Shock site

A Shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive or shocking to its viewers, containing shocking material which is considered distasteful and crude, and is generally of a pornographic, scatological, or extremely violent nature. In most cases, a shock site displays a single picture, some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images, Links to shock sites are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website .