Worth1000 is an image manipulation and contest website accessible at worth1000.com. Worth1000 opened on January 1, 2002 and hosts over 139,000 unique images made in theme contests such as "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World" and "Stupid Protests". In mid-2003, Worth1000 began hosting similar competitions for photography, text, and multimedia.

The website was designed by Avi Muchnick and Israel Derdik. They named it after the old saying "A picture is worth 1000 words".

Worth1000 is one of the most popular sites of its kind and served more than 5.5 million distinct visitors in September 2004. They have also been featured in many different publications, TV shows, and radio including PC Magazine, Good Morning America, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Weekly World News, Detroit Free Press, TechTV, USA Today and many others.

Terms and Worthisms

• BANHAMMER - What will strike you if you break the rules, resulting in a ban.
• LOSASIG - The signature awarded by the winner of a Head-to-Head match to the loser of the match (written humiliation).
• LOSATAR - The avatar awarded by the winner of a Head-to-Head match to the loser of the match (animated humiliation).
• WORTHISM - Slang terms / made-up Worth1000 terminology that appear on the site.

Similar Concepts

Similar sites exist (i.e.: Photoshop contests and competitions), including:

• B3TA
• Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday

External links

• http://www.worth1000.com
• Invisible World 14
• Pinocchio 7