Shock site
A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive, disgusting and/or disturbing to its viewers, containing materials of high shock value which is also considered distasteful and crude, and is generally of a pornographic, scatological, extremely violent, insulting, painful, profane, or provocative nature.[1] Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, or video clip, or a small gallery, and are often passed around via e-mail or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website (a bait and switch). Most shock sites are merely websites that openly display shocking material.
Some shock sites have also gained their own subcultures and have become internet memes on their own. Goatse.cx featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site's hello.jpg,[2] and a parody of the image was also shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for the then recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3] A shock video known as 2 Girls 1 Cup also quickly became an internet phenomenon, with videos of reactions, homages, and parodies widely posted on video sharing sites such as YouTube.[4]
Examples of shock sites
Goatse.cx
Goatse.cx[2][5] was one of the best-known shock sites, featuring an image of a man stretching his anus with his hands.[2][6] The site featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site,[2][5] and a parody of the image was also shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for the then recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3][7]
The original domain goatse.cx was deactivated by the NIC .cx authority in January 2004, but several mirror sites are currently up and running hosting the original content[8] (including the only currently active Top-level domain mirror: goatse.fr).
2 Girls 1 Cup
2 Girls 1 Cup is a famous shock site/viral video portraying coprophilia and emetophilia. The site has garnered a great deal of attention on internet forums and video sites, spawning various reaction videos and parodies such as songs and animated versions.[4] Among these is a video showing comedian Joe Rogan's reaction to the clip[9] and a parody video featuring John Mayer.[10] The video was also brought up in episodes of VH1's Best Week Ever,[4] Family Guy and The Inbetweeners. Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming "the new 'tubgirl' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a San Francisco Chronicle article.[11]
One Man, One Jar
One Man, One Jar is a shock video with many mirror sites (including a number of top-level domains). It features a man sitting on a glass jar (being used as a butt plug), with the jar shattering after it has been fully inserted, due to the weight of the man's body on the jar, followed by quick attempts to remove the pieces of glass (while losing blood from glass wounds in his rectum). [12] The site and video have been the subject of tributes, such as the song 'One Man, One Jar' by 'Products of Monkey Love' [13], and the video was used for a widely-reported hack of Justin Bieber's YouTube channel in July 2010.[14][15]
Stile Project
Stile Project, which won a Webby Award in 2000 for Weird site and was a People's Voice winner,[16] evolved into a website with a lot of pornographic and extreme material; Wired referred to the website as a "shock site" in a 2001 article.[1]
Lemonparty
Lemonparty.org contains an image of three elderly men in a bed kissing and having oral sex. The image has been referenced in obscure and sometimes literal contexts in the media, such as a sketch on Talkshow with Spike Feresten,[17] and dialogue on 30 Rock.[18]
Tubgirl.com
Tubgirl.com is a redirect to a picture, containing a masked, naked woman lying in a bathtub, buttocks raised with her legs over her head, projecting a fountain of orange/yellow liquid from her anus onto her face. Before the launch of tubgirl.com, this image was featured in a rotten.com story "Fecal Japan"[19] claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan.
See also
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References
- ^ a b Kahney, Leander. "Gruesome Movie Sparks Outrage." Wired. August 29, 2001. Retrieved on September 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Kirkpatrick, Stewart (2004-06-09). "Lazy Guide to Net Culture: NSFW". The Scotsman.
- ^ a b Herrmann, Steve. "Shock tactics." BBC. June 5, 2007. Retrieved on February 23, 2009.
- ^ a b c The Best Week Ever, VH1.
- ^ a b "The Hands of God". Snopes.com. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
- ^ Pawan Kumar (2008-11-11). "Goatse.cx; Distended?". Yaziyo News.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Johnson, Bobbie (June 8, 2007). "UPDATED: B3ta hacks the BBC with Olympic goatse". Guardian Unlimited. London. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ Archive.org's archived copy of the pages accessible through the domain goatse.cx before it was pointed to http://www.blackraven.cx/
- ^ Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
- ^ 2 Guys 1 Cup with John Mayer from john mayer
- ^ "The top 10 sex memes of 2007 From convictions to hoaxes, Violet Blue looks at 2007's most-clicked items." San Francisco Chronicle. December 27, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2008.
- ^ [1] The Most Fucked Up Thing I've Ever Seen : Karnivool, Blurt-online, September 2010.
- ^ http://www.last.fm/music/Products+of+Monkey+Love/_/One+Man,+One+Jar
- ^ http://www.murrayreport.com/2010/07/justin-bieber-youtube-channel-hacked.html
- ^ http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/04/youtube-hacked-justin-bieber-videos-targeted/
- ^ Mulligan, Judie. "STARS TURN OUT TO HONOR THE BEST WEB SITES OF THE YEAR AT THE WEBBY AWARDS 2000." Webby Awards. May 11, 2000.
- ^ It’s Not An Old Man Orgy If It’s Not a Lemon Party! Best Week Ever (VH1) official blog, September 2007.
- ^ Alt, Eric. "30 Rock: Season Two." Maxim. Accessed October 19, 2008.
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20021004051657/vatican.rotten.com/fecaljapan/