Goatse.cx (pronounced either "/goʊt/si: dɒt si: ɛks" or "goʊt sɛks") was an infamous Internet shock site. It was spread by trolls who intended to surprise their viewers. Its front page featured a picture, hello.jpg, showing a naked man stretching his anus open to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand, with the inside of his rectum clearly visible. Below his gaping anus, his dangling, semi-flaccid penis and scrotum were visible, as well as a ring on the ring finger of his left hand. // Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formerly known as Universal Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable... A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive or shocking to most of its viewers, containing shocking material which is considered distasteful and crude, and is generally of a pornographic, scatological, or extremely violent nature. ... A Do not feed the troll image In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including... Nude redirects here. ... This article is about the Male sex. ... This article is about the bodily orifice. ... The rectum (from the Latin rectum intestinum, meaning straight intestine) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in some mammals, and the gut in others, terminating in the anus. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... In some male mammals the scrotum is a protuberance of skin and muscle containing the testicles. ... The ring finger is the fourth digit of the human hand, and the second most ulnar finger, located between the middle finger and the little finger. ...

Site suspension

On January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx was suspended by Christmas Island Internet Administration for AUP^[1] violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available,^[2] and the image is displayed on many websites. The most common mirror was goat.cx; but this, like its predecessor, was taken offline as of February 22, 2005. As of February 27, the domain goat.cx, like goatse.cx, was suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration. As of March 2008 The website is back up is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the Internet. ... Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the . ... An acceptable use policy (AUP; also sometimes acceptable usage policy) is a set of rules applied by many transit networks which restrict the ways in which the network may be used. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the . ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In January 2007, Christmas Island Internet Administration put the domain goatse.cx back into the pool of available domains. The domain was subsequently registered January 16th through domain registrar Variomedia^[3] and the current registrant tried to auction off the right to use the domain. ^[4]

The goatse.cx domain name was reported sold at an auction on 30 April 2007 to an unknown bidder. According to seobidding.com, the first auction ended with fake bids so the auction was reactivated.^[5] This was again won by fake bidders, so Seobidding.com announced that the website would be sold for $500,000 and that legal action would be pursued against the fake bidders.^[6] On 2007-11-25 the site was for sale on seobidding; "goatse.cx asking: $50200 minimum." is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Christmas Island Internet Administration does not administer, regulate or intervene in the secondary market. Since it is not possible to "own" a domain name it is technically impossible to "sell" a domain name. A registrant can only sell / auction the right to "use" a domain - and is free to do so for whatever price the market will bear.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2007, the registrant of the domain, a private individual, found that the Christmas Island Internet Administration had revoked control of the domain, with no notification or communication.^{[citation needed]} Christmas Island Internet Administration still refuses to communicate with that registrant (as of January 2008).^{[citation needed]} Since the revoke, the administration allowed control to be passed to the secondary market, and has since been taken by domain squatters who are trying to sell the domain name for 10,000 euros.^[7] Domain parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. ... The Greek name for the rainy, stormy southeast wind. ...

Website

Goatse.cx had four sections, two of which had images intended to shock the viewer:

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• The "Receiver" page, titled "Eh", showing the aforementioned hello.jpg. Hello.jpg has the alt attribute "stinger". Since 2000 ^[8], before the picture is the text in black, "The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!" ^[9] Newer versions of the site had links to http://www.dolphinsex.org/ and http://www.urinalpoop.org/, while older versions linked to http://www.biganal.com/ ^[8] (all of which are now occupied by cybersquatters). The text below hello.jpg reads, "IMPORTANT NOTE: There are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx around the web-- none of them are real, none of them are official. Do not buy this gimmick merchandise. The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon!" The oldest versions had a counter tracking the number of visits. ^[10]
• The "Giver" page, titled "Woah", shows a picture (giver.jpg) of a man reclining in an orange convertible (later versions show him on a yacht or speedboat of some kind, with ocean or river waves in the background). He has an over-sized penis which reaches up to his chest, which was done using photo editing techniques. This is clearly conspicuous to an experienced photograph editor or experienced viewer thereof when careful examination is given to the pixels surrounding the genitalia. The website layout, bearing a man stretching his anus as "The Receiver" and a man with an oversized penis as "The Giver" contains an anal sex joke: that the receiver is stretching his anus so that the giver can insert his oversized penis into it.
• The "Feedback" section, titled "Got mail?", exhibits emails that were sent to the site.
• The "Contrib" section showcasing visitor contributions to the site. Contrib has additional variations of hello.jpg and giver.jpg, as well as other images and files. The title of this page is "Contributed Work".
  • bush.jpg is a picture of United States President George W. Bush, calling someone on a telephone in his office, with hello.jpg displayed on a laptop computer on his desk.
  • goatse-wwii.jpg is a picture of a large snowball, with "goatse.cx" written on the side, chasing Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo.
  • giver2.jpg is a picture of the Goatse giver holding his over-sized penis.
  • magiceye.jpg is a Magic Eye picture. The initial image, a legitimate autostereogram of a helix, changes after about 16 seconds to that of a lower resolution, 256 color version of hello.jpg. It attempts to fool viewers by exploiting the fact that, although the server sends a MIME type stating the filename is a JPEG image, the image is in fact an animated GIF.
  • warning.jpg is a warning sign picture telling people not to go to goatse.cx
  • goatsex.swf is a Flash Movie, set to the hook from "MMMBop" by Hanson. The movie shows a large dildo being inserted into the anus of the man posing in hello.jpg. The background is from another gap.zip picture, gap8.jpg. The photograph in this movie was taken at a different angle than hello.jpg, showing the man in the image from the side as opposed to the back.
  • Goatman.mp3 is an MP3 Music file. It takes up 518 KB.
  • Foxy_goatse.mp3 is another mp3 music file, a Frank Zappa-inspired parody of the Jimi Hendrix song Foxy Lady. It takes up 1061 KB.
  • goatsecx-winamp.zip is a ZIP file containing a Winamp skin, depicting hello.jpg. It takes up 313 KB.
  • hello.mpg is a movie, first showing the text "HI" on a black background, followed by shots of gap.zip pictures. At the end of the movie, the following text appears next to a picture of a teenage boy:
    "http://www.goatse.cx
    The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!"

People sometimes link to goatse.cx images not shown on the actual webpages, such as loopback.jpg, a picture of a man looping his penis into his anus. There are also numerous other files in the directory www.goatse.cx/contrib. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... The term minor is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes adulthood and is legally granted rights afforded to adults in society. ... Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... For the uses, cultural impact, and ethical concerns of image editing, see Photo manipulation. ... This article is about the picture element. ... Roman men having anal sex. ... A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  US Government Portal      For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... For other uses, see Telephone (disambiguation). ... For the band, see Laptop (band). ... This article is about the machine. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Mussolini redirects here. ... Hideki Tojo (KyÅ«jitai: 東條 英機; Shinjitai: 東条 英機;  ) (December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 18, 1941 to July 22, 1944. ... Magic Eye is a series of books published by N.E. Thing Enterprises (Renamed in 1996 to Magic Eye Inc. ... For mime as an art form, see mime artist. ... JPG redirects here. ... An example of a GIF image. ... Adobe Flash, previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash, is a set of multimedia technologies developed and distributed first by Adobe Systems and earlier by Macromedia. ... This article is about the song; for the album, see MMMBop (album). ... For other uses, see Hanson (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... Foxey Lady is a song by Jimi Hendrix from his 1967 album Are You Experienced, featured as the lead track on the official UK edition. ... The ZIP file format is the most widely-used compressed file format in the IBM PC world. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... The term minor is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes adulthood and is legally granted rights afforded to adults in society. ... For other uses, see Photograph (disambiguation). ...

The image hello.jpg originates from a set of forty images, known as "Tales of the Goatse Man," depicting the man performing various anal sexual acts. In those images, the man used dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus. The images were located by Stile Project and are also available from the "Contrib" section of the goatse.cx website under the filename gap.zip. hello.jpg is the third file in the archive, gap3.jpg. The man is only referred to by the initials D.M. or C.O.B. in the accompanying text. A 7-inch silicone dildo A dildo (or dildoe, a rare alternate spelling) is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for bodily interaction during masturbation or sexual intercourse. ... Butt plugs are sex toys that are designed to be inserted in the anus and rectum for sexual pleasure. ... Stile Project is a website that was created by Canadian Yonatan Beidermann, who used the pseudonym Jay Stile, in 1999. ...

Goatse.cx also had a Robots.txt file at one point.^[11] The robots exclusion standard or robots. ...

Archives of Goatse.cx can viewed at the Wayback Machine.^[12] Internet Archive headquarters is in the Presidio, a former US military base in San Francisco. ...

Geographic location

The site used the .cx country code, the top-level domain of the Australian territory of Christmas Island. The actual server of Goatse.cx was not located on Christmas Island, but in the United States and is owned by Hick.org, a website about computer programming and bathroom humor. The Hick.org domain was registered by Matt Miller in Overland Park, Kansas.^[13] Both Goatse.cx and Hick.org originate from the same IP address; the server is located in the Kansas City, Missouri, metro-region. Goat.cx, formerly a mirror of Goatse.cx, was located in the Dallas, Texas, metro-region, while current mirror Goatse.cz seems to be located in Clifton, New Jersey. .cx is the country code top-level domain for Christmas Island. ... “TLD” redirects here. ... Toilet humor or potty humor (humour in Commonwealth English) is a type of humor dealing with bodily toilet functions. ... Overland Park is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Dallas redirects here. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... Map of Clifton in Passaic County Clifton is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Goatse in popular culture

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Because many frequent Internet users have been tricked into viewing the site at one time or another, it has become something of an Internet meme. As such, hello.jpg and the other images on the site are common subjects of parodies and tributes.^[14] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The Hampster Dance [sic] is one of the first widely distributed Internet memes and illustrates the characteristic silliness of much of the genre. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... A tribute (from Latin tribulum, contribution) is wealth one party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often case in historical contests, of submission or allegiance. ...

A parody was submitted to BBC News under the guise of an alternative Olympic Logo for the 2012 games ^[15].

• The New York Times article "Loosing Google's Lock on the Past" featured Anil Dash, a blogger seen wearing a "Goatse"-themed shirt in the article.^[16]
• The first documented GOATSE personalized license plate in the United States was successfully acquired, as referenced at Uberzine.com ^[17]
• Following Hurricane Charley in August 2004, a photograph purporting to show "the hands of God" in the cloud formations in the aftermath of the disaster circulated via email. The image was eventually proven to be a photoshopped Goatse parody.^[18]
• Threadless, a community-centered online shirt store, makes a goatse-inspired t-shirt.^[19]
• In June 2007, a parody of the 2012 Summer Olympics logo submitted by "Sean Stayte" appeared on the BBC News website ^[20][15] under the alternative Olympic Logo entries and was broadcast on their BBC News 24 channel. Two hands were pulling the 0 from 2012 apart. The image was later shown as part of a gallery of viewers logos on BBC London News and BBC News 24, and was subsequently removed from the website. The editor of the BBC News website acknowledged the mistake in his blog, saying his team "simply didn’t spot it".^[21]
• In July 2007, an Internet Hoax^[22] was submitted to Digg.com ^[23] and other social media sites. The hoax claimed that the goatse image made it on to CNN during the CNN-YouTube Presidential Debates. The news made it big until people realized that it was just edited images^[24].
• A Flickr page entitled "First Goatse"[1] has images of people's initial shocked reactions to the image, which are usually either disgust or laughter.
• The webcomic xkcd referred to the goatse image in the comic for September 19, 2007 ^[25].
• VG Cats referred to Goatse in the "Just a Flesh Wound" comic. ^[26]
• An animation by Andrew Kepple titled Hello.jpg parodies the Ghostbusters as the "Goatsebusters". Hello.jpg is not actually visible in the movie, so the movie "just relies on a certain 'educated audience'", as Kepple himself puts it.

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References

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