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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 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 [[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. Jaybill himself doctored the original photo into it's infamous screamer form.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020716184225/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=57</ref> | 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> | ||
==History== | ==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. Ironicially enough, many viewer 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> | <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. Ironicially enough, many viewer 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> | ||
