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I'm pretty sure I've found the original release date of this screamer. I got it from the earliest comments people left on it on Jaybill's website.
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(I'm pretty sure I've found the original release date of this screamer. I got it from the earliest comments people left on it on Jaybill's website.)
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|maker = Jaybill McCarthy
|maker = Jaybill McCarthy
|type = Flash animation
|type = Flash animation
|date = 2002 (possibly 2001)
|date = February 2002
|imagecaption = The cause of PTSD starts on this "image.". Before the screamer.}}
|imagecaption = The cause of PTSD starts on this "image.". Before the screamer.}}
'''What's Wrong With This Picture?''' or '''What's Wrong?''' or '''What's wrong with this image?''' is an infamous internet [[screamer]] created by Jaybill McCarthy, originally hosted on his personal website "Jaybill" in early 2002, (possibly late 2001).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020317063912/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=49</ref>  Many copies have since appeared on the internet, and is an example of an early e-mail chainletter prank.
'''What's Wrong With This Picture?''' or '''What's Wrong?''' or '''What's wrong with this image?''' is an infamous internet [[screamer]] created by Jaybill McCarthy, originally posted to his personal website "Jaybill" on February 27th, 2002.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020815165932/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=66</ref>  Many copies have since appeared on the internet, and is an example of an early e-mail chainletter prank.
==Content==
==Content==
The animation disguises itself as a normal stock photo of a dining room; depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers.  The viewer is then asked to find something wrong in it, however, there are no actual errors in the picture itself.  After about 30 seconds the screen cuts to a grainy black and white closeup of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth putting her hands around the sides of her face with her pinky fingers raised, accompanied by audio of Mrs. Mae Kilgore (from the 1957 film ''[[wikipedia:From Hell It Came|From Hell It Came]]'', played by [[wikipedia:Linda Watkins|Linda Watkins]]) screaming, albeit muffled, distorted and echoing. The animation repeats afterward,  
The animation disguises itself as a normal stock photo of a dining room; depicting an open window, table, chairs, paintings, and flowers.  The viewer is then asked to find something wrong in it, however, there are no actual errors in the picture itself.  After about 30 seconds the screen cuts to a grainy black and white closeup of an eyeless woman with a wide mouth putting her hands around the sides of her face with her pinky fingers raised, accompanied by audio of Mrs. Mae Kilgore (from the 1957 film ''[[wikipedia:From Hell It Came|From Hell It Came]]'', played by [[wikipedia:Linda Watkins|Linda Watkins]]) screaming, albeit muffled, distorted and echoing. The animation repeats afterward,  
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<blockquote><u>NOTE</u>: This section is about the histories (and the rise) of WWWTPs.</blockquote>The Screamer gained traction rather quickly, with 5,000 page views an hour (6 million per month) shortly after it's release.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609145230/http://jaybill.com:80/article.php?articleID=82</ref>  Ironically, many viewers did not get the "joke" the first time... so Jaybill made an alternate version of the screamer titled the "observationally impaired" edition.  This version added a bunch of text pointing out all the things it wasn't, then would warn 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!" This version is currently lost.<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 WWWTPs.</blockquote>The Screamer gained traction rather quickly, with 5,000 page views an hour (6 million per month) shortly after it's release.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020609145230/http://jaybill.com:80/article.php?articleID=82</ref>  Ironically, many viewers did not get the "joke" the first time... so Jaybill made an alternate version of the screamer titled the "observationally impaired" edition.  This version added a bunch of text pointing out all the things it wasn't, then would warn 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!" This version is currently lost.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020802050810/http://www.jaybill.com/article.php?articleID=79</ref>


In February 2002 Funshack released their own [[screamer]], which featured a living room and the need to figure out what's wrong with it; after 10 seconds, a mouse (from Liquid Generation's [[Optical Illusion]]) appears with a shriek.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070704220607/http://www.funshack.com/scary.html</ref> A Spanish version of the original was released in March 2002 by Jaca101 on the website Jaca101.com.<ref>web.archive.org/web/20020329184718oe_/jaca101.com/efectooptico.swf</ref> Another comparable version also exists, but there are no links to it, though ScreamerCentral uses the .swf file as a showcase video for “What's Wrong?”, which can be accessed here.<ref><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWOti9M3ek</nowiki></ref> [[Liquid Generation]] made a series of WWWTP in April 2002, only 3 animations were made altogether. from April to December, many copies began to appear, though most of them were deleted.  
Some time after this [[screamer]] was made, Funshack released their own version, which featured a living room and the need to figure out what's wrong with it; after 10 seconds, a mouse (from Liquid Generation's [[Optical Illusions (Liquid Generation)|Optical Illusions]]) appears with a shriek.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070704220607/http://www.funshack.com/scary.html</ref> A Spanish version of the original was released in March 2002 by Jaca101 on the website Jaca101.com.<ref>web.archive.org/web/20020329184718oe_/jaca101.com/efectooptico.swf</ref> Another comparable version also exists, but there are no links to it, though ScreamerCentral uses the .swf file as a showcase video for “What's Wrong?”, which can be accessed here.<ref><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWOti9M3ek</nowiki></ref> [[Liquid Generation]] made a series of WWWTP in April 2002, only 3 animations were made altogether. from April to December, many copies began to appear, though most of them were deleted.  


Weasel Circus also created their own version of WWWTP in 2003. In 2009, Amendia uploaded a [[YouTube]] video which has reached over 1.7 million views. WikiHow also used the [[screamer]] as a reference to “Internet Screamers”.<ref>WikiHow's "[https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-an-Internet-%22Screamer%22-Video Recognize an Internet Screamer Video]"</ref> though many [[screamers]] like this began to appear, they aren’t well-known in the new era.
Weasel Circus also created their own version of WWWTP in 2003. In 2009, Amendia uploaded a [[YouTube]] video which has reached over 1.7 million views. WikiHow also used the [[screamer]] as a reference to “Internet Screamers”.<ref>WikiHow's "[https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-an-Internet-%22Screamer%22-Video Recognize an Internet Screamer Video]"</ref> though many [[screamers]] like this began to appear, they aren’t well-known in the new era.
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