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<font color="Red">'''''Goatse'''''</font>, more commonly pronounced known as ''goatsex & goat-see,'' is a [[shock site]] created in 1999. it was made by website developer Kirk Johnson.

[[File:Kirk Johnson.jpg|thumb|220x220px|'''Kirk Johnson''', the man behind Goatse.]]The website which also displays the image ''hello.jpg that shows ''a man stretching out his anus with his two hands to the length of his fist. This image was originally named ''gap3.jpg'', and originally came from an archive of several other pictures of the man stretching out his anus using several different methods, named ''gap.zip''.  

In 2004, the owner of the website was eventually taken to court, and the website got suspended. The man in the picture was later identified as ''Kirk Johnson'', a gay man<ref>"KirkJ's Profile - Xtube.com". www.xtube.com. Retrieved 2018-12-15. xtube.com/profile/kirkj-508702/about-me <font color="red">Don't copy and paste this link unless you're into gay porn</font></ref> in his late 40s who actively posts pictures and videos of himself on pornographic websites, under the username ''KirkJ.''<ref>Chen, Adrian. "Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History". Gawker. Retrieved 2018-12-14. http://gawker.com/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturb-5899787</ref> the domain name got suspended by Christmas Island Internet Administration for Acceptable Use Policy violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available, remaining on display on many other websites. The Christmas Island resident filed the complaint that resulted in the suspension of this domain name. when [[shock sites]] between like [[2 Girls 1 Cup]], [[Blue Waffle]], [[Lemon Party]] and [[Jarsquatter]] are became more popular.

The website was then put back, after a new owner purchased the website for 8,000 euros in 2008, and is now planning to be a subdomain service on which you can host your own website. It now also has plans for its own e-mail system, named, ''Goatse Mail'', claiming to be launched in early December 2012. However, the e-mail system has not been launched since. There were also plans for a cryptocurrency called ''Goatse Coin'', but there doesn't seem to be any progress.<ref>Pearson, Jordan; Koebler, Jason (2017-10-17). "The Current Owner of the 'Goatse' Website Wants It to Be a Household Name". Motherboard. Retrieved 2018-12-15. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evpj8a/owner-of-goatse-coin-website-wants-it-to-be-a-household-name-meme</ref>[[File:Goatse.jpg|thumb|Hackers hack a billboard to display the dreaded image.|293x293px]]Some viewers also claimed that before the ''hello.jpg'' image was shown, there were some other pornographic images shown on the site, such as a picture of a woman doing sexual acts with a goat. However, no one has been able to confirm this statement's validity.

=== '''In Popular Culture''' ===

2015: In Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, hackers hacked an electronic billboard to display the goatse image.<ref>Koebler, Jason (2015-05-15). "Someone Hacked a Billboard in Atlanta to Display Goatse". Motherboard. Retrieved 2018-12-15. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbz5vv/someone-hacked-a-billboard-in-atlanta-to-display-goatse</ref><ref>i.imgur.com/5dWOEfv.jpg<font color="red">Contains the goatse image.</font></ref>

There are a few mirrors to the website such as ''goatse.info'' and ''goatse.ru''. The image has also been displayed on [[happypuppies.net]], another infamous site for its disturbing imagery. Some versions of [[Last Measure]] will also show the Goatse image that also contains malicious script that will harm your computer. Some of this content is called the two infamous [[Shock site|shock pages]] from [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] including: [[Offended]], [[The Pain Series]] and many of articles that contains shock images from this website.

<u>NOTE</u>: The following [[Shock site|shock site]] contains graphic images!

*'''web.archive.org/web/[tel:19991008013724 19991008013724]'''

*'''goatse.ru'''

*'''goatse.info'''

*'''goatse.bz''' • LOLSHOCK mirror.

*'''shockchan.com/goatse/ '''• Shockchan mirror

*'''goatse.xxx''' • Censored version.