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Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History

This is a collection of all 11 recommendations for “Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History”. You’ll probably need 17 minutes to finish this text.

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Florian Eckerstorfer
The story of Goatse begins with a mustachioed, wiry man in his late forties who goes by the name "Kirk Johnson." Johnson is a prominent practitioner of extreme penetration, which is the extreme penetration community's term of art for sticking huge objects up your ass. For years, Johnson has been rumored to be the Goatse man, based on their similar frame, skills, and matching moles on both Goatse's and Johnson's ass. Reader, I examined the moles. They match.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
Recited from Max Fraenkel
quantenbrot
Since the late ‘90s, this sequence of events has been repeated often enough that it's safe to say that millions of people have shared the pain of their first Goatse. The photo was the original internet bait-and-switch: Share a link to a hot girl, a cute puppy, but— boom—it's Goatse instead. Goatse'ing someone without their consent is emotional assault. It's also funny as shit.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. quantenbrot

    quantenbrot Goatse. Die ganze Geschichte. Verstörend und wunderbar.

    April 12, 2012
ausnahmsweise
Goatse'ing someone without their consent is emotional assault. It's also funny as shit.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. ausnahmsweise

    ausnahmsweise Die Person auf dem Goatse-Bild wurde nun identifiziert.

    April 11, 2012
Dominik Johann
The photo was the original internet bait-and-switch: Share a link to a hot girl, a cute puppy, but— boom—it's Goatse instead. Goatse'ing someone without their consent is emotional assault. It's also funny as shit.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. Dominik Johann

    Dominik Johann An insightful (haha) story about the internet's most famous gaping asshole.

    April 11, 2012
Sebastian Moitzheim
Goatse peaked in popularity in the mid-2000s and then faded, but it remains the most enduring meme of Web 1.0. There are T-shirts and tribute sites. The mere mention of Goatse will bring a wince—or a smile, depending on the person—to the face of the initiated. But for all that, the full history of Goatse has never been told. After two weeks of staring deep into the metaphorical and literal black hole of Goatse, it's easy to see why.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. Sebastian Moitzheim

    Sebastian Moitzheim Adrian Chen hat bei Gawker die Geschichte von Goatse aufgeschrieben. Musste wohl mal irgendjemand machen.

    April 11, 2012
Felix Neumann
Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet?
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. Felix Neumann

    Felix Neumann Unraveling the mystery that all started with a big gap.

    April 11, 2012 | 1
Max Fraenkel
The story of Goatse begins with a mustachioed, wiry man in his late forties who goes by the name "Kirk Johnson." Johnson is a prominent practitioner of extreme penetration, which is the extreme penetration community's term of art for sticking huge objects up your ass. For years, Johnson has been rumored to be the Goatse man, based on their similar frame, skills, and matching moles on both Goatse's and Johnson's ass. Reader, I examined the moles. They match.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. Max Fraenkel

    Max Fraenkel Finding Goatse.

    April 11, 2012
cinematze
The story of Goatse begins with a mustachioed, wiry man in his late forties who goes by the name "Kirk Johnson." Johnson is a prominent practitioner of extreme penetration, which is the extreme penetration community's term of art for sticking huge objects up your ass.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
  1. cinematze

    cinematze Essential reading for anyone who's familiar with the term "Goatse". If you're not, just leave it alone. Seriously. You've been warned!

    April 11, 2012
elflojo
"I got burnt out after doing it for 12 years," he said. "I wake up and I'm eating an omelet while looking at girls shitting in people's mouths and I was like, 'this is not how I want to spend my morning.' I'm done with this shit." After just two weeks in the gaping chasm of Goatse, I know where he's coming from.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
Sebastian Baumer
Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet?
Estimated reading time: 17 min
Erik
Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet?
Estimated reading time: 17 min