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Shock site

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Template:TocDefault A shock site are websites that contains uses disturbing imagery, involving: pornography, gore, and graphic content, to shock the viewer(s). shock sites have a complete goal to shock the viewer(s) with unexpected content. Some good examples of shock sites are like the infamous 2 Girls 1 Cup, Jarsquatter, and Goatse.

These websites have gained lots of high level popularity and are often used as a way to prank people between under the age of 18s.

Popularity

Bait and Switch

 
The bait-and-switch technique consists of misleading a person into clicking a link by telling them erroneous information.
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The Goatse homepage promoting their upcoming to become the subdomain service.

Shock sites has often slowly started to spread around across the web, disguised by the following late 90's. The first shock site to be widely spread across the web called 2 Girls 1 Cup. The one-minute clip shows two women performing a scat play made a huge success in Brazil. Since then, more shock sites are commonly made surface on the Internet.

Reactions

 
A group of soldiers reacting to 2 Girls 1 Cup.
 
Common shock sites

Shock sites made have between surface on the web, more some reaction videos were being posted and eventually became a trend on the Internet. The concept of an reaction video is to get someone to visit a shock site while recording their reaction. A good example of this is the Marines 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions video, as of between 2015 and 2017, the reaction video has accumulated along almost 10 million views since it was posted to YouTube on April 2nd, 2008.

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