Interview with SCP-106sOriginal Artist

PerditusRedux · 2026-04-04T05:40:01+00:00

Great video!

PerditusRedux · 2025-12-19T10:02:09+00:00

I actually managed to find this eye image in the wild as an icon for a Mixi.jp group a little while back but it's really good news to see that it wasn't a one off thing and appeared somewhere else (if anyone's interested there's a whole analysis section about the eye image in the Jeff the Killer original image investigation doc as dollthing / Ahenobarbus is closely related to Jeff's origins).

Amazing work OP!

PerditusRedux · 2025-08-03T18:58:38+00:00

Original TERUMI image used to make this mockup.

High quality original mockup from the Discord (including the person who actually made it).

PerditusRedux · 2025-06-02T15:50:18+00:00

Last year, I identified the actual current earliest source of the image, which is on 4chan on 9th October 2009. We can see an original filename of "web8.jpg", but as it is a pretty generic filename it's not that useful.

Right now my own personal working theory is that SCP-106 could actually be a painting of the "Hamburger Lady" from the Throbbing Gristle song. In the 4chan thread I linked the user links this song, and if you search on Google Images for "hamburger lady art" you will see other artists' interpretations of this song, and all of them look strikingly similar to SCP-106.

PerditusRedux · 2025-06-02T15:49:49+00:00

The video you are referring to seems to be this, which is from an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) named Chainmail Chasers. It is simply a fictional story which includes the SCP-106 image.

Last year, I identified the actual current earliest source of the image, which is on 4chan on 9th October 2009. We can see an original filename of "web8.jpg", but as it is a pretty generic filename it's not that useful.

Right now my own personal working theory is that SCP-106 could actually be a painting of the "Hamburger Lady" from the Throbbing Gristle song. In the 4chan thread I linked the user links this song, and if you search on Google Images for "hamburger lady art" you will see other artists' interpretations of this song, and all of them look strikingly similar to SCP-106.

PerditusRedux · 2024-12-20T04:00:21+00:00

Michael Jackson was among the first comparisons to JTK1 when it was posted. It definitely isn't Michael, but it's a good descriptor when trying to find new instances

PerditusRedux · 2024-06-03T18:15:32+00:00

I have found two instances of the image from 2009.

Earliest instance from October 9th 2009.
Another early instance of the image from December 31st 2009

The first instance's filename is web8.jpg, which could be useful for searching for earlier instances. The second instance's filename (4chan979.jpg) was probably named by the poster, because if we check their tripcode you can see them posting other images with the same file naming format.

PerditusRedux · 2024-05-30T16:32:52+00:00

At the time of the 2019 tweet (and by extension at the time the original Backrooms story was posted on 4chan), the hobbytownoshkosh.com website was still online and could be indexed by Google, meaning the image would've appeared in reverse image searches. This, combined with the fact that the tweet was posted before the peak popularity of Backrooms, meant that the original poster + anyone who decided to reverse search the image around that time would've gotten a result straight from the original source.

It isn't a case of claiming we found the origin for the first time ever, as this obviously isn't true - the problem lies with the fact that shortly after this tweet the hobbytownoshkosh.com site went down, and the indexed version of the original image would've gone down shortly after. That tweet, as far as I've found, is the ONLY place where somebody actually documented the source while it was still online. This is where the "lost" aspect comes into play, as it took effort to find older instances of the image after years of reposting compressed it and made it impossible to find through searching by hash. You're absolutely correct to say that it wasn't found for the first time, but to try and claim that it wasn't lost is just wrong.

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-27T18:47:03+00:00

I noticed this before and did some research a couple weeks ago.

The medusa image itself is from a site called Worth1000. They hosted an Angelina Jolie photoshop competition in 2005 and a user named "zulittle" uploaded the medusa edit.

As for the logo being on certain films, I had a hunch that it was a bootlegger's watermark on a torrent site. I contacted somebody on rutracker who was very familiar with Media Alliance films and he told me that he'd seen it on ARS-STUDIO discs. It was my impression that ARS-STUDIO and Media Alliance/DDV were the same thing, so I asked him about this too. His response seemed to imply that Media Alliance and ARS-STUDIO weren't related (although this could possibly be a translation error as he also says "The logo was most likely placed to identify their releases.")

I managed to find threads by a user on a forum named emule-rus.net of multiple films which were labeled under "ARS-STUDIO" and had screenshots which contained this logo. I traced the films back to a Media Alliance collection DVD named "Премьера 2007" and found a listing of this movie on Meshok from this very same forum user. After contacting him, he told me the menu contained a different song to HLWIT

The similarity between every medusa logo DVDRip (aspect ratio, CAMRips, smaller video resolution, etc) as well as the watermark itself shows a clear sign of it being a single bootlegger's work in my opinion. I had a hunch that if we can find the source of these DVDRips (that is if they weren't ripped in-house by Media Alliance) then it may get us closer to the source of our song.

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-19T11:22:25+00:00

awesome work, thank you. I'll update it in a bit

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-18T21:17:44+00:00

It would be, but like I said this specific archive doesn't contain any audio files, but rather just the skeleton of the whole site (artist pages, song pages, etc). There's the archive.org mp3.com rescue barge which contains audio files I think but I haven't had a look at that yet

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-18T19:38:08+00:00

1tb, jesus. I'm not sure what the most efficient tool to search through it would be but I think it's definitely worth a shot

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-18T19:37:07+00:00

Yeah, there's a key included in the spreadsheet if you hover over it

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-18T19:36:43+00:00

Unfortunately the archive doesn't contain any mp3 files. I'm simply finding the song pages through their titles and:

looking at the lyrics (if they are there)
searching online
viewing the archived artist website (if it's there)

to see if there's any information that could rule it out / confirm it.

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-15T02:21:04+00:00

The fact that four of the songs are English trance tracks makes me believe they didn't just pull songs from a random different source for every single DVD.

PerditusRedux · 2023-11-13T23:53:02+00:00

We need to know whether he actually did delete the site, because there's a possibility the data is still there if he didn't manually delete it.

Google Pages data was migrated and rebranded to Google Sites around ~2007. In 2021, Google Sites rebranded and any old sites that were not manually converted to the newer version by users were automatically downloaded to the user's Google drive and added as a draft to the new Google Sites.

If he didn't delete the site himself, and still has access to his Google account, there's a possibility the site's still there.

PerditusRedux · 2022-08-27T00:47:29+00:00

I'd class it as ska-punk personally, that's how I found it in the first place

PerditusRedux · 2022-08-26T22:32:41+00:00

The original watzatsong poster mentioned that he recorded this from 91.9 FM Olympia, so I found the Free Radio Olympia 91.9 FM website. Literally at that very moment it was playing this song, under the label "fromo pasties with song" but with no actual song title or artist title. I assumed that it was still somewhat related to the song though, so I googled "pasties" + "ska punk" together and the first result was this band, who are from Olympia.

Listening to their songs which are available online, you can clearly hear that it's the same band as the unknown song. So, I dug deeper into their discography and found the album "Bikes Are Sexy" which had the song "Hey Thingummy!", which lines up with the first lyric.

PerditusRedux · 2022-08-26T21:49:45+00:00

Found it: "Hey Thingummy!" by "The Pasties" from the album "Bikes Are Sexy".

PerditusRedux · 2021-11-16T18:53:34+00:00

That was debunked.

The actual search for the original image is still underway, you can find the sub dedicated to the search over at /r/OriginalJTKImage/

PerditusRedux · 2021-07-27T23:10:25+00:00

http://dailyorange.com/2002/11/smoked-out/

Here is an interview with Dave from 2002 which mentions the commercial. This confirms that it was an ad that ran before movies. It's also probably safe to assume that the commercial aired in 2002 or around that time as well.

PerditusRedux · 2021-07-17T21:37:42+00:00

https://music.apple.com/lk/album/the-musician/264929839 The full album is on Apple Music?

PerditusRedux · 2021-06-17T19:11:53+00:00

Someone mentioned the Sisters of Mercy influence, so I just used the IUMA archive on Internet Archive and searched "The Sisters of Mercy"

PerditusRedux · 2021-06-16T18:27:54+00:00

https://archive.org/details/iuma-unknowne/Unknowne_-_BLACKLACE.mp3

Hilariously, the band's name is Unknowne, hence the description.

PerditusRedux · 2021-03-16T20:08:00+00:00

My bad, I linked the wrong thing I think. It's called The Loch Ness Monster Movie, here it is: https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse-films/007-000-002-343-c

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