" (an elite hacker in leetspeak), Jeff K. is known for his horrible spelling, joining words to create insults such as "clownboat" and "asshat," and bad web design skills. He has coined several phrases that have entered more widespread usage in other Internet communities, most notably the phrase "teh sukc" (as in, "encyclopedias are teh sukc", used to express a dislike for encyclopedias). "Asshat" has also begun appearing as pejorative slang in other online forums like fark.com.

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".

The name "Jeff K." might be a reference to Sun software engineer Jeff Kesselman, who is notorious for making frequent spelling mistakes, such as "teh" and similar, in newsgroup and forum posts.

See also: B1FF, Leet, Teh

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