"FreeJeff" implies that the creator (Jeff) has become a prisoner of his own creation. This is the Faustian bargain of the digital artist: one builds a system to express an idea, only to find that the system demands constant maintenance, iteration, and sacrifice. Jeff is trapped in the loop of —he cannot move forward to version 0.2 because he is too busy fixing the crashes of 0.1.1, nor can he go back to the blank page because the Lab has become his entire identity.
Given that the movement operates in grey zones (and occasionally outright black zones), many copycat "Labs" have emerged. To confirm you are interacting with the genuine ecosystem, look for the following fingerprints: The Lab -v0.1.1- -FreeJeff-