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Ogrish.
Doesn't exist any more, but definitely traumatized me as a child.
If you haven't heard of it, it was basically a video hosting site focusing on extreme violence and gore.
Tons of clips of people being killed or horrifically maimed in war, car accidents, industrial accidents, 'extreme' magic shows gone wrong, brutal gang attacks, straight up snuff videos...
Some videos off the top of my head I won't ever be able to erase from my memory:
The beheading of Daniel Pearl.
Low resolution video of 9/11, but you could make out people jumping from the towers... and splattering all over the ground. The camera man tracked people the entire distance they fell.
Some insane magic show gone wrong where a man chain sawed his wife in half ... she hadn't managed to fold herself into the right position inside the magic box... her screams and twitching legs were not an act.
A video taken in Fallujah (I think?) of an Iraqi hopped up on an absurd amount of drugs, taken from a US soldier who had just dismounted with most of his squad from a humvee.
Him and others advance down the middle of a street towards the soldiers, all holding AKs. A volley of fire from the dismounted soildiers either took out all the group, leaving them with chunks blown off, writhing in agony, or scattering...
Except this one guy. He's clearly seriously wounded, but is still advancing basically blind firing his AK.
The US soldiers are in shock that he's still walking.
Now for a burst from a 50 cal.
Huge parts of this guy's body are visibly blown off of him, but he still advances.
A second, more sustained 50 cal burst basically liquifies him where he stood.
That and rotten.com have been responsible for a lot of my insomnia, and probably a good chunk of my misanthropy.
You can't unsee things, folks. Don't give in to the temptation. It's not worth it.
rotten.com actually was a protest website that was supposed to be the last bastion of online freedom of speech.
it was a fucking eyesore for Gore and mistress Tipper.
Remember--when they go low and refuse to let you go high, fucking bury them.
2 guys 1 hammer is no joke
Ehhh I was on stile, ogrish, rottten very young, then /b/ when it first came out, then WPD, eyeblech, NSFW__, etc and I’m doing great. Some folks handle things differently… I’ve seen worse stuff than any of those sites and while it was horrible stuff, I’m aite
Sometimes I think back to the shit we saw, and I'm a little amazed so many of us came out so well.
And then elections happen, and well...
I also came out fine even if I saw those horrible videos. But it's a bit sad that it's so hard to find those kind of websites nowadays. Social media just censors everything.
I miss the good old wild west of the internet.
Saaaaame