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What are these images called so we know to avoid them?
by xwdv 6y ago
What are these images called so we know to avoid them?
- jml7c5 6y agoCan't speak to the images themselves, but the sites are usually referred to as "shock sites": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site
- shagie 6y agoThey were known as a "shock site" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site ) The Wikipedia page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx is text only and without any ascii art. I'm amused that https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx also exists.
- arp242 6y agoOh, Goatse is that site. I remember when I was about 15, before pop-up blockers were really a thing, someone sent me a link to that and it would keep opening popups with that image and you couldn't close all of them :-/ Sometimes people look back to the internet of the 90s with too rose-coloured glasses IMO.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoHey at least if you were on a 90s Mac your computer was probably unresponsive and you could skip to the inevitable force reboot. And browsers didn’t save sessions so you were in the clear as soon as you got to tabula rasa.
- shagie 6y agoFor some memories... http://www.bash.org/?search=goatse&sort=0&show=25 http://www.bash.org/?search=goatse&sort=0&show=25 I am personally most amused by #38659
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI’m honestly not sure you’re asking in good faith so I’m not going to add more (and if you are asking in good faith you’ve got plenty in responses to go on). Also I never knew the name of the one that’s permanently burned into my brain and I’m so glad I don’t.
- drivebymy 6y agoThere were quite a few, lemonparty and meatspin spring to mind, and the various incarnations of "two x one y".