Sometimes comedy writes itself.....

[Weaver]

How the hell do internet denizens in this day and age not know what goatse is??

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I NEED AN EXPLANATION I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT ARISE!!!!

Goatse is a pornographic picture that involves an old man. Look it up yourself if you want to know more, and how it relates to that picture.

Well now I'm quite happy I don't get the joke here. I'll keep my sanity intact thank you.

 

[Sparrow]

Oh, alright, NOW I'm seeing it. Took me a while, but yuppers - I spotted it. Now I will never look at Tron the same way again.

 

[sanguinator]

Oh dear fucking God, I just Googled goatse.

Excuse me whilst I burn out my eyes.

can you hand me the brain bleach after you've finished. I did the same thing.

is there enough of that for two people?

 

[randomsix]

To everyone who doesn't get it; May you stay pure.

 

[Lullabye]

At first I was like "Goatsee?" then I scrolled down and was like "Ewwwwwwww", is only becuase it was the old man.

[sub]Did anyone else think the picture was from Cracked.com at first when they read teh title?[/sub]

 

[C95J]

Oh dear fucking God, I just Googled goatse.

Excuse me whilst I burn out my eyes.

gaaaaahhhhh! My eyes!!!!

Mental note to self: Goatse = BAD

 

[Tharwen]

I think this picture is about as relevant now as it could ever be:

Spoiler

 

[Phoenixlight]

It's Goatse, a shock site online. Hmm, how do I put this delicately; so as to avoid getting banned. Well, do you see the man in the picture holding that "O"? Well, imagine that the "O" is a certain... orifice on the human body. That's Goatse, a picture of a man doing that. I DO NOT recommend doing an image search on this one, lest you become scarred for life.

Thanks for not being a dick like all the other posters and taking time to explain it, I still don't think it looks all that much like it though.

 

[SnipErlite]

Lol. I think that's pretty funny.

To be honest, anyone who googled it and demands the brain bleach is lucky they haven't seen most of the internet. Trust me on this - goatse is tame. Like, not even that bad at all.

 

[SnipErlite]

How the hell do internet denizens in this day and age not know what goatse is??

I'm genuinely surprised. Goatse is a classic.... :S Maybe it's out of fashion these days?

EDIT: Oops, sorry doubly.

 

[wagglelance]

fantastic

 

[Malkavian]

Did I lol? Yes, I did.

 

[Thedayrecker]

The Dude abides...

You win the internet sir.

 

[akapellah21]

I'm the type of person that refuses to give on little things like cos I'm arrogant as fuck. But after the 7th minute of analyzing this. I realize that Mr. Bridges is holding the round disc thingy in a very funny way. I now hate this magazine. i couldnt eat meat for a week after goatse

 

[Lexodus]

I also lol'd. I keep seeing it everywhere, like on TV, but I can't tell anyone when I do because fuck it, nobody wants that conversation

 

[Lexodus]

I see it everywhere, like on TV, and I can't tell anyone about it, because fuck it, nobody wants to have that conversation...

 

[Pegghead]

I've heard of goatse, and I've heard of the infamous pictures of a guy who could stretch his anus incredibly far, now I realize they're the same thing.

There's no way in hell I'm going to look it up, but if that's all it is then why is it called "Goatse" and why have people said they couldn't eat meat for a week afterwards (don't be afraid of describing it, people have described scenes from both a Serbian film and August underground and haven't been banned...unless it's something far worse than anus stretching...and involves a goat).

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Ha ha ha, that's pretty awesome. For those who think that must just be coincidental, or that Tallim is just seeing things that aren't there, the way the hands are positioned on the O in relation to the rest of the image and the other letters of the graphic dispel any potential doubt there might be that some graphic designer somewhere was having a laugh - that is definitely a Goatse reference. It isn't even the first, or most prominent time that "hands stretching apart an orifice in a familiar manner" have appeared on a magazine cover.

[HEADING=2]Behold![/HEADING]

Sneaking stealth parodies of Goatse into unrelated images has become something of a graphic designer game; the only real question here is whether or not the folks who approved it were in on the joke, heh.

There's no way in hell I'm going to look it up, but if that's all it is then why is it called "Goatse" and why have people said they couldn't eat meat for a week afterwards (don't be afraid of describing it, people have described scenes from both a Serbian film and August underground and haven't been banned...unless it's something far worse than anus stretching...and involves a goat).

As I understand it (I've never personally witnessed any of the classic shock sites [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockSite][footnote]Yes, that is a link to a TV Tropes, so you should weigh whether or not losing several hours of your life is worth knowing about horrible things you should never ever look at before clicking on it. Except you probably already did, ha ha![/footnote], but I've been around long enough to know far more about them than I really want to[footnote]And the mental images my brain produces just from descriptions are bad enough![/footnote]), the initial anus stretching... is just the first of a series of images.

Presumably the others are worse.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I NEED AN EXPLANATION I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT ARISE!!!!

How the character is holding that O in the logo the OP reminds him of the infamous goatse picture.
The goatse picture (or "hello.jpg") is a picture of an old man holding his anus open with his bare hands more than three inches wide.

Seeing as that description is horrifying enough, it's an excellent qualifier for your level of interest in disturbing subject matter if this post either makes you never want to see the picture, or want to see it immediately.