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Jenn ([info]wankaholic) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-09 19:40:00
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All links SFW.
In apology for having to eat my hat, I present you this piece of work.

There was a meme that went around LJ. It measured your "coolness" factor, among other things.

The creator of the meme decided that it was too good an opportunity to pass up, and used it for unscrupulous purposes goatse.

People are unhappy, to say the least.

Edit: I should add that as of right now (1:38 AM EST), the post is still safe for work. I can't guarantee where the links in it might lead you to, though.

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[info]manasseh
2007-05-10 03:39 am UTC (link)
Man. Goatse. That really takes me back. *thousand yard stare of Flashbackitaria*

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[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-10 03:48 am UTC (link)
I still remember the first time I saw Goatse. I was reading signatures on a petition to change the name of the Lord of the Rings Two Towers movie (no idea if it was a troll or not, but the petition writer claimed it was disrespectful in the wake of 9/11) and someone posted a link to Goatse, claiming it to be an anti-Tolkien site... and of course, I clicked it.

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[info]manasseh
2007-05-10 03:55 am UTC (link)
I don't even remember HOW I ended up seeing it, it was so long ago. I just remember... Seeing it. The truest form of the internet. Of course, that was way back when you couldn't see the real address of a link when you hovered over it; you had to trust people not to hit you with something awful.

Those were the days.

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[info]jira
2007-05-10 04:07 am UTC (link)
It's bad that with some friends, I have to actually check each link they post because I don't know if it's going to be worksafe or not, since there is a tendency from them to post disgusting things.

Usually I don't click. Bangedup.com

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(no subject) - [info]semtex, 2007-05-10 06:16 am UTC

[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-10 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I used to mod a board where people did that all the time. Either they'd disguise the link or post an inocuous looking link that led to a mirror of Goatse (or other shock pictures like Tubgirl). We called it "Ninja-goatseing".

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(no subject) - [info]manasseh, 2007-05-10 07:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-05-11 12:44 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2007-05-12 10:51 am UTC

[info]mcity
2007-05-10 05:04 am UTC (link)
I clicked on a link in a chatroom. Popups everywhere.

Of course, I was on my mother's computer. At work. In a high school. With a connecting staffroom door.

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[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-10 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Nobody saw it, I hope?

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(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2007-05-10 04:55 pm UTC
Tangent but... - [info]antigone, 2007-05-10 08:31 pm UTC
Re: Tangent but... - [info]mcity, 2007-05-10 10:01 pm UTC
Re: Tangent but... - [info]antigone, 2007-05-10 10:13 pm UTC
Re: Tangent but... - [info]mcity, 2007-05-10 10:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-05-11 12:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tangentialone, 2007-05-11 06:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-05-11 02:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2007-05-11 01:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-05-11 02:40 pm UTC

[info]vzg
2007-05-10 05:53 am UTC (link)
I have no idea how I first came across Goatse. I just remember being a little disappointed that it wasn't more traumatic, because I wanted to have That Moment. By which I mean, if I had to see it — and apparently I had to — I wanted to have That Moment. I wish I hadn't come across it at all, but, well... it's the internet, and I'm kind of a whore for it.

I think I was trying to look at pictures of cats and one of the "cat pictures" was actually The Goatse. And then I started at it for like thirty seconds before realizing that was what it was. I was just sitting there thinking, "Damn, how is that a cat? That can't be a cat. There's no fur. Is it a wound on a cat? No, it really can't be a cat. Oh, wait, is that— Oooh. Uuuh, I should exit before the roommates look over."

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[info]panthea
2007-05-10 04:03 pm UTC (link)
It's man-pussy.

*ducks and runs*

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(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2007-05-10 04:08 pm UTC

[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-10 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I almost threw up the first time I saw it. I have a pretty weak stomach for things like that. *g*

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[info]napalmnacey
2007-05-11 05:26 am UTC (link)
I managed to totally avoid it till my friend boomstick on LJ made it into this hilarious icon where Britney Spears' head comes zooming out of the asshole. :D

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[info]annabelle_lee
2007-05-10 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Huh. I actually had to look up the goatse.cx site to find it. I don't know how I managed to miss it in the years between 99' and 04', but I did. Maybe I just got lucky?

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[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-10 04:47 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, because (at least where I hung out) the damn thing was EVERYWHERE. People on a board I modded would link to it and either disguise the link or use a redirect/mirror, so I actually became desensitized to it.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-10 05:49 pm UTC (link)
I first saw it on alt.tasteless.pictures. Now I'm all nostalgic for Usenet.

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[info]harrylovesron
2007-05-11 12:49 am UTC (link)
I'm almost glad I wasn't around in the Usenet days.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-05-11 05:26 am UTC

[info]julian_black
2007-05-11 12:10 am UTC (link)
[dies laughing]

I first encountered both Goatse and Tubgirl thanks to the vast cesspit of trollery that is Usenet (probably on alt.gossip.celebrities). I first got online in October of '98, and very quickly learned that there were certain URLs I shouldn't click on. Anything from rotten.com was bound to be scarring--in fact, I think that's where I first saw Tubgirl hosted.

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(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-05-11 12:51 am UTC

[info]coyotegirl
2007-05-11 06:32 am UTC (link)
I was young and naive and clicked the link in IRC.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-05-10 07:42 am UTC (link)
Hey, some of us are cool enough to avoid seeing all these wtf pics. *is proud of that distinction* I have to be pure minded somehow.

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[info]coffeebun
2007-05-10 10:21 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen them, either. *blinks* Not that I ever want to see them, but...
*feels new to the intarwebz*

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(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2007-05-10 04:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-05-10 04:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2007-05-10 06:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-05-10 08:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2007-05-10 08:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]luthe, 2007-05-11 03:52 am UTC

[info]rowan
2007-05-10 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I dodged the bullet until earlier this year, when a porn troll on Gaia posted it. Yay! o_O

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-05-10 05:13 pm UTC

[info]catslash
2007-05-12 10:25 pm UTC (link)
I've only seen goatse in macros. Does that count?

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-05-12 10:30 pm UTC

[info]amxjm
2007-05-10 06:33 pm UTC (link)
Heh, I remember exposing a friend of mine (the one seen in my icon) to it when I was hanging out at his apartment this past New Year's Eve. I made some reference to it at one point while we were talking (I forget how it came up), but he'd never heard of it, so I sent him off to Google it.

Good times.

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[info]manasseh
2007-05-10 07:52 pm UTC (link)
I did that to a friend too. Showed her Goatse, Tubgirl, lotus-boob, annnd... There was something else. Vore, maybe. I was cruel to her that weekend.

But all you have to do is mention it, and it's the name that gets people curious.

"Goat-see? Are there goats involved? Is it gross?"
"No, there are no goats. Thankfully."

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(no subject) - [info]luthe, 2007-05-11 03:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]manasseh, 2007-05-11 10:41 am UTC

[info]queencallipygos
2007-05-10 07:50 pm UTC (link)
I frequented a forum that got a troll that did nothing but post the picture itself all over the forum threads for a couple days.

Then when the mod booted it, the troll replaced it with hand-drawn pictures of urinating penguins.

I just remember thinking it was all very Dada.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2007-05-11 06:22 pm UTC (link)
A classmate of mine got hit with hi2u in class the other day while looking for cute cat pictures. I had to explain the whole grossout meme thing to a class full of utterly flabberghasted women. It was fun.

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