The site first went live on March 10, 2005. In 2016, the website was played on a public digital billboard in Sweden, resulting in international media attention. In 2015, consternation followed when a family restaurant played the website in front of young children. In 2013, a student at Florida State University hacked the wireless network of his campus and redirected all traffic to Meatspin. A counter keeps track of how many "spins" the viewer has watched. Although frequently reported to be gay pornography, it has been mentioned that the clip was derived from a transgender pornography film. Meatspin is a shock site containing a looping video (set playing to "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive") of two people engaging in anal sex, while the penis of the receiving partner spins endlessly. Newman also shared a video one year prior of him using a vacuum and plastic bag to suffocate two kittens to the song "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" by John Lennon to several gore sites. This was followed years later by Eric Clinton Kirk Newman's (known now as Luka Rocco Magnotta) video "1 Lunatic 1 Icepick" in 2012-a video of Newman murdering Chinese student Jun Lin that contained dismemberment, cannibalism, and necrophilia, and was posted on. In 2008, the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs posted the graphic murder video "3 Guys 1 Hammer". In 2012, it was resurrected as an e-mail service. The site was shut down in 2004 however, various mirror sites featuring the image still exist. The site featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site. Goatse was one of the earliest and best-known shock sites, featuring an image of a man stretching his anus with his hands. There have also been several individual videos that received viral attention. Additionally, Graham Coutts visited Necrobabes, Rapepassion, Violentpleasure, and Hangingbitches frequently before strangling teacher Jane Longhurst. The two met, and Brandes' murder and cannibalism were recorded and posted on various sites. These sites gained attention in 2003 when Armin Meiwes, an aspiring cannibal, used the sites to connect with Jürgen Brandes, a man who desired to be eaten. The sites Necrobabes, Cannibal Café, and Gourmet tailored themselves to would-be cannibals in the early 2000s. Some shock galleries, however, established more specific niches. He pleaded guilty and was given a six-month conditional sentence for his role in a case where he was accused of corrupting public morals in Alberta, Canada. , established in 2008 by Mark Marek, was notorious for its extremely graphic content, such as photos and videos of murders, suicides and violent accidents with an estimated 15–20 million monthly visits during its operation. 's reputation rested on its publication of gore media from terrorists and war. , which was established in 2000, hosted "mutilated corpses, car accidents, burn victims, congenital malformations and other grotesqueries". was created to sell mondo films like Traces of Death (1993). During their operation, the owners of launched several new sites, one of which was in 2006.
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hosted murder videos and images of deceased people, and brandished the motto "Pure Evil Since 1996". There have been several shock galleries that have launched and shut down. A 2007 shock video known as 2 Girls 1 Cup also quickly became an Internet phenomenon, with videos of reactions, homages, and parodies widely posted on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Goatse.cx featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site's hello.jpg, and a parody of the image was unwittingly shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for the then-recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Some shock sites have also gained their own subcultures and have become internet memes on their own.
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Gallery sites can contain beheadings, execution, electrocution, suicide, murder, stoning, torching, hangings, terrorism, cartel violence, drowning, vehicular accidents, war victims, rape, necrophilia, genital mutilation and other sexual crimes. Steven Jones distinguishes these sites from those that collect galleries where users search for shocking content, such as. Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or small gallery, and are circulated via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a prank. Websites that are primarily fixated on real death and graphic violence are particularly referred to as a gore site. Shock-oriented websites generally contain material such as pornographic, scatological, racist, sexist, graphically violent, insulting, vulgar, profane, or otherwise some other provocative nature. Short description: Website intended to offend and disgust its viewersĪ shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to its viewers, though it can also contain elements of humor or evoke (in some viewers) sexual arousal.