Massive First Goatse at San Francisco Apple Store

by Scott Beale on January 11, 2007 · 23 comments

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We just received this report and photos of a massive First Goatse that was deployed yesterday at the San Francisco Apple Store during Macworld 2007. First Goatse is project where people are shown the infamous Goatse image and then their reactions are photographed. This is the first known instance of a First Goatse of this magnitude.

For more info, see my previous write-up on First Goatse.

Here’s the report from the person who witnessed this spectacle unfold:

So, I was at MacWorld today and decided to stop at the Apple store on my way out. I was wandering around, minding my own business and checking out the expo crowd. Suddenly, on about half of the visible monitors in the store, all of the open windows flew back (exposé “Show Desktop” style) to show a certain disgusting-but-famous-web-image. It appears that someone somehow managed to “first goatse” most of the people in the Apple store.

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In reference to the above photo:

This one’s pretty blurry, but you can get a good sense of these ladies’ reactions. You can also see the guy off to the right side who’s turned the monitor around so the image isn’t showing, and the Apple Store employee trying to figure out what happened to the laptop on the right.

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Related Posts:

Flickr at the San Francisco Apple Store

Google Goatse T-Shirt

First Goatse, Documenting Reactions To Initial Goatse Exposure

Hello.app, Capturing First Goatse Using iSight

Palo Alto Apple Store

filed under Apple, Pranks, San Francisco

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{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Dan Lurie January 11, 2007 at 12:43 pm

Sheer Brilliance

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2 adam jackson January 11, 2007 at 1:00 pm

Awesome! This was a great idea. I just read Violet’s metblogs post on the subject and think its hilarious. I have to do this at some public internet terminals when I get back home.

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3 Sjolus January 11, 2007 at 1:49 pm

love it

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4 George January 11, 2007 at 3:07 pm

How did they manage to pull this off?

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5 IBM January 11, 2007 at 9:05 pm

This looks shopped.

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6 boss sauce January 11, 2007 at 11:11 pm

cron script? or, can automator be set to run at a specific time? seems like this could get out of hand if a how-to got posted somewhere…

anxiously awaiting the how-to…:)

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7 Jesse Endahl January 12, 2007 at 1:03 am

I am all for a good prank, but only on friends who will take it the right way. This seems really lame and immature.

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8 J Crowley January 12, 2007 at 1:39 am

Haha, this is awesome. Though, it doesn’t beat when two of my friends broadcast it over the Distance Learning Network throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Imagine about eight different classrooms full of high school (and possibly middle school) kids getting Goatse suddenly flashed in their faces.

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9 Senseless_ January 12, 2007 at 5:43 am

Digital Terrorism!

My eyes my eys!

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10 Rich Gibson January 12, 2007 at 9:25 am

Clearly this is funny as hell, but it seems nasty, and mean spirited.

What is the goal? To make people feel bad? When the vegans show cows being slaughtered on the square in Vienna there is the revulsion, but there is also the message: eating meat leads to this, you are part of this. And when abortion protesters show horrible fetus pictures to women seeking abortions there is revulsion, but also a message: here is what you are doing. There is a link between revulsion and a desired action.

But what is the link here? If you are interested in consumer electronics you are getting it up the ass?

Pranking the Think Different ads was funny, and the link to Apple’s attempt to coopt what is real in order to sell boxes followed Are you really thinking different because your computer is white rather than beige? But saying hey ‘you walked into the apple store, so you deserve this’ seems mean spirited.

We need more clever pranks, not more mean pranks.

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11 OMG LOL January 12, 2007 at 10:59 am

>>But what is the link here? If you are interested in consumer electronics you are getting it up the ass?

Yes.

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12 JB January 12, 2007 at 11:52 am

>> But what is the link here? If you are interested in consumer electronics you are getting it up the ass?

Who says pranks need meaning?
Not everything needs a political message attached to them.

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13 Hans Gruber January 13, 2007 at 10:10 am

How stupidamericand you be? Apple is GAY, end of joke.

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14 dante January 14, 2007 at 7:21 am

jajajajajajajaj

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15 Whoopshooper January 18, 2007 at 9:36 pm

I’m surprised this hasn’t spawned any copycats.

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16 Rich Gibson February 6, 2008 at 1:41 pm

I posted a pedantic think of the children stupid comment on this a year ago. I was wrong…it was funny as hell. Screw all that sensitive tolerant crap I used to believe.

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17 daniel May 1, 2008 at 7:27 am

If you type in goatse collection in google, this is the first page you get.
And yes Rich, our personal ideologies change at a siesmic rate…it is funny as hell. A completely innocent bystandered getting an eyeload of gapeing abyssal asshole…nothing, my friend, is funnier.

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18 Nick January 30, 2009 at 4:08 am

I’ve been researching Goatse for my new site http://www.billygoatgoatse.com. Came across this two hours ago in a coffee shop, have been laughing non stop ever since.

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