Shock site
A shock site is a website intended to be offensive or shocking to most viewers, containing material many people would consider frightening and/or extremely distasteful and crude, generally of a pornographic, scatological, or extremely violent nature. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images, particularly shock images.
Links to shock sites are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website. Discussion site Slashdot has changed their software (Slash) to display the domain name of a linked URL in brackets following the link (example: "CLICK HERE [wikipedia.org]"), so that any link to goatse.cx or a similar shock site would be immediately visible as such. The change has been effective in reducing the number of links to shock sites even though people began to set up mirror sites and use public CGI redirect scripts run by sites such as Yahoo! or Slashdot itself in an attempt to circumvent the measure.
Major shock sites
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Goatse.cx
Goatse.cx is one of the most well-known shock sites,[1][2] and perhaps the most infamous. The image which appears on the site's index, hello.jpg, depicts a man stretching his anus with his hands.
The site was taken down by the NIC .cx authority in January 2004[3], but there are several mirrors of the original site.
Best known mirror for the site at the moment is: http://goatse.ca
External Link: Archive.org's archived copy of the page before it was shut down
Tubgirl.com
Tubgirl.com was a redirect to a picture, tubgirl.jpg, containing a masked, naked woman lying in a bathtub, buttocks raised with her legs over her head, projecting a fountain of liquid from her anus. Before the launch of tubgirl.com, this image was featured in a rotten.com story "Fecal Japan"[citation needed] claiming that the subject matter is allegedly popular in Japan. The image displayed on tubgirl.com is marked as having been previously posted on consumptionjunction.com. The url address www.tubgirl.com now redirects to Consumption Junction, and displays the image with a "rate me" box, where viewers can rate the image from 1 to 10.[2]
External Link: http://www.tubgirl.com
Last Measure
Last Measure is a shock site that utilizes flash to spawn endless pop-ups featuring many well-known shock pictures as well as NSFW audio. It also attempts to forward the site's address through your mail application. Previous versions utilized javascript. Related sites Ljabuse.com and denisepaolucci.com were based upon GNAA's Last Measure shock site engine. They feature classic Last Measure images with crudely photoshopped faces of Denise Paolucci, a LiveJournal employee that heads up the Abuse team.[4]
External Link: http://www.lastmeasure.com
Lemonparty.org
Lemonparty.org contains a picture, lemonparty.jpg, of three elderly men lying on a bed naked, engaged in kissing and oral sex. The site was defunct for a number of years, then restored.[5] It once had a link that stated "click here to wash your eyeballs", which led to a picture of a kitten. In addition, the background has turned gray and there are links below leading to the "Official lemonparty chatroom" and "Brad.com", another shock site. It now also features advertisements and the song "If You Want to be Happy" by Jimmy Soul plays in the background. The site often goes offline for short periods of time.[4]
External Link: http://www.lemonparty.org
Hai2U.com
Hai2u.com features an image of a woman vomiting while performing fellatio on a man sitting in a lawn chair, taken from a photo shoot by Max Hardcore. The actress uses the stage name Catalina and is featured in several of Hardcore's films. The site has the text "HAI2U!!!1 :)" in bold at the top of the page. The page is written in w3c validated XHTML 1.0 Transitional markup, and contains a link visible only in the Internet Explorer browser to make it your homepage. It was at one point highly ranked on a Google image search for "blowjob".[citation needed] [2]
External Link: http://www.hai2u.com
Porkhole.net
Pork Hole Contains a picture of an elderely, obese man recieving oral sex from a man below him. Below the image is a chat room, with other website links. Below that is 3 other images, the first is a dwarf, and a capacious sized man holding his genitals. The picture to the right of it is of 2 men together in bed with gratifying expressions on their face. The last image is of an obese man sitting in a chair. Includes over modulated audio "Always look on the bright side of life *Whistle*" (presumably sampled from the ending of the movie Monty Python Life of brian).
External Link: http://www.porkhole.net
Other shock sites
- Bottleguy.com is a picture of a man with a large glass bottle in his anus. External Link: http://www.bottleguy.com
- Penis Bird is an image of a Scarlet Macaw perched on a man's erect penis. The page contains a note from a Slashdot reader asking that the image be relocated (if not removed) because Slashdot trolls are using hyperlinks to send unsuspecting users there.[6] The page also mentions a crude ASCII art version of the penisbird, which appears from time to time on Slashdot. External link: http://smoke.rotten.com/bird
- Teletorrents.org contains a picture of one man's hand immersed in a second man's anus. Large text below the picture reads "Surprise, asshole!". The domain of the site is purposely misleading, indicating that it contains BitTorrent files. External link: http://www.teletorrents.org
- Brad.com Made by the same man who owns lemonparty.org. This has a flash video of 2 men 69ing.
External Link: http://www.brad.com
Former shock sites
- Workse.cx, a clone of the popular Goatse.cx page, featuring a televised Japanese comedian (Rakkyo Ide) being anally penetrated by what the site claims is a kangaroo, but according to the on-screen graphic is a dog of Tosa breed. The website appears to have been shut down by the Christmas Islands authorities. External link: An Archived copy of the page before its closure
- ShrewsburyCollege.co.uk was a site containing a photograph of two men, one being anally penetrated by the other with what appeared to be a bicycle pump. In addition to that, both were covered in feces. The name of the site was taken from the Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, which used to be known by the acronym SCAT. The website has now been replaced by the actual Shrewsbury College website. This shock site was perhaps the only one to have appeared in a print newspaper, featuring in a front-page article of the Shrewsbury Chronicle in December 2005.[citation needed]
Anti-shock sites
In recent times, many trolls, instead of linking to shock sites (which can lead to disciplinary consequences, such as banishment from the board in which the link was posted), prefer a tradition known as the anti-shock tradition, where trolls link to traditionally non-offensive material, disguised as shocking or pornographic material. The anti-shock site oralse.cx (which features images of a kitten and dachshund), a parody of Goatse.cx, is among the most well-known examples of this, along with lemonparty.org.uk, a parody of Lemonparty.org (featuring cartoon lemons having a party). Also, Leekspin.com (a parody of Meatspin featuring Orihime Inoue from BLEACH flipping a leek around) exists. More recent cases of the anti-shock phenomenon involve links to images of family pets and to mary-kateandashley.com, the web site of the Olsen twins.
See also
References
- ^ "The Hands of God", snopes.com.
- ^ a b c Official Forum Rules at Hentai Palm.
- ^ "Lazy Guide to Net Culture:NSFW", from news.scotsman.com.
- ^ a b GNAA "press release" about Last Measure
- ^ Lemonparty site info at archive.com.
- ^ Letter from Slashdot.org, (along with picture).