If you’re a graphic designer and you’ve designed a poster, you have to photograph it being held by the top two corners. Don’t ask me why, it’s the law. Clean under your fingernails and get to it.

This trend has long since jumped the shark, in fact even this blog post is passé, but now you can follow the evolution of the meme and keep up to date with various attempts to keep the art of poster holding alive, lest it dies out forever at Poster Goatse. We must not let it go unrecorded for future generations.

There’s graphics, there’s ingenuity, there’s careful finger placement, forgery and unbuttoned cuffs, there’s even titillation…

And they are doing sterling work, tirelessly researching the origins of the phenomenon…

Take a look at the site, the acerbic commentary alone is worth it. What’s a goatse? You’ll wish you never asked…