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Vaguely talking about unsanitary topics

Not even just for the obvious gorey stuff. Saw a video going over a case where someone's entire gut stopped working, and one of the options presented was surgically removing the blockage. Made me realize it's not just the obvious gross stuff that comes up.

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2G1C, c2010: haha poop, ewww 2G1C, c2020: poop. Ew. Why are they doing this?

For me it was "I get that this is a sex thing, but I don't get how anyone could get off to this. I also don't see why people are getting so grossed out by it, though"

Now it's more "Ehh, not enough plot for me to care." At least from a media side. From thinking of the workers, I doubt they were paid enough, but also there was an interview with the producer who did say that it was both a trailer for a larger film, and not actually real. Certainly convincing! But not actually real.

I forget if Hands was the jar or the horse

Hands is the horse, 1 guy 1 jar was the jar.

it was a deeply misfortunate series of events that led him to injury/death

Another interview: He's alive (as of 2013, anyway, but he's from Ukraine), and he did it just because he wanted to be able to fist himself. Granted, the interview was just posted on a forum, so take it with a grain of salt. Even if it wasn't it's not like his face was in the video, and we'd be able to verify it.

The one that I think started to change me

Yeah I never finished those. By that point I'd spent enough time on LiveLeak to know what was coming, and knew I'd hate it. Extreme fear of death related to OCD, and even knowing it was coming was enough to throw me off for the rest of the day.

And then I think about the posters, too. I assume they're evil, but I of course know no one is born evil. What went wrong?

Loooootta things can. I never posted them, but I know people who did. There's a video by Innuendo Studios, the whole channel's political, and this video is no exception, but if you look up "Innuendo Studios how to radicalize a normie" on YouTube that's the video. You often only need a handful of very small things going wrong, or even going right, and the wrong support structure. It can literally just be graduating highschool while not having a super supportive family. With me it was my grandmother (who raised me up until that point) dying, and making a friend who was on /b/. That was it.