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A '''shock site''' is a form of [[screamer]] that uses disturbing imagery, commonly pornography, gore, and graphic content, to shock the viewer(s). Just like traditional [[screamer]]s, shock sites have a goal to shock the viewers with unexpected content. Some good example of shock sites are [[2 Girls 1 Cup]], [[Jarsquatter]], [[1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick]] and [[Goatse]]. These websites have gained a high level of popularity and are often used as a way to prank people.
== Popularity ==
[[File:Bait and switch.jpg|thumb|220x220px|The ''bait-and-switch'' technique consists of misleading a person into clicking a link by telling them erroneous information.]]
Shock sites slowly started to spread around the web in the late 90's. The first shock site to be widely spread across the web was [[2 Girls 1 Cup]]. This one-minute clip of two women performing a scat play made a huge success. Since then, more shock sites surfaced on the Internet.

== Popular Culture ==
Because of their popularity, shock sites have been mentioned or featured in many works of ficton.
[[Lemon Party]] has been mentioned in a sketch on ''Talkshow with Spike Feresten'', ''Archer'', ''The Simpsons'', ''The Cleveland Show'' and ''30 Rock''. ''30 Rock'' made three allusions to "Lemon party". 
<br>The website has also been described by Jimmy Fallon on the ''Opie and Anthony'' radio show, on Chelsea Handler's TV show ''Chelsea Lately'', Michael J. Nelson from RiffTrax.com during the RiffTrax for ''Avatar'', by Jon Stewart on ''The Daily Show'', ''American Dad'', and by Michael Cera and Jonah Hill during promotion for the film SuperBad.

In the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy Family Guy]'' episode ''[https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Back_to_the_Woods Back to the Woods],'' [https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Brian Brian] asks [https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Stewie Stewie] for help getting unhitched to a pole, but Stewie refuses in retaliation for "making me watch that video with the 2 girls and a cup!" The episode then cuts to [https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Brian Brian] filming [https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Stewie Stewie] sitting on the computer and watching [[2 Girls 1 Cup]]. Stewie then proceeds to become surprised and shocked by the video.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moHj6cIrmQ4</ref>

=== Reactions ===
[[File:Reaction 2.png|thumb|220x220px|A group of soldiers reacting to '''2 Girls 1 Cup'''.]]
[[File:1-01.jpg|thumb|989x989px|Common shock sites]]
<span>As shock sites made surface on the web, more reaction videos were being posted and eventually became a trend on the Internet. The concept of a reaction video </span>is to get someone to visit a shock site while recording their reaction. A good example of this is the ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZnJSojBtw Marines 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions]'' video, which has accumulated almost 10 million views since it was posted to YouTube in April, 2008.

== Links ==
* '''''[[:Category:Shock sites|All shock sites on this wiki]]'''''

== References ==
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[[Category:Shock sites]]
[[Category:Gore]]
[[Category:Pornography]]
[[Category:Graphic content]]
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