LUE Trinity

A shock site is a website intended to be offensive to most viewers. Usually it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images. Shock sites are often of varying severity; this article discusses the contents of notorious shock sites.

Distribution of links to shock sites

Links to shock sites are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to Slashdot and other discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website. In order to end these practices, Slashdot has changed the software 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. To circumvent the measure, people began to set up mirror sites and use public CGI redirect scripts run by sites such as Yahoo! or Slashdot itself.

The images of notorious shock sites have also occasionally been used for vandalism on Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has disabled the ability to embed images on external servers by merely typing their URL, in part because of these acts of vandalism. It is now required to upload such images to the Wikipedia server first, which can only be done by registered users.

"Goatse" and "tubgirl" along with "the harlequin fetus" have become known as the LUE Trinity on the message boards at GameFAQs.com after they gained infamy there. Tubgirl and Goatse are both autoflagged words at the site now because of this, and providing links to any of the sites is considered a major offense.

Goatse.cx

The identity of the man is largely unknown, though according to some sources he is an Italian man who has been practicing anal expansion/anal stretching for years, as a hobby. The picture belongs to a series featuring the man demonstrating his anal stretching ability. Some have claimed that he is actually a hermaphrodite, and he is actually pulling open his vagina. The developer of this theory later admitted that the theory was false. While his real name is unknown, he has been nicknamed "Bob Goatse" and "The Goatse Man". Another name attributed to the Receiver is "Yam Sthruss," originating from an email in the Feedback section from a person with this name claiming that hello.jpg is of him and asking for its removal. Most recently it has been claimed that the Goatse man is a man named Kirk Johnson, a well known practitioner of anal expansion.

According to webarchive, hello.jpg was given the caption "stinger". From June to July 2000, the site was replaced for that period with the text "What are you doing here?". The title at the time was "ten seconds down".

After complaints to NIC.CX (the regulation authority of .cx domains), the site goatse.cx was taken down Friday, January 16, 2004. (Goat.cx and Hick.org/Goat remain active.) See http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/goatse.cx11.01.2004.pdf for the official complaint by an individual named Rhonda Clarke, http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/aup.noticeofcomplaint.pdf for the official note to the domain's registrant and http://www.netdns.cx/DOMAIN_whois.cfm?domain2=goatse&submit=Whois for the current state of the goatse.cx whois entry. A petition has even been launched to bring goatse.cx back: http://www.petitiononline.com/Goatse/petition.html. The suspension of goatse.cx was discussed in detail on Kuro5hin. And on StileProject, you'll find a RIP Goatse cartoon since then.

For Halloween 2003, the picture was changed to an image of the picture carved into a pumpkin. (See http://linux.is.analdeluxe.de/ for a copy of that pumpkin picture.) The other sections (and the mirror sites) weren't altered.

The website has at least five alternative locations - hick.org/goat/, retropay.com/goatse/goatse.cx/, web.archive.org/web/20030623201150/http://goatse.cx/, and synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/, which have the same contents as Goatse.cx, and goat.cx, which is apparently an older version of Goatse.cx. Both mirror sites are still up. This website is another mirror location.

Goatse.cx has four sections, three of which have images of questionable taste:

• The "Receiver" section, showing the picture (hello.jpg) described above of the man stretching his anus. Before the picture is the text in black, "The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!" It also has links to http://www.dolphinsex.org/ and http://www.urinalpoop.org/. It once had a link to http://www.biganal.com. The title of this page is "Eh".
• The "Giver" section, showing a picture (giver.jpg) of a man on a boat, which has been artificially altered (with XV according to the XCREATOR tag within the JPEG itself) to appear that he has an oversized penis. title of this page is "Whoa".
• The "Feedback" section, where e-mails are exhibited.
• The "Contrib" section showcasing visitor contributions to the site. Contrib has additional variations of hello.jpg and giver.jpg, as well as other images and files. The title of this page is "Contributed Work". Warning: The page begins with an ASCII version of hello.jpg.
  • bush.jpg is a picture of United States President George W. Bush in his office with hello.jpg displayed on a laptop computer on his desk.
  • collage-holyzoo.jpg is a collage of faces of different people affiliated with holyzoo.com and thinkattack.com, and a closeup on the gaping anus of the man in hello.jpg. The image contains the text "Special Thanks for being there for a laugh. From your friends at http://holyzoo.com and... http://THINKATTACK.com"
  • goatse-wwii.jpg is a picture of a large snowball, with "goatse.cx" written on the side, chasing Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo.
  • giver2.jpg is a picture of the Goatse giver holding his oversized penis.
  • magiceye.jpg is a Magic Eye picture. After about 16 seconds, the image changes to that of a 256 color version of hello.jpg. It attempts to fool viewers by exploiting the fact that, although the server sends a MIME type stating the filename is a JPEG image, the image is in fact an animated GIF.
  • warning.jpg is a warning sign picture telling people not to go to goatse.cx
  • goatsex.swf is a Flash Movie, set to the hook from "MMMBop" by Hanson. The movie shows a hand being stuck into he anus of a man performing another hello.jpg-like pose.
  • Goatman.mp3 is an mp3 Music file. It takes up 518 KB.
  • Foxy_goatse.mp3 is another mp3 music file, a parody of the Jimi Hendrix song Foxy Lady. It takes up 1061 KB.
  • goatsecx-winamp.zip is a ZIP file containing a Winamp skin. It takes up 313 KB.

People sometimes link to goatse.cx images not shown on the actual webpages, such as loopback.jpg, a picture of a man looping his penis into his anus. There are also numerous other files in the directory http://www.goatse.cx/contrib/.

The image hello.jpg originates from a set of 40 images depicting the man performing various anal sexual acts. In those images, the man used a peg to stretch his anus. The images were located by the Stile Project and are also available from the "Contrib" section of the goatse.cx website under the filename gap.zip. hello.jpg is actually the third file in the archive, gap3.jpg.

Goatse.cx once an IRC server located at irc.goatse.cx, which showed the ASCII hello.jpg in the MOTD. The server is part of the IRC network Evolnet.

For a period in February 2004, the website Goat.cx displayed the message "This site has been shutdown temporarily due to a spam that references it. The spam was not sent out by the sites owner but the site is being shut down in order to help prevent profit from the spam." Directly linking to hello.jpg showed a red picture of a red background with the text in black, "This site is temporairly down". Below it was text in blue that read, "Do not click any links".

Geographic location

External links

• http://goatse.cx -- WARNING! Although the domain has been revoked as of this writing, it may have been reinstated and therefore this URL may take you directly to the picture described above.
  • http://www.goatse.cx/mail.html -- "Feedback" subsection with reader email selections. This page does not contain pornographic images.
• http://www.stileproject.com -- originally located the image set. WARNING! This site contains pornographic and potentially offensive materials.
• http://www.fc-uk.org.uk/goatse/index.html -- A satirical interview with Bob Goatse.
• http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A20210/plp56/ — Another interview with an Italian man who claims to be the Goatse Man. WARNING! This page contains pornographic material similar to that at Goatse.cx.
• http://mjt.nysv.org/ has a goatse tribute section.

Parodies

References to Goatse.cx have become a ubiquitous in-joke in some Internet communities, many of which have created parodies of or tributes to hello.jpg and the other images on the site:

• The following two parodies are hosted on Yahoo! Geocities.
  • http://www.geocities.com/bobmaloogakathy/frogsecx/receiver.html --The "Receiver" hello.jpg here is a Kermit the Frog doll with an anus stuck on it. The "giver" giver.jpg shows a man taking off his pants and exposing his pubic hair. "Feedback" leads to http://hanniballecter.blogspot.com/ and "Contrib" leads to http://darko.blogspot.com/.
  • http://www.geocities.com/electabuzz2002/lite.htm -- Was originally like the Goatse.cx reciever section, but with hello.jpg replaced by the ASCII version found in the "Contrib" section of Goatse.cx. It has since been changed so that the "Reciever" and "Giver" are replaced by crude line drawings.
• The following parodies all originate from the same IP address, hosted in the Houston, Texas metro-region:
  • http://oralse.cx -- The "Pussy" hello.jpg is that of a kitten, and the "Wiener" giver.jpg is that of a dachshund. Oralse.cx also has a "Contrib" section of more shots of the cat and the dog, as well as modified versions of the aforementioned pictures. It also had a "Feedback" section with its own letters.
  • http://analse.cx — This site has bunny.gif, which is a picture of bunch of cartoon rabbits, each with a pancake on its head, whom open their anuses in imitation of hello.jpg. This site is also a spoof of Hampsterdance.
• Throatse.cx, another parody. For the "Receiver" hello.jpg, it showed a wide open mouth, and for the "Giver" giver.jpg, it showed an ice cream. The "Contrib" section had an ASCII version of the Throatse hello.jpg, and two flavors of the "Throatman", a takeoff of the "Goatman" MP3 song. Throatse also had a "Feedback" section. The site has since been taken down due to lease expiring.
• http://trollse.cx — a parody of the front page of goatse.cx, replacing the original picture with a picture of open source figure Eric S. Raymond. The giver is now a man with a regular-sized penis. The "contrib" only has an ascii picture of Raymond. This website is hosted in the Washington, DC metro-region. The site links to Slashdot and Slashnet. It states that another parody, Cowse.cx, will be coming soon.
• Xbo.cx, which had the Goatse.cx image altered so that it looks as if the man is covering his anus with a Microsoft XBox, and with a X-Box controller covering his penis and testicles. The page is titled "The Butcher". Others were "The Baker", which was "The Butcher" but with an Atari 2600 in place of the X-Box, and "The Candlestick Maker", which had the Goatse.cx giver with a joystick in place of the oversized penis. The website has been taken down due to the lease expiring, and was hosted in the Auckland, New Zealand metro-region. The X-Box picture (though not the Atari 2600 or the joystick) can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/20020526122729/http://www.xbo.cx/.
• http://www.goatse.org -- an illustration of Mario from the video game Super Mario 64 bending over, doctored to show an anus to the viewer.
• http://www.massivewang.com/prime - The Prime Number Shitting Goatse.cx Man - a parody of the Prime Number Shitting Bear, with the widely-known hello.jpg image replacing the bear.
• GODSE.CX "God is goatse-ing us" - an astral image whose details have apparently been modified to resemble goatse.cx
• conese.ath.cx A re-enactment of hello.jpg using an ordinary traffic cone. Non-pornographic.
• bartse.cx - For the "Reciever" page, it has a tatoo of Bart Simpson from The Simpsons, placed around a man's belly button to resemble hello.jpg. The "Giver" is a picture of a bat with a penis. The "Contrib" section shows the original hello.jpg ascii, but with the text "bartsex" replacing "goatsex".
• http://www.goatse.fi - This shows a picture of hello.jpg doctored onto a pack of Liggette & Myers cigarettes with a caption in Finnish: "Irvistä elämälle, tupakkayhtiöt kiittävät. #work @ IRCNet" which means "Grimace at life, the tobacco companies thank you. #work @ IRCNet"
• http://forge.evula.net/fc/fc_goatse.jpg - An altered Family Circus comic
• http://mjt.nysv.org/humor/garfield.jpg - An altered Garfield comic
• http://picserv.beyond-reality.nl/img.php/325565/325565/GIF/1063362556//8n3d - Another altered Garfield comic
• http://www.redcoat.net/pics/couldsecx.jpg - A picture of the sky pulling a hello.jpg
• http://www.thyassa.com/images/tom_goatse.jpg - A non-pornographic picture of a man grabbing a tear in a back leg of his blue jeans.
• http://www.digitaldfw.com/uberzine/hax.asp?clip=32 - A modified video showing a man named "Goatse" being elected as the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas
• http://www.thinkattack.com/userFiles/replies/16899.jpg A picture of Saddam Hussein stuck inside the Goatse man in an altered hello.jpg
• http://www.thinkattack.com/userFiles/replies/16900.jpg A modified picture of Saddam Hussein having his mouth checked, replacing his mouth with the hello.jpg anus and two hands stretching it.
• http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/5433/ The Goatse.cx dance Macromedia Flash program.

Tubgirl.com

Tubgirl.com is a redirect to a picture (tubgirl.jpg) of a naked woman contorted in a bathtub, buttocks and anus upward, projecting a high fountain of liquid feces from her anus into her masked upward face at the bottom of the tub, between her legs.

Tubgirl.com is owned by Redcoat.net, a picture website. The Redcoat.net domain was registered by "absolute redcoat" in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Redcoat.net server is located in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, New Jersey.

Before the launch of tubgirl.com, the relevant image was featured in a rotten.com story "Fecal Japan" explaining that the subject matter is allegedly popular in Japan. The copy of the image displayed on tubgirl.com, however, originated from http://www.consumptionjunction.com

External links

• http://www.tubgirl.com/ -- This address takes you directly to the picture described above. It is a redirect to http://www.redcoat.net/pics/tubgirl.jpg

Harlequin Fetus

The many sites that have pictures of the harlequin fetus syndrome aren't intended to be shock sites. Many internet trolls link to such pictures anyway to shock people.

External link

• http://www.asylumeclectica.com/malady/archives/harlequin.htm - An example picture of a child afflicted with the Harlequin fetus syndrome

Lemonparty.org

Originally, the text, omfg crazy! Click here to wash your eyeballs! lemonparty was under the picture. The site featured a link (labeled "Click here to wash your eyeballs") to a picture of a kitten.

External links

• http://www.lemonparty.org/ -- This address takes you directly to the picture described above.
• http://mirbsd.org/ -- This address redirects to the above mentioned Lemonparty.org site (formely even to Goatse.cx itself) and is intented for people that are trying to go to the website of the MirBSD project. The MirBSD project is actually located at http://mirbsd.de/

Adorable Bunnies

The "Jebus Loves You" section is often used as a shock site.

The words "Ebony loving?" are seen before the images. 1.jpg shows a picture of a man excreting diarrhea feces. 2.jpg shows the feces being extracted by a syringe. 3.jpg shows a man injecting the feces into his penis. The fourth, 4.jpg shows the syringe empty. 5.jpg shows the man masturbating the feces out of his penis. 6.jpg shows a naked fat woman.

External links

• http://www.adorablebunnies.com/
• http://www.adorablebunnies.com/JEBUS%20LOVES%20YOU/

Bakla.net

Bakla.net has six images. The first three images (ann12.jpg, ann17.jpg, ann18.jpg) are of a woman in a white dress against a black background. The next two images (China2.jpg, China1.jpg) are of a transgendered woman wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans. The final image (China3.jpg) is of the woman naked, sitting on a bed, revealing her penis and breasts. Note that "Bakla" is a tagalog (Filipino) derogatory term for homosexual, basically equivalent to "queer" in English. The person shown on the page is from the Philippines.

Bakla.net is hosted on Yahoo! servers, which are located in Sunnyvale, California

External links

• http://www.bakla.net -- This address takes you directly to the pictures described above.

Last Measure

The page immediately shown when taken to the site has a picture of a woman with feces on her face. Goatse's hello.jpg is set as the page's background picture.

External link

• http://nero-online.org/lastmeasure/ - This address takes you directly to the site described above. You should not visit it in a Javascript-enabled Web browser. If you do open this website, hold down the Alt+F4 keys in Microsoft Windows (and users running in the GNOME desktop environment), hit Command-Q in Mac OS or figure out how to use another similar key combination to close your browser. Some browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, will block these pop-ups; even so, do not mouse over the button marked "CLICK ME", as this will bypass the pop-up blocking function.

Albino Black Sheep - You are An Idiot Flash

External link

The Pain Series

The Pain Series is a collection of seven JPEGs, each containing a number of shocking images pasted together. It was created by Huge_Midget of the Something Awful forums, whose users commonly use it as a prank, or when someone leeches (directly shows an image without linking to the site, or asking the webmaster's permission) pictures from their websites.

• Pain.jpg shows the Goatse.cx hello.jpg the Tubgirl.com picture, the Harlequin Fetus picture, other gap.zip pictures, a picture of a man eating feces from another man's anus, an anime scene of a "female" android being built, complete with "realistic" parts, a picture of a man with his arm cut off, a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD, and an anime scene of a hermaphrodite centaur with milk coming out of her breasts and semen out of her penises.

The caption "Roofle. Owned. Scrub." is in the picture.

• Pain2.jpg shows Goatse, Tubgirl, Harlequin Fetus, a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD, other gap.zip pictures, an anime scene of a "female" android being built, complete with "realistic" parts, a picture of a man with his arm cut off, scenes of scatological sex, an anime scene of a man performing sexual acts on a mutilated, dead woman, an anime scene of a woman dissected, a picture of a man eating feces from another man's anus, a picture of a woman with a broken neck, an anime scene of a "female" android being built, complete with "realistic" parts, a picture of a man defecating into a pair of tubes, and an anime scene of a hermaphrodite centaur with milk coming out of her breasts and semen out of her penises.

The picture has the captions "Mmm" for the Coprophagia picture. It also has the caption "I hope you like this picture as much as I do."

• Pain3.jpg shows Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemonparty, a picture of a hole being drilled in a man's head, other gap.zip pictures, a picture of a man with his arm cut off, a picture of a child's face that was smashed, a torn-up leg, mutilated genitalia, a picture of a woman with her neck torn, an anime scene of a woman dissected, a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD, an anime scene of a man performing sexual acts on a mutilated, dead woman, an anime scene of a "female" android being built, complete with "realistic" parts, a picture of a man defecating into a pair of tubes, and an anime scene of a hermaphrodite centaur with milk coming out of her breasts and semen out of her penises.

• Pain4.jpg shows Goatse, Tubgirl, a severed head, a picture of a man with his arm cut off, a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD, pictures of disfigured penises, a burnt cadaver, a person with an infected foot, a man with an abnormal penis and scrotum, a man missing his penis, an infected leg without a foot, and a picture of a maggot.

• Pain5.jpg shows Goatse, Tubgirl, the Harlequin Fetus, Lemonparty, a man with his head cut, a disfigured leg, a man with his genitals torn off, a maggot, a picture of an eye surgery, a dissected penis, a picture of a man with his arm cut off, an infected penis, a man eating feces from another man's anus, and a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD.

• Untitled.jpg shows Lemonparty, and other pictures of naked old men and women doing different sexual stunts.

• Awesome.jpg shows Goatse, Tubgirl, a syringe injecting feces into a penis (from Adorable Bunnies Jebus Loves You), pictures of eye surgeries and toe surgeries, a dead man with his head crushed, a dissected penis, a maggot, a closeup of a vagina afflicted by an STD, and a disfigured hand.

External links

• http://www.crazyninjas.org/kittens/ -- The directory where the Pain Series can be accessed.

Wilwheaton.org

Shock sites chosen by random are:

• Goatse (goat.cx)
• Tubgirl
• Last Measure
• Harlequin Fetus
• Lemon Party
• Adorable Bunnies/Jebus Loves You
• Pain Series/Untitled.jpg
• Albino Black Sheep/You are An Idiot Flash
• klerck.org/spin.gif
• 0realstuds.dk/images/np/scat/sp/3/24.jpg
• vyr.us/idiot/index.html

Wil Wheaton's weblog is actually located at http://www.wilwheaton.net/.

External link

Ogrish

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Rate My Goatse

Rate My Poo