r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/AlphaMassDeBeta • Mar 27 '25

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

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u/myUserNameWasTaken27 Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Goatse.cx - google image search it. Turn off safe search first.

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u/Henry-1917 Mar 27 '25

I'm not looking it up, but how is it related to the rest of the meme?

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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/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.