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Rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url
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Wren lemmy.today Wren@lemmy.today
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Broadfern lemmy.world Broadfern@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-03
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Goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, earrape jumpscare YouTube videos, liveleaks.

A cutesy, if formulaic 1980s synthpop song is how you apologize.

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-26
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What's goatse?

EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

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Widdershins lemmy.world Widdershins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-04
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What's goatse? EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

When you find out don't settle for the one image. That image is part of a whole set of pictures.

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d41 startrek.website d41@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, earrape jumpscare YouTube videos, liveleaks. A cutesy, if formulaic 1980s synthpop song is how you apologize.

Don't forget tubgirl, blue waffle, and basically anything on rotten.com

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cubism_pitta lemmy.world cubism_pitta@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
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What's goatse? EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

This question makes me sad.

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we are all crazypeople.online crazycraw@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-06-30
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Don't forget tubgirl, blue waffle, and basically anything on rotten.com

do you guys even lemonparty

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some_kind_of_guy lemmy.world some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-14
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do you guys even lemonparty

Just watch out for those lemon-stealing whores

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TIEPilot lemmy.world TIEPilot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
#9 · Quote Reply

Mr Hands, my God that's a nightmare to see...

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HobbitFoot thelemmy.club HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2023-06-16
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What's goatse? EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

Very eye opening.

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TIEPilot lemmy.world TIEPilot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
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Just watch out for those lemon-stealing whores

Thats why you get lemon tree insurance.

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okwhateverdude lemmy.world okwhateverdude@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-01
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What's goatse? EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

Sadly, the original is gone. I won't post the image, but you can easily find hello.jpg yourself

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okwhateverdude lemmy.world okwhateverdude@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-01
#13 · Quote Reply

The current sanitized internet of "unalive", "f*ck", etc. would shit bricks if exposed to all of the heinous shit of yestercentury

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thesohoriots lemmy.world thesohoriots@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#14 · Quote Reply

Very eye opening.

Something-opening, that’s for sure.

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thesohoriots lemmy.world thesohoriots@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
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Mr Hands, my God that's a nightmare to see...

The safe word is “Enumclaw”

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TIEPilot lemmy.world TIEPilot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
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The safe word is “Enumclaw”

Mine is "Pineapple Juice"

https://youtu.be/XDHqe4D9TsQ

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America sh.itjust.works Gullible@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-09
#17 · Quote Reply

Goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, earrape jumpscare YouTube videos, liveleaks. A cutesy, if formulaic 1980s synthpop song is how you apologize.

I never got the lemon party one. “Oh no, old man sex? How terrible!” Unless I bore witness to dismemberment, irl vore, or extremely violent sexual or psychological perversion, it rarely stuck with me.

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state_electrician discuss.tchncs.de state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-12
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I used to load the receiver part of goatse for any site that deep linked to my site. Fun times.

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buycurious lemmy.world buycurious@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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I never got the lemon party one. “Oh no, old man sex? How terrible!” Unless I bore witness to dismemberment, irl vore, or extremely violent sexual or psychological perversion, it rarely stuck with me.

This sounds like someone with internet experience.

Imagine seeing it without that much exposure to other things and potentially at a young age.

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mindbleach sh.itjust.works mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-27
#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

Rickrolling is an audiovisual Bel Air. Someone ropes you in with a fascinating shaggy-dog story that finds a natural way to mention one little fight where their mom got scared, and then transition to the theme from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I recently found out there was a melodramatic reboot of that show. I don't think they used Will Smith's original theme song, even though that's a major factor in his career, with music royalties ultimately paying him more than the residuals for starring in the show. That's why he insisted on tie-in songs for all of his movies. People joke about that for Men In Black in 1997 and Wild Wild West in 1999, but a little-known fact is that when the Wachowskis approached him in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and he plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.

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atomicbocks sh.itjust.works atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-02-16
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Goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, earrape jumpscare YouTube videos, liveleaks. A cutesy, if formulaic 1980s synthpop song is how you apologize.

I’ll never forget the video of the man, I think he was a journalist, being beheaded that was used everywhere for a minute.

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Elshender sh.itjust.works Elshender@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-16
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do you guys even lemonparty

https://youtu.be/v-bvHlb2Fe8?is=UhTLtcQbsWCOdlav

30 Rock reference to Lemon Party. SFW.

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djsoren19 lemmy.blahaj.zone djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-01-13
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I never got the lemon party one. “Oh no, old man sex? How terrible!” Unless I bore witness to dismemberment, irl vore, or extremely violent sexual or psychological perversion, it rarely stuck with me.

It was an earlier time and being gay was a lot less okay.

I mean it's the same with shit like meatspin. It's w/e, just some penis, but back then showing someone something gay? waow what a funny prank, ewww I don't wanna see something gay.

Small reminder of how far we've come. Or rather, how far we haven't, since I imagine people would have the same reaction today.

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chuckleslord lemmy.world chuckleslord@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-12
#24 · Quote Reply

The current sanitized internet of "unalive", "f*ck", etc. would shit bricks if exposed to all of the heinous shit of yestercentury

I mean, that shit is still around, just not in the corpo approved ad pages. It's only been, like, a year tops since I've seen a decapitation.

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snooggums piefed.world snooggums@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-08
#25 · Quote Reply

Very eye opening.

brown eye opening

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WalleyeWarrior midwest.social WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social
Joined: 2026-01-03
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I’ll never forget the video of the man, I think he was a journalist, being beheaded that was used everywhere for a minute.

There used to be some horrific beheading videos from the Chechan wars in the 90's. Some poor Russian conscript crying for his mother while his head was hacked off with a combat knife

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we are all crazypeople.online crazycraw@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-06-30
#27 · Quote Reply

Something-opening, that’s for sure.

well there was the time when that jar opened...

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Cricket [he/him] lemmy.zip Cricket@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
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What's goatse? EDIT: Two hours, and no one's posted it yet? I left the door open, all you had to do was walk through it.

What’s goatse?

I left the door open

😉

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Brave Little Hitachi Wand feddit.uk yakko@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-01-08
#29 · Quote Reply

I mean, that shit is still around, just not in the corpo approved ad pages. It's only been, like, a year tops since I've seen a decapitation.

'Twas always so with our ancestors

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America sh.itjust.works Gullible@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-09
#30 · Quote Reply

This sounds like someone with internet experience. Imagine seeing it without that much exposure to other things and potentially at a young age.

“This is terrible. Someday my ballsack will be 3 feet long. I can’t bear the weight of that knowledge.”

I dunno, I understood fellatio and homosexuality at a young age, during a fairly homophobic time. I imagine it wouldn’t have bothered me immensely. Maybe I would have asked my parents and been beaten for it, but I’d remember the beating more than the old men.

But the video of someone nailing their penis to a board, or the vagina cactus clips would have fucked me up. God forbid I watched the mantis video or 2 guys 1 hammer.

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America sh.itjust.works Gullible@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-09
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

It was an earlier time and being gay was a lot less okay. I mean it's the same with shit like meatspin. It's w/e, just some penis, but back then showing someone something gay? waow what a funny prank, ewww I don't wanna see something gay. Small reminder of how far we've come. Or rather, how far we haven't, since I imagine people would have the same reaction today.

I mean, meat spin was less about the gay and more about the multi-sense experience. Spinning penis to a loud song about spinning. It’s goofy and visible. Or, at least that was how I perceived it.

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Why is Lemmy so Racist? lemmy.world Abyssian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-13
#32 · Quote Reply

The current sanitized internet of "unalive", "f*ck", etc. would shit bricks if exposed to all of the heinous shit of yestercentury

Lemon party, meatspin, various numbers of girls and cups, tubgirl and goatse. Links and emails and timed redirects. Any way someone could think of to get others to look at something they'd been tricked into seeing.

The children of today have no idea of the scars we bear.

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#33 · (edited) Quote Reply

I've made an edited version

Edit: Oops, too transparent, let's try again

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#34 · Quote Reply

Goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, earrape jumpscare YouTube videos, liveleaks. A cutesy, if formulaic 1980s synthpop song is how you apologize.

Don't forget Penisland

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#35 · Quote Reply

I mean, meat spin was less about the gay and more about the multi-sense experience. Spinning penis to a loud song about spinning. It’s goofy and visible. Or, at least that was how I perceived it.

It was definitely a lot about the gay.

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Derpenheim lemmy.zip Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-03-07
#36 · Quote Reply

The amount of times I've been redirected to a Google search for blue waffle is uncountable.

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Catma lemmy.world Catma@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#37 · Quote Reply

I still remember downloading fan sub animes and not knowing they were on a week off and getting this instead

Goatse was just a right of fucking passage in warly internet days.

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chicken lemmy.dbzer0.com chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-30
#38 · Quote Reply

The concept behind rickrolling afaik is that certain people cannot be upset by extreme violence and the grotesque, but as an alternative method you can inflict psychic damage on those same people with cheesy love songs

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