Shock site

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A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive 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, or extremely violent nature. Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, or video clip, or a small gallery, and 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. Other shock sites are merely websites that openly display shocking material.

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Examples of shock sites

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Goatse.cx

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Goatse.cx[1] was one of the best-known shock sites that existed, featuring an image, hello.jpg, of a man stretching his anus with his hands.

The original domain goatse.cx was deactivated by the NIC .cx authority in January 2004, but several mirrors sites are currently up and running hosting the original content[2] (including goatse.ch, goatse.fr, goatse.ca as well as goatse.cz which also manages to preserve some of the original phonetic appeal).

2 Girls 1 Cup

Main article: 2 Girls 1 Cup

2 Girls 1 Cup (or Cupchicks) is a famous shock site/viral video. It starts off with a woman sucking on another woman's breast. It then immediately shows one of the women defecating into a clear glass ice-cream cup. The two women are then shown licking the contents together. It then cuts to one of them pushing some of the matter around with their tongue in and out of her mouth, eventually swallowing it. One of the women then gags herself, vomiting into the cup while the other one licks the contents. They then take turns vomiting into each other's mouths and the video finishes with them kissing with a lot of fecal matter between their faces. 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.[3] Among these is a video showing comedian Joe Rogan's reaction to the clip[4] and a parody video featuring John Mayer[5]. The video was also brought up in an episode of VH1's Best Week Ever[3].

Ogrish.com

Main article: Ogrish.com

Ogrish.com was a shock site that contained pictures of domestic incidents such as car crashes, murders, and various other accidents. It also hosted images from the ongoing Iraq War, other conflicts, and acts of terror. Due to the nature of the content of Ogrish.com, its domain registrar revoked the rights to use the domain. The German telecommunications company Level 3 Communications blocked the IP of the website from their server in Frankfurt, leading to many users across Germany and Central Europe being unable to view the content. [6]

The media hosted on Ogrish.com was, according to the manager of the site Dan Klinker, retrieved by the site's staff, or was submitted freelance by emergency workers and others who had access to such media. Ogrish.com used scripts that monitored jihadist websites for uploads of videos and images, and also crawled the internet for footage.[7]

Examples of popular material on the site included the decapitation of American contractor Nick Berg, which had been downloaded fifteen million times, the execution of a Russian soldier in Chechnya, and the murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. According to the site, average daily hits ranged in the low hundred thousand, and sometimes rose to 750,000 on a "bad news" day.[7]

Ogrish.com was incorporated into LiveLeak.com on October 31, 2006.

Rotten.com

Main article: Rotten.com

Rotten.com is the flagship site of a network of sites containing shocking material[8]. A well known picture hosted on the site is the Penisbird, an image of a Scarlet Macaw parrot perched on a man's erect penis. The original image is hosted on the site, along with a note from a Slashdot reader asking that the image be relocated (if not removed) because Slashdot trolls were using hyperlinks to send unsuspecting users there, and/or making text based representations of the image and posting them as comments.[9]

Lemonparty.org

Lemonparty.org contains an image of three elderly males 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.[10][11][12] The site has also been referenced on the NBC Television Show, 30 Rock, as a pun on the name Liz Lemon, Tina Fey's character.

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References

  1. ^ "The Hands of God", snopes.com.
  2. ^ Archive.org's archived copy of the pages accessible through the domain goatse.cx before it was pointed to http://www.blackraven.cx/
  3. ^ a b The Best Week Ever, VH1.
  4. ^ Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
  5. ^ 2 Guys 1 Cup with John Mayer from john mayer
  6. ^ McCullagh, Declan (February 3, 2003). German registrar bans Web site. CNET News.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
  7. ^ a b Harkin, James (January 13, 2006). Shock and gore. Financial Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
  8. ^ Rotten.com: our gapingmaw.com and other sites shut in anticipation of 2257. BoingBoing. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  9. ^ Letter from Slashdot.org, (along with the picture)
  10. ^ "Lemon Party." eBaum's World.
  11. ^ "Lemon Party." Talkshow with Spike Feresten at MySpace.
  12. ^ It’s Not An Old Man Orgy If It’s Not a Lemon Party! Best Week Ever (VH1) official blog, September 2007.