Creepy Katara
Creepy Katara is a 2008 DeviantArt image macro built from a strange screenshot of Katara from Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. Three DA users, =AnimantX, sractheninja, and alternatecoppa, isolated the frame in July 2008 and used it as a jumpscare-style crop pasted behind or over subjects in edited pictures.
Overview
Creepy Katara is a screenshot-based image macro pulled from a single frame of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender, specifically the episode "The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion," where the character wears an oddly unsettling facial expression2. According to =AnimantX, who co-created the meme, none of the founding group could look at the frame for long without getting creeped out1.
The format follows the same "creeping character" logic as earlier internet mascots like Pedobear and Weegee, which also drop into other pictures uninvited2. Fans typically layer the cropped Katara face over webcam photos, comics, and journal images so she appears behind unsuspecting subjects or fully replaces their features3.
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
The common convention is to grab the Katara crop and drop it inside another picture, most often a webcam self-portrait or a comic panel, so she looms behind the subject, peers around a corner, or covers their face entirely1.