How Tubgirl Became a TikTok Sensation

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are awash in people reacting to horrifying videos. 2 girls 1 cup, Tubgirl, Goatse, and websites like Ogrish.com shaped the modern internet. Appropriating and sharing these horrifying images and videos was a big part of what people did during the early days of the web.

But why? And how do these shocking viral sensations translate onto the modern and sanitized web? This week on Cyber, Blake Hester stops by to walk us through it all.

Stories discussed in this episode:

How Shock Sites Shaped the Internet

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:07.0	It's a unit system.
0:12.0	I know this.
0:14.0	It's how all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells you everything.
0:18.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:23.2	Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:26.9	Hello out there on the internet.
0:28.8	I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.
0:32.0	COVID did not finish me off.
0:33.2	That's right, I'm back.
0:37.4	While I was sick, I spent a lot of time expectorating.
0:43.2	It was gross, and so naturally my thoughts turned to a youth misspent browsing shock sites and attempting to trick friends into seeing the horrifying images that I was seeing.
0:48.9	That's right.
0:49.7	Today we're going to talk about Goatsy, steak and cheese, ogreish, two girls one cup,
0:53.2	lemon party,
0:55.4	all that great stuff.
0:57.5	Well, great.
1:03.9	Today, we're going to explain the colorful history of how shock sites shaped the internet.
1:07.1	With me here today, to do that is Blake Hester.
1:12.3	Hester is a senior associate editor at Game Informer and also the author of a new feature at Motherboard, all about these shock sites. Blake, thank you for coming on to cyber today and
1:17.7	talking about this with us. Thank you for having me. I hate to expose myself within the first
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