These sites gained attention in 2003 when Armin Meiwes, an aspiring cannibal, used the sites to connect with Jürgen Brandes, a man who desired to be eaten. The sites Necrobabes, Cannibal Café, and Gourmet tailored themselves to would-be cannibals in the early 2000s.
Some shock galleries, however, established more specific niches. He pleaded guilty and was given a six-month conditional sentence for his role. BestGore, established in 2008 by Mark Marek, was notorious for its extremely graphic content, such as photos and videos of murders, suicides and violent accidents with an estimated 15–20 million monthly visits during its operation. 's reputation rested on its publication of gore media from terrorists and war. hosted "mutilated corpses, car accidents, burn victims, congenital malformations and other grotesqueries". was created to sell mondo films like Traces of Death. During their operation, the owners of launched several new sites, one of which was in 2006. hosted murder videos and images of deceased people and brandished the motto "Pure Evil Since 1996". HistoryThere have been several shock galleries that have launched and shut down. A 2007 shock video known as 2 Girls 1 Cup also quickly became an Internet phenomenon, with videos of reactions, homages, and parodies widely posted on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Goatse.cx featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site's hello.jpg, and a parody of the image was unwittingly shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for :File:2012 Summer Olympics logo.svg|the then-recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Some shock sites have also gained their own subcultures and have become internet memes on their own. Gallery sites can contain beheadings, execution, electrocution, suicide, murder, stoning, torching, drowning, vehicular accidents, war victims, rape, necrophilia, genital mutilation and other sexual crimes. Steven Jones distinguishes these sites from those that collect galleries where users search for shocking content, such as. Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or small gallery, and are circulated via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a prank. They contain material of high shock value, generally of a pornographic, scatological, racist, sexist, graphically violent, insulting, vulgar, profane, or otherwise provocative nature. A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to its viewers, though it can also contain elements of humor or evoke sexual arousal.
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