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'''So Intimidating!!!''' (Chinese: 好刺激啊!!!) is a screamer webpage hosted on a Chinese PDA resource website, coolce.com, as a prank around 2002.

== Origin and spread ==

The screamer page is under the path ''/web/kongbu.htm'' (filename is the PinYin for "恐怖" which means scary). Links to this page can be seen as early as March 2022 on the homepage snapshot. On the navigation bar under the website title, the last two items all points to the screamer page:

The page has a black background. Upon opening, it will display a GIF of a slightly tilted, pale female face with blinking red eyes and blood dripping down her mouth corner which would later be used in a virus called [[Srerrt.exe]]. An audio file of woman's maniacal crying and laughing sound will be played for 10 times in the background. Under the image, there are some text in red font:

In addition to that, there is an embedded JavaScript code that will make the webpage window fly across the entire screen. However, this behaviour is only available on old versions of Internet Explorer, and the screen size is hardcoded for either 640x480 or 800x600.

== Spread ==

This screamer also gained popularity in Japan, along with [[Crazy Ghost]]. However, due to the encoding mismatch between Chinese GB2312 and Japanese Shift-JIS, all the Chinese become garble. Thus, this screamer is known as "挫缶爾亜"<ref>https://w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/1003.html</ref> (likely the garbled text for "好刺激啊") in Japanese circles, which doesn't have any meaning in Chinese.