I used to watch a lot of Rick and Morty. One of my all-time favorite episodes is the one where a bunch of parasitic aliens get loose from Rick’s lab and he has to quarantine the house so they can’t escape and wreak havoc on the rest of the world.

It would’ve been a shitshow for humanity, because the aliens could shape-shift and insert false memories of themselves into your mind, so you’d never suspect a thing.

One of the most memorable of all these zany characters was Sleepy Gary.

Headshot of Sleepy Gary in striped pajamas

He’s a chill guy—kinda like Jerry, but cooler. Jerry had all these emotional memories of being with Sleepy Gary, and every time one resurfaced, it absolutely wrecked him.

In this new false timeline, Sleepy Gary rewrote the family’s history so he was now the husband and dad, and Jerry was just a friend… who Gary was cheating with. Jerry became this weird third wheel, but Gary always made him feel special. Supportive. Creepy as hell, but comforting.

Why am I talking about some random Rick and Morty episode?

Slither, baby

There’s a new wacky conspiracy theory going around—courtesy of none other than the online sewer that is 4chan—about a terrible British comedian who supposedly never existed, yet somehow has footage, catchphrases and even talk show interviews.

Some say he’s a demon. Others say he’s a rogue AI that escaped from Google or OpenAI and is now rewriting our timeline one cringe joke at a time.

That comedian is none other than the now infamous Roy Jay.

Comedian Roy Jay in a pair of red striped pajamas

Watching Roy Jay for the first time, you can’t help but feel like something’s off. His whole act is awkward and weird as hell. His catchphrases slither! and spook! don’t really make sense, but they crack me up every fucking time. He always shouts “you’ll all be doing it tomorrow!” and the audience erupts with laughter. It’s so dumb. It’s perfect.

The wildest part of the whole thing? When the original 4chan thread appeared, people started digging… and nothing about the guy existed online. No videos, no Wikipedia, no fan pages.

Then, after a few weeks, back-dated videos of him started popping up on YouTube—with years of comments already there. Articles showed up. Archive footage. Reviews. Suddenly there was an entire history that didn’t exist before.

It was pure Sleepy Gary. A false past injected into our minds and feeds like it had always been there.

Clearly the only sane explanation is that he is, in fact, an AI demon and he’s positioning himself in the most powerful and revered role imaginable for us mortals: a forgotten regional comedian.

4chan is infamous for launching memes and creepypastas into the wild, and also for being a complete cesspool of anonymous depravity. It’s like what most people imagine the Deep Web is—the wild west of the internet.

I think we’re at a point in time where everything is so goddamn unhinged—AI is getting weirder by the day, the news feels like a cartoon, and a literal supervillain is running the most powerful company country in the world. It’s never been easier to believe total nonsense.

And when it gets amplified on TikTok or Facebook—places where misinformation isn’t just allowed, it’s almost rewarded, it spreads like wildfire.

In reality, I think Roy Jay was probably just a European Andy Kaufman. Someone like Daniel Hentschel or Tim and Eric.

Intentionally cringe. Purposely off-putting. Absolutely absurd—and hilarious if you like weird shit like that. I totally do.

People like my dad still believe Andy Kaufman actually lost that satirical wrestling match and disappeared from the spotlight because he was a cocky asshole. The man built a career out of trolling audiences with performative cringe, and people still don’t always get the joke.

I like cringe. I’ve been watching every Roy Jay set I can find lately and it kills me. Maybe he is rewiring my brain as I type this, but I think he’s just a hidden gem of absurdist comedy. And honestly, it’s awesome that this creepypasta managed to resurface decades of content most of us would’ve never found.

Maybe the real conspiracy is that a docuseries or reissue is about to drop and this whole thing is viral marketing in disguise. Could be. Or maybe it’s some new kind of reverse Mandela Effect.

Spook!