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::''For other [[screamers]]'', see [[What's Wrong With This Picture? (disambiguation)]].
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|title = What's Wrong?
|title = What's Wrong?
|image = Ww.jpg  
|image = Ww.jpg  
|imagecaption = The cause of [[wikipedia:Post-traumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] starts on this image.
|maker = Jaybill McCarthy
|maker = Jaybill McCarthy
|type = Flash animation
|type = Flash animation
|date = 2002 (possibly 2001)
|date = February 2002
|imagecaption = The cause of PTSD starts on this "image".}}
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'''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, late 2001.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020317063912/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=49</ref>  Many copies have since began to appear on the internet, and it was an early example of E-mail chainmail/chainletter pranks.
'''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==
==Content==
The animation itself disguises as a normal stock photo of a dining room, depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers - the person 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,  
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 originated from gettyimages<ref>https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-screaming-close-up-royalty-free-image/BD4381-001</ref>, and was created by 'Gandee Vasan' in 1998 as a stock photo based on "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.  This stock image was also used (albeit edited) for the 2001 movie "Maniacts." Jaybill himself doctored the original stock photo into it's infamous screamer form associated with this prank.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020716184225/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=57</ref>
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.''
==History==
<blockquote><u>NOTE</u>: This section is about the histories (and the rise) of WWWTP.</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>  Ironicially, many viewers did not get the "joke" the first time... so the creator Jaybill made an alternate version of the screamer titled the "observationally impaired" edition with a bunch of added text pointing out all the things it wasn't, then warned 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!"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020802050810/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=79</ref>


In February 2002, Funshack released their own [[screamer]], which featured a living room and the need to figure out what's wrong with it; after 10 seconds, a mouse (from Liquid Generation's [[Optical Illusion]]) appears with a shriek.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070704220607/http://www.funshack.com/scary.html</ref> A Spanish version of the original was released in March 2002 by Jaca101 on the website Jaca101.com.<ref>web.archive.org/web/20020329184718oe_/jaca101.com/efectooptico.swf</ref> Another comparable version also exists, but there are no links to it, though ScreamerCentral uses the .swf file as a showcase video for “What's Wrong?”, which can be accessed here.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWOti9M3ek</ref> [[Liquid Generation]] made a series of WWWTP in April 2002, only 3 animations were made altogether. from April to December, many copies began to appear, though most of them were deleted.
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>


Weasel Circus also created their own version of WWWTP in 2003, in 2009 Amendia uploaded a [[YouTube]] video which have reached over 1.7 million views, WikiHow also used the [[screamer]] as a reference to “Internet Screamers”.<ref>WikiHow's "[https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-an-Internet-%22Screamer%22-Video Recognize an Internet Screamer Video]"</ref> though many [[screamers]] like this began to appear, but they aren’t well-known in the new era.
==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]].


==Impact==
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>
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 (also used there as a substitute screamer for Regan MacNiel in [[The Maze]]). 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]].
 
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>


Interestingly enough, the very *first* screamer reaction video on the internet may have originated alongside this screamer.  Jaybill posted an article on his website in mid 2002 of a video sent to him of a subject reacting to his screamer , the subject of the video is named "Jose."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609151218/http://jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=94</ref>
==References==
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==Links==
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*''[[: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]]!
* tekzoned.com/whatswrong/
* tekzoned.com/whatswrong/
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*<s>winterrowd.com/whatswrong</s>
*<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
*'''Where the face is used in [[The Maze]] instead of Regan''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKZa9bwhnA&t=27s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKuearEGfE
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