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|name = Goatse
[[File:Goatse_Logo.png|thumb|130px|Goatse's official logo.]]
|image = Kirk_Johnson.jpg
'''Goatse.cx''' ([[wikipedia:Wikipedia:IPA|/ˈɡoʊtsi dɒt ˌsiː ˈɛks/ GOHT-see-dot-see-EKS, /ˈɡoʊtˌsɛks/]]; "goat sex") or known as '''Goatse''' was a [[shock site]] registered in 1999. The website featured an image, as displayed in the center titled "''Hello.jpg''", showing a man stretching his anus with both hands. Because of its shock value, it's the first image to ever be used in bait-and-switch pranks, where the user "baits" another user into clicking the link. The site used the [[wikipedia:.cx|.cx]] domain because its pronunciation is similar to the word "sex", but it was filed by [[wikipedia:Christmas Island|Christmas Island]] to shut down the website.
|imagecaption = Kirk Johnson, the man behind Goatse.
|maker = Kirk Johnson
|type = Shock site
|date = 1999
|Status = Deleted
}}'''Goatse''', also commonly pronounced as '''goatsex''' & '''goat-see''''','' is a [[shock site]] created in 1999 by Kirk Johnson.


This image was originally named ''gap3.jpg'', and originally came from an archive of several other pictures of the man stretching out his anus out of places such as the rectum using several different methods, named ''gap.zip''.<ref>gap.zip: goatse.ru/contrib/gap.zip <font color=red>contains shocking pornography</font></ref>
The image used on the site was originally named "gap3.jpg" from the Gap.zip file, a collection of shock images depicting the man, who was revealed to be gay porn-star Kirk Johnson, "''using dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus''". Gap.zip might have been posted by Johnson himself, but it also may have been originated "''in emails ftp servers, etc.''"<ref>https://www.gawker.com/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturb-5899787</ref>


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">Link Contains Pornography</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.
The full website, as mentioned in the first half, shows the "hello.jpg" image under the "the receiver" section, and it also has a section, named "the giver", that shows a man with a large penis reaching up to his chest. The names suggest that a man is about to insert his huge penis into another man's anus. It also has dead links to websites like urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, while older ones link to biganal.com.


He is also known for the image labeled "Bottle Guy", which shows him with a large bottle inside of his anus.<ref>bottleguy.com</ref>
Kirk Johnson has depicted in some [[shock sites]], such as [[Detroithardcore.com]], [[Bottleguy.com]], [[Goatsemarathon.com|Goatsee.com]] and many more.
 
There is another [[shock site]] called "Detroithardcore.com", the site claims to be Goatse's Brother, it contains an image of him fiercely stretching his anus open with both hands.<ref>Detroithardcore.com</ref>
==History==
==History==
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 successfully hijack the billboard to display the dreaded image.|293x293px]]
===Website's history===
In 1999, the website was in its original state. Until June of the next year, it had the text "''What are you doing here?''" at the center before redirecting to ''index2.html'' after 10 seconds. The website goes back again with 2 other links to ''feedback.html'' and ''contrib.html'' and websites links to urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, all of which are supposedly made by the original owner. In 2003, the website's owner added a note that there "are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx", all of which "none of them are real". He then said, "The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon.''".


Some viewers also claimed that before the ''hello.jpg'' image was shown, it became an internet meme, 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.
On January 14, 2004, ''Goatse.cx'' was suspended by [[wikipedia:Christmas Island|Christmas Island]] "''for AUP violations in response to a complaint''" after its residents filed a complaint to shut down the site, until Christmas Island put the domain in the available domain pool in January 2007. 


In December 2009, GNNA created another trolling organization group taken from this name called "Goatse Security" and chooses "Gaping Holes Exposed" as a slogan, and the group is also known for creating a [[shock site]] called [[Last Measure]]<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security]</ref>.
The ''goatse.cx'' domain name was sold at auction to an unknown bidder on April 30, 2007. The first auction ended with fake bids, according to ''seobidding.com'', so the auction was reactivated. This time, fake bidders won, so ''Seobidding.com'' announced that the website would be sold for $500,000, and that legal action would be taken against the fake bidders. On November 25, 2007, the site was still for sale, asking for "''$50,200 minimum''".
[[File:Goatse.jpg|thumb|100px|Hackers successfully hijack the billboard to display the dreaded image.|293x293px]]
In early December 2012, the site plans to launch its own e-mail system, named, Goatse Mail, claiming to be launched. However, the e-mail system has not been launched since. 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. 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>


=== In Popular Culture ===
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>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency</ref>
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>
===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 only well-known to a small Internet-using "subcultural tribe" who refer to it as a "shared context joke" or "secret membership code." In November 2000, A link to ''giver.html'' was added to "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture" book, one of Oprah Winfrey's online message boards, but it was shut down after. In that year, an anonymous hacker hacked Yankees.com to display the Goatse image after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000.


=== Mirrors ===
In April 2011, it was reported that an Audi billboard displayed an image similar to the Goatse image. Pranksters put Goatse on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015. Pranksters signed the PGP keys of Facebook and Adrian Lamo with ASCII art of Goatse. One article asks, "''unintentionally hilarious or intentionally evil?''".
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 [[shock site]] for its disturbing imagery. Some versions of [[Last Measure]] may harm your computer and additionally, show the '''Goatse''' image.


== References ==
[[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]], the known creators for [[Last Measure]], created a group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. Goatse Security became known for leaking unsecured 114,000 iPad email address. Besides the group, [[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]] used the image as a way to troll users, such as adding the image to [[Last Measure]], a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and many more.
==References==
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==Links==
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*web.archive.org/web/19991008013724 19991008013724
*web.archive.org/web/19991008013724 19991008013724
*web.archive.org/web/19991008013724/goatse.cx/
*web.archive.org/web/19991008013724/goatse.cx/
*goatse.me '''- Contains links to other shock sites.'''
*goatse.me
*goatse.ru
*goatse.ru
*goatse.fr
*goatse.info
*goatse.info
*'''LOLSHOCK mirror''': goatse.bz
*'''[[LOLShock]] mirror''': goatse.bz
*'''Shockchan mirror''': shockchan.com/goatse/
*'''Shockchan mirror''': shockchan.com/goatse/
*bestgore.com/forums/topic/goatse/
*'''Alternative link (Site down)''': <s>collabvm.me</s>
*'''Alternative link (Site down)''': <s>collabvm.me</s>
 
*'''A site with a similar image of Kirk Johnson stretching out his anus''' web.archive.org/web/20110719010616/stretch.ragingfist.net/
===Hidden Links===
===See Also==
*bigfootproof.com
*[[Bigfootproof.com]]
*web.archive.org/web/20110719010616/stretch.ragingfist.net/
 
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[[Category:Shock sites]]
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Revision as of 00:47, 1 September 2021

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Goatse's official logo.

Goatse.cx (/ˈɡoʊtsi dɒt ˌsiː ˈɛks/ GOHT-see-dot-see-EKS, /ˈɡoʊtˌsɛks/; "goat sex") or known as Goatse was a shock site registered in 1999. The website featured an image, as displayed in the center titled "Hello.jpg", showing a man stretching his anus with both hands. Because of its shock value, it's the first image to ever be used in bait-and-switch pranks, where the user "baits" another user into clicking the link. The site used the .cx domain because its pronunciation is similar to the word "sex", but it was filed by Christmas Island to shut down the website.

The image used on the site was originally named "gap3.jpg" from the Gap.zip file, a collection of shock images depicting the man, who was revealed to be gay porn-star Kirk Johnson, "using dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus". Gap.zip might have been posted by Johnson himself, but it also may have been originated "in emails ftp servers, etc."[1]

The full website, as mentioned in the first half, shows the "hello.jpg" image under the "the receiver" section, and it also has a section, named "the giver", that shows a man with a large penis reaching up to his chest. The names suggest that a man is about to insert his huge penis into another man's anus. It also has dead links to websites like urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, while older ones link to biganal.com.

Kirk Johnson has depicted in some shock sites, such as Detroithardcore.com, Bottleguy.com, Goatsee.com and many more.

History

Website's history

In 1999, the website was in its original state. Until June of the next year, it had the text "What are you doing here?" at the center before redirecting to index2.html after 10 seconds. The website goes back again with 2 other links to feedback.html and contrib.html and websites links to urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, all of which are supposedly made by the original owner. In 2003, the website's owner added a note that there "are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx", all of which "none of them are real". He then said, "The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon.".

On January 14, 2004, Goatse.cx was suspended by Christmas Island "for AUP violations in response to a complaint" after its residents filed a complaint to shut down the site, until Christmas Island put the domain in the available domain pool in January 2007. 

The goatse.cx domain name was sold at auction to an unknown bidder on April 30, 2007. The first auction ended with fake bids, according to seobidding.com, so the auction was reactivated. This time, fake bidders won, so Seobidding.com announced that the website would be sold for $500,000, and that legal action would be taken against the fake bidders. On November 25, 2007, the site was still for sale, asking for "$50,200 minimum".

Hackers successfully hijack the billboard to display the dreaded image.

In early December 2012, the site plans to launch its own e-mail system, named, Goatse Mail, claiming to be launched. However, the e-mail system has not been launched since. 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. There were also plans for a cryptocurrency called Goatse Coin, but there doesn't seem to be any progress.[2]

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.[3]

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 only well-known to a small Internet-using "subcultural tribe" who refer to it as a "shared context joke" or "secret membership code." In November 2000, A link to giver.html was added to "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture" book, one of Oprah Winfrey's online message boards, but it was shut down after. In that year, an anonymous hacker hacked Yankees.com to display the Goatse image after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000.

In April 2011, it was reported that an Audi billboard displayed an image similar to the Goatse image. Pranksters put Goatse on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015. Pranksters signed the PGP keys of Facebook and Adrian Lamo with ASCII art of Goatse. One article asks, "unintentionally hilarious or intentionally evil?".

Gay Nigger Association of America, the known creators for Last Measure, created a group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. Goatse Security became known for leaking unsecured 114,000 iPad email address. Besides the group, Gay Nigger Association of America used the image as a way to troll users, such as adding the image to Last Measure, a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and many more.

References

Links

NOTE: The following shock site contains graphic images!

  • goatse.cx
  • web.archive.org/web/19991008013724 19991008013724
  • web.archive.org/web/19991008013724/goatse.cx/
  • goatse.me
  • goatse.ru
  • goatse.fr
  • goatse.info
  • LOLShock mirror: goatse.bz
  • Shockchan mirror: shockchan.com/goatse/
  • Alternative link (Site down): collabvm.me
  • A site with a similar image of Kirk Johnson stretching out his anus web.archive.org/web/20110719010616/stretch.ragingfist.net/

=See Also


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