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I never went looking for extreme violence, but in my teens I sometimes visited the "extreme/bizarre" shock blogs of my country, so saw quite a few disgusting sexual videos that are burned into my mind forever, like cock-and-ball torture (up to self-amputation) and various bestiality types π¬
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.
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.
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.
I saw Saddam hang. Louder than you'd think.
my middle school classmates were browsing rotten.com on the school computers in the breaks, so I've seen at least one drowned corpse when passing by π€’
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
The real issue is all your normie friends have no idea of this or are terrified of anything that isnt corponet, so they will not partake in ye olden web. But thats OK.
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.
Ok but people are already doing this.
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!
I never watched any beheading videos, for obvious reasons; even in youth or now
I did enjoy the Charles Cork shooting or whatever his dumbfuck name was? Forgot
Whole head did not come off. 2/10 beheading
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 βthree guys one hammerβ was not a stand alone event.
[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 656: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs Part I - Serial Spree π ΄ https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/219151354 via @PodcastAddict
For the curious
Thank you so much for the link!
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...
My worst was a cat that was put into a small cage and then poured gasoline on, and then lit on fire. I didn't even look it up, I just saw (and heard) it because someone else was watching. I never recovered from that
:(
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.
Goatse
Tubgirl
Lemon party
Yeah, those were simpler times.
I had to explain to a younger person what Goatse was the other day. They don't even know what they missed out on.
Goatse is still alive and well in Mexico but this community bans NSFW.
Two girls one cup
It was chocolate ice cream
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
Ayyye this is a big thread for LPotL references!
[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 658: Jimmy Savile Part I - Clowns Get Away with Murder π ΄ https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/220772811 via @PodcastAddict
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The laugh Bo gave in that track made my skin crawl, I'll never forget it
If I could go back, Iβd 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.
It certainly broke your bubble when you saw it.
Yeah. Really brings home how fucked up war and religious fanaticism is.
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 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.
Goatse was the real rickroll.
meatspin.com was a pretty good one