[gonehome]

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

I'd guess the author is pretty young.

[kikokikokiko]

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.

[furyofantares]

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.

[HeckFeck]

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

[darknavi]

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

Definitely childish though.

[VHRanger]

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.

[hk__2]

> 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.

[packetslave]

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

I'd guess you're pretty old.

[InfamousRece]

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

[OfSanguineFire]

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

[sh34r]

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?