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I saw it the first time as a kid. My friends and I tried to trick each other to see it too. I'm fine. We're fine.
by technics256 3y ago
I saw it the first time as a kid. My friends and I tried to trick each other to see it too. I'm fine. We're fine.
- lucideer 3y agoAre we really though...
- RIMR 3y agoThat's right, this is a pro-showing-buttholes-to-children community.
- throwewerewr2 3y ago[flagged]
- andybak 3y agoStrictly speaking it's anti-not-showing-buttholes-to-children community but that's a distinction to debate at the next Libertarian conference.
- Anonbrit 3y agoIsn't it the anti-anti-showing-buttholes-to-children community? Nobody wants to force you to show buttholes to children, but you should feel free to if desired
- michaelt 3y agoGoatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. /s
- bregma 3y agoJust wait until you see what my friends can do with one cup.
- Condition1952 3y agoTwo girls, one up!
- adolph 3y agoDidn’t Andres Serrano do a version of it?
- say_it_as_it_is 3y agoYou can't unsee it. You know exactly what it looks like. It etches into long-term memory like a scar that never fades.
- technics256 3y agoHaha yes. We even found a magic eye/autostereogram of goatse once. Was pretty epic. "Hey come check out this amazing magic eye". Boom!
- henriquez 3y agoThat’s half the fun. The other half is what the OP did.
- bombcar 3y agoDoes it though? Maybe we should run a survey asking various questions (which side is the ring? etc) and see if collective memory is actually correct.
- mcv 3y agoAfter tubgirl I vowed to never click on links people said I shouldn't. I've never seen goatse because of this rule. (I have been rickrolled a lot, but that's fine.)
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt's a butthole. It's not some traumatic thing.
- nerevarthelame 3y agoIt's a picture of "a butthole" in the same way that a picture of a shotgun wound to the gut is "a stomach."
- meristohm 3y agoI both find this hole thread interesting & entertaining, and I have yet to see the goatse image despite knowing about it since 2005 or so. I saw too many things as a child that are indelibly etched into my awareness and I practice filtering now so to minimize distractions. However, context matters quite a bit! If someone Rick-rolled me with this I hope I'd have a good humor about it. And there's always therapy, via whatever medium works.
- derefr 3y agoConsider: what is it exactly that makes parents want to stop their children from bearing witness to swearing? I can't imagine that it's that they think children can be be damaged in some way by knowing how to curse. I imagine it's more that children will think these words are fun new toys and will constantly repeat them, enjoying how much of a reaction they provoke. And that the parent 1. will feel sad that the child now has this verbal crutch that they may end up leaning into in the future in place of learning how to speak eloquently; and 2. will feel ashamed when others in the community see the child swearing, and assume that it's a behavior that the parent inculcated into them by swearing constantly in front of them, rather than a behavior the parent tried their best to prevent — but which the child inevitably picked up somewhere outside the home. There's probably something analogous here, right? Being exposed to "graphic imagery" is not really damaging per se. Rather, seeing such things just shifts a child's potential repertoire of behaviors/responses slightly (think: being desensitized enough to such imagery to find it funny to use to troll others in a school computer lab), in a way that might be assumed by others to have been a direct consequence of the parent's actions (e.g. by having sex / watching porn in front of their children.) Such behaviors by the child will reflect badly on the parent's parenting, even if they were actually purely the result of the child's self-motivated idle curiosity. In short, these things — a child swearing, a child sending pictures of gross buttholes to other children — are conflationary triggers for community shaming of the parents: they cause behaviors in children that could well have been caused by bad parenting, and so tar the parents with the brush of being bad parents, whether or not the parent is actually bad. Parents don't tend to like being shamed by the community for bad parenting, when they don't believe themselves to be bad parents; so they treat any such "conflationary triggers" for that shaming, as taboos, things to avoid their children witnessing, even if those things aren't "damaging."
- hk__2 3y agoYou feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others. This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things can say "I went through XYZ and I’m still alive". That doesn’t make this XYZ something you would recommend to anyone.
- mrguyorama 3y agoIf seeing a mans butthole causes you serious psychological trauma, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than seeing a mans butthole. Everyone has a butthole. Do kids never look in the mirror? Do kids never explore bodies? We spent 100k years or more looking at each other in the nude and somehow our species didn't all go insane. Nakedness probably doesn't hurt anyone.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoEveryone has a butthole but most people's buttholes don't look like that guy's butthole. I hope.
- hk__2 3y agoThat’s not simple nakedness, otherwise the HN discussion on this entry would have been much less heated.
- squidbeak 3y agoPresuming every conceivable avenue for surprise will lead to trauma, what's left for anyone to enjoy?
- immibis 3y agoNone. You must be a perfect model of boring corporate mediocrity, or else you're harming the children.
- LanceH 3y agoSelection bias of one data point versus no data at all.