Goatse
Goatse is an image that was originally presented on a website at the URL goatse.cx . The purpose of the site was to entice unsuspecting Internet users to look at it and to shock them with the Goatse image. The image gained some popularity and was often imitated or referenced.
The Goatse picture is a photo of a naked man leaning forward and presenting his unusually spread anus to the viewer. The Goatse.cx website was shut down in 2004 by the Christmas Island Internet administration following a complaint. This provoked an online petition which called for the status quo to be restored and received a good 12,000 signatures.
In July 2005, a man wore a T-shirt that said "GOATSE" in a photo for a New York Times article. Chris Anderson , editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, who took this as a prank, was surprised to find that the Goatse phenomenon was unknown within his editorial team. In June 2007, the BBC News website featured a selection of reader suggestions for an alternative logo to the 2012 Olympics , including a Goatse parody.
swell
- Stewart Kirkpatrick: Lazy Guide to Net Culture: NSFW. news.scotsman.com, June 9, 2004, accessed on January 12, 2018 (English, article on the term “ NSFW ” with goatse as an example).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chris Anderson: The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more . 1st edition. Hyperion, New York 2006, ISBN 1-4013-0237-8 , pp. 182 .
- ↑ Steve Herrmann: Shock tactics. BBC , June 5, 2007, accessed April 11, 2012 .
Web links
- goatse.cx ( Memento from November 11, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
- Adrian Chen: Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History. In: gawker.com of April 10, 2012.