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|title = Winterrowd.com | |title = Winterrowd.com | ||
|image = Winterrowd.png | |image = Winterrowd.png | ||
|imagecaption = The site that started a crazy of scares, pranks and reactions... | |imagecaption = The site that started a crazy of scares, pranks, and reactions... | ||
|maker = [[Jeremy Winterrowd]] | |maker = [[Jeremy Winterrowd]] | ||
|type = Website | |type = Website | ||
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|status = Offline | |status = Offline | ||
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'''Winterrowd.com''' formerly '''Bloggits''' was a well-known website full of [[screamer]]s made by a man named [[Jeremy Winterrowd]]. There are games and videos designed to trick people to get scared, like [[The Maze]], [[Hit the Dot]], [[Optical Illusions]], [[Swearing Baby]] and more. | '''Winterrowd.com''' formerly '''Bloggits''' was a well-known website full of [[screamer]]s made by a man named [[Jeremy Winterrowd]]. There are games and videos designed to trick people to get scared, like [[The Maze]], [[Hit the Dot]], [[Optical Illusions]], [[Swearing Baby]], and more. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
The front page layout is similar to an old [[YouTube]] from 2007, the front page layout has blue headings, thumbnails, and some other sections that make the user scream like "scary" animations, games, and pictures there is a forum page, which complements the website. | The front page layout is similar to an old [[YouTube]] from 2007, the front page layout has blue headings, thumbnails, and some other sections that make the user scream like "scary" animations, games, and pictures there is a forum page, which complements the website. | ||
Additionally, [[The Ultimate Maze|some]] [[Super Mario Bros.|of the]] screamers are not created by Jeremy himself, the people who | Additionally, [[The Ultimate Maze|some]] [[Super Mario Bros.|of the]] screamers are not created by Jeremy himself, the people who made them contacted Winterrowd to advertise their game and credited themselves on the end portion of the screamer, however, in March 2020, the website was parked. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The website was registered in 2001<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200325213240/https://whois.epik.com/winterrowd.com The release date] of the website</ref> During these early days, the website was used to host Winterrowd's resume<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031216055240/https://www.winterrowd.com/ The 2003 archive] of Winterrowd.com</ref> and did not contain any screamers. In 2005, however, Jeremy Winterrowd decided to host [[The Maze]] and start a blog on the website; the blog posted both Winterrowd's new [[screamer]] creations as well as more personal topics such as Winterrowd crashing his Jeep. This continued until 2010 when Winterrowd removed the personal blog and changed the website into exclusively a screamer website, | The website was registered in 2001<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200325213240/https://whois.epik.com/winterrowd.com The release date] of the website</ref> During these early days, the website was used to host Winterrowd's resume<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031216055240/https://www.winterrowd.com/ The 2003 archive] of Winterrowd.com</ref> and did not contain any screamers. In 2005, however, Jeremy Winterrowd decided to host [[The Maze]] and start a blog on the website; the blog posted both Winterrowd's new [[screamer]] creations as well as more personal topics such as Winterrowd crashing his Jeep. This continued until 2010 when Winterrowd removed the personal blog and changed the website into exclusively a screamer website, also known as "Winterrowd Solutions". | ||
On April 1st, 2014, Winterrowd's website was down for maintenance, leading him to announce that his website was crashed due to many people having visited the site (for [[screamers]]) half an hour, it was then backed up a few hours later. | |||
===Bloggits=== | ===Bloggits=== | ||
Bloggits was Winterrowd's second website, it was registered on April 13th, which tended to be a platform for his games and animations, it was registered | Bloggits was Winterrowd's second website, it was registered on April 13th, which tended to be a platform for his games and animations, it was registered when he lives in Arizona, However, it was then redirected to his original website in November 2006 and removed all of the links that lead to Bloggits. | ||
===Winterrowd Prank Contest=== | ===Winterrowd Prank Contest=== | ||
Winterrowd also held a contest in that same year called the ''Winterrowd Prank Contest'', where you had to record the reactions of someone and upload them to the website and he would upload them to a channel named [https://www.youtube.com/user/prankcontest prankcontest]. The website was getting bigger and bigger every time there was a screamer uploaded, depending on how famous it was and how many reaction videos there ever were. The website was also very controversial, considering that it had many scary games and videos, but overall, it had | Winterrowd also held a contest in that same year called the ''Winterrowd Prank Contest'', where you had to record the reactions of someone and upload them to the website and he would upload them to a channel named [https://www.youtube.com/user/prankcontest prankcontest]. The website was getting bigger and bigger every time there was a screamer uploaded, depending on how famous it was and how many reaction videos there ever were. The website was also very controversial, considering that it had many scary games and videos, but overall, it had an outstanding reputation, and it can be considered the father of all screamers, it was announced on its website in April 2007.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070406172347/http://www.winterrowd.com/ The announcement] of the contest.</ref> | ||
===Popularity=== | ===Popularity=== | ||
The website was featured in ''[[wikipedia:America's Funniest Home Videos|America's Funniest Home Videos]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Soup|The Soup]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Web Junk 20|Web Junk 20]]'', and MSNBC's Countdown. | The website was featured in ''[[wikipedia:America's Funniest Home Videos|America's Funniest Home Videos]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Soup|The Soup]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Web Junk 20|Web Junk 20]]'', and MSNBC's Countdown. | ||
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<u>NOTE</u>: The following website contains lots of [[screamers]]! | <u>NOTE</u>: The following website contains lots of [[screamers]]! | ||
* <s> | * <s>winterrowd.com</s> | ||
* web.archive.org/web/20161130055507/winterrowd.com/ | |||
=== All Winterrowd Games === | === All Winterrowd Games === | ||
* [[:Category:Winterrowd|''Winterrowd category page'']] | * [[:Category:Winterrowd|''Winterrowd category page'']] | ||
