David Firth, the creator of Salad Fingers, told someone he remembered seeing smartschoolboy9 on the street. Since then, he’s been inundated with questions – and he wants it to stop. Three weeks ago, Nick Crowley released a creepy YouTube documentary and unleashed a new internet obsession: smartschoolboy9 .
This is what we actually know: the man behind the account is an adult who dresses in tight school uniforms, it’s believed he’s operated (and likely still runs) fake pages with disturbing and even explicit images of children, and its email address has been connected to David London’s Facebook. The case’s subreddit is constantly active, making it harder to separate fact from fiction; just this week, the emergence of unsettling fake interviews prompted ‘London’ to change his social media bio . However, here’s something that’s unequivocally true: Salad Fingers’ creator is not connected to smartschoolboy9.
Earlier this month, Firth replied to a DM after a cybersleuth asked him if he’d ever seen anyone resembling smartschoolboy9, said to come from Doncaster. Amazingly, he had, specifically recalling a “dark-skinned guy who would wear really sloppily applied makeup..
. I remember him wearing a white shirt and a school tie and he had a strange posture, or walked quite leaned forwards.” It was an extraordinary, unexpected link between a legendary internet personality and a shocking rabbit hole, but it had unfortunate consequences.
People have baselessly su.