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			{{Infobox Shock Site
			\|title = Goatse
			\|image = Kirk_Johnson.jpg
			\|imagecaption = Kirk Johnson, the man behind Goatse.
			\|maker = Kirk Johnson
			\|type = Shock site
			\|date = 1999 (screenshotted in 1997)
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	'''Goatse.cx''' (also known as Goatse) was a [[shock site]] that prominently featured an image titled "Hello.jpg" depicting a man stretching his anus using both hands, revealing his anal cavity. This image became the first to be used in bait-and-switch pranks due to its shock value, where a user would bait another user into clicking a link. The website used the .cx domain because of its phonetic similarity to the word "sex", but the Christmas Island authorities eventually shut down the website. The image used on the site, originally named "gap3.jpg", was sourced from the Gap.zip file, which contained several shock images of a man named Kirk Johnson "using dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus". It is unclear whether Johnson posted Gap.zip himself, or if it originated from emails, FTP servers, or other sources.		'''Goatse.cx''' (also known as Goatse) was a [[shock site]] that prominently featured an image titled "Hello.jpg" depicting a man stretching his anus using both hands, revealing his anal cavity. This image became the first to be used in bait-and-switch pranks due to its shock value, where a user would bait another user into clicking a link. The website used the .cx domain because of its phonetic similarity to the word "sex", but the Christmas Island authorities eventually shut down the website. The image used on the site, originally named "gap3.jpg", was sourced from the Gap.zip file, which contained several shock images of a man named Kirk Johnson "using dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus". It is unclear whether Johnson posted Gap.zip himself, or if it originated from emails, FTP servers, or other sources.

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	[[File:Goatse.jpg\|thumb\|293x293px\|Hackers successfully hijack an electronic billboard to display the dreaded image.]]		[[File:Goatse.jpg\|thumb\|293x293px\|Hackers successfully hijack an electronic billboard to display the dreaded image.]]
	Goatse has become an Internet meme due to many users being tricked into viewing the site or a mirror of it. The infamous images were posted on the official Oprah Winfrey Message Boards in 2000, causing the board to be retired shortly afterwards. Slashdot also altered its threaded discussion forum display software to prevent users from tricking unsuspecting readers into visiting the site.<ref>Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Penguin Books, 2001. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=lVXnmsCCd3wC&q=goatse&pg=PA274.</ref> The use of goatse.cx as a "fake" link to shock friends became popular and was later adapted as a technique for common shock sites such as [[Tubgirl]].<ref name="vice" /> Website authors have used the goatse.cx image to deter hot-linking to their site by replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing one. This sends a clear message to the offending website's operators visible to anyone who views the web page in question. For instance, in 2007, Wired~~.com~~ hot-linked to another site in an article about the "sexiest geeks of 2007" and the site replaced the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.<ref>Waters, Richard. "What's the Story Behind the Bill O'Reilly Goatse Image?" The Washington Post, 9 Jul. 2008, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901983.html.</ref> The site's images, including hello.jpg and others, have also become subjects of parodies, mirrors, and tributes.<ref>"Goatse." Sam Hocevar, archived from the original on 18 Jul. 2016, http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/.</ref> Additionally, the Goatse image has been used for various parodies, such as in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley in August 2004 when a photograph purporting to show "the hands of God" in the cloud formations circulated via email.<ref>Mikkelson, David. "God Hands." Snopes.com, 26 Aug. 2015, http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/godhands.asp.</ref> Similarly, discs containing a leaked Mac OS X build, OSx86, were distributed in 2005 on BitTorrent filesharing networks, but instead of the expected Mac OS, the discs reportedly displayed the Goatse image when booted.<ref>[http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/12/jumping-on-the-bandwagon-os-x-on-x86-omg/ Jumping on the bandwagon: OS X on x86 OMG] by Scott McNulty, published on TUAW.com on August 12, 2005.</ref> [[GNAA]] also did the same thing for the supposedly leaked Mac OS X Tiger release for Intel x86 processors.<ref>Farivar, Cyrus. "The Greatest Internet Moments of All Time." Gizmodo, 23 Jan. 2006, https://gizmodo.com/107940/macindell-part-quatre-the-ruby-goldmine.</ref>		Goatse has become an Internet meme due to many users being tricked into viewing the site or a mirror of it. The infamous images were posted on the official [[wikipedia:Oprah Winfrey\|''Oprah Winfrey'']] Message Boards in 2000, causing the board to be retired shortly afterwards. [[wikipedia:Slashdot\|''Slashdot'']] also altered its threaded discussion forum display software to prevent users from tricking unsuspecting readers into visiting the site.<ref>Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Penguin Books, 2001. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=lVXnmsCCd3wC&q=goatse&pg=PA274.</ref> The use of ''goatse.cx'' as a "fake" link to shock friends became popular and was later adapted as a technique for common shock sites such as [[Tubgirl]].<ref name="vice" /> Website authors have used the goatse.cx image to deter hot-linking to their site by replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing one. This sends a clear message to the offending website's operators visible to anyone who views the web page in question. For instance, in 2007, ''[[wikipedia:Wired (magazine)\|WIRED]]'' hot-linked to another site in an article about the "sexiest geeks of 2007" and the site replaced the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.<ref>Waters, Richard. "What's the Story Behind the Bill O'Reilly Goatse Image?" The Washington Post, 9 Jul. 2008, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901983.html.</ref> The site's images, including hello.jpg and others, have also become subjects of parodies, mirrors, and tributes.<ref>"Goatse." Sam Hocevar, archived from the original on 18 Jul. 2016, http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/.</ref> Additionally, the Goatse image has been used for various parodies, such as in the aftermath of [[wikipedia:Hurricane Charley\|''Hurricane Charley'']] in August 2004 when a photograph purporting to show "the hands of God" in the cloud formations circulated via email.<ref>Mikkelson, David. "God Hands." Snopes.com, 26 Aug. 2015, http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/godhands.asp.</ref> Similarly, discs containing a leaked Mac OS X build, OSx86, were distributed in 2005 on [[wikipedia:BitTorrent\|''BitTorrent'']] filesharing networks, but instead of the expected Mac OS, the discs reportedly displayed the Goatse image when booted.<ref>[http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/12/jumping-on-the-bandwagon-os-x-on-x86-omg/ Jumping on the bandwagon: OS X on x86 OMG] by Scott McNulty, published on TUAW.com on August 12, 2005.</ref> [[GNAA]] also did the same thing for the supposedly leaked [[wikipedia:Mac OS X Tiger\|''Mac OS X Tiger'']] release for Intel x86 processors.<ref>Farivar, Cyrus. "The Greatest Internet Moments of All Time." Gizmodo, 23 Jan. 2006, https://gizmodo.com/107940/macindell-part-quatre-the-ruby-goldmine.</ref>

	[[File:Olympics Goatse.png\|thumb\|left\|200px\|The alternative of the 2012 Summer Olympics's logo before it was later removed.<ref name="Wired">''[https://www.wired.com/2007/06/goatsecx-and-th/ Goatse.cx and the Birth of the Internet Meme]''. Wired. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref>]]		[[File:Olympics Goatse.png\|thumb\|left\|200px\|The alternative of the 2012 Summer Olympics's logo before it was later removed.<ref name="Wired">''[https://www.wired.com/2007/06/goatsecx-and-th/ Goatse.cx and the Birth of the Internet Meme]''. Wired. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref>]]
	Chris Anderson, in his book The Long Tail (2008), noted that goatse.cx is a well-known reference only among a small subculture of Internet users who use it as a shared context joke or secret membership code. Anderson cited an example of a photo of Anil Dash wearing a T-shirt with the word "Goatse" and stylized hands accompanying an article about Google in The New York Times.<ref>Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Hyperion, 2006. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=ElswmhzTc8cC&pg=PA59.</ref> In 2007, a sketch featuring two hands stretching the "0" wide in "2012" appeared on the BBC News 24 broadcast and website as an alternative to the official logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics, leading to its subsequent removal from the website.<ref name="Wired" /><ref>Leyden, John (4 June 2007). ''[https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/04/bbc_olympics_cx/ BBC hit by mass website attack]''. The Register. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> In June 2010, computer experts known as Goatse Security exposed a security flaw in AT&T's system that revealed the email addresses of iPad users. The group uses a stylized cartoon of the cropped goatse.cx image as its logo with the motto "Gaping Holes Exposed."<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100615230959/http://security.goatse.fr/ Goatse Security]''. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> Pranksters also displayed the image on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015.<ref>Haddon, Heather. "Atlanta Drivers Stunned by Lewd Image on Digital Billboard." USA Today, 12 May 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/12/lewd-image-digital-billboard-atlanta/27163101/.</ref>		Chris Anderson, in his book ''The Long Tail'' (2008), noted that goatse.cx is a well-known reference only among a small subculture of Internet users who use it as a shared context joke or secret membership code. Anderson cited an example of a photo of Anil Dash wearing a T-shirt with the word "Goatse" and stylized hands accompanying an article about Google in ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times\|The New York Times]]''.<ref>Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Hyperion, 2006. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=ElswmhzTc8cC&pg=PA59.</ref> In 2007, a sketch featuring two hands stretching the "0" wide in "2012" appeared on the BBC News 24 broadcast and website as an alternative to the official logo for the [[wikipedia:2012 Summer Olympics\|''2012 Summer Olympics'']], leading to its subsequent removal from the website.<ref name="Wired" /><ref>Leyden, John (4 June 2007). ''[https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/04/bbc_olympics_cx/ BBC hit by mass website attack]''. The Register. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> In June 2010, computer experts known as Goatse Security exposed a security flaw in AT&T's system that revealed the email addresses of iPad users. The group uses a stylized cartoon of the cropped goatse.cx image as its logo with the motto "Gaping Holes Exposed."<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100615230959/http://security.goatse.fr/ Goatse Security]''. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> Pranksters also displayed the image on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015.<ref>Haddon, Heather. "Atlanta Drivers Stunned by Lewd Image on Digital Billboard." USA Today, 12 May 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/12/lewd-image-digital-billboard-atlanta/27163101/.</ref>

	In [[wikipedia:Doom 3\|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil\|Resurrection of Evil]]'', an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)\|Breakout]]'') is seen in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels to display a similar image of Goatse in level 3. However, three arcade games include (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) are replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" in the [[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition\|BFG Edition]].		In [[wikipedia:Doom 3\|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil\|Resurrection of Evil]]'', an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)\|Breakout]]'') is seen in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels to display a similar image of Goatse in level 3. However, three arcade games include (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) are replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" in the [[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition\|BFG Edition]].

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	==History and background==		==History and background==
	The Goatse image first emerged in 1997 as a part of a collection of 40 images of a man named Kirk Johnson, which were shared among the internet's gay porn community through email, FTP, and message boards like Usenet. However, when a hacker group called the "Hick crew," consisting mainly of teenage hackers and internet trolls, acquired the collection, they used one of the images, Johnson's stretched anus, to prank each other and their "enemies", including Christian chat forums, spamming the image until all other users left the chatroom. The image was stored in an unlabeled directory owned by one of the Hick crew members, but a hacker and Hick associate named Merl1n saw a better way to distribute it and registered the domain Goatse.cx in 1999. The website became incredibly popular as a prank, with users sending unsuspecting individuals an apparently innocent link, only to shock them with the image. According to Know Your Meme editor-in-chief Don Caldwell, Goatse's success as a meme was due to its potential for pranks and the fact that it burned itself into people's memories. People who were taken off guard were pranked with the image, which stayed with them and spread quickly across the internet.<ref name="vice">Hernandez, Patricia. "Shit, Death, and Gore: How Shock Sites Shaped the Internet." Vice, 5 Aug. 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnw7b/shit-death-and-gore-how-shock-sites-shaped-the-internet.</ref>		The ''Goatse'' image first emerged in 1997 as a part of a collection of 40 images of a man named Kirk Johnson, which were shared among the internet's gay porn community through email, FTP, and message boards like Usenet. However, when a hacker group called the "Hick crew" consisting mainly of teenage hackers and internet trolls, acquired the collection, they used one of the images, Johnson's stretched anus, to prank each other and their "enemies", including Christian chat forums, spamming the image until all other users left the chatroom. The image was stored in an unlabeled directory owned by one of the Hick crew members, but a hacker and Hick associate named Merl1n saw a better way to distribute it and registered the domain ''Goatse.cx'' in 1999. The website became incredibly popular as a prank, with users sending unsuspecting individuals an apparently innocent link, only to shock them with the image.<ref name="vice">Hernandez, Patricia. "Shit, Death, and Gore: How Shock Sites Shaped the Internet." Vice, 5 Aug. 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnw7b/shit-death-and-gore-how-shock-sites-shaped-the-internet.</ref>

	===Website's history===		===Website's history===
	In 1999, the original Goatse website featured the text "What are you doing here?" in the center, and after 10 seconds, it would redirect to index2.html. Later, two links to feedback.html and contrib.html were added, along with links to other websites supposedly created by the original owner, such as urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org. In 2003, the website owner addressed merchandising attempts for goatse.cx and announced that official merchandise was coming soon. However, on January 14, 2004, Christmas Island suspended Goatse.cx for violating their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) following a complaint from its residents. The domain remained in suspension until January 2007 when it was placed back in the available domain pool.		In 1999, the original ''Goatse'' website featured the text "What are you doing here?" in the center, and after 10 seconds, it would redirect to index2.html. Later, two links to ''feedback.html'' and ''contrib.html'' were added, along with links to other websites supposedly created by the original owner, such as ''urinalpoop.org'' and ''dolphinsex.org''. In 2003, the website owner addressed merchandising attempts for goatse.cx and announced that official merchandise was coming soon. However, on January 14, 2004, [[wikipedia:.cx\|Christmas Island]] suspended ''Goatse.cx'' for violating their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) following a complaint from its residents. The domain remained in suspension until January 2007 when it was placed back in the available domain pool.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040531080510/http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/aup.noticeofcomplaint.pdf</ref>

	On April 30, 2007, the goatse.cx domain name was sold at an auction to an unknown bidder. However, the first auction was plagued by fake bids, prompting a reactivation of the auction.<ref>Grossman, Lev. "Goatse.cx Now For Sale (Seriously)." Wired, 9 Apr. 2007, http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/goatsecx_now_fo.html.</ref> The second auction was similarly affected, leading to Seobidding.com's announcement that the website would be sold for $500,000 and that legal action would be taken against the fake bidders.<ref>"Goatse.cx." SEO Bidding, archived from the original on 13 Jul. 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20070713140015/http://www.seobidding.com/buy/auction/goatse.cx.</ref> As of November 25, 2007, the website was still for sale, with a minimum asking price of $50,200. In 2008, a new owner purchased the website for 8,000 euros, and it is now being developed as a subdomain service for hosting websites. While plans for a cryptocurrency called Goatse Coin were previously announced, no progress has been made.<ref>Caraan, Sophie. "Goatse Keeps Trying to Make Money with Cryptocurrency." Vice, 21 Feb. 2018, https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency.</ref>		On April 30, 2007, the ''goatse.cx'' domain name was sold at an auction to an unknown bidder. However, the first auction was plagued by fake bids, prompting a reactivation of the auction.<ref>Grossman, Lev. "Goatse.cx Now For Sale (Seriously)." Wired, 9 Apr. 2007, http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/goatsecx_now_fo.html.</ref> The second auction was similarly affected, leading to Seobidding.com's announcement that the website would be sold for $500,000 and that legal action would be taken against the fake bidders.<ref>"Goatse.cx." SEO Bidding, archived from the original on 13 Jul. 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20070713140015/http://www.seobidding.com/buy/auction/goatse.cx.</ref> As of November 25, 2007, the website was still for sale, with a minimum asking price of $50,200. In 2008, a new owner purchased the website for 8,000 euros, and it is now being developed as a subdomain service for hosting websites. While plans for a cryptocurrency called Goatse Coin were previously announced, no progress has been made.<ref>Caraan, Sophie. "Goatse Keeps Trying to Make Money with Cryptocurrency." Vice, 21 Feb. 2018, https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency.</ref>

	After the Christmas Island Internet Administration put the domain ''goatse.cx'' back into the available domain pool in January 2007, a typosquatting-like website about financing was found on the domain.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070324073130/http://goatse.cx/ Goatse.cx]''. Archived from [http://goatse.cx/ the original] on 24 March 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> On January 16, the domain was registered through domain registrar Variomedia, and the registrant attempted to auction the right to use the domain. The first attempt to sell the domain by SEOBidding had a reserve of $120 which was not met. On July 4, 2008, the website was relaunched with a parody of the original site, replacing the "Hello.jpg" image with an image of Bill O'Reilly, while the file name and alt text remained the same as before. In December, the image was changed again to showcase a stylized representation of hello.jpg, featuring a pair of silver robotic hands 'stretching' a metallic, circular wall aperture in what appears to be a futuristic factory setting, with a photoshopped image of the character Gumby next to it. The image had a link to a site called imagechan.com. The website still contained text above the image mentioning that it was still for sale.<ref>"Goatse.cx." Internet Archive, archived from the original on 18 Dec. 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20081218034824/http://goatse.cx/.</ref>		After the Christmas Island Internet Administration put the domain ''goatse.cx'' back into the available domain pool in January 2007, a typosquatting-like website about financing was found on the domain.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070324073130/http://goatse.cx/ Goatse.cx]''. Archived from [http://goatse.cx/ the original] on 24 March 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> On January 16, the domain was registered through domain registrar Variomedia, and the registrant attempted to auction the right to use the domain. The first attempt to sell the domain by SEOBidding had a reserve of $120 which was not met. On July 4, 2008, the website was relaunched with a parody of the original site, replacing the "Hello.jpg" image with an image of ''[[wikipedia:Bill O'Reilly\|Bill O'Reilly]]'', while the file name and alt text remained the same as before. In December, the image was changed again to showcase a stylized representation of hello.jpg, featuring a pair of silver robotic hands 'stretching' a metallic, circular wall aperture in what appears to be a futuristic factory setting, with a photoshopped image of the character Gumby next to it. The image had a link to a site called imagechan.com. The website still contained text above the image mentioning that it was still for sale.<ref>"Goatse.cx." Internet Archive, archived from the original on 18 Dec. 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20081218034824/http://goatse.cx/.</ref>

			On October 21, 2009, the Rick Latona "Daily Domains" newsletter advertised the goatse.cx domain for sale at $15,000, highlighting it as a "famous site" with numerous backlinks. The site was updated in April 2010 to announce the upcoming beta release of an emailing service called "Goatse Stinger 2.0" and included a Yahoo! mailing list and a parody sketch of the infamous "Hello.jpg" image. However, the email service was never launched beyond this point, and by June 2011, the "www." version of the website redirected to a web-hosting company's site. In October 2012, the goatse.cx domain was acquired by a new owner who planned to offer a webmail service with ''goatse.cx'' email addresses. The domain redirected to ''signup.goatse.cx'', with a launch planned for early December 2012. The website launched an [[wikipedia:Indiegogo, Inc.\|''Indiegogo'']] campaign in 2013 to fund the email service.<ref>"Goatse.cx." Internet Archive, archived from the original on 21 Oct. 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20121021141400/http://signup.goatse.cx/.</ref> In January 2014, the site announced the development of its own cryptocurrency, "Goatse Coin". In December of that year, the website began offering subdomains. The latest version of the site offers users the opportunity to purchase pixels for advertising purposes using the Ethereum blockchain. As of 2018, the owner has sold 6,000 pixels, earning $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel, according to Vice. Although plans for the site's email system, Goatse Mail, were previously announced, it has yet to be launched.

	On October 21, 2009, the Rick Latona "Daily Domains" newsletter advertised the goatse.cx domain for sale at $15,000, highlighting it as a "famous site" with numerous backlinks. The site was updated in April 2010 to announce the upcoming beta release of an emailing service called "Goatse Stinger 2.0" and included a Yahoo! mailing list and a parody sketch of the infamous "Hello.jpg" image. However, the email service was never launched beyond this point, and by June 2011, the "www." version of the website redirected to a web-hosting company's site. In October 2012, the goatse.cx domain was acquired by a new owner who planned to offer a webmail service with goatse.cx email addresses. The domain redirected to ''signup.goatse.cx'', with a launch planned for early December 2012. The website launched an Indiegogo campaign in 2013 to fund the email service.<ref>"Goatse.cx." Internet Archive, archived from the original on 21 Oct. 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20121021141400/http://signup.goatse.cx/.</ref> In January 2014, the site announced the development of its own cryptocurrency, "Goatse Coin." In December of that year, the website began offering subdomains. The latest version of the site offers users the opportunity to purchase pixels for advertising purposes using the Ethereum blockchain. As of 2018, the owner has sold 6,000 pixels, earning $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel, according to Vice. Although plans for the site's email system, Goatse Mail, were previously announced, it has yet to be launched.
	==In popular culture==		==In popular culture==
	[[File:Goatse.jpg\|thumb\|293x293px\|Hackers successfully hijack an electronic billboard to display the dreaded image.]]		[[File:Goatse.jpg\|thumb\|293x293px\|Hackers successfully hijack an electronic billboard to display the dreaded image.]]

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 In addition to "Hello.jpg" under the "The Receiver" section, the full website also featured "The Giver" section, which showed a man with a large penis reaching up to his chest, suggesting the "giver" was about to insert it into another man's anus. The website contained dead links to sites like urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, and older links led to biganal.com. Kirk Johnson was also featured on other shock sites, including Detroithardcore, Bottle Guy, and Goatsee.com.
 ==History and background==
 The Goatse image first emerged in 1997 as a part of a collection of 40 images of a man named Kirk Johnson, which were shared among the internet's gay porn community through email, FTP, and message boards like Usenet. However, when a hacker group called the "Hick crew," consisting mainly of teenage hackers and internet trolls, acquired the collection, they used one of the images, Johnson's stretched anus, to prank each other and their "enemies", including Christian chat forums, spamming the image until all other users left the chatroom. The image was stored in an unlabeled directory owned by one of the Hick crew members, but a hacker and Hick associate named Merl1n saw a better way to distribute it and registered the domain Goatse.cx in 1999. The website became incredibly popular as a prank, with users sending unsuspecting individuals an apparently innocent link, only to shock them with the image. According to Know Your Meme editor-in-chief Don Caldwell, Goatse's success as a meme was due to its potential for pranks and the fact that it burned itself into people's memories. People who were taken off guard were pranked with the image, which stayed with them and spread quickly across the internet.[1]

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		'''Goatse.cx''' (also known as Goatse) was a [[shock site]] that prominently featured an image titled "Hello.jpg" depicting a man stretching his anus using both hands, revealing his anal cavity. This image became the first to be used in bait-and-switch pranks due to its shock value, where a user would bait another user into clicking a link. The website used the .cx domain because of its phonetic similarity to the word "sex", but the Christmas Island authorities eventually shut down the website. The image used on the site, originally named "gap3.jpg", was sourced from the Gap.zip file, which contained several shock images of a man named Kirk Johnson "using dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus". It is unclear whether Johnson posted Gap.zip himself, or if it originated from emails, FTP servers, or other sources.

		In addition to "Hello.jpg" under the "The Receiver" section, the full website also featured "The Giver" section, which showed a man with a large penis reaching up to his chest, suggesting the "giver" was about to insert it into another man's anus. The website contained dead links to sites like urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org, and older links led to biganal.com. Kirk Johnson was also featured on other shock sites, including Detroithardcore, Bottle Guy, and Goatsee.com.
		==History and background==
		The Goatse image first emerged in 1997 as a part of a collection of 40 images of a man named Kirk Johnson, which were shared among the internet's gay porn community through email, FTP, and message boards like Usenet. However, when a hacker group called the "Hick crew," consisting mainly of teenage hackers and internet trolls, acquired the collection, they used one of the images, Johnson's stretched anus, to prank each other and their "enemies", including Christian chat forums, spamming the image until all other users left the chatroom. The image was stored in an unlabeled directory owned by one of the Hick crew members, but a hacker and Hick associate named Merl1n saw a better way to distribute it and registered the domain Goatse.cx in 1999. The website became incredibly popular as a prank, with users sending unsuspecting individuals an apparently innocent link, only to shock them with the image. According to Know Your Meme editor-in-chief Don Caldwell, Goatse's success as a meme was due to its potential for pranks and the fact that it burned itself into people's memories. People who were taken off guard were pranked with the image, which stayed with them and spread quickly across the internet.[1]
		===Website's history===
		In 1999, the original Goatse website featured the text "What are you doing here?" in the center, and after 10 seconds, it would redirect to index2.html. Later, two links to feedback.html and contrib.html were added, along with links to other websites supposedly created by the original owner, such as urinalpoop.org and dolphinsex.org. In 2003, the website owner addressed merchandising attempts for goatse.cx and announced that official merchandise was coming soon. However, on January 14, 2004, Christmas Island suspended Goatse.cx for violating their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) following a complaint from its residents. The domain remained in suspension until January 2007 when it was placed back in the available domain pool.

		On April 30, 2007, the goatse.cx domain name was sold at an auction to an unknown bidder. However, the first auction was plagued by fake bids, prompting a reactivation of the auction. The second auction was similarly affected, leading to Seobidding.com's announcement that the website would be sold for $500,000 and that legal action would be taken against the fake bidders. As of November 25, 2007, the website was still for sale, with a minimum asking price of $50,200. In 2008, a new owner purchased the website for 8,000 euros, and it is now being developed as a subdomain service for hosting websites. While plans for a cryptocurrency called Goatse Coin were previously announced, no progress has been made.

		After the Christmas Island Internet Administration put the domain goatse.cx back into the available domain pool in January 2007, a typosquatting-like website about financing was found on the domain. On January 16, the domain was registered through domain registrar Variomedia, and the registrant attempted to auction the right to use the domain. The first attempt to sell the domain by SEOBidding had a reserve of $120 which was not met. On July 4, 2008, the website was relaunched with a parody of the original site, replacing the "Hello.jpg" image with an image of Bill O'Reilly, while the file name and alt text remained the same as before. In December, the image was changed again to showcase a stylized representation of hello.jpg, featuring a pair of silver robotic hands 'stretching' a metallic, circular wall aperture in what appears to be a futuristic factory setting, with a photoshopped image of the character Gumby next to it. The image had a link to a site called imagechan.com. The website still contained text above the image mentioning that it was still for sale.
		[[File:Goatse_Logo.png\|thumb\|130px\|right\|Goatse's official logo.]]
		On October 21, 2009, the Rick Latona "Daily Domains" newsletter advertised the goatse.cx domain for sale at $15,000, highlighting it as a "famous site" with numerous backlinks. The site was updated in April 2010 to announce the upcoming beta release of an emailing service called "Goatse Stinger 2.0" and included a Yahoo! mailing list and a parody sketch of the infamous "Hello.jpg" image. However, the email service was never launched beyond this point, and by June 2011, the "www." version of the website redirected to a web-hosting company's site. In October 2012, the goatse.cx domain was acquired by a new owner who planned to offer a webmail service with goatse.cx email addresses. The domain redirected to signup.goatse.cx, with a launch planned for early December 2012. The website launched an Indiegogo campaign in 2013 to fund the email service. In January 2014, the site announced the development of its own cryptocurrency, "Goatse Coin". In December of that year, the website began offering subdomains. The latest version of the site offers users the opportunity to purchase pixels for advertising purposes using the Ethereum blockchain. As of 2018, the owner has sold 6,000 pixels, earning $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel, according to Vice. Although plans for the site's email system, Goatse Mail, were previously announced, it has yet to be launched.
		==In popular culture==
		[[File:Goatse.jpg\|thumb\|293x293px\|Hackers successfully hijack an electronic billboard to display the dreaded image.]]
		Goatse has become an Internet meme due to many users being tricked into viewing the site or a mirror of it. The infamous images were posted on the official Oprah Winfrey Message Boards in 2000, causing the board to be retired shortly afterwards. Slashdot also altered its threaded discussion forum display software to prevent users from tricking unsuspecting readers into visiting the site. The Los Angeles Times Wikitorial, which was introduced as a publicly accessible method of responding to the paper's editorials, was closed two days after its launch due to explicit images appearing on the site. The use of goatse.cx as a "fake" link to shock friends became popular and was later adapted as a technique for common shock sites such as [[Tubgirl]]. Website authors have used the goatse.cx image to deter hot-linking to their site by replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing one. This sends a clear message to the offending website's operators visible to anyone who views the web page in question. For instance, in 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the "sexiest geeks of 2007," and the site replaced the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx. The site's images, including hello.jpg and others, have also become subjects of parodies, mirrors, and tributes. Additionally, the Goatse image has been used for various parodies, such as in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley in August 2004 when a photograph purporting to show "the hands of God" in the cloud formations circulated via email. Similarly, discs containing a leaked Mac OS X build, OSx86, were distributed in 2005 on BitTorrent filesharing networks, but instead of the expected Mac OS, the discs reportedly displayed the Goatse image when booted. [[GNAA]] also did the same thing for the supposedly leaked Mac OS X Tiger release for Intel x86 processors.

		[[File:Olympics Goatse.png\|thumb\|left\|200px\|The alternative of the 2012 Summer Olympics's logo before it was later removed.]]
		Chris Anderson, in his book The Long Tail (2008), noted that goatse.cx is a well-known reference only among a small subculture of Internet users who use it as a shared context joke or secret membership code. Anderson cited an example of a photo of Anil Dash wearing a T-shirt with the word "Goatse" and stylized hands accompanying an article about Google in The New York Times. In 2007, a sketch featuring two hands stretching the "0" wide in "2012" appeared on the BBC News 24 broadcast and website as an alternative to the official logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics, leading to its subsequent removal from the website. In June 2010, computer experts known as Goatse Security exposed a security flaw in AT&T's system that revealed the email addresses of iPad users. The group uses a stylized cartoon of the cropped goatse.cx image as its logo with the motto "Gaping Holes Exposed." Pranksters also displayed the image on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015.

		In [[wikipedia:Doom 3\|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil\|Resurrection of Evil]]'', an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)\|Breakout]]'') is seen in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels to display a similar image of Goatse in level 3. However, three arcade games include (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) are replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" in the [[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition\|BFG Edition]].

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	'''Felix the Cat for the Sega Mega Drive''' is an unauthorized port of the NES game of the same name, created in Russia. The game features a disturbing image that may considered as "screamer". The objective of the game is to save Kitty Kat from the clutches of the professor by returning his magical bag. Despite having a modest selection of levels from its NES counterpart, the game does not include any bosses. The game's playlist contains the same songs, but they play in random order. However, a particularly unsettling scene is discovered when the player dies and reaches the Continue screen. Here, the player is presented with two options: "yes" to continue playing or "no" to face a distressing image of Felix with his face torn and skull exposed, accompanied by an interrupted soundtrack that persists until the game is closed. This image was initially utilized for a T-shirt design by Dozign titled "Felix the Cat Unmasked" and inspired the infamous SilvaGunner video, Puzzle Room - Kirby: Planet Robobot.		'''Felix the Cat for the Sega Mega Drive''' is an unauthorized port of the NES game of the same name, created in Russia. The game features a disturbing image that may considered as "screamer". The objective of the game is to save Kitty Kat from the clutches of the professor by returning his magical bag. Despite having a modest selection of levels from its NES counterpart, the game does not include any bosses. The game's playlist contains the same songs, but they play in random order. However, a particularly unsettling scene is discovered when the player dies and reaches the Continue screen. Here, the player is presented with two options: "yes" to continue playing or "no" to face a distressing image of Felix with his face torn and skull exposed, accompanied by an interrupted soundtrack that persists until the game is closed. This image was initially utilized for a T-shirt design by Dozign titled "Felix the Cat Unmasked" and inspired the infamous [[wikipedia:SilvaGunner\|SilvaGunner]] video, [[Puzzle Room - Kirby: Planet Robobot]].

	===Upgrade Complete series===		===Upgrade Complete series===
	''[[Upgrade Complete 3mium]]'' is the final title in the Upgrade Complete trilogy. The game's objective is to acquire all available upgrades, which requires collecting in-game coins by playing a simple shoot-em-up. Unlike the previous two games in the series, which featured a classic 2D side-scrolling space shooter, 3mium has the player defend a stationary base that harvests "precious whale oil" against progressively harder waves of enemies. As a parody of modern "pay-to-win" games, the game assumes that the player has already purchased the "premium version" with all upgrades unlocked upon starting. Pressing the "Beat Game" button leads to a fake PayPal screen that, when closed, revokes all upgrades, requiring the player to earn them from scratch. The game features a "Heartrate" upgrade that comes in three steps, with the first two intended to be non-scary. The first time the player attempts to unlock it, the game displays a warning message. However, unlocking the upgrade only causes a deliberately crude drawing of a cheesy bedsheet ghost to pop up and move around, followed by a photo of the creator with bad MS Paint scribbles. The third and final step of the upgrade appears normal, with the regular "Upgrade Complete" logo popping up and gameplay returning to normal. However, after about 20 seconds, a blurry picture of what appears to be a child with beady black eyes pops up across the screen with a scream, serving as the game's genuine screamer. If the player has not unlocked the game's audio through an upgrade, none of the three screamers will play any sounds. ''[[Upgrade Complete II]]'' is the second game in the series, where players control a spaceship and defeat enemies to earn money for upgrades. Unlike its predecessor, this game features a top-down view of the spaceship. The Heart Rate upgrade triggers a flashing picture of a boy with a Photo Booth filter and a loud scream, serving as a screamer.		''[[Upgrade Complete 3mium]]'' is the final title in the Upgrade Complete trilogy. The game's objective is to acquire all available upgrades, which requires collecting in-game coins by playing a simple shoot-em-up. Unlike the previous two games in the series, which featured a classic 2D side-scrolling space shooter, 3mium has the player defend a stationary base that harvests "precious whale oil" against progressively harder waves of enemies. As a parody of modern "pay-to-win" games, the game assumes that the player has already purchased the "premium version" with all upgrades unlocked upon starting. Pressing the "Beat Game" button leads to a fake PayPal screen that, when closed, revokes all upgrades, requiring the player to earn them from scratch. The game features a "Heartrate" upgrade that comes in three steps, with the first two intended to be non-scary. The first time the player attempts to unlock it, the game displays a warning message. However, unlocking the upgrade only causes a deliberately crude drawing of a cheesy bedsheet ghost to pop up and move around, followed by a photo of the creator with bad MS Paint scribbles. The third and final step of the upgrade appears normal, with the regular "Upgrade Complete" logo popping up and gameplay returning to normal. However, after about 20 seconds, a blurry picture of what appears to be a child with beady black eyes pops up across the screen with a scream, serving as the game's genuine screamer. If the player has not unlocked the game's audio through an upgrade, none of the three screamers will play any sounds. ''[[Upgrade Complete II]]'' is the second game in the series, where players control a spaceship and defeat enemies to earn money for upgrades. Unlike its predecessor, this game features a top-down view of the spaceship. The Heart Rate upgrade triggers a flashing picture of a boy with a Photo Booth filter and a loud scream, serving as a screamer.

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	'''Video games with screamers''' are a type of horror game that features jump scares, often in the form of sudden and startling images or sounds that aim to scare the player. The games usually begin with gameplay that may seem uneventful, such as navigating a maze or solving puzzles. However, as the player progresses through the game, they may encounter unexpected moments of terror, often in the form of a scary face or loud noise. [[Screamers]] are used to create a sense of fear and unease in the player, often by catching them off-guard and triggering a fight or flight response. They are commonly used in horror games to increase tension and keep the player engaged.		'''Video games with screamers''' are a type of horror game that features jump scares, often in the form of sudden and startling images or sounds that aim to scare the player. The games usually begin with gameplay that may seem uneventful, such as navigating a maze or solving puzzles. However, as the player progresses through the game, they may encounter unexpected moments of terror, often in the form of a scary face or loud noise. [[Screamers]] are used to create a sense of fear and unease in the player, often by catching them off-guard and triggering a fight or flight response. They are commonly used in horror games to increase tension and keep the player engaged.

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