What's Wrong With This Picture?

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For other screamers, see What's Wrong With This Picture? (disambiguation).

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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.[1] 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 From Hell It Came, played by Linda Watkins) screaming, albeit muffled, distorted and echoing. The animation repeats afterward,

The screamer face itself originates from gettyimages,[2] 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.[3]

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 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 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."[4]

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."[5]

Trivia

The screamer image made an appearance on a horror film titled Maniacts[6] (also referred to as Maniacs In Love in some territories), it was released in 2001. The plot of the movie revolves around two serial killers, Joe Spinelli (Jeff Fahey) and Beth Windsor (Kellie Waymire) who escape from an asylum and flee to the country in attempt to live a normal life. The film was released by Redrum Entertainment.

Although there are no screamers in the film itself, the cover of the movie features a heavily edited version of the infamous "What's Wrong" image. The woman has a crimson red tongue, metal prongs in her eyes, nose and mouth. The main characters, Joe and Beth, are also seen on her hands. The French release of the film shows a grainier image of the woman with no eyes, much like the infamous edit by JayBill McCarthy.

References

Showcase video

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NOTE: The following animation contains a screamer!

  • tekzoned.com/whatswrong/
  • Raw .swf: winterrowd.com/whatswrong/whats-wrong.swf
  • Rum Design .swf Archive: web.archive.org/web/20050514064626/rumdesign.com/wrong/wrong.swf
  • winterrowd.com/whatswrong
  • Raw .swf from TekZoned: tekzoned.com/whatswrong/whatswrong.swf
  • Showcase Video: youtube.com/watch?v=ULvSymFx94A

Comments

Comments

Anonymous #1
63 months ago
Score 6
Pinky fingers raised? BRITISH!
Anonymous #1
63 months ago
Score 3
Pinky fingers raised? BRITISH!
KawaiiUproarPrincess
12 months ago
Score 1
Newton Pud and Dastardly Vex are both British. (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)
Clener74
62 months ago
Score 42
Even though I know it's just a static image staring at it for long enough still makes me feel certain discomfort.
Anonymous #2
55 months ago
Score 2
such a scary image
Anonymous #7
44 months ago
Score 1 You
I gotta stay up tonight.
Anonymous #3
55 months ago
Score 6
I never knew they were a woman 😳
Anonymous #4
52 months ago
Score 2
The face used in this screamer is actually not that bad. For a few seasons of AFV, the face from this screamer replaces those from "The Maze", "Ghost caught on tape", and "Zoeken".
Anonymous #5
52 months ago
Score 2
i cant look at this image due to ptsd
Anonymous #6
51 months ago
Score 1
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Anonymous #7
51 months ago
Score 1 You
the websites don't work for me
Clener74
49 months ago
Score 0
I added a link to the .swf file as hosted on TeKZoned; you can always download the file itself and run it however is most convenient for you. You can also still view it from the site itself, if you use Ruffle to supplant Flash.
Anonymous #7
50 months ago
Score 0 You
PTSD intensifies
Anonymous #7
50 months ago
Score 1 You
the answer is no curtains
Anonymous #7
50 months ago
Score 1 You
i knew already there were no errors
Stever1009
48 months ago
Score 1
The screamer picture really came from here: https://www....e/BD4381-001
Anonymous #7
46 months ago
Score 1 You
They said in the page for The Maze that they used this face instead of the usual event. But the first clip showed Regan anyway.
Anonymous #7
44 months ago
Score 0 You
its way worse with eyes for some reason
DmitriLeon2000
37 months ago
Score 0
@EvilStick The scream (courtesy of Linda Watkins) was just created for the film.
Anonymous #7
39 months ago
Score 1 You
The scream is presumably taken from the 1957 film From Hell It Came.
DmitriLeon2000
39 months ago
Score 0
The comment above was by me.
DmitriLeon2000
39 months ago
Score 1
Here's the trailer in question:

youtube.com/watch?v=qs4spGb6LRc (SOUND WARNING @ 0:45)

EvilStick
39 months ago
Score 0
Wow great find! I wonder if it was a previously made stock SFX or if it was created just for this film?
Anonymous #7
38 months ago
Score 0 You
this thing started one of the worst fears on the internet
Anonymous #7
38 months ago
Score 0 You
That movie is 65 years old and the game is 21 years old
OCalligator
36 months ago
Score 0
Does anyone have any idea who the eyeless woman is?
OCalligator
36 months ago
Score 0
Y’know, there’s a certain Slipknot song that comes to mind with this screamer. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but I distinctly remember AFV also using the original picture where she has eyes.
ChaseGinnOfficial
22 months ago
Score 0
I still remember that the face from this screamer was the first ever screamer face i came in contact with because of me watching America's Funniest Home Videos when i was younger and it showing a montage of people getting scared by the AFV version of The Maze...i remember when i was a lot younger i had no idea what was even going on during that montage aside from people freaking out at a face i hadn't seen up to that point lol
DrFizzEnthusiast
22 months ago
Score 1
the picture’s sadly not showing up on my end. anyone else have this problem?
Carsonlee0205
20 months ago
Score 1
they say that there is no curtains.

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