PenisBird
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PenisBird originally known as The Incident With The Bird is a shock image hosted on Rotten.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica.
The image displays a close-up picture of a naked man standing in the middle of a concrete parking lot with a scarlet macaw perched on the man's erect penis.
There exists an edited GIF version of PenisBird which shows the macaw masturbating the man's penis with semen discharging from it.[1]
The first version of Last Measure was created by a GNAA member named "PenisBird" after playing with an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) utility called AIM Invader, which provided a variety of ways to crash AIM clients. Last Measure features the titular PenisBird image, which was also used in original, alternative versions of the project.
Another site similar to this is Penisfish.
Slashdot letter
Links to the image and ASCII versions were heavily spammed on the Slashdot message boards, provoking this infamous response:[2][3]
I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org). Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it. FYI the text representation of the bird is: < ) ( \ X 8====D with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users Regards, Andrew J. Tosh
Gallery
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The Last Measure banner.
References
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NOTE: The following shock image contains graphic content!
- web.archive.org/web/19991002221121/smoke.rotten.com/bird/
- edramatica.com/Penisbird