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::''For other [[screamers]]'', see [[What's Wrong With This Picture? (disambiguation)]].
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|Name = What's Wrong?
|title = What's Wrong?
|Picture = Ww.jpg  
|image = Ww.jpg  
|Maker = Unknown
|imagecaption = The cause of [[wikipedia:Post-traumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] starts on this image.
|Type = Flash animation
|maker = Jaybill McCarthy
|Release date = 2001
|type = Flash animation
|Quote = What's wrong with this picture? It's just a picture of a dining room!
|date = February 2002
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'''What's Wrong?''' was a [[screamer]] Flash animation hosted on [[Winterrowd.com]] in 2001; it is the first "What's Wrong" indexed on this wiki. After a long closure, the animation was taken down along with the entire website, though it can still be accessed using the Wayback Machine.
'''What's Wrong With This Picture?''', also called '''What's Wrong?''' or '''What's wrong with this image?''' is an infamous internet [[screamer]] created by Jaybill McCarthy, originally posted to his website "Jaybill" in February 2002.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020815165932/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=66</ref>  Many copies have since appeared on the internet and is an example of an early e-mail chain-letter prank.
 
==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 with it, however, there are no actual errors in the picture itself.  After about 30 seconds the screen cuts to a grainy black and white closeup of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth putting her hands around the sides of her face with her pinky fingers raised, 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 afterwards,
 
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'' painting 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>


The animation itself disguises as a normal stock photo of a dining room, depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers - the player is asked to find something wrong in it. However, there are no actual errors in it, and after about 30 seconds, the screen cuts into an inverted picture of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth, accompanied by audio of a man screaming. The animation repeats afterward.
==Impact==
{{See Also|Reaction videos}}
The animation has been reuploaded on multiple websites including [[YouTube]], where it has gained many views. The screamer has also been featured on ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (used there as a substitute screamer in place of [[Regan MacNeil]] in [[The Maze]]) numerous times. Screamers of this kind became more and more popular as they began to circulate on the Internet. A few more examples of this are [[What's wrong with this picture?]], [[Zoeken]], [[Forest-wmv]] and [[Basement Ghost]].


The animation has been reuploaded on multiple websites including [[YouTube]], where it has gained many views. The screamer has also been featured on TV shows like ''America's Funniest Home Videos''. Screamers of this kind became more and more popular as they began to circulate on the Internet. A few more examples of this are [[What's wrong with this picture? (YouTube Video)|What's wrong with this picture?]] and [[Zoeken]].
The screamer gained so much traction in its day, that it managed to land a spot in the New York Times on April 22, 2002. The article [[hosts]] a small interview with Jaybill, who describes both his website and the screamer which was made "exclusively for the purpose of scaring my girlfriend''."''<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/business/compressed-data-why-is-this-room-so-popular-shh-you-re-about-to-find-out.html?searchResultPosition=1]"</ref>
 
Interestingly enough, the very *first* screamer [[reaction video]] on the internet may have originated alongside this screamer. In mid-2002, Jaybill posted an article on his website in regards to a video sent to him from a subject reacting to this screamer.  The subject/victim of the video is named "Jose."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609151218/http://jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=94</ref>


The face used in the screamer originally came from a poster for the 2001 movie ''Maniacts''.
==References==
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==Links==
==Links==
*''[[:Category:What's Wrong face|All Screamers using the "What's Wrong" jumpscare image.]]''
*''[[:Category:What's Wrong face|All screamers using the "What's Wrong" jumpscare image.]]''
<u>NOTE</u>: The following animation contains a [[screamer]]!
<u>NOTE</u>: The following animation contains a [[screamer]]!
*<s>winterrowd.com/whatswrong</s>
* tekzoned.com/whatswrong/
* '''Raw .swf''': <s>winterrowd.com/whatswrong/whats-wrong.swf</s>
* '''Raw .swf''': <s>winterrowd.com/whatswrong/whats-wrong.swf</s>
* '''Rum Design .swf Archive''': web.archive.org/web/20050514064626/rumdesign.com/wrong/wrong.swf
* '''Rum Design .swf Archive''': web.archive.org/web/20050514064626/rumdesign.com/wrong/wrong.swf
* '''TeKZoned mirror''': tekzoned.com/whatswrong/
*<s>winterrowd.com/whatswrong</s>
* '''Raw .swf from TekZoned''': tekzoned.com/whatswrong/whatswrong.swf
* '''Raw .swf from TekZoned''': tekzoned.com/whatswrong/whatswrong.swf
*'''Showcase Video''': youtube.com/watch?v=f0VXgx1tegk
*'''Showcase Video''': youtube.com/watch?v=ULvSymFx94A
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