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The site now allows anyone to "purchase a patch of pixels in exchange for ether (the native token of the Ethereum blockchain) and fill it with an ad of their choice". With 6,000 pixels sold, the owner has already made $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel in 2018, according to Vice.<ref><nowiki>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency</nowiki></ref> | The site now allows anyone to "purchase a patch of pixels in exchange for ether (the native token of the Ethereum blockchain) and fill it with an ad of their choice". With 6,000 pixels sold, the owner has already made $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel in 2018, according to Vice.<ref><nowiki>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency</nowiki></ref> | ||
===In Popular Culture=== | ===In Popular Culture=== | ||
Website owners have used the goatse.cx image to discourage other sites from hotlinking to them. Images on the site, such as hello.jpg, have inspired parodies, mirrors, and tributes. Goatse is also a well-known internet meme. In November 2000, A link to ''giver.html'' was added to | Website owners have used the goatse.cx image to discourage other sites from hotlinking to them. Images on the site, such as hello.jpg, have inspired parodies, mirrors, and tributes. Goatse is also a well-known internet meme. In November 2000, A link to ''giver.html'' was added to ''Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture'' book, one of [[wikipedia:Oprah Winfrey|Oprah Winfrey]]'s online message boards, but was shut down after. In that year, an unknown hacker hacked Yankees.com to display the Goatse image after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000. | ||
In [[wikipedia:Doom 3|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil|Resurrection of Evil]]'', there's an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'') in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels to display a similar image of Goatse in level 3. However, three arcade games (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) were replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" from the original game in the [[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition|BFG Edition]]. | In [[wikipedia:Doom 3|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil|Resurrection of Evil]]'', there's an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'') in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels to display a similar image of Goatse in level 3. However, three arcade games (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) were replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" from the original game in the [[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition|BFG Edition]]. | ||
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The [[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]], the known creators of [[Last Measure]], created a grey-hat hacker group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. The group also used the image as a way to troll, such as adding the image to [[Last Measure]], a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and more. | The [[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]], the known creators of [[Last Measure]], created a grey-hat hacker group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. The group also used the image as a way to troll, such as adding the image to [[Last Measure]], a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and more. | ||
On June 3, 2022, popular add-ons for the sandbox game ''[[wikipedia:Garry's Mod|Garry's Mod]]'' called | On June 3, 2022, popular add-ons for the sandbox game ''[[wikipedia:Garry's Mod|Garry's Mod]]'' called Glue Library, Action Extension, View Extension, and Ambient Occlusion got hijacked by a person and were used to display the Goatse image, played two extremely loud sound effects of people screaming when entering a map, which caused chaos in the GMOD community.<ref><nowiki>https://www.pcgamer.com/au/psa-popular-garrys-mod-add-ons-were-altered-to-include-pornographic-jump-scares/</nowiki></ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
