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A shock site is a website intended to be offensive or shocking to most viewers, containing material many people would consider frightening and/or extremely distasteful and crude, generally of a pornographic, scatological, or extremely violent nature. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images, particularly shock images. Links to shock sites are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website. Discussion site Slashdot has changed their software (Slash) to display the domain name of a linked URL in brackets following the link (example: "CLICK HERE "), so that any link to goatse.cx or a similar shock site would be immediately visible as such. The change has been effective in reducing the number of links to shock sites even though people began to set up mirror sites and use public CGI redirect scripts run by sites such as Yahoo! or Slashdot itself in an attempt to circumvent the measure.

Major shock sites

Tubgirl.com

Tubgirl.com was a redirect to a picture, tubgirl.jpg, containing a masked, naked woman lying in a bathtub, buttocks raised with her legs over her head, projecting a fountain of liquid from her anus onto her face. It was believed this liquid was feces, but after revealing that this was one image out of a series, the liquid is simply orange juice. Before the launch of tubgirl.com, this image was featured in a rotten.com story "Fecal Japan" claiming that the subject matter is allegedly popular in Japan. The image displayed on tubgirl.com is marked as having been previously posted on Consumption Junction. The url address www.tubgirl.com now redirects to Consumption Junction, and displays the image with a "rate me" box, where viewers can rate the image from 1 to 10.

External Link: http://www.tubgirl.com

Lemonparty.org

Lemonparty.org contains a picture, lemonparty.jpg, of three elderly men lying on a bed naked, engaged in kissing and oral sex. The site was defunct for a number of years, then restored. It once had a link that stated "click here to wash your eyeballs", which led to a picture of a kitten. In addition, the background has turned gray and there are links below leading to the "Official lemonparty chatroom" and "Brad.com", another shock site. It now also features advertisements and the song "If You Want to be Happy" by Jimmy Soul plays in the background. The site often goes offline for short periods of time.

External Link: http://www.lemonparty.org

Last Measure

Last Measure is a shock site that utilizes Flash to spawn endless pop-ups featuring many well-known shock pictures as well as NSFW audio. It also attempts to forward the site's address through your mail application. Previous versions utilized JavaScript. Related sites Ljabuse.com and denisepaolucci.com were based upon GNAA's Last Measure shock site engine. They feature classic Last Measure images with crudely photoshopped faces of Denise Paolucci, a LiveJournal employee that heads up the Abuse team.

External Link: http://www.lastmeasure.com

Hai2U.com

Hai2U.com features an image of a woman vomiting while performing fellatio on a man sitting in a lawn chair, taken from a photo shoot by Max Hardcore. The actress uses the stage name Catalina and is featured in several of Hardcore's films. The site has the text "HAI2U!!!1 :)" in bold at the top of the page. The page contains a link visible only in the Internet Explorer browser to make it your homepage. It was at one point highly ranked on a Google image search for "blowjob". HAI2U asks users to comment on the website, and provides a form for them to submit comments.

External Link: http://www.hai2u.com

Other shock sites

• Penis Bird is an image of a Scarlet Macaw perched on a man's erect penis. The page contains a note from a Slashdot reader asking that the image be relocated (if not removed) because Slashdot trolls are using hyperlinks to send unsuspecting users there. The page also mentions a crude ASCII art version of the penisbird, which appears from time to time on Slashdot.

• Teletorrents.org contains a picture (applefish.jpg) of one man's hand immersed in a second man's anus. Large text below the picture reads "Surprise, asshole!". The domain of the site is purposely misleading, implying that it contains BitTorrent files.

• RapeMyDog.com contains an image of an almost nude, overweight elderly man wearing a skin-toned thong. The thong is skin-toned to trick the viewer into thinking the man is actually a transexual. On the image, the text "LOLOWNED" is clearly visible along the bottom of the image. A hate mail link is included on the site to send the author any mail about the undesired website.

Former shock sites

Goatse.cx

Goatse.cx is one of the most well-known shock sites.. The image which appears on the site's index, hello.jpg, depicts a man stretching his anus with his hands. This same image was formerly called the "shock3r", and was usually featured on various hacked sites. The link to these sites was primarily spread through IRC. This image is somewhat unpleasant.

The site was taken down by the NIC .cx authority in January 2004, but there are several mirrors of the original site.

External Link: Archive.org's archived copy of the page before it was shut down

• ShrewsburyCollege.co.uk was a site containing a photograph of two men, one being anally penetrated by the other with what appeared to be a bicycle pump. In addition to that, both were covered in feces. The name of the site was taken from the Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, which used to be known by the acronym SCAT. The website has now been replaced by the actual Shrewsbury College website. This shock site was perhaps the only one to have appeared in a print newspaper, featuring in a front-page article of the Shrewsbury Chronicle on 8 December 2005. In the aforementioned article, the MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski, mentioned that the site was brought to his attention by a fellow Member of Parliament. The visitor logs of what are presumably the reporter that wrote the story, and Kawczynski are available to view online. A visitor from the Midland News Association, which publishes the newspaper A visitor from the Houses of Parliament

Anti-shock sites

In recent times, many trolls, instead of linking to shock sites (which can lead to disciplinary consequences, such as banishment from the board in which the link was posted), prefer a tradition known as the anti-shock tradition, where trolls link to traditionally non-offensive material, disguised as shocking or pornographic material.

See also

• Computer prank
• Internet troll

References

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20021004051657/vatican.rotten.com/fecaljapan/
2. ^ Official Forum Rules at Hentai Palm.
3. Lemonparty site info at archive.org.
4. ^ GNAA "press release" about Last Measure
5. Letter from Slashdot.org, (along with picture).
6. "The Hands of God", snopes.com.
7. "Lazy Guide to Net Culture:NSFW", from news.scotsman.com.

• Shock sites
• Internet culture
• Controversial entertainment media