About

Lemon Party (domain: lemonparty.org) is a shock site displaying an image of three elderly males in a bed kissing and performing oral sex. It is commonly used as a bait-and-switch link by trolls in discussion forums and imageboard communities.

Origin

The domain name Lemonparty.org was registered on October 3rd, 2002 in Canada,^[18] according to DomainTools.^[1] The entire site consisted of the pornographic image set to the 1963 doo-wop song "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul. As early as November 21st that same year, the site^[2] was updated with a hyperlink to a picture of a cat which read "omfg crazy! Click here to wash your eyeballs!"

Spread

Similar to other shock sites that began circulating around the same time, Lemon Party gained much of its notoriety through usage in bait-and-switch pranks among friends as well as trolling on various online discussion forums.^[16] The site made "lemon party" into a mainstream term for elderly people having gay sex, and has since sometimes been criticized as homophobic shock humor.^[19] One of the most widespread schemes used to trick people into visiting the site involves sending flyers with misleading messages, often of a political nature so that unsuspecting targets would believe they were navigating to the site of a political party (shown below). The earliest Urban Dictionary^[12][13] definition of "Lemon Party" was submitted by user DynamiteRave on August 15th, 2004.

Political Party

The Lemon Party (Parti Citron in French) was a satirical Canadian political party founded in 1987 and active until the mid-2000s which advocated to make Canada the world's lemon-growing capital. In order to do this, the party ironically embraced global warming and agitated for policies such as the abolition of the city of Toronto and the merging of the Great Lakes.^[20] It is unknown whether the Lemon Party and lemonparty.org are connected.^[18]

References in Pop Culture

Beginning in the late 2000s, the shock site was mentioned in a number of TV sitcom and talk show programs^[3], including a comedy sketch on FOX late night program Talk Show with Spike Feresten, an episode of the radio show Opie and Anthony, an episode of E! TV show Chelsea Lately and NBC sitcom 30 Rock's Season 2, Episode 9 "Ludachristmas" and Season 4, Episode 18 "Khonani," as well as in animated TV series like Archer, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and American Dad.

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