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[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Where can you find the mask?

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

aw. back when we could still be saved.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 173 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That shit was legend. I mean, we were still using BBSs and phone phreaking. Here's this ubernerd that BROKE INTO the television signal. We bow before you, kinky ubernerd.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 62 points 1 week ago (11 children)

The power required to do it is impressive to say the least.

I guess the other option would be that the signal was created with very close proximity to the broadcast tower requiring much less power, but they probably had a limited area to search.

To me it almost reads like this was a "we technically can, let's test it out!" And it worked.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You have no idea how much of that goes into broadcast engineering

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are people usually identified by spankings?

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Goatse was identified by his butthole picture

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is the owner of the famous asshole.

Kirk.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

He looks exactly like what I thought he'd look like

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They actually found the guy? Impossible but prove me wrong plz

Even worse than that one nights deep dive into depravity and I found that it wasn't just one picture. There were many pictures of that guy and his abyss.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

"Research has identified that the Goatse Man is in fact named Kirk Johnson, or at least goes by that name online. He is the same person who appears on Bottleguy and Detroit Hardcore, as confirmed by the mole at the top left corner of his anus- the chances of another practitioner of anal stretching having a mole in the same place is extraordinarily unlikely. It is this analysis that ties hello.jpg and the contents of gap.zip to the name of Kirk Johnson. It is also a supposed "fact" that Kirk is french, however this is likely to stem from a BME article about anal stretching featuring a french practitioner who is not Kirk Johnson, and therefore this rumour is likely to simply be xenophobia

[–] friek@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

You are a great dwarf, TIL.

Thank you.

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To be fair, that was the only thing IN the picture.

[–] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're usually traced through the fly swatter.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago
[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Hole lotta DNA on that flyswatter.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

I mean who hasn't hijacked the signals of major news networks to fil themselves in a rubber mask being spanked with a flyswatter.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perpetrators, definitely a whole gang of people did that hijacking. At the least 3 if you count the guy on screen, the girl spanking him with a flyswatter, and likely whoever was intercepting the radio signal with their own broadcast. Doubt it was the same guy on the footage.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Could have been filmed separately? Before hand. Then just hijacked and transmit.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you watch it, there's an air of excitement and surprise given off by the person on screen that comes across even though their voice is heavily masked. Makes me think the dude was jacked to the tits when they finally saw it working.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've watched it many times and I agree on the air and vibe. But it doesn't preclude a prior filming.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Something about that footage has always appeared live to me. Its like he didnt even have a script. Just told a friend to spin this metal sheet behind him and have a chick he knows spank him while he attempts some crazy exploit he found himself able to do. But yeah, theres no reason at all it couldn't have been recorded beforehand, you're right on that.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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