Crazy Ghost
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
- ↑ thetuburo.com/2021/12/28/crazy-ghost-gazou
- ↑ w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/128.html
- ↑ Likely a combination of キャー (kyā), an exclamation of surprise, and 子 (ko) a common female name ending.
- ↑ dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E5%AD%90%E3%81%95%E3%82%93
- ↑ 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
