First Goatse, Documenting Reactions To Initial Goatse Exposure

by Scott Beale on January 9, 2006 · 47 comments

First Goatse

For the last couple of years, my friend Laszlo Toth has been conducting a cruel experiment. He shows his friends Goatse and then takes a photo of their reaction.

Want to play along at home? When you Goatse your friends, just tag the photos “firstgoatse” and add it to the “First Goatse” group.

UPDATE: I documented a First Goatse with our own John Law.

photo credit: Laszlo Toth

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{ 32 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Jason January 9, 2006 at 4:58 pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s classic.

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2 daveb January 10, 2006 at 7:43 am

This is perhaps the greatest idea ever. Period. Screw peace, love and ending world hunger. This is WAY more important. Goatse horror RULES!

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3 Bill Ding January 10, 2006 at 8:06 am
4 Rob Disner January 10, 2006 at 8:23 am

Lazlo Toth? Don’t you mean Father Guido?

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5 Alex January 10, 2006 at 8:38 am

I’m not sure what’s worse, Goatse or the upskirt view of this chick:
IMG_9541.JPG

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6 Boris the stinky pussy January 10, 2006 at 9:03 am

WORD!

I LOVE ME SOME BLACK HOLE!

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7 Extensor January 10, 2006 at 9:32 am

Goatse isn’t even the best pic to get reactions… A few summers back we did this with tubgirl. Now go find tubgirl. Your retinas will (not) thank you.

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8 raytube720 January 10, 2006 at 10:13 am

OMG tubgirl is sick. Maybe you should have a side by side comparison of reactions. Which is sicker.

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9 Jacob Appelbaum January 10, 2006 at 10:13 am

Ah Scott, I love you.

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10 anonymous January 10, 2006 at 10:23 am

why are they all using macs?

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11 Eyegor January 10, 2006 at 10:55 am

What about a firsttubgirl set (see http://www.tubgirl.com for “the” example)

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12 me January 10, 2006 at 10:57 am

Because that’s the computer they had on hand. Why the fuck do you care?

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13 Bill G January 10, 2006 at 12:47 pm

Euuuuuuu.

Now – i’ll never be able see the LAUGHING SQUID logo without thinking of Goatse.

“Don’t think of an Elaphant”

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14 barfy January 10, 2006 at 1:15 pm

holy crap. i just clicked on tubgirl and so so so wish i hadn’t. i think i only actually saw it for .5 seconds but the image will stay with me forever. thanks for that. no, really. thanks. p.s. macs rock. step off.

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15 Jessica January 10, 2006 at 1:42 pm

TubGirl is so much more horrifying. He should do a social experiment where he surprises the same people another time with TubGirl and compare reactions… FOR SCIENCE!

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16 John January 10, 2006 at 2:50 pm

Laszlo Toth? about 66 years old now? still hammering on marble religious statuary?

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17 James January 10, 2006 at 3:17 pm

Those photos are posed for. They’re fake.

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18 AXJ January 10, 2006 at 3:40 pm

That was the 3rd time I’ve seen Tubgirl (blame my “friends” over on Tribe… mutter, grumble) and it HURT just as horribly much as the first. WHY do I click?!

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19 Darrin Siegfried January 10, 2006 at 4:21 pm

Doesn’t the name, Laszlo Toth, tell you something?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2565,00.html

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20 Trousle Undrhil January 10, 2006 at 11:03 pm

Yes. As I was going through the Flickr images, I noticed a trend to these Goatse images … they are all being shown on Apple laptops and cellphones (or are those digital cameras?) Anyway, I guess there’s just something innocent about the Apple line of computers that puts people off their guard. :) I mean, shove a Windows laptop in someone’s lap with Goatse and I doubt you’ll get the same reaction. Well, yeah, you probably will. I guess this is showing that all of the innocent people on the internet use Apples. Now that they have been exposed, they will switch to Windows or Linux laptops. :)

Undrhil

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21 neg0 January 11, 2006 at 6:11 am

FYI, Laszlo Toth is a pretty common name in Hungary.

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22 greg January 11, 2006 at 12:48 pm

the best use for my digital camera to date

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23 Milton Rand Kalman January 11, 2006 at 5:36 pm

The 8 phases of goatse

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24 First Goatse October 1, 2006 at 1:23 am

brilliant – I was so impressed I just published the flickr stream tagged firstgoatse on firstgoatse.com

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25 goatseandtubgirlinatree January 11, 2007 at 9:03 pm

“TubGirl is so much more horrifying. He should do a social experiment where he surprises the same people another time with TubGirl and compare reactions… FOR SCIENCE!”

I heard Goatse and Tubgirl were goin’ out.

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26 x January 12, 2007 at 9:47 am

Someone should create an app for the macbook pro that displays goatse and uses the builtin camera to take a picture of the persons reaction 1-2 seconds later. you could even set up a quick slide show with tubgirl and lemonparty and watch their facial expressions change. you could then create an animated gif of their expressions!

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27 Genesis April 21, 2007 at 11:04 pm

You need to get enough of these photos to make a giant mosaic of Goatse. i would proudly hang that on my wall.

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28 Real Name April 23, 2007 at 9:15 am

I decided to remain a GOATSE-virgin and NOT LOOK (should I ever be confronted with it)!

(and, no, you can’t have my email address and ‘make me’ — how dumb do you think that I am, anyway?!? ;-)

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29 lol donut May 12, 2007 at 10:16 pm

FYI tubgirls vagoo is blurred out. Yes I noticed. And yes I came.

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30 Tyler Durden June 4, 2007 at 3:16 pm

It’s sorta vile, but still nothing compared to funnelgirl. Light up them search engines if you haven’t seen this one yet boys and girls.

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31 PolyTicks September 23, 2008 at 10:38 am

Here's a link to a Goatse tribute cartoon:
http://polyticks.thewebcomic.com/comics/461636/...

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32 kaze December 12, 2008 at 7:33 am

…there must be somthing wrong with me none of this disturbebs me, and no it doesnt turn me on, this is nothing.

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