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+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo.

I'd guess the author is pretty young.

Life is a meaningless crawl towards the heat death of the universe. Childish behavior is the most appropriate attitude one can have towards most things.

I wish there was still more of a genuine whimsical side to the Internet or even businesses. The attention economy isn't the same.

I found a link on HN a while ago that shows you just that, it's a randomizer (like the old StumbleUpon) that sends you to random "old internet" webpages: https://wiby.me/surprise/

It sent me to a 1998 page about phrenology, the 'science' of determining someone's mental traits based on indentations in their skull: https://www.phrenology.org/index.html

Wiby is a great resource. My roll took me back to 'nam: https://jackrvn70.neocities.org/

I happen to run a directory of 'escapist/artistic' websites, if a second instance of self-promotion is permissible: https://wmw.thran.uk

I totally agree with you, and there are definitely more whimsical ways to go about it than goatse. Even if I personally can find whimsy in getting randomly goatse'd I'm not gonna say that someone who finds it really disturbing deserves what's coming to them just because they are insufficiently chill.

It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money.

Definitely childish though.

> It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money.

It’s bad for their image and so for any business they may work on now or in the future.

Why would you want to do business with someone who prefers your content being used and monetized without your consent?

I don't think it's childish.

It's very crude, but satire often is and is one effective way of driving change in society around us.

OP is merely gripping onto the Old Internet

On the other hand, visitors to the freebooting websites will see other things being gripped

yes, everything done on the Internet must be deadly serious and professional AT ALL TIMES.

I'd guess you're pretty old.

Or very young. Young people never experienced what the Internet was like before the corporations destroyed it.

Anyone today familiar with goatse is likely to be well into their thirties at least.

If you were on forums in the aughts, it was unavoidable. I think every very online millennial knows what Goatse is. The youngest millennial is 27. Which begs the question: is Goatse what spreads Zoomers and millennials apart?

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