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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. | '''So Intimidating!!!''' (Chinese: 好刺激啊!!!; pinyin: ''Hǎo cìjī a!!!'') is a [[screamer]] webpage hosted on a Chinese PDA resource website, coolce.com, as a prank around 2002. | ||
== Origin | == Origin == | ||
=== Entry === | === Entry === | ||
The screamer page is under the path | The screamer page is under the path /web/kongbu.htm.<ref>"kǒngbù" is [[wikipedia:Pinyin|pinyin]] for the word 恐怖, meaning "terror" or "horror".</ref> 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: | ||
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=== Screamer === | === Screamer === | ||
Upon opening, it will display a [[GIF]] of a slightly tilted, pale woman's face with blinking red eyes and blood dripping down the corner of her mouth. An audio file of woman's maniacal crying and laughing sound will play 10 times in the background. Under the image, there is some text in a red font: | |||
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In addition to that, there is | In addition to that, there is embedded [[wikipedia:Javascript|JavaScript]] code that will make the webpage window fly across the screen. However, this behavior is only available on old versions of Internet Explorer, and the screen size is hardcoded for either 640x480 or 800x600. | ||
== Spread == | == Spread in Japan == | ||
This screamer | This screamer gained popularity in Japan alongside [[Crazy Ghost]]. However, due to the encoding mismatch between [[wikipedia:GB_2312|GB 2312]] and [[wikipedia:Shift_JIS|Shift-JIS]], the Chinese text became garbled. As a result, this screamer is known as 挫缶爾亜<ref>Kanji in order is 挫 (''za'', "discourage"), 缶 (''kan'', "can") 爾 (''ni'', "you" or "thou"), 亜 (''a'', "Asia").</ref> (zakan'nia) in Japanese circles,<ref>w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/1003.html</ref> which is likely the corrupted version of 好刺激啊 and has no meaning in either Chinese or Japanese. | ||
== References == | == References == |