Yeah, that is what parents really should have been worried about rather than violent video games. The first time I saw someone die online was way more traumatizing than watching a videogame character get dismembered.
Yeah, seen a guy get his brain poked out with an umbrella trough his eyes while he was still alive. Got the image tattooed into my brain. Definitely more traumatizing then any kind of video game including postal.
My burnt memory (and what made me lose interest in all gore type videos) was seeing someone play catch with a dog using a live grenade
I couldn’t even finish the video, I felt sick
Damn I did not need to picture that today. Sorry you had to see it.
4chan gonna 4chan, I learnt my lesson the hard way but I did learnt it lol
i hate gore sooo much i dont get the appeal to movies bumping up the blood.
when did movies stop being good and became gorey money grabs for brain dead adults that fetishize violence from their couches
That’s so far from reality these days imo, maybe when Saw was first coming out and Final Destination was all the craze
Rotten.com days. I don’t know if it was bad to satisfy that curiosity but I got over it pretty quick. And nowadays I can safely avoid any of these crazy videos, knowing I’ve seen it all. I guess that’s why they call it morbid curiosity.
I wish it was still up
My dad didn’t let me download The Offspring because it would’ve been a bad influence, but I was allowed on the early internet without any supervision.
My mom threw out my brother’s tape of Green Day’s Dookie because Billy Joe said Shit in Basket Case.
We sang green day at fifth grade “graduation”, but they didnt allow us to say “dead skin”. I never would have even noticed the phrase if they didn’t bring attention to it by banning it, but its so fucking silly.
That’s definitely an odd one
Similar story, my friends dad told my friend off because he saw the song “Get Fucked, Stud” by Biffy Clyro on his iPod when we were on holiday. My friend promptly renamed it to "Stud"😂
The problem was never the blood, it was the screaming, crying, and visceral gargling
The moment of death when everything is over. All the horrible shit is done but you just have to sit with the fact this person’s conciseness is gone. That’s what fucked me up back in the day.
the lack of expected noises in a lot was pretty confronting too. it’s not always like the movies with people screaming their guts out, those were the ones that stuck with me
Rotten.com was like a rite of passage.
It was essentially just police uploading their worst crime scene photos.
B0g.org was the real shit
Is that one still up?
The best!
10-year-old me trying to see boobs on the Playboy Channel.
Those were the days. You would listen to the audio and try to find the nipples in the wavy mess of video.
Personally I feel like it’s less about exposure to extreme gore and porn and stuff like that. It’s more about the constant barrage of awful shit happening all over the world. Some stupid thing some politician said, police brutality, an asshole on a plane, etc. Our brains just weren’t designed to handle so much stimulus overload. I’m not a psychologist or whatever but that’s my opinion.
Social media, like reddit, is just a constant rage bait machine. I spend less time on lemmy since getting away from reddit and it’s so much better for mental health.
The constant barrage of awful shit, which btw does not represent real life! Most of us will never encounter 99% of the bullshit we see, was just awful.
It makes us all angry, bitter and shitter people online.
I find lemmy better so far becuase, even though there are always shit heads there’s less assholes here.
Partly because there is less content, but also because there simply are less shitty assholes leaning left.
Left usually means you’re more compassionate so I feel like conversations can go on longer before devolving into shittery.
Been on the Internet maybe 23 years or so and I’ve seen some wild shit back in the day that didn’t phase me. Got shown some stuff on kaotic recently and it upset me a hell of a lot more than it would have 13 year old me.
I think this was one of the biggest failings of parents in the 90s and 2000s - the internet was so new that they were scared of all the wrong things and didn’t know how to properly protect their kids online.
I’m eternally grateful I never saw some pretty horrific shit online. The worst I saw was porn and some of those jumps are videos and clips from horror movies.
Edit: I should clarify that to some extent I don’t even necessarily blame the parents. How were they supposed to know? Most of them just used the thing for work or to file taxes or look up the news. They weren’t looking in those dark corners or really even aware they existed until they saw their kids looking at it.
I dodged goatse and lemonparty. Got hit with tubgirl once though.
I printed out copies of goatse and hid them all over my friend’s room 😅
I was 18 when 4chan started, the unrestricted internet was a wild time as a teenager
LemonParty isn’t one I’ve ever seen but goddamn is it funny as a concept. I’ve actually never heard of “tubgirl”. I’m picturing “2 Girls 1 Cup” in a bathtub and I am NOT here for it lol
Yeah, you’re not too far off. Not gonna describe it in detail though.
Thank you for your restraint lol My sanity is grateful
nah too old, from the “the simpsons are corrupting the youth!” generation
My mom: Bart is a bad influence. My dad (who let me watch behind her back): No honey, Homer is a bad influence.
I don’t think it’s that bad really. I feel like I was more traumatized as a kid by having a lot of pets with short natural lifespans, and just generally all the animal death and gore you are naturally exposed to by living in the country. With videos online it’s disturbing, depressing, and forces you to think about human suffering/mortality and the existence of evil people, but it’s ultimately just a video that isn’t connected to your life, that you can turn off, and probably most people learn to avoid pretty quickly.
Porn site: Please confirm that you are at least 18 years old
Horny 16 year old me: Yes
Honestly, I was clicking “Yes” since I was about 10 years old.
My father was very tech oriented and worked for a community college as a technician, which enabled him to get used and outdated computers for cheap if not free, as well as his hobby of scouring the area for any computer equipment for sale or being disposed of to find anything of value.
So, by age 5 I had a computer in my bedroom. Not a powerful one mind you, the thing could barely run Doom which came out that year (1993) and it some kind of DOS that didn’t even use a mouse. Later that same year we got the internet which my father hooked into the home network he setup. While he tried to put some safeguards and restrictions on its use, it didn’t taken my sisters an myself long at all to figure out how to bypass and defeat those restrictions. Nor that long for me to figure out how to view another computer on the network and see what they had been up to, finding my dads search history and also finding his poorly executed attempt at restricting search terms which just made me look all those things up after disabling the file that was supposed to block them.
Back in the early 90’s there was this website called “Rotten”, there was a lot of fucked up pictures of suicide and and dismemberment.
I visited the site once, I was around 14 at the time…
Back in the early 90s there was no internet in the form we know it. It was in later half of the 90s.
Confirmed, rotten.com started in 1996.
The Stile Project was worse
Is it still up?
I don’t think so, I looked into it a few months ago when this came up and I think the domain expired a while back.
Damn, ok thanks
Hey I miss rotten.com
Early 00’s 4chan’s one hell of a drug.
one of my classmates sent hardcore porn in the school group chat 💀
so i guess thats one way to find out about those
I did the same, but also perused rotten.com
Curiosity, chance and searching skills I guess
