goatse

1. InternetA notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.

   Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]

   2010, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Feona Attwood, page 136

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   I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]

   2008, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, page 182

   So they resorted to close-ups of LulzSec's Twitter feed. Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"

   2011, The Register (newspaper), "Scottish TV news pumps goatse link", John Oates

   For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.

   2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 100

present singular third person goatses · participle present goatseing · participle past goatsed · past goatsed

1. InternetTo trick (a person) into viewing the image.
2. InternettransitiveTo exhibit one's anus to (a person) in a similar manner to the image.

   I love goatseing people... :)

   2001 June 21, Lianna Skywalker <liannaskywalker@hotmail.com>, “David Miscavige unveils his new Scientology promotion”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025