About
Joey Wheeler’s Creepy Chin refers to a series of exploitable images based creepy shots of the character from the 1998 Anime Yu-Gi-Oh[4] (遊☆戯☆王 Yū-Gi-Ō!?, lit. “Game King”), the exploitables mostly stem from japan via twitter, although it has recently gained popularity on america.
The images are normally an example of QUALITY in anime
Origin
The meme originates from multiple still scenes taking from the first incarnation of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime released in 1998, which feature Joey Wheeler with a creepy smile and a pointy chin
Spread
Dispite the images existing for a decade, it wouldnt be until late 2014 that they would gain memetic traction, and would spawn multiple exploitables, which include replacing Joey Wheeler with characters from other media, as well as photoshopping his chin on multiple anime characters.
On November 17, 2014 the popular culture news site Kotaku, wrote an article about the meme, which features multiple images of joey´s chin photoshopped on random anime characters, on November 18th, 2014 the site SGCafe[2] wrote a similar article with more examples.
the exploitables have trended in japan on twitter under the Hashtag #城之内顎クソコラグランプリ[3]