It's allegedly the original, unedited version of the picture. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar feelings about the smile dog picture, or if anyone can explain some psychological effects that may be caused here.įor clarification, this is the image I'm talking about.Īlso I just found this. That whole time, before reading, I was afraid it'd be a story about a dog dying or something.
I was disturbed by the dog, and I genuinely love German Shepards (my brother has one). I didn't know about the hand in the background either until reading it. I've sort of settled down about all of this as an adult, hell sometimes I find it laughable as a fun childhood memory, but I still don't like looking at the picture, and given the context of the story after already finding the image disturbing, it just seems ironic and almost uncanny. It wasn't until years later that I actually figured out the story was ABOUT the image itself, and how it drove people insane. We ended up not even sleeping that night until six in the morning. At the risk of embarrassment, I admitted I was thinking of the smile dog image again. Then suddenly my friends stated they had a similar feeling. For some reason, that fearful sensation I had when looking at the smile dog image came back to me. It got into a bit deeper and darker territory as midnight went on when we talked about depression and started being brutally honest with our emotions. As we went to bed in our tents, we had deep typical teenage conversations about girls, the future, juvenile sexual discussions/jokes, and also joked about how this camping trip felt like one of those Coming Of Age novels like Stephen King's The Body (God I miss these days sometimes). I showed them the image using my phone, and they didn't have the same reaction I did, and dismissed it as all being in my head (which it honestly probably was). In spirit, I decided to finally express my feelings on Smile dog, and my other friends hadn't heard of the story either. Later around 2016, when my friends and I went camping, we told campfire stories of legends such as Mothman and The Bunnyman Bridge, and even looked at some NSFL subreddits. I didn't tell anyone about this and figured I'd get over it at some point, which I did for the most part, but every once in a while it'd come back to me, and I'd struggle to sleep again. I don't know why I reacted so badly to the photo when I had already been exposed and desensitized from other media as a teenager (I was going through a dark web phase too, and LiveLeak was still a thing at the time). After seeing this, I felt such an unnerving sensation of feelings that was so bad, I had to close off my laptop and get to sleep, which was already hard for me to do afterward. One night however while I was scrolling through YouTube, I came across a thumbnail that had the image, and nothing but the word "smile dog" in the title. I wasn't really interested in hearing a horror story involving a dog either because my 20-year-old border collie had passed away that year. Whenever people at my school discussed these stories, smile dog was brought up occasionally, however, no one ever told me what it was about, and I had never seen the iconic photo from the story. I used to find it laughable that people my age at the time found a confirmed fictional character who lacks a face horrifying, and another image that looked like it was photoshopped by a middle school student taking a graphics design class, "scary". I typically avoided stories like Jeff The Killer and Slender man, because I personally found them a bit generic.
I remember around 2014 I was going through a creepypasta phase and had multiple recommended videos of audio reads all over my YouTube feed. I know it's kind of considered a cliche internet legend now, but I'd like to explain my experience, even if people find it amusing.
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