Editing Shock site (section)

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{{short description|Website intended to offend and/or disgust its viewers}}
A '''shock site''' is a [[website]] that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to its viewers, though it can also contain elements of humor<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Attwood|first=Feona|date=November 2014|title=Immersion: 'extreme' texts, animated bodies and the media|journal=Media, Culture & Society|language=en|volume=36|issue=8|pages=1186–1195|doi=10.1177/0163443714544858|s2cid=144857991|issn=0163-4437}}</ref> or evoke (in some viewers) [[sexual arousal]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Farmand|first=Musa K. Jr.|date=November 2016|title=Who Watches this Stuff?: Videos Depicting Actual Murder and the Need for a Federal Criminal Murder-Video Statute|url=http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/Farmand.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118102527/http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/Farmand.pdf |archive-date=2017-11-18 |url-status=live|journal=Florida Law Review|volume=68|pages=1915–1941}}</ref> Shock-oriented websites generally contain material that is [[pornographic]], [[Scatology|scatological]], [[racist]], [[antisemitic]], [[sexist]], [[Graphic violence|graphically violent]], [[insult]]ing, [[vulgarity|vulgar]], [[Profanity|profane]], or of some other provocative nature. Websites that are primarily fixated on real death and graphic violence are particularly referred to as '''gore sites'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3076557/snuff-murder-torture-internet-people-who-watch-it|title = Snuff: Murder and torture on the internet, and the people who watch it|date = 13 June 2012}}</ref> Some shock sites display a single picture, [[animation]], video clip or small gallery, and are circulated via email or disguised in posts to [[discussion site]]s as a prank. Steven Jones distinguishes these sites from those that collect galleries where users search for shocking content, such as [[Rotten.com]].<ref>Jones, Steven (2010). "Horrorporn/Pornhorror".  In Attwood, Feona (ed.). ''Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography''. [[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]]. p. 124. {{ISBN|9781433102073}}.</ref> Gallery sites can contain [[Decapitation|beheadings]], [[Capital punishment|execution]], [[electrocution]], [[suicide]], [[murder]], [[stoning]], [[Death by burning|torching]], [[police brutality]], [[Hanging|hangings]], [[terrorism]], [[Drug cartel|cartel violence]], [[drowning]], [[Traffic collision|vehicular accidents]], war victims, [[rape]], [[necrophilia]], [[genital mutilation]] and other [[Sex and the law|sexual crimes]].<ref name=":0" />

Some shock sites have also gained their own [[subculture]]s and have become [[internet meme]]s on their own. [[Goatse.cx]] featured a page devoted to [[Fan art|fan-submitted artwork]] and tributes to the site's <code>hello.jpg</code>, and a parody of the image was unwittingly shown by a [[BBC]] newscast as an alternative for [[:File:2012 Summer Olympics logo.svg|the then-recently unveiled logo]] for the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. 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]].