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A shock site is a Website that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to its viewers, containing materials of high Shock Value which is also considered Distasteful and crude, and is generally of a Pornographic , Scatological , or extremely Violent nature. In most cases, a shock site displays a single picture, although some shock sites also show Animation s or galleries of Image s. 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. EXAMPLES OF SHOCK SITES Goatse.cx See Also: Goatse.cx Goatse.cx "The Hands of God" , snopes.com. was one of the best-known shock sites that existed, featuring an image, hello.jpg, of a man stretching his Anus with his hands.
Tubgirl.com Tubgirl.com was a redirect to a picture, tubgirl.jpg, containing a masked, naked woman lying in a . The image displayed on tubgirl.com has since been removed. Ogrish.com See Also: Ogrish.com Ogrish.com was a shock site that contained pictures of domestic incidents such as Car Crashes , Murders , and various other accidents. It also hosted images from the ongoing Iraq War , other conflicts, and acts of Terror . Due to the nature of the content of Ogrish.com, it had been banned in Germany. 1 The media hosted on Ogrish.com was, according to the manager of the site Dan Klinker, retrieved by the site's staff, or was submitted freelance by emergency workers and others who had access to such media. Ogrish.com used Scripts that monitored Jihadist websites for uploads of videos and images, and also crawled the internet for footage. 2 Examples of popular material on the site included the decapitation of American contractor Nick Berg , which had been downloaded fifteen million times, the execution of a Russian soldier in Chechnya , and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl . According to the site, average daily hits ranged in the low hundred thousand, and sometimes rose to 750,000 on a "bad news" day. Ogrish.com was incorporated into LiveLeak.com on Oct 31st 2006. OTHER SHOCK SITES
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