Shock site
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A shock site is a website intended to be offensive or shocking to most viewers, containing frightening and/or extremely distasteful and crude content of a pornographic, scatological, or grotesquely 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: "Wikipedia [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.
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List of shock sites
Goatse.cx
Goatse.cx is one of the most well-known shock sites,Template:Fact 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, but there are several mirrors of the original site.
External Link: http://goatse.ragingfist.net - An "unofficial" mirror
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"Template:Fact 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.
External link: 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.Template:Fact It is notoriously difficult to exit once visited.
WARNING! This link attempts to cause undesired scripts to run.
External link: http://halflife2.zoy.org
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. 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
- List of shock sites – After a multitude of unverifible entries were removed, a revert war began, resulting in the article being protected while in its original state (with a few previously uncited entries now cited however)
- List of shock sites/Uncited – The version of the above article prior to the removal of the uncited entries; transfered a seperate article when uncited entries were removed from the original article for the purpose of giving opportunity for the citation of its entries
- Prank flash
- Internet trollde:Schockerseite
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