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Revision as of 17:18, 30 January 2024 by Nemesis6051 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox |title = Crazy Ghost |image = ScreamerWarning.png |creator = Unknown |type = Screamer image |date = 2002 }} '''Crazy Ghost''' (Japanese: クレイジーゴースト, ''kurejī gōsuto'') also known as '''Red-Eyed Woman''' (Japanese: 赤目女, ''akame onna'') is an image of a pale-faced, red-eyed woman that is used in many screamers. In China, the image is known as 一只可愛的女鬼寵物 (Pinyin: ''Yī zhī kě'ài de nǚ guǐ chǒngwù'', “cute fem...")
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Crazy Ghost (Japanese: クレイジーゴースト, kurejī gōsuto) also known as Red-Eyed Woman (Japanese: 赤目女, akame onna) is an image of a pale-faced, red-eyed woman that is used in many screamers. In China, the image is known as 一只可愛的女鬼寵物 (Pinyin: Yī zhī kě'ài de nǚ guǐ chǒngwù, “cute female ghost pet”).

Origin and Spread

Crazy Ghost originated on a Korean site, myhome.hananet.net/~crazyghost/goto.htm, as early as January 2002. Upon opening the page, the website would open a pop-up containing the image accompanied by a scream.

In October 2002, the image was published to two subpages of a private website belonging to a Chinese university student, vip.6to23.com/jpgman/gui/mm.htm and vip.6to23.com/jpgman/gui/gui.htm. Upon accessing the mm.htm page, the user is met with a dialog box that says 音量调到最大了吗?? ("Is the volume turned all the way up?"). After clicking the OK button, the Crazy Ghost image appears alongside g.wav, an audio file consisting of a female scream. The page opens another dialog box when the user attempts to leave the page, which says 哟,怎么你的胆量还可以啊 ("Well, you've got a lot of nerve"). Unlike mm.htm, gui.htm had no image or sound file in its source code, and was likely designed to to redirect the user to mm.htm.[1]

In 2009, the image was reprinted on a Japanese website called 魔を祓う部屋 (ma o harau heya, "Room for Exorcising Demons") under the name クレイジーゴースト.[2] A moeified version of Crazy Ghost, called キャー子さん (Kyāko-san),[3] was posted on Futaba Channel.[4][5]

Notes

  1. thetuburo.com/2021/12/28/crazy-ghost-gazou
  2. w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/128.html
  3. Likely a combination of キャー (kyā), an exclamation of surprise, and 子 (ko) a common female name ending.
  4. dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E5%AD%90%E3%81%95%E3%82%93
  5. According to w.atwiki.jp/2jiwiki/pages/592.html, the earliest record of キャー子さん dates back to January 8th, 2008.

Links

NOTE: The following links contain a screamer image!

  • lohas.nicoseiga.jp/thumb/423455i?
  • Further reading (Japanese): thetuburo.com/2021/12/28/crazy-ghost-gazou
    • dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
    • w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/513.html

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