Eternal smile
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The eternal smile refers to the urban legend of the "Smiley Gang," a group of six men who offered their victims the choice of being raped or having an "eternal smile" cut into their faces. This hoax, predominantly spread by e-mail, spread fear among teens and their parents in both the Netherlands and Belgium in late 2003.
The story can be traced as far back as Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs and is a permanent fixture in the fictional comics character The Joker.
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