Heffley

*Not to be confused with Heffleyism.*

A **Heffley** is a type of gimmick account related to Jreg that is found on Twitter. Gimmick accounts related to Jreg are commonly known as Jrimmicks, and the Heffleys are one of the most numerous jrimmicks found on the Jreg Twitter community.

## Origin

The name "Heffley" is derived from the character Greg Heffley from the American children's book series *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* by Jeff Kinney.

The idea for Jreg Heffley, the first Heffley, came to future Heffnostate co-founder Marcus as a small joke. Having either read or watched *Diary of a Wimpy Kid*, or possibly both, he decided to combine the names "Jreg" and "Greg Heffley" together on the basis that the first word of each name rhymed.

Marcus then began replying to all of Jreg's new posts with the words "Jreg Heffley", as a small practical joke he found funny for a time. This eventually developed into a custom practiced by every Heffley, which is now being routinely observed by almost every type of jrimmick account on modern Jritter, Heffley or otherwise. Groups of Jrimmicks with similar themes, such as Heffleys and Jreven Universe jrimmicks, tend to form singular reply chains in which they post their names in long threads.

During the golden days of the Heffleys (April-June 2020), at least twenty Heffleys were part of a predetermined order in which they would reply to a Jreg tweet. But this order was not rigidly enforced, and the Heffley's then-goal of completing a full reply chain with all Heffleys present was never achieved.

## Heffnic Identity

### Thematic Heffleys

Most Heffleys have a central theme or identity around which their Heffley persona is based. For example, most Heffleys created during the intial Heffley boom following the Response were originally based on various Centricide characters and their respective political ideologies as a way of parodying these characters, such as Heil Jreffory parodying everyone's favorite problematic Centricide character, his husband Jregay Heffley representing the Homonationalist Centricide character and Jeff Hregly originally representing the Communist and Communism in general.

Newer Heffleys have diverged from taking on Jreg-centric personas and have instead turned to different themes unrelated to Centricide, such as incomprehensible art history puns, minecraft streamers, other Jrimmicks and whatever the hell this is.

### Gerbert

All Heffleys that take part in the Heffley gimmick can be identified by their profile pictures, which are almost always variations of Jreg Heffley's current profile picture. This profile picture depicts "Gerbert", an illustration of the "Perfect Human Specimen". According to Jreg Heffley account mod Fetus, who drew Gerbert for a science class project and provided the profile picture for Jreg Heffley, Gerbert is "Female, 18", "Daddy's #1", has a fondness for blood and was a key contributor to the hydrogen bomb.

### The Heffnostate

All Heffleys are, by birth, citizens of the Heffnostate, the homeland of all Heffleys. The Heffnostate is home to hundreds of embryo tubes and bioengineering tanks, in which Heffleys are created.

### Jraxonomy

"The Heffley Hive Mind" (*Hefflioforms)* is the most basal form of order *Apántisai*(reply jrimmicks). As an *Apántisaid* it is closely related to the Jrapiro and Jreach City Jrimmicks. There are 3 categories of Hefflioforms

Heffleyia/True Heffleys

True heffleys are Heffleys who properly meet the following criteria: Has an edited Gerbert pfp, participated in the heffley reply gimmick,(or pland to do so), and

Heffpsevdís/ False Heffleys: These are Heffley like accounts that retain main of a Heffley account but fails to meat some of the aforementioned criteria

Growlidae/Growlys: These accounts are a combination of The name *Rowly Jefferson(Greg Heffleys best friend)* and Grej. Growlies filled the same role as a heffley but for Grej instead of jreg.

## References

1. ↑ Constitution of the Heffnostate: Article 58
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregHeffley/status/1268653735548420099?s=20