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Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found..
We've got mountains of content, some better, some worse
If none of it's of interest to you, you'd be the first
Bom bom bom bom!
The laugh Bo gave in that track made my skin crawl, I'll never forget it
everyday I'm thankful I never let curiosity get to the better of me as a kid on the internet
Yeah, I used 4Chan for a while as a kid. From what I've heard it's more tame now, but I saw some stuff no person should ever see. I think it helped shape me as a person though, largely in a good way. It helped me form opinions about death and killing that I think are good.
Personally, I think people should have to watch some combat footage before they vote. Your vote can send people to go kill other people. If you don't know what that looks like, maybe your opinion on the matter shouldn't be worth as much. Until you see someone dying (actually dying, not hollywood dying), I don't think you should be allowed to make decisions about killing people.
Can't understand reality without seeing the bad.
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Back before governments realized they could spread propaganda and disinformation everywhere through the internet, and companies could make boatloads of money manipulating people algorithmically through social media.
Honestly yeah, the internet was better before all that. And now we have AI generated news and websites showing up everywhere and it's being shoved down our throats, and we are on the precipitous of global "age verification" (cough more privacy violations)
But, other than that, the modern internet is fine. Everything's fine.
In hindsight, a decentralised and democratic internet is indeed better. We are trying to recreate that in Lemmy.
Oof, I'm sorry, that's rough. Flash games?
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Yeah, those were simpler times.
And none of them caused me as much distress as the beheading of that journalist. Even as a regular visitor of Rotten.com.
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If I could go back, I’d pass on the beheading. Damn morbid curiosity.
I wouldn't. I didn't enjoy them, but they seemed important. A brief glimpse into extreme reality.
Yeah. Really brings home how fucked up war and religious fanaticism is.
It certainly broke your bubble when you saw it.
I was an adult when that was going around. I decided I wasn't that curious. I've never seen 'two girls one cup' either. I don't regret my choice.
Edit: I also didn't need to see the Charlie Kirk murder, either.
I've seen a beheading by some russian nazis in like 2010. As a teenager (around that time) i used to look up rotten.com and facesofdeath a fair bit. A lot i forgot, but some pictures will stay with me until i die. Sounds worse than it is, they just pop up from time to time.
Recently i searched for random telegram chanells because i was bored and found some israeli and islamic chanells that had a lot of execution and some mild gore content. That dosn't do anything with me emotionalie, i am keenly aware of the fact that humans murder and kill their own and other species all the time.
Still haven't seen two girls and one cup. Not even sure what its about, i think it's some kink stuff involving bodily fluids? I don't see any benefit in watching it. The gore stuff at least is a lesson about reality that people from my part of the world aren't exposed to, at least for now. In a way it helps to stay grounded on how fucked up live is for many people and creatures on this planet, something that is far to easy to forget when living in the 'sanitized' west.
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I made it through adolescence without seeing the two girls one cup video. It was a thing to try and trick your buddies into watching it. It's an odd point of pride for me I dodged that particular bullet.
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I somehow managed to avoid the really heinous stuff like beheadings, but I do remember a lot of the classic shock websites.
Apparently the cock from MeatSpin belonged to a trans woman porn star. So that's fun, I hope she's doing well, whoever she is.
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RIP Flash
Lots of people talking about beheadings, but the video that I can never unwatch was of a woman in a blank walled room facing the camera and getting unceremoniously shot in the head with a revolver. I've no idea if it was real or not, but the lack of, for want of a better word, "spectacle" makes me think it was.
I don't want to look it up again to find out but if anyone knows for sure...
I saw a lot of unseeable things on the internet, thanks to decades of war and sites like Ogrish. But snuff clips I noped the hell out of.
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Analogue youth, digital teens, here.
Simpler times... when we'd watch Jimmy Savile on TV, and were told he was a beloved children's entertainer. O_O
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Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
I dont know how i did it as a kid. Teenagers are psychopaths I guess.
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Ah yes I remember "three guys one hammer" which was a video of three Ukrainian serial killers stabbing a guy in the eye and repeatedly in the stomach with a screwdriver and then beating him to death with a hammer.
Apparently one of the killers got out of prison in 2019. I imagine he's probably dead by now, given that he was most likely conscripted.
Last Podcast on the Left recently did a series on those guys. Unfortunately “three guys one hammer” was not a stand alone event.
[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 656: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs Part I - Serial Spree 🅴 https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/219151354 via @PodcastAddict
For the curious
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itch.io has so many really cool free games that can be played in your browser. Neocities exists. So many cool communities exist on the internet
just because most of the most popular websites are terrible doesnt mean cool sites dont exist
Yeah, its the same as old man saying there's no good music.
There's not much corporately popular shoved in your face good music. But now is literally the golden age of all media, before we are all restricted from enjoying any of it without being a criminal or paying subscription fees just to log into my PC. I give it 5 or 8 years . they're already coming for emulation because people are sick of shitty new games.
You can still find the good of the internet. Use webrings, kagi small web search, use your bookmarks, neocities, Its still out there.
The fediverse is a big one too
I was moderator on an online video platform at the time. I arrived to work early, get my coffee and went to my desk for my morning empty-the-queue-list routine... spitted my coffee, maybe puked a little... and moved on with my tasks!
There was a brief moment in the internet during this time, not the wild west age of unmoderated forums and ascaii memes but the budding frontier town of rage comics and early social media. There was an exact point, just before the year Facebook became the defacto social network, where the internet could have taken a different path and lead to something great. You still see the chipped paint of that mural in places like Reddit before the premium and Lemmy before the shill accounts. The hangers on from the old world that catch the scraps the mega corps drop. Gaiaonline is still propped up by a dedicated community. Small forums grow like weeds in the cracked pavement.
If we could find those places, sure up their crumbling palisades against the endless effort to advertise, breathe life into them in our own quite ways. Create the internet we wanted instead of sulking in the one we were given.
Saw some lemons making party, some girls with a cup definitely not doing the cup song and a few leaks live, but otherwise it was a great time.
I'm fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn't decide.
Now, with hindsight, I'm STILL convinced it was real, but I'm wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.
ISIS didn't exist formally yet in 2003, but it's not like they just came from nowhere. I'm fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.
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I'm still traumatized from some of those MySpace pages.
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