Talk:The Smiling Man/@comment-28939893-20161009010525/@comment-5420059-20161009031558

After some independent research of my own, I've discovered that it's pretty much impossible for our Smiling Man to be based on the creepypasta in question. The Jeannette Experience, the blog where Smiley first appeared in, was created a whole year before the creepypasta was posted online. That being said, it's just as unlikely that the writer of the creepypasta based their story on GraciousVictory's creation. The Fear Mythos was only a year old by the time the creepypasta was written, so I doubt the he was aware of it.

In conclusion, the similarities can be chalked up as one huge coincidence. Two of the three things you just listed are very common horror tropes after all.