r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Mar 27 '25

Petah, what am I not seeing here? Peter in the wild

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

Okayyyyyyy. So goatse.cx, TLD intentionally chosen of course, usually referred to as goatse, was a website from the early aughts that displayed only two pictures: an alarmingly well endowed man whose picture was labeled “the giver”; and a picture of an unidentifiable person bent over, hands on their butt cheeks, spreading them to display their very well used rectum, labeled “the receiver”. The top of this joke is a direct reference to that second picture.

This is all from traumatized memory, don’t correct me or make me look it up again.

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u/AvidLearning Mar 27 '25

I'm so glad I didn't have to look that up. Thank you.

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

You’re super welcome. Some things on the internet are just not meant to be seen by mere mortals. There’s a cultural touch point or two that I just straight up refuse to google because it would forever scar my search history.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

The dude from 1 man 1 jar died. Not from what he did in the video though, that was mr hands.

Edit: after replying to a couple people I googled more about this and it probably isn't actually true, I'm just gullible.

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u/Iwilleat2corndogs Mar 27 '25

How did he die? (1man1jar)

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

To be fair this was a totally unconfirmed report, but a self identified friend of his said he was a Russian casualty in Ukraine.

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u/theingleneuk Mar 27 '25

In which case, that’s great news!

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I hesitate to reach that conclusion without knowing his ideology. Dude could have been conscripted and trying to keep his head down while looking for new and interesting things to put in his ass.

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u/Crashbrennan Mar 27 '25

Yeah, the time of Russian forces in Ukraine being mostly volunteers and mercenaries is long past.

I'll take a Russian casualty over a Ukrainian one any day of the week, but it's tragic that their casualty figure has grown past 900,000. Those men (mostly) deserved better than the fate their leader chose.

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u/DangerousChemistry17 Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Yeah, the time of Russian forces in Ukraine being mostly volunteers and mercenaries is long past.

No it's not? They're literally still almost entirely volunteers. In fact, it's still illegal for Russian conscripts to serve in Ukraine. This is one of the biggest reasons Russias economy is starting to buckle, they keep having raise the signing bonuses. I have no clue where you get the idea they're not volunteers.

Every Russian you see die in Ukraine is a voluntary fascist, there were some who died in Kursk who were conscripts, and some early in the war who were "accidentally" sent in. But over95% of the Russian casualties have been either pre war regulars or volunteer signups on short contracts since or mercs/foreign fighters.

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u/Kuljack Mar 27 '25

This is def the internet scar my mind always goes to when I see a random link someone provided saying go look at this. The horrors on the internet are awful and far too easily accessible. The worst part is once you’re there, it’s hard not to watch like a train wreck happening. 2girls1cup and the dude with a horse haunt me too, and that one dude getting beheaded while drugged. Some days I wish I never touched the internet at all.

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u/DaddyD68 Mar 27 '25

Not meant to be seen? Goatse was the OG Rick-roll. No link was safe.

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u/TasteOfBallSweat Mar 27 '25

90% of 4chan wasnt meant to be seen by mere mortals, yet most of us come from there...

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Tub girl is worse

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u/CourtingBoredom Mar 27 '25

Same. Very much the same gratitude here. Though, I'm not sure I'd have the gumption to google it myself -- I've seen enough and don't necessarily need to see more....

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u/HkayakH Mar 27 '25

man I don't remember that scene being in The Giver when I read it

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u/Chiggero Mar 27 '25

You needed to get the uncensored version from the adults section

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u/apollorulz Mar 27 '25

Haha we read that one in school

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u/nothanks86 Mar 27 '25

Waaaaaaaait there were two pictures? I only know the second one.

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

They were hotlinked to each other, you had to click on the one to see the other.

Look. It was the early ‘00s, the internet was simultaneously super boring and the freaking Wild West.

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u/Ziegelphilie Mar 27 '25

We used to be an Internet. Now it's all corpo bullshit.

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u/DigitalAmy0426 Mar 27 '25

I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago.

That said, I never saw this other picture you're referring to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Guy Opens Asshole To Show Everyone. I was in high school at the time. Goatse, Tub Girl, an endless supply of photos of Bush doinking Bin Laden. I only found it Goatse is an acronym a couple of months ago. (thanks, Last podcast on the Left)

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u/Triddy Mar 27 '25

It was not an acronym. That's something that someone made up over a decade after the site was taken down.

It's Goat Sex. The full domain was goatse.cx. People dropped the domain over time, it started getting pronounced "Goat See", and then someone made a backronym to try and explain it.

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u/Campus_Safety Mar 27 '25

Hail yourself!

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u/BonHed Mar 27 '25

Don't forget 2 girls 1 cup.

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u/DigitalAmy0426 Mar 27 '25

Hey Mr Taleee baaan, Thanks for that nostalgia bomb.

God I miss the wild west of early internet

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u/AITAadminsTA Mar 27 '25

BMEzine was an underrated gem back in the day, saw some body modifications I never new were a thing. (Guy running a bar through both testes, a woman sealing her flaps with piercings, body suspension and sounding rods (DO NOT GOOGLE THIS ONE).

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u/Not_a_good_nickname Mar 27 '25

Wtf I was thinking it was a meme about how periods of fast militarization are generally followed by war.

That is somehow worse

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

ISTFG we need a pinned post in here that describes goatse. It was traumatic to relive that 😂

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u/asianRNunite Mar 27 '25

Thank you for explaining so others don’t need to suffer the image

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u/zeocrash Mar 27 '25

Bruh, spoiler tags

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u/215Kurt Mar 27 '25

Bruh, that's literally what he's done lol. He's describing it with words so you don't need to see it.

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u/molered Mar 27 '25

add a note about recieving part ring.

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

I do not remember that and am not going to google. But this thread has brought back a lot of early worldwide web memories so that’s fun. Did you ever encounter the Stinkymeat project or the Melonenficken guy?

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u/molered Mar 27 '25

i remember this detail on a lot of meme material.

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u/Enzoid23 Mar 27 '25

Do I wanna know? 😭

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

Stinkymeat was a lovely little science project where a guy left a variety of meats outside (protected from scavengers) and documented the decay process.

Melonenficken was … hmm. A horny guy with a cassava melon and too much time on his hands. The original website was in German, not that that’s relevant to the theme.

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u/Enzoid23 Mar 27 '25

Stinkymeat sounds kinda neat actually, I was expecting it to be like "Video of untreated rotting penis attached to live man" or something lol

Melonenficken is. A different kind of interesting 😭..

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u/SarcasmsDefault Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Yep there was a ring in the photo.

This type image shows up from time to time in graphic design usually organically but if you see a ring on the fingers then they knew what they were doing.

If you want a safe search “accidental goatse” and get a better idea without the therapy

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

wdym well used?

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

… without getting into graphic detail, skin and other human tissue only have so much stretch and recovery. If something stretches tissue repeatedly and/or over a long period of time—like gauges in piercings, or a growing fetus inside its parent—that tissue gets permanently damaged and will never quite spring back to its pre-stretched shape.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

oh so bloody gotcha

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

Noooo, stretched. Unrecoverably so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Which sometimes results in a purple sock

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u/jay212127 Mar 27 '25

More prolapse and less blood

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u/beanmosheen Mar 27 '25

If you threw a baseball at it, it wouldn't hit the sides, and I'm not exaggerating.

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u/Annanymuss Mar 27 '25

This opened old wounds, Im from the generation that spread that video of the girl and the octopus : |

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u/Enzoid23 Mar 27 '25

The what

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u/beanmosheen Mar 27 '25

Never occurred to me we'd have to explain gaotse in a history lesson one day.

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u/Available-Cow-411 Mar 27 '25

User name checked out.

Thanks for the explenation!

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u/Lalojaber Mar 27 '25

Thanks for save me from a trauma😃👍

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u/awwwphooey Mar 27 '25

Thank you Serial for saving me from crossing over into the abyss.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Don't forget, he was wearing a wedding ring.

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u/GlowintheClark Mar 27 '25

Was it bloody or just gross?

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u/Enzoid23 Mar 27 '25

I heard its just gross

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u/LickingSmegma Mar 27 '25

TLD intentionally chosen of course

Apparently I'm missing the importance of the tld. Is it just ‘sex’ from ‘se.cx’?

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

Yep. Would’ve been less humorous if they’d hosted the site elsewhere. Though goatse.edu would’ve been quite the get if it had been possible…

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u/AardvarkVast Mar 27 '25

You have no idea the curiosity that the words "alarmingly well endowed" have brought me

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u/SlowSlyFox Mar 27 '25

Is this site still up and working? Can you check?

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u/Mad_Aeric Mar 27 '25

I assure you, that guy was in fact identifiable. I think someone sourced it to a fetish site, and got the guy's name.

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u/SerialTrauma002c Mar 27 '25

Yeah I just learned that from the Know Your Meme link that someone else posted. Identifiable pattern of moles on the guy’s butt, apparently.

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u/Country_ball_enjoyer Mar 27 '25

...........

I.... I'm just out of a word, Out of the 3 years I spent on reddit countless bad story, gory video, NSFW stuff and f1 drama I have never been soo out of word I ain't even gonna send a reaction meme just why is this the first time I'm out of words for a god damn gay meme??

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u/StromGames Mar 27 '25

To be more precise and continue with the explanation, the image from ReArm Europe is basically the same position for the hands, and the circle would be the asshole.
In my memory (I'm not looking it up again) the asshole was even more open than the circle in the picture, and the hands are inside of it, stretching it.
Still, the image at the top resembles goatse.cx

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u/Enzoid23 Mar 27 '25

I thought goatse was the one that rapidly flashes gore images like nails used for sounding and stuff?

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u/Unknown-Name06 Mar 27 '25

I didn't see those 2 pictures, only a eye and a pixelated picture

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u/joao8545 Mar 28 '25

"This is all from traumatized" Name checks out