Liquid Generation

Liquid Generation is an online entertainment website founded by Meal Schpeal in Laredo, Texas in 2000. The website offers various genres of content, including animations, flash games, quizzes, and videos. One of its notable features was the Sabotage screamers, a series of online pranks disguised as legitimate flash applications, games, or videos that culminated in a jump scare to startle or embarrass the viewer. Today, the website is no longer available, but an unofficial YouTube channel hosts a large selection of these screamers.

History
Liquid Generation is an online entertainment website founded by Meal Schpeal in Laredo, Texas on March 3, 2000. The website rapidly gained a following for its original animations, flash games, quizzes, and videos, featuring recurring series such as Angry Leprechaun, My News, Whod You Rather, and Masterpiece Movie Reviews. On the day of its founding, the website released its first animation, Thrashers: Rock Roots Series Part I, and underwent redevelopment in the following months. Liquid Generation sported a logo featuring a girl's eyes and eyebrows with the carbon-type font "LiquidGeneration" in the middle from 2003 to 2004. The logo was later replaced with the current logo, a blue ball with a grinning face. Today, the website boasts 11 genres, including Action, Adventure, Board, Casino, Arcade, Racing, RPG, and more. In September 2016, the original liquidgeneration.com homepage was no longer available and redirected to their LiquidGenerationTube YouTube channel instead. However, in 2020, the website was brought back, although none of the sabotages remain.

Sabotage screamers
One well-known feature of Liquid Generation was their long line of Sabotage screamers. These were a series of online pranks which masqueraded as Liquid Generation was notable for their Sabotage screamers, a series of online pranks masquerading as legitimate flash applications, games, or videos, which culminated in a jump scare to startle or embarrass the viewer. These screamers were appropriately categorized under Sabotage or Pranks on the homepage, but people were encouraged to share them with unsuspecting friends or colleagues, with some pranks even designed specifically for email.

Most of these screamers ended with a screen saying "You've been Sabotaged!" and a logo depicting a ninja's face, followed by a cheerful "Liquid Generation: Sabotage!" jingle. A cartoon ninja, serving as the series mascot, then jumped down from the top of the screen and said "Click here for more Sabotage!" in a Japanese accent, before being crushed by the link to the Liquid Generation homepage. Many of these pranks have been leaked to other game websites, often with no indication that they are screamers. An unofficial YouTube channel now hosts footage of a large selection of these screamers since they are no longer available on the homepage.

E-Cards
Liquid Generation also provided another feature in 2002 called Liquid Generation E-Cards. This series of Sabotage pranks had a similar theme, usually in the form of fake e-cards presented in Windows 98/ME style to trick people who received them by email into believing they were standalone applications. Unlike other Sabotages, the point of most of these pranks was less about scaring the viewer and more about causing embarrassment in the workplace, usually by displaying inappropriate messages with loud sound cues to gain unwanted attention.

List of Sabotages by Liquid Generation

 * ADHD Quick Assessment Test
 * Annoy the Hindu
 * Are You Going To Heaven Or Hell? (The path of savior)
 * Ball Drop E Card
 * Bobbing for Apples
 * Celebrity I.Q. Test
 * Color Vision Deficiency Test
 * Cute Kitten Video
 * The Cutest Kids in Costumes
 * The Cutest Puppies on the Web
 * The Da Vinci Code - The Real Truth
 * Divine Visions of Mary Jesus
 * Dress Up the Snowman
 * Early Liquid Generation E-Card Sabotages
 * Extreme Video: Car Crash
 * Fire Safety with Ready Freddie the Fire Teddy
 * Halloween Safety Tips with Jack O. Lantern
 * The Hand Eye Coordination Test
 * Have a Happy Valentine's Day
 * Heaven or Hell
 * How to Carve a Pumpkin Like a Pro
 * How to Cook a Turkey
 * How to Cook the Perfect Hamburger
 * How to make your own Beer-Powered Air Conditioner
 * The Illusion of Bloody Mary
 * Image Morph E Card
 * Inkblot Test
 * King of the Hill: Find Lady Bird
 * Love Card Songs
 * M.C. Escher Examinations
 * Make A Egg
 * Online Hearing Test
 * Online Hunting
 * Optical Illusions (Liquid Generation)
 * Origami Fortune Teller
 * Pin the Tail on the Donkey
 * The Pope's Blessing
 * Sabotage: What's Wrong With This Picture
 * Satanic Messages in Music
 * Secret Michael Jackson Audio Tape
 * Sex Drive Sabotage
 * The Sex Test
 * Sexy Suntan
 * Skin Cancer Test
 * Spanish Castle Illusion
 * Sports Fitness Test
 * Stress Test
 * Test Your Health
 * Trick or Treat
 * The Trip Cost Calculator
 * Unlock the Mystery of Mary Shaw
 * When Will I/You Die?
 * The White Christmas Game

Links
NOTE : The following websites contain lots of screamers!
 * All Liquid Generation screamers
 * liquidgeneration.com
 * Liquid Generation YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/LiquidGenerationTube
 * web.archive.org/web/20160504114150/www.liquidgeneration.com/