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'''What's Wrong With This Picture?''' or '''What's Wrong?''' or '''What's wrong with this image?''' is an infamous internet [[screamer]] created by Jaybill McCarthy, originally hosted on his personal website "Jaybill" in early 2002, (possibly late 2001).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020317063912/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=49</ref> Many copies have since appeared on the internet, and is an example of an early e-mail chainletter prank. | '''What's Wrong With This Picture?''' or '''What's Wrong?''' or '''What's wrong with this image?''' is an infamous internet [[screamer]] created by Jaybill McCarthy, originally hosted on his personal website "Jaybill" in early 2002, (possibly late 2001).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020317063912/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=49</ref> Many copies have since appeared on the internet, and is an example of an early e-mail chainletter prank. | ||
==Content== | ==Content== | ||
The animation disguises itself as a normal stock photo of a dining room; depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers. The viewer is then asked to find something wrong in it, however, there are no actual errors in the picture itself. After about 30 seconds the screen cuts to a grainy black and white photo of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth, accompanied by audio of Mrs. Mae Kilgore (from the 1957 film ''[[ | The animation disguises itself as a normal stock photo of a dining room; depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers. The viewer is then asked to find something wrong in it, however, there are no actual errors in the picture itself. After about 30 seconds the screen cuts to a grainy black and white photo of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth, accompanied by audio of Mrs. Mae Kilgore (from the 1957 film ''[[wikipedia:From Hell It Came|From Hell It Came]]'', played by [[wikipedia:Linda Watkins|Linda Watkins]] screaming, albeit muffled, distorted and echoing. The animation repeats afterward, | ||
The [[screamer]] face itself originates from gettyimages<ref>https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-screaming-close-up-royalty-free-image/BD4381-001</ref>, and was created by photographer 'Gandee Vasan' in 1998 as a stock photo inspired by "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. This stock image was also used (albeit heavily edited) for the cover of the 2001 film "Maniacts." | The [[screamer]] face itself originates from gettyimages<ref>https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-screaming-close-up-royalty-free-image/BD4381-001</ref>, and was created by photographer 'Gandee Vasan' in 1998 as a stock photo inspired by "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. This stock image was also used (albeit heavily edited) for the cover of the 2001 film "Maniacts." | ||
Jaybill himself is the one who doctored the stock photo into its now ''infamous'' form we know today, starting with this screamer and then the ones succeeding it.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020716184225/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=57</ref> | Jaybill himself is the one who doctored the stock photo into its now ''infamous'' form we know today, starting with this screamer and then the ones succeeding it.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020716184225/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=57</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
<blockquote><u>NOTE</u>: This section is about the histories (and the rise) of WWWTPs.</blockquote>The Screamer gained traction rather quickly, with 5,000 page views an hour (6 million per month) shortly after it's release.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609145230/http://jaybill.com:80/article.php?articleID=82</ref> Ironically, many viewers did not get the "joke" the first time... so Jaybill made an alternate version of the screamer titled the "observationally impaired" edition. This version added a bunch of text pointing out all the things it wasn't, then would warn the viewer the scare was coming with big arrows saying "this is it! this is what is wrong! the original image was just to deceive you!" This version is currently lost.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020802050810/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=79</ref> | <blockquote><u>NOTE</u>: This section is about the histories (and the rise) of WWWTPs.</blockquote>The Screamer gained traction rather quickly, with 5,000 page views an hour (6 million per month) shortly after it's release.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609145230/http://jaybill.com:80/article.php?articleID=82</ref> Ironically, many viewers did not get the "joke" the first time... so Jaybill made an alternate version of the screamer titled the "observationally impaired" edition. This version added a bunch of text pointing out all the things it wasn't, then would warn the viewer the scare was coming with big arrows saying "this is it! this is what is wrong! the original image was just to deceive you!" This version is currently lost.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020802050810/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=79</ref> | ||
