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A shock site is a website that intends to be offensive and shock people containing hate speech that presents material with a high shock value and is intended to be harmful, unpleasant, and disturbing to its visitors, containing very strong, tasteless, or crude material, and is generally pornographic, scatological, extremely violent, insulting, painful, obscene, surreal, or otherwise provocative in nature.[1] Some shock sites display a simple image, animation, or video clip, or a small gallery, and are often transmitted in email chains or disguised in discussion site posts as hoaxes intended to lure followers to the main links of these sites—a kind of bait-and-switch, where the user is tricked with a mild, deceptively attractive advertisement that actually hides a link to a shock site. Many shock sites are simply websites that openly display shocking material such as disturbing pornography, repulsive fetishism, and so on.
