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The animation has been reuploaded on multiple websites including [[YouTube]], where it has gained many views. The screamer has also been featured on ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (used there as a substitute screamer in place of [[Regan MacNeil]] in [[The Maze]]) numerous times. Screamers of this kind became more and more popular as they began to circulate on the Internet. A few more examples of this are [[What's wrong with this picture?]], [[Zoeken]], [[Forest-wmv]] and [[Basement Ghost]]. | The animation has been reuploaded on multiple websites including [[YouTube]], where it has gained many views. The screamer has also been featured on ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (used there as a substitute screamer in place of [[Regan MacNeil]] in [[The Maze]]) numerous times. Screamers of this kind became more and more popular as they began to circulate on the Internet. A few more examples of this are [[What's wrong with this picture?]], [[Zoeken]], [[Forest-wmv]] and [[Basement Ghost]]. | ||
The screamer gained so much traction in its day, that it managed to land a spot in the New York Times on April 22, 2002. The article [[hosts]] a small interview with Jaybill, who describes both his website and the screamer which was made "exclusively for the purpose of scaring my girlfriend''."''<ref>" | The screamer gained so much traction in its day, that it managed to land a spot in the New York Times on April 22, 2002. The article [[hosts]] a small interview with Jaybill, who describes both his website and the screamer which was made "exclusively for the purpose of scaring my girlfriend''."''<ref>"https://web.archive.org/web/20150527213218/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/business/compressed-data-why-is-this-room-so-popular-shh-you-re-about-to-find-out.html"</ref> | ||
Interestingly enough, the very *first* screamer [[reaction video]] on the internet may have originated alongside this screamer. In mid-2002, Jaybill posted an article on his website in regards to a video sent to him from a subject reacting to this screamer. The subject/victim of the video is named "Jose."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609151218/http://jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=94</ref> | Interestingly enough, the very *first* screamer [[reaction video]] on the internet may have originated alongside this screamer. In mid-2002, Jaybill posted an article on his website in regards to a video sent to him from a subject reacting to this screamer. The subject/victim of the video is named "Jose."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609151218/http://jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=94</ref> |