• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Its not that bad. I think the reason it had this much staying power as a meme is its pretty mellow compared to most early internet shock videos. All the NSFL things i saw on the other hand, some of that shit is truly fucked.

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      I’ve seen all kinds of shit, most of it when I was a teen, prolly about 14-15 and I’ve forgotten most of it

      But the one video title I’ll never forget was a fair bit later, when we were watching vids on /r/watchpeopledie to kill time at work: “Unnecessarily slow beheading”. The title just felt like a joke about the very gruesome beheading.

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        2 hours ago

        If were already trauma dumping, i think we all have that one thats not even necessarily the worst but sticks with us the most. Id say this one for me was a bear attack victim i saw on reddit who im pretty sure even survived but it was still fucking horrid.

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      it’s just shocking enough to stay in your mind without making you numb to it

      it’s not violent or gore-ish, your brain won’t block it for your own good. it’s just a niche kink

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    Lol, if 2G1C is the worst thing you’ve ever seen online, you haven’t been online long.

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        Yup. I was older, and the central nervous system automatic response of “mitigate harm, go to help” hit very hard.

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        I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll for someone to mention that one… That one was pretty damn rough to watch.

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        No gate keeping. Shit, they only took the subreddit full of ISIS beheadings and Chinese industrial accidents down when they did their IPO.

        FFS, we all saw a woman get murdered 10 days ago from 7 different angles. If anyone genuinely thinks real time fascism is less fucked up than 2G1C, I invite them to get their head unfucked.

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          I frequented subreddits based on gore, so that means everyone has

          we’ve all seen

          Don’t assume what I’ve seen. And don’t assume everyone is as fucked as you are.

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            Except I don’t frequent those subreddits. Sometimes an unknown risky click just finds you through typically not gore-oriented means.

            Edit: And I bring up the gore subreddits to illustrate that access to NSFL stuff and tolerance for terrible things online was much higher for a long time.

            For example, the video of ol’ Charlie Spurts getting it to the neck was all over Twitter for the first couple of hours after it happened. Link from a news site goes to the video, which was impossible to know what to expect until you see it.

            Plus, news sites show or lin to video of war deaths from Ukraine all the time. Video of illegal strikes on fishing boats where people are killed.

            Maybe people don’t realize what they’re seeing, but it seems disturbingly common for actual videos of actual deaths to just be regular news stories.