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+I don’t know if anne,jpg is really silent since I never visited it, but my friend tells so. If you have personal experiences with the site, you could help by confirming if it is silent or not.
About
A screamer is a practical joke that is meant to scare the viewer abruptly. Such sites often include screaming noises and pop-up scary pictures. Due to it’s nature, several reaction videos can be found all over YouTube in which the common form is jump scare. Screamers are a very common trolling schemes used often in bait-and-switch.
Screamers fall into different categories:
Flash – Created using flash player:
Example : Scary Maze Game
Video – Screamer presented in video:
Example : Ghost Car
GIFs – A screamer in GIF format:
Example : anne.jpg+
Origin
The earliest known screamer currently is Kikia. uploaded in the year 2003, the video has been passed around China and Taiwan until the whole world. Ever since then, more screamers are being made such as the Scary Maze Game.
Flash
These types of screamers are usually created using flash player. The most common form of flash screamers are ones that are presented as a game, where the game makes a player concentrate into a certain spot, and after a while a scary picture will suddenly pop-up along with a scream.
Scary Maze Game
This is one of the most famous screamer in the internet, originated in year 2003, it makes the player play a maze, upon level 3, the player will focus on the tight lines, and upon passing through it, a picture of Regan McNeil (played by Linda Blair) in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist appears. For the full article click here.
Color Blind Test
It makes the player focus on several Ishihara Tests, after a while, the pop-up will appear.
Video
These certain screamers are presented in video, that can be found throughout YouTube. Usually they are calm in the start, but will scare the viewer in the end.
Kikia
One of the very first known screamers, and like the usual ones, it starts peacefully, a little boy sitting in a poorly drawn field, the animation continues, then a face from the game Fatal Frame II is shown, along with blood curling scream.
Ghost Car
This is also a famous screamer, the ghost car is one of the several k-fee commercials, it features a car peacefully driving, then the car disappears and a zombie pop-ups in the screen. Full article : Ghost Car.
GIFs
These screamers are presented in GIF, they are usually silent although some contains sound.
Reaction Videos
Due to the scary nature of these screamers, several reaction videos have been posted on YouTube.