Goatses in the media

By Mark Frauenfelder at 11:51 am Friday, Jul 21

After one brief look at Goatse, your brain is scarred forever. You can't help but see Goatse again and again -- in ads, photos, logos, and so on. Here are a few that have been submitted to Boing Boing this week:

Superman advertisement.
Tour de Goatse (three handed!)
Flickr downtime Goatse contest entry
AOL member retention goatse graphic (I think the hands were added on after the fact)
Intentional Goatse T shirt

Reader comments:

Keith says:

I couldn't help but notice the flickr downtime goatse. Note that I did one as well, but I was more creative with mine. It's a double-goatse. The one you have posted didn't exactly follow the rules. The image had 2 circles.

Kyle says:

God bless Boing Boing for doing more than anybody for populating the Goatse meme into the mainstream conciousness -- though the mainstream conciousness will never be able to acknowlege the goatsiliciousness of this fact.

I wanted to pass on a link to some goatse bumper stickers Bumperactive developed a while back. We did something pretty innovative, I think, which is create special "cut-out" stickers with a hollow oval in the center, which is being "gripped" by the receiver. The idea is, you can use the stickers to guerilla goatse anything.

Also, there's Condi/Goatse '08. Which is on my car at the moment, in fact.

Magnus says:

This one is a little far-fetched, but as you wrote, "you can't help but see Goatse again and again"...

Lawrence says:

Here's a pic of "Mr. Sprinkles," the Goatse'd clown of sugar showers. Every time I see him in the kitchen I think of you and ... I finally had to open my vault of Goatse goodness.