Talk:Internet screamer

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedy deleted as pure vandalism or a blatant hoax, because... I see this on the internet several times. It's not a hoax. Maybe it still qualifies for notability, but I don't know. --Alex2564 (talk) 19:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The problem is that the body of the article contained a linkfarm; Wikipedia articles shouldn't be a random collection of sample URLs. The only site mentioned read as a promotional writeup of the site, and the link was dead anyways. The image used is likely to be deleted, as it's on commons with no compatible license listed. That leaves one sentence of actual content - which is original research, completely unsourced. I will grant that it is a legitimate term; but there's simply not enough salvageable here to warrant an article at this time. Better to scrap and wait for a serious article to be created (the original author is also responsible for the hoax/joke article Ameristralia, so there's a very low likelihood that author is going to work to develop a serious encyclopedia entry here ... I know, AGF ... but given their track record, GF is low to nil here). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:10, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'm the creator of this article. I know my Ameristralia article was pointless, but that was when I wasn't active on Wikipedia. Recently I've been very active, as you can see from my contributions. I am going to improve this article soon. Thanks! Newyorkadam (talk) 03:02, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam

I don't agree with deletion; it is a notable internet phenomenon. BinarySquareRoot (talk) 11:40, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Expansion

There's an article on the subject on the spanish wiki es:Screamer but their sourcing standards are well below ours but if someone who is bilingual could take a look at translating anything salvageable it would be appreciated. --Woden.Ragnarok (talk) 21:01, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Moose and Teletubbies

Perhaps it's just a badly written description, but "a Christmas present box shakes visibly and then surprise, a moose jumps out" doesn't sound much like the out-of-nowhere rotten zombie face of a screamer. I can't find any source describing the ads online, or even a video to see what it's actually about.

Slendytubbies might be a good example if it started off as an innocuous game that suddenly flashed into something horrific, but from videos online it seems to start in the same dark, spooky wood as Slender: The Eight Pages that it's parodying. Slender itself doesn't seem to be an example of the screamer meme (I can't find any reviews that draw the comparison), presumably because the game is about suspense rather than surprise - the player knows exactly what's going to happen, just not when. --McGeddon (talk) 07:58, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Notability

No topic is notable without substantial coverage in independent reliable sources that directly discuss the subject. Currently, this article is based entirely on one (possibly) reliable source and random, unsourced purported examples.

First and foremost, this article needs sources. I'll take a look and see what I can find later today. If there isn't enough discussion of the subject in reliable sources, I will put the article up for deletion.

The example farm has to go. Inclusion of examples is often contentious. There are a few ways to approach it:

• 1) An exhaustive list - This is appropriate for finite lists: countries in Europe, presidents of the United States, people who have been to the International Space Station, etc. It will not work here as such a list would always be a random collection of examples that various editors add based entirely on what they have seen.
• 2) A list of notable examples - This usually works with longer lists where there are clearly notable members and a lengthy list of non-notable ones: people from New York City, for example, would include celebrities, politicians, etc. but would not include my Aunt Martha because she simply is not notable (sorry, Aunt Martha!). To my knowledge, there are no "internet screamers" that have their own articles (there are certainly notable companies that have used them, but that puts us back in the first category).
• 3) Representative examples - This one is tricky to navigate, but is the only real option I see here. We are looking for examples where independent reliable sources discuss the example specifically as representative of the subject. For instance, a MacGuffin is a widely used plot device. We cannot possibly list all of them and there really aren't articles about the devices themselves. However, independent reliable sources discussing MacGuffins often point to the falcon in The Maltese Falcon, Rosebud in Citizen Kane and a few others as representative examples. Including them helps readers understand the subject without cluttering the article with pointless examples.

With all of this in mind, the unsourced examples have to go. Whether or not you like the ads or think they are great examples is not the point. We need independent reliable sources that discuss them as examples of "screamers". We don't have that. - SummerPhD (talk) 12:50, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

My search turned up nothing useful. A generic search turns up a pile of self-published sources. A "News" search turns up nothing at all. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:03, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Game Boy Camera?

I think this might be stretching it a bit, but can we include the Game Boy Camera's "Run" option? It too pops up scary images. RocketMaster (talk) 20:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Do reliable sources call it an "internet screamer"? - SummerPhD (talk) 01:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)