Thats EXACTLY why I hate gore. I can't imagine the worst, most painful moments of my life being filmed and spread around for weirdos who think they're cool for watching gore to gawk at. And a lot of ppl find the victim's families and spam them with the pictures/videos of their deceased loved ones. And it sort of desensitises not only death, but violence to its viewers. Then we get cases like those two boys who liked gore that wenr out, found an old man, and killed him for their own gore videos.
I’d be fine with the idea of it being viewed and ppl being like “damn that must’ve sucked, glad that never happened to me.” The part that would suck is a ppl making edgy jokes about it and seeing how many slurs they can fit into a single image description
@@cawtisticoctobearI think they can provide valuable lessons to people. So many people drive recklessly because they think they'll just instantly die if they get into a bad car wreck. Show them a video of what happens when you get turned into a pretzel and are still alive missing limbs in a car wreck. Let people see videos of deadly street fights, so they can see how they start and how to avoid them. Let people see factory accident videos so they don't make the same mistakes. When I started a job working near powerlines, one of the first things they did was show us pictures and videos of people who got zapped to drill into our heads how serious and deadly it is.
@@Muffinzeshlongun Lol. She doesn’t seem like the type that would enjoy such rude behavior, but since I don’t know her at all I could be wrong. Sometimes it seemed that she was annoyed with having to even include, let alone describe, some of her examples and I can agree if that’s really the case. Back when the web was at 1.0, regular everyday folk were discovering this new, cool thing to abuse called the World Wide Web. It brought out “the best” in everyone back then. For some, it would kinda be like giving a bratty terror child with little self control or filters access to something where they can create an almost endless amount of instant attention to themselves with whatever kinds of shock media they could dream up at anytime day or night. If provided the platform or “stage”, those kidults would overload websites to the max with the unimaginable (and they certainly did so as fast as their brains could generate the content). Since there was zero rules or guidelines for that type of web content besides basic decency or prudish ideas and without any sort of punishment, it was ripe for abuse by the most casual of end user. Most saw it as the Wild West for attention grabs and shock content way before the term “internet points” or “lulz” were a thing. They were masters of their craft, a craft of which was highly offensive, and most definitely a labor of love. Good times! 🤣
As someone who grew up on shock sites, it doesnt prepare you as much as you'd think. I happened to see a 20 year old kid get peppered in a driveby a year ago. I ran to try and stop the bleeding while the ambulance came. He died in my arms. Having it right there in front of you is something very different. I got Diagnosed with ptsd. Nightmares every night. I cant play shooter games where people make choking sounds. Sometimes i have a panick attack when warm water hits my clothes because it takes me back to his blood running all over my body. If my girlfriend grabs my arm out of affection i panick because i remember him gripping my wrists so tightly as i tried to keep pressure on the wounds. Holy fuck. I wish the videos desensitized me more. I can barely function. That night destroyed me. And i have seen it ALLLL online.
I helped in an accident a few years ago, and can confirm that nothing prepares you for the real thing. I'm sorry you're hurting and I hope it gets better
@@haleybeldin9247 thank you. I hope you're healing and okay too. Youre a good person for trying. It really is one of those things that help to talk about! But it's hard. Because most people, thank fucking God, haven't experienced anything like it.
I also grew up on shock sites, and until someone is dying right in front of you, your brain WILL try to convince you it isn't real on some level. I ended up going to mortuary school, and while I do think viewing images from my textbook, autopsies, and medical cases helped desensitize me somewhat to what I see when embalming, that's a bit different. The people I work with were already bodies when I "met" them, so I've never gotten survivor's guilt the way I have when I've seen someone die. Seeing dead people doesn't affect me, but hearing the grief of their loved ones absolutely does. That human connection is (rightfully) the most difficult to break regarding death. With time, you will regain some level of normalcy, but I'm so sorry you had to witness that. I know how hard it is, and I'm sure you did everything you could. Sometimes life just hits you with a whammy anyways. Take care of yourself 💜
I'm so sorry you had to experience that, but at the same time thankyou for taking action and trying to save his life, a lot of people wouldn't do this (for a variety of reasons). And even though the kid didn't survive, you gave him a chance to pass with another person trying to help, I've not experienced it (obviously) but I imagine dying on your own with no one trying to help would be very lonely. Hope your healing goes well mate 💜 I know this won't necessarily help with the PTSD but I'd definitely always proud of what you did that day.
I've seen a young teen get rolled over both his legs by an old woman, around 11 years ago. It didn't affect me... I still don't go look for gore videos. How people are affected by real life stuff really depends on each person's personal ability to deal with the stuff. How I would react with heavier stuff? I don't know. But knowing myself, I'd probably be able to get through most with the thought "I did what I could. I am not responsible for what transpired." Idk, I've lived through stuff in my personal life. Where many might break, I fought through.
And notice how nobody is in this comment to defend their sick interest when you phrase it for what it really is? Realistically, those going out their way to look for this type of stuff are not mentally okay in the first place.
@@UncreativePF It might be entertainment for some people, but for others I think it's closer to self-harm. People self-harm in times of stress because it replaces a pain they can't control with a pain they can control.
Is it weird to say mention that it may not be for entertainment purposes, but I feel like I nerd out to that sort of thing. It's like a curiosity drive more than unhealthily just looking at the content. I can nerd out to real images of crime scenes, autopsies, and accidents in particular. Looking at textbook anatomy isn't enough.
@@jaysant6958people post really crazy things on there. There’s like no guidelines on there and people post all types of porn and gore and racist things. It’s really know for people just saying what ever they want on there it’s pretty toxic and if you aren’t careful it’ll make you dislike humans
@@jaysant6958the reasson why these triggered individuals think that Twitter is the worst is most likely due to the fact that since Elon Musk took it over, they no longer have the ability to openly spew hate and other calls for violence towards people who disagree with their demented world views.
Trust me, gore does NOT prepare you for seeing death. Sure you can be desensitized to seeing death on screens and stuff but actually having someone die in front of you, hearing the sounds and seeing the life drain from them, it’s just too horrible to describe. Edit: god I sound like such an edge lord coming back to this comment, just don’t go watch gore man
i once saw a guy outside my house get run over. i didn't see him directly, but i saw all the paramedics and police around him. the most horrible part was when the paramedics all started leaving. not because the person had been stabilized and was going to hospital, but because they were already dead. there was nothing else they could do. i am lucky to not really have seen any 'gore' stuff, but that event was fucking horrible. i felt so sad.
i can agree with this. i can see gore online and barely feel anything but when i remember what it was like to watch my mom die infront of me i have a borderline panic attack. i still remember the sounds she made and the blood on the carpet after the paramedics removed her
Very proud of the fact that I still do not actually know the contents of most of the popular shock videos/images despite having lived through that era of the internet because whenever someone told me told me I should google something I just said no and spent most of my time playing Barbie flash games and watching vocaloid music videos instead
you should be, because you've saved yourself a lot of trauma. i spent a large part of my adolescence on gore and horror sites and i don't understand why people think it's such a flex to say they've seen it - it's been over 10 years and i still sometimes see those images in my nightmares. it's not cool by any means
You were a smart and empathetic child. Those videos were BEYOND brainrot. It was like soul-rot. Like destroyed your innocence. It was ridiculously stupid to watch at any age.
When i was 12 years old i completed the run the gauntlet challenge, my developing brain was desensitized forever. Since then i’ve only started the challenge a handful of times but never completed it since, i’m sure me and my friends have never been able to erase that first jarring realization of pure horror in the world.
I used these sites to desensitize myself because I thought crying and feeling sad was a form of weakness growing up in an abusive household. Worst idea ever.
I used to watch gore and thought I was desensitized, but these things really do stay with you and genuinely impact you even if you don't think they do. I recommend you stop engaging in it before your mental health takes a plunge, because it *will* catch up with you, unless you're a diagnosed socio/psychopath. I know my comment seems cringe lol, especially to teens but please keep this message in mind if you read it.
@@WildVeei thought i was desensitized until i got a medicine caused psychotic episode and it all came back out of nowhere. it really does just lurk in there
@@gianniskatsios8033 Had to go real bad at the mall yesterday but no way I’m using a public toilet. Ended up just dropping it right on the floor next to the stall. Not my problem.
This video having no annoying censorship in it was pleasantly surprising. The fact that I could actually understand what was being said already made this video a nice change of pace, but add in the fact that you actually provided some insight on why these types of sites existed and why we can't just make them illegal was really really cool. Bravo!
Bro I fucking hate videos like that so much. Title be like: "THE WORST CRIME EVER COMMITED IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, YOU WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS" Video be like: ...and then Smith proceeded to [REDACTED] to Allison, this lead to her entire [REDACTED], [REDACTED]... ...her parents would on record to say that they found her [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. I HATE IT! Like if you're going to talk about true crime and horrible shit either fucking talk about it and take the demonitisation on the chin or SHUT UP. Tiktok is making everything even worse because you apparently can't talk about fucking anything on there, the ridiculous shit I've seen people come up with to skirt by censors.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts because he wants to make money??? it's stupid as fuck, but people say stuff like 'un-alive' because if you say the word 'suicide' your vid gets age-restricted and won't get ad revenue. and it's even worse on TikTok because you get banned for saying those words. it's incredibly stupid, and I am in no way agreeing with it
reddit has recently gotten a lot more censorship heavy with gore, subs like makemycoffin and eyeblech (not to be mistaken with eyebleach) have been taken down, though there definitely are still subs with gore content, they are being mostly phase
Mild portion of the content you see on shock sites is from TikTok streams and Instagram reels, so yeah where it's too shallow and unlucky moderation is wacky at times
it’s crazy how much of the most abhorrent gore can just be readily found on reddit. even stuff like instagram and youtube, there’s constantly little things that slip through the cracks. so, you’re kind of right. just because we don’t have shock sites doesn’t mean the internet is free from gore-censorship. if anything, it’s worse.
and TikTok....I've been repulsed more by some of the things I've seen on that godforsaken platform than on any gore site or in any gory movie, not even joking
So many people are afraid of being age restricted like it'll get them 0 views and arrested in real life, meanwhile I was actually recommended this on my homepage after watching nothing but Scott Cramer videos for the entire day up until that point lmfao
This type of restriction, I call it 50% restriction. It doesn't show age restriction (guidelines), but in yt mobile it doesn't autoplay, and there's warning shown if you clicked on it. Flyingkitty ytp of rickroll is one example IIRC
I know LiveLeak is mostly remembered for the shock type content but tbh one of my personal most remarkable videos I ever saw on there was a blacksmith making a knife.
LiveLeak was actually pretty dope whenever you weren't seeing cartel beheadings. I remember going on it before it got shut down and seeing a really interesting video about some Indian village and their way of living.
You can see the same shit on reddit. YT vids like this feel super grifter to me. You could google shock sites and get this same rundown. My favorite was one that pretended to be a GPS cellphone tracker then fake zoomed into meatspin lol. These new age YT creators try to cover this stuff, but they didnt live it, and its obvious theyre disingenuous if you did. Back then shock was different, it was shock, gore was a different story. Shock could be gore, but overall the term meant what you thought you were looking up wasnt what you were about to see. No one would have considered liveleak shock when it came out either. It was just place reality was documented, for better or worse, most things on liveleak were pretty tame and it was mainly used for piracy, it wasnt super crazy or scary like these youtubers hype it up to have been.
my biggest fear is tripping on the sidewalk and falling onto the road while a garbage truck passes by and kills me because they didn’t have time to brake before driving over my head. only reason i have such bad anxiety about that is because i saw a video of that exact scenario on a gore sight at like 10 years old. i get anxiety in a lot of everyday situations because i’ve seen people die just doing everyday things. granted, this isn’t the type of anxiety that is constantly and overwhelmingly running my life, but it’s definitely enough to feel my heart rate increase and it’s altered the impulsive thoughts i have. even just stepping onto an elevator and looking down at the crack makes me think “what if i die rn because the elevator malfunctions and squishes me in it” etc etc. i wonder how my brain would be if i didn’t get sucked into the gore shit at so young edit: used the wrong version of brake
Ugh. My ex-best friend was like this. He wasn't necessarily TCC but he was obsessed with TCC topics, believed his past life was a fictional school shooter, and was generally a weirdo. He'd talk about how sweet and innocent I was a lot and almost sent me gore to be funny. He broke the relationship off after I told him to go get help. Freak.
@@TaylorToman remember to pick up the poop from the floor when you miss the toilet or else you risk stepping in it and spread it around the house and your mom will get mad and force you to clean it up even if your an adult and busy grinding cod warzone. dont ask me how i know (i missed the toilet when going number two)
My brother showed me a lot of shock videos as a young kid. Some of them gave me nightmares (I was under 10), then as I got older I thought “ooh gore doesn’t bother me, I’m edgy and cool”. This was after watching the entirety of Traces and Faces of Death. When I was a kid it almost seemed unreal, I could eventually get past the shock and move into a state of curiosity and awe of what I was seeing. Now as an adult anything remotely gorey (even just written descriptions of gore or brutality) can make me nauseous. I think it’s so easy as a child to not fully comprehend the actual violence, and you sort of compartmentalize it in your brain as just images and videos; things you would never encounter for real. I think what changed for me was realizing this stuff is easily part of someone’s every day life, or it could happen to anyone at any moment (even me or you). I think also having a string of unexpected, sudden, and violent deaths in my immediate family kind of put it in perspective.
I completely understand what you mean. I was a very depressed child due to some trauma so I eventually felt so numb and disconnected from life that I turned to these shock sites to try to feel something. I was fascinated by gore. Then I grew up, I had a kid, and now anything remotely gory freaks me out because, as you said, it could so easily happen to me or any other living being for that matter. I’m glad to have developed empathy and an overall sense of realization but I’m fearful of those that grew up with these sites that didn’t.
@@anxxxiettty honestly what you guys are describing is normal. That is why children can be taken captive from a young age and be turned into killers. You can mold kids because their brain is elastic. It wont reject something it does not know as bad. Instead it compartmentalized it and normalizes it. Violence in cartels etc, from a young age, those boys are thaught to kill. Anyway. For us, normal people who live in a lawful society, we grow up and realize what we actually saw. The gore is not what shocks me anymore, It's understanding the complexity of the world and how unfair life is. Empathy. Something children lack by nature. That's why its important to take care of your kids. They might grow up to be psycho killers, lol
THIS!! You put my thoughts into words! I was a very depressed kid growing up to the point I wanted to krill myself and after so many years of watching gore videos I summed upon a video of a guy committing the plan I had and it just completely shifted everything for me. Everything became so much more real, now as a young adult whenever I see gore I feel that part of my body get all nasty and burn. It physically hurts me to think that this is real and this can happen
I also think the idea of a sudden death becomes scarier the older you get, because you’ve spent more time and effort working on your life that it’s kind of a sink cost fallacy or something. At least in my experience
It's so much fun watching videos today that examine the "old" internet. The internet of my youth. I was there, Gandalf. I was there, 3000 years ago. . . The internet was a strange, sometimes terrifying, place. I really enjoy your videos! Thanks so much!
I prefer this type of video essays, direct and calm, no oversaturation of editing or loud voices with lots of inflection, also the neutral stare without a lot of expressions makes me less overstimulated, loved the vid you get a sub 🫶
I also found it surprising how many RUclips channels made these “Sites you should never visit” videos, they were definitely marketed at children for the views and they never cared that this could change some kids views forever.
@@GotTheBestLigma and that is advertised toward children in what way? Theres no manipulation there to push those to be recommended to a child who is watching child content. They would have to find it themselves or view something similar beforehand. Because a child looks up a video like that means the uploader is pushing it on them?
Here on RUclips you can watch police activities, peoples got shot or all Kind of violence, those Videos got many Million Views, No censorship. Same with all the news about wars and the thousands of documentarys about warcrimes/ history. Censorship is Just for the youtubers, Not for official News channels and documentarys here in yt...
Exactly how I found some gore / nsfw sites back in 2009 when I was a kid which definitely fucked me up, but it also introduced me to some weird ass sites like Shaye Saint John that scared me more lol
thats how i first got introduced to r34 :( i was a normal kid being innocent and i saw a video that said "do not look up skid x pump r34" so i was like "yknow' what? imma look it up! and that marks the day when i lost my innocence :(
They literally messed up my mind. Got diagnosed with schizophrenia and in large part they played a role in it. We don't die and go to hell we already live it day to day
@@RIUUI007 in my 20s and had a very similar experience to you. The stress over the years at such a young age before my mind fully developed gave me schizophrenia. Got taken advantage by not just strangers but family the ones you should trust. Got cheated, slighted beat down into a ditch and left to rot. From homelessness to owning a house. No matter where you go, or your life situation life is a living hell. Even for the supposed "well off" All that matters is that you get up and keep kicking
The best life is one of balance. You shouldn't be naive, but you shouldn't turn into a NEET shut in either. Basically - go out and have fun but be safe and take precaution. Besides freak accidents (which could also happen in your house) a lot of bad things that happens are cuz of who you know (and I also suppose where you live)
@@htsunmiku from my experience 99% of people will f you if you give them the chance. People are cruel, mean and self centered. No thanks I'll keep to myself I'm happy that way.
As someone whose a family member of a person who was posted to a instagram gore page, I can promise you the people who run these pages/sites dont give a fuck about the soapboxes they stand on. Its just gruesome obsession for them. I personally dont care if they exist but it shouldnt be so hard to get said posts removed once identified.
This is why you can’t defend it. You can give all the reasoning you want but nobody wants to be anywhere near involved with something like it. I’m so sorry
I’m a welder so I’ve looked at many workplace accident pictures and videos, particularly involving lathes and electrocutions. I did this to see what would happen if I wasn’t careful. I came across one video of the cartel shooting a young child in the head. Nope. Nopenopenope. I was done after that. Also you got the stare of a German soldier after the battle of Verdun
this is why at age 11 i saw many shock websites, 🌽, xhamster, was groomed and at 10 i saw 2 girls 1 cup, and why it literally ruined my mental health and traumatized me, dont let your children have free internet access please 🙏
You should feel proud for presenting nuanced views on something this controvereial so succinctly. The tightrope of "this is revolting, I don't trust the motivations of the sites' admins or users, but I don't trust outrage-based politics to police it, either" is a delicate thing to walk, but I feel you do it well. And thank you for making this rather daunting part of Internet history intelligible in such an accessible and non-lurid way.
The creator of BestGore really tried to use the Jigsaw logic of "going through something horribly traumatic makes you realize your fragility and care about your life more." Did he not see how those movies turned out? lol
Like a decade ago I binged death videos for like 48 hours and for months I just walked around feeling like I was the only one living in reality. Everyone just smiling eating fro-yo glued to their phones. It fucked me up.
@@ksleep5715 And people are butchering others on a daily basis without any sense of guilt in all of those 3rd world countries these videos are usually coming from. They do the horrible shit and go on with their life if they just changed sneakers.
Ik in some practicing Buddhist they believe in viewing this sort of stuff to disconnect themselves from their human body because in that religion the spirit (who you truely are) is something completely detached from the body or mind.
@@ksleep5715yeah same. It’s a crazy experience. But in reality you are just aware of the evil that goes on. Could be a bad thing or a good thing. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.
when i was 14, i accidentally traumatized myself with '2 girls, 1 cup"... i can still replay the unsightly imagery in my brain and it has certainly traumatized me. since then, i'm always on some degree of guardedness and circumspect whilst browsing the internet on just about anywhere. for the few of you left completely unscathed out there, i implore you to resist your heightened curiosity while on the internet, especially about taboo subjects like extreme gore or just weird things in general that sound unpleasant. stay safe out there.
Watched a ton of shock sites in the late 90's, early to mid 2000's. I grew desensitized and removed from videos of that kind of content for a long time, however it could never have prepared me for my first patient death as a nurse. They passed peacefully in their sleep, but I was the last one with them during their final moments and I had to report their death. I cried for almost an hour in the breakroom afterwards. The first stillborn I watched get prepared to be held by their grieving parents truly broke me as a person. I've since seen genuine traumatic death and gore firsthand, and it never, and I mean never, gets easier. You learn to dissociate through it because you have to, but as soon as reality comes back, there's a moment where it hits you and it hits you hard. I never understood why people in movies threw up upon seeing death until I experienced it firsthand.
I’ve seen so many replies justifying gore and why it should continue to exist, but not a single person who’s justified it has been able to answer one question. If it were your mother, sister, brother, father, child, aunt, uncle, close friend, grandmother, or grandfather, how would you feel to see them die in such a gruesome way and then see thousands of people commenting under said video with; “LOL” “Holy shit that was wicked!” “Damn she got messed up” Edit: It’s easy to defend something that you’ve never experienced, because none of you defenders have been in an actual situation where someone is killed in front of you. All of that “it’s fun, it’s entertaining, it’s not illegal” yadda yadda is useless when the real thing is in front of you.
If the material is public and it’s legal to view then I don’t see what the problem is. I think you might wanna get off the internet if you don’t like people exercising the right to free speech.
As a teenager I used to go on liveleak to watch self unalive videos. My hopes was seeing it would make me change my mind or not want to anymore, like others I'd seen online who said seeing it made them change their minds. In my case all it did was trigger me further. It made me jealous of those who actually had the guts to go through with it because while I wanted to die i was too scared to take myself out. Seeing others go through with what I wasn't able to made me hate myself for being too cowardly. Of course now a decade later I've thankfully grown out of that mindset and don't search for that kind of content anymore- but in my case it was more detrimental, and I didn't even realize the affects until a decade later. I'm just glad I was able to heal from that mindset, and I hope anyone else who may have been in my situation can heal from it as well. Please know it's not cowardly of you to not be able to go through with ending it. It's completely normal to have your self preservation instincts kick in. It's proof you're human.
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As someone who grew up on gore, I can't tell you how much it messes you up. You'd think "duh??", but as a kid who wanted to see how much I could take, the videos were just videos. After a while, you don't see living creatures, but just videos. It will either ruin your empathy, or make you more empathetic, but it's a coin flip.
It doesn't "mess you up" you're not "desensitized" you're completely inexperienced with violence and have a perverse curiosity for it, like most harmless people. The fact that you think you're desensitized to actual violence because you've seen videos with your friends on bestgore shows that you've never gotten so much as a punch in the mouth.
@@Slashy."After a while, you don't see living creatures, but just videos. It will either ruin your empathy" yada yada. Textbook definition right there. And you are wrong as hell still.
I can promise watching shock content like that is never to “prepare” yourself for anything. It’s an excuse for a deeper issue, whether it’s curiosity that’s turned to being addicted to the adrenaline rush of these videos, or just plain psychopathy. Normal people have empathy and a normal reaction is feeling sick and wanting to stay away from things like that, but of course people with careers in medical fields and such are the exception, I’m talking about everyday people who are home and watch this on their free time for said “fun”.
Watching that stuff as a hobby just desensitizes you and destroys your ability to empathize , I stay away from edgelords like that and I think you should all too
I took an EMS class in high school and whenever we had extra time at the end of class my teacher would show gore on the overhead projector and then ask us how we’d approach the situation 😳 all the accidents he showed us needed far more than 16 year olds in EMS 1
I remember my first shock video, someone I knew in high school had randomly approached me in the halls and said "hey look at this" and it was an ISIS beheading on his phone. No warning, no nothing
when I was in the 8th grade a kid did this to me but instead with a picture of a woman…doing something to a horse. I was so dumb to keep being friends with him after that.
I remember one time I was scrolling Facebook and came across a short video from someone in on of the groups I was in, it was supposed to be one of those funny cat videos and the video did initially start out as a wholesome play session with a gorgeous little Siamese kitten, and then like 5 seconds later that same kitten was getting crushed to d~~th. I will *never* forget the howling sounds it made, EVER. 😣 I was shocked and totally taken by surprise and it affected me greatly. What if that was a young child who clicked on it? That probably happened. It's one thing if someone has a morbid curiosity they want to explore safely on one of these sites from time to time, but that's something they are choosing and consenting to do. That's not what happened to me and others that day on Facebook, and I've heard it actually happens a lot now. And also animals and children gore SHOULD be prohibited 🚫. Those are two things that can *REALLY* fk somebody's mind up. And the people who purposefully create that content belong in the deepest depths of hell.
One of my ex classmates sent me an image of a bear attack survivor for no reason. He was missing half of his face. And yes, he is an edgy teen who thinks looking at gore is badass or cool.
Being obsessively drawn to morbid content online can also be a response to post-traumatic stress When all you can involuntarily think about is past trauma, then making yourself feel numb and desensitized can actually become desirable, and looking at morbid content does achieve this goal Just like how drugs can also make you numb I'd know
Tbh some people hate people who watch g*re if you ask me, I don’t mind as long as you don’t include me, or send me it. I like horror, and I don’t mind g*re in art. I love it in art. But like you know those ones that are just so disgusting that you can’t watch it, they make you wince. I have OCD and autism, I don’t risk that. Though I am curious now and I HATE that
I had a "gore" phase in my early 20s. Two things I learned : 1. no matter how numb I became to adults, male or female, being brutalized I never could watch videos of animals or children being harmed/injured. 2. Humans, especially those who are seemingly members of a very prolific Mexican crime organization, are capable of acts so barbaric it is hard to fathom. There are a few videos so "historic" in their depravity that I could say one to three key words and surely someone in this comments section would know what im speaking of. The world of gore is brutal and tragic. I eventually looked inward and realized subjecting myself to those videos was destroying my soul and stopped watching them. I will admit, however, for the darkness in all of us there is an appeal.
Can't watch animals or kids getting hurt either. Actually the gore days ended in the late 90s for me, was a good decision. Also, Disturbed Reality does awesome coverage of the certain Mexican groups and the videos they put out. No gore in his vids, just talks about them.
Yeah, I feel you on the Mexican Cartel stuff. It’s hard to believe people could be so cold and sadistic. Completely numb to the suffering they inflict. Really made me view humans in a different light. And in a way it does destroy a part of you. Don’t go there anymore, curiosity has vanished. I cringe now when I see teens rating the “worst cartel vid” like it’s exciting to push the limits of the depravity they can see. Always one edgelord that’s like “oh that’s not even that bad, watch this one”
I learned all this too. Thankfully it did not traumatized me as I would watch it when I was in high school but it did for a while make me feel somber. The things that are out there are scary. I stopped watching because I was getting a negative mentality of the world and thankfully I see the positives and sweet things about life now. I will get a random intrusive thought here and there that a child/animal/adult is out there, right now, going through something horrible but I’m able to redirect my thinking. It’s still a sad situation but we have to remind ourselves that there is both good and evil.
It's crazy how people will moralize about porn and say it's bad for your brain but apologize for gore which has been arguably worse for my brain as a teen than porn.
Depends on the kind of porn too Watching a conventionally attractive person dance and take off their clothes is fine (I guess), but the moment they start commercializing messed up fantasies is when you know it's bad for people's morals and love/sex lives
@@ligma212 gore is the worst thing to exist that does not involve religion. Lust and addiction is second. They’ll both mess with your personal and social life, career, and future. You just gotta ignore it and seek help from others. They’re the worst things to exist unless you’re counting religious things
Hi there, I am a final year medical student and I believe your retracted eyelids can be a a sign of thyroid eye disease, caused by elevated thyroid hormone levels, I hope you are aware of that!
As a farmer these sites taught me a *lot* about on-farm safety that my dad didn't, or didn't know to. Of course there was plenty of content that served no educational value and at the time we weren't there to learn anyway, but there are certainly a lot of folks who can say the same.
I dated (and almost married) someone with a gore addiction. I tried to be understanding and be involved in their interests and it took me down a rabbit hole of morbid curiosity that ended as quick as it started. Those sites are not for well-minded people. They are for sick people looking for a crazier and crazier high.
Not everybody who looks at this kind of content is "obsessed" or "addicted". For most people it's a casual thing that they do briefly once in a while and then don't even talk about. I'm sure we can spend all day arguing the morality of posting and looking at corpses but I'll say there's something much more visceral about actually seeing a picture of the carnage instead of just hearing a news anchor describe it to you.
@@wisemage0 I don't think it should be illegal, but I think there's a sometimes blurry line between censored news and shock content where people revel in the worst of humankind.
same here, he sent me a few videos of people getting k1lled in a way or another. he also sent me b3stial!ty. he goes to the same school and im his CLASSMATE. its horrible.
Always found the BG claim of "public good" hilarious. If you spent more than two seconds on the site, particularly under "articles" of female victims/subjects, such a notion goes right out the window.
Degeneracy in the comment sections of shock sites is so intense and flippant it’s almost pure in a sense. Like the darkest and strangest private thoughts a person can have somehow escaped their mind and ended up posted online.
@@mechadonia [Timi] You can see the cognitive dissonance in boards for ero guro especially on Reddit. Like they act like they are somehow above the fetish content while reveling in the depravity of it. [Imit] The cockroach mind that is the collective human subconscious is quite simple. The internet is but a reflective of the whole. We can map out the entirety of insectoid bloodlust and longing by the statistics. How many pornography sites exist and are visited daily? Thus the insectoid longing for rutting is reflected. How many gore sites? Thus the insectoid longing for C O N S U M E is both satiated and invigorated. Then we have the deeper and hidden and delicious content that is the true desire behind the mask. Those videos and things that go beyond what was even on these shock sites. The reality of this world is that it is a hell that an entire city like Nanking can fall under seige of mass rape, cannibalism, torture, and murder at a moment's notice. That we are born into THE HELL that is Earth and this life. The mask offers momentary protection but Imit Zeha is always there, lurking in the red. Waiting for the hatred of the cockroaches, their longing to be Puricite, their urge to consume themselves, to break free. Their is no escape.
Best Gore is definitely the worst of these sites by far, dude who owned it was a fucking creep and him even having children is terrifying to imagine, seeing as how he seems to hate women and have a fascination with them dying
I’ve never been to any of these shock sites, but I had a friend in 6th grade that ran the gauntlet and described some of the videos in detail at lunch. I like how you talked about the censorship issue. It’s really fucked up that an 11 year old was able to watch those videos and I can only imagine that watching them at a young age messes you up, but how do you stop it without stopping other things? And I feel like if they became outlawed they’d still exist and teenagers would still try to find them and might end up in dangerous situations because of it. It’s like how prohibition actually made alcoholism worse because people started drinking stronger unregulated alcohol instead of a beer after work.
@@littlehorn0063 kids will be kids, theyll always find a way. a better option is to educate them on why and how these things can be bad for themselves and others and give them some sense of harm=bad
@@littlehorn0063honestly kids watch these outside of the home and a reminder that deleting history is easy. It's not the parent's fault as long as they weren't the ones showing them to their kids. + There are 50 shock sites and you can find gore from RUclips, TikTok, Instagram, Google Pictures, and Facebook- it's easy to accidentally find it. You can find them even by typing mlp
yeah i ran the gauntlet (and was exposed to other stuff) at like 12 onwards and it's desensitised me pretty heavily to gore pictures. i don't really get much of a guttural reaction when exposed to anything violent anymore and i still do occasionally stumble upon awful stuff because i got too curious - i'm hoping to start therapy next year to hopefully treat this stuff and develop sensitivity to it again (i'm an adult nowadays)
@@littlehorn0063 I agree with that, but that isn’t on the government or the rest of the internet. Some parents just don’t limit their kids internet access and some kids are really sneaky and get on these websites without their parents knowing.
Also if anyone is interested, I was not desensitized to shit. I still hate watching horror movies, and cried for a week when my cat passed away. Please don't go to those sites.
While I don't want to limit the rights of others, I don't think watching gore on the regular is good for anyone. Real violence is not something to be normalized and desensitized to, because it should not be normal. I understand the place of these sites, but promoting apathy towards violence is not great, in my opinion.
Thank you, I don't believe gore sites should exist at all, they are disgusting, and saying 'well they should its freedom of speech!1!!' Doesn't excuse that bad behavior! I hate when people use freedom of speech as a excuse for shitty things, educational gore is one thing but this is completely different
@@kathycollins3260 I guess those gruesome operation shows were educational, but i'm glad they're gone. Then again, i haven't watched TV in a while. Rescue 911 was a grade school favorite, though.
@@kathycollins3260 There's nothing wrong with documenting horrible events. Isn't that what News Stations do anyway, 24/7? The only difference is that, instead of a five minute fluff piece and nothing but b-roll and narration to fill in the details, this just shows you the actual event. Besides, all gore is educational, in some way - the same way mice won't fall for mousetraps if they see another mouse killed by one. You learn things like: - Always be incredibly mindful of your surroundings - Don't do that stunt, that's absolutely not going to end well - Never travel to cartel territory - Never ride Chinese escalators - Never travel to ISIS territory - Never travel to rural Eastern European - Fights aren't like in the movies, and you'll probably get your ass kicked - Unlike in the movies, the best tactic for a knife fight is to run tf away - practice cardio - Sometimes it's better to run and get shot in the back than to wait for a far more excruciating execution - The human body is simultaneously pathetically fragile and completely indestructible
I learned not to click on random links at a young age bc I got sent to a liveleaks video of a guy shooting himself that sometimes replays when I close my eyes. Totally prepared me for that one section of the phishing training at work!
bro …. lol a guy shooting himself…. that’s 2/10 gore , ive watched gore since infancy .. south america family leaves only one in room is wheel chair bound grammy …. the pit bull slowy eats …… that was unreal one that will always stand out
@@Kiz-qh4gf why are you acting like watching ts is normal, “heh..that’s 2/10…level..lol” like no it doesn’t make you a cool guy bc you watched this when you were younger
I'm 30 now and I used to look at rotten pretty often when I was 16/17. I had a boyfriend who took his own life in a very violent way when I was 16, I had ptsd, got sent to the psychiatric hospital and afterwards I just couldn't feel anything emotionally. The only exception was when I looked at stuff on that site, I'd occasionally feel a little twinge of "oh wow that's BAD." I don't think that that's a good thing or recommend it to anyone, I'm just saying it because as you mentioned there are multiple reasons for a person to be drawn to content like that. More studies should definitely be done on this imo.
Small ramble coming from random person who consumed bestgore content for years (my middle school years): I remember being in like middle school going on gore sites and it was oddly popular among my age group; watching mothers and fathers end their lives in front of their children, gangs torture people, very graphic motorcycle crashes, and I'm ngl that very seriously messed me up, i used to think i was like "safe" from the effects of it but you're never really safe from the consequences of watching videos like that when your brain in developing. Specifically watching bestgore, where i still to this day remember the videos i watched despite literally being unable to remember my own middle school life, i can still vividly remember the videos of horrific events i watched with a flat expression. Watching things like that really did affect things like, my empathy, emotional understanding, the ability to rationalize pain and gore, and even becoming obsessed with death. I lost my self preservation because it was like "well I've seen way worse so I'd at least rather die this way, or this way." It really is bad to be young and watching such things, im not saying it affects everyone like this, im just saying that it CAN and it probably has, some people might just be unaware of it. Edit: im bad at telling the difference between effect and affect..
When I was younger I came across one video from bestg0re and it scared me so bad that I never watched a g0re video again. The video still remains etched into my memory to this day and I don’t think it will ever leave.
i agree with people under here. saying how gore prepares you for death? no it doesn’t. watching someone choke on their own blood in real time, shaking in a pile of blood, and laying there, it’s so much more worse than a video. and yes, gore videos are horrible and should never be used as “entertainment” or “interesting content”. and just looking at the thumbnails of those videos are enough to give me nightmares for days, and long lasting memories, but watching someone, especially as a child, on the brink of death is not the same as watching a screen. no enough videos or pictures or details can prepare you for death.
@@shatteredteethofgod ?? there’s nothing wrong with wanting to share experiences with others, especially with topics like this, i think you’re just being weird and extra. like it’s never that deep.
@@shatteredteethofgod How do you have the AUDACITY TO COMMENT SOMETHING SIMILAR UNDER PEOPLE WHO ARE SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES, yet tell others that it’s for “attention farming booth.” like my love, you’re a hypocrite, and you clearly don’t understand that people CAN have similar experiences and find something in common with other and talk about it. you clear don’t, which makes you upset enough to reply to everyone’s comments.
I mean the way I see it at least for me is that’s it’s a way to understand violence in history and throughout the world as somebody who lives in America a fairly safe and sheltered country my mom and relatives went through a civil war and she saw many horrible things even as a child and hearing stories about it was scary but I can’t truly understand how horrible it was cause of my own life and I saw quite a bit of gore videos more to understand how horrifying real world violence is obviously it’s not the same as seeing it in person and not everyone views if for “ethical” reasons but atleast for me it does bring a certain level of understanding
The bestgore guy calling himself a victim of "thought crimes" is bizarre to me. I do think "corrupting morals" is a bullshit reason for arrest (although I also think he definitely Did A Bad Thing), but also like...there was no "thought crime" here? He didn't just think something, he DID something. Once you put something out into the world it ceases to be a thought, it's an action or an idea that people can criticize. He should've gone with the classic appeal to freedom of speech, I feel like. Still not very effective but more applicable to the situation.
@@pacipwincess Freedom of speech does indeed mean freedom of legal consequences. Which is what this guy received. The question to me though is whether sharing videos can be counted as speech. I think it can sometimes and not other times
@@bluedog6294 what lol? What you say will always have consequences. If you say something bigoted that can be constituted as hate speech. Media is always a form of speech bc it's an act of expression.
@@pacipwincessThe erosion of free speech always begins with self-censorship. Say what you want. But say it with grace and tact or you’ll find yourself socially ostracized. Remember that all speech is free and no government has the moral authority to penalize you for what you say or how you express yourself. Your neighbors, friends, family, and community - well, that’s another story. Consequences are real. But is a truly free society you cannot be jailed or fined for your speech. And guess what - Canada hasn’t been free for a long time. And it’s people like yourself who seem to believe in the nonsensical propaganda of “hate speech” that have so dearly cost us our freedom.
One thing me and some other aprentices did when learning to operate lathes was to go on live leak and watch some the accident videos with these machines. The reasoning being that while you get told and taught how dangerous they are, that is very theoreticall. But seeing some footage of a persone going from in front of the machine to everywhere in the workshop at once, while extreamly disturbing and likely staying with me for the rest of my life, also made us all acutely aware of safety every time when operating the machines and what to not do. To for example not end up as a bloody slinky.
@ “Practically applied Trauma” I would call it. 😅 Overstating it a bit here, we are as a people pretty desensitised compared to the generations in between us and the ones that fought in the world wars. It’s not actually trauma, but these videos definitely stay with you. Which is often not the best thing, but can actually be helpful for specific cases like that. If before turning on a lathe the image of a guy being literally turned inside out by it after messing around jumps to your mind, you most definitely are a lot less inclined to mess around. In our case we even got a practical example for it working, the one guy who didn’t take part in our watching these videos messed around and got a majority of bones in his hand shattered and the skin ripped open in multiple places because he was fiddling inside the running machine and got his hand into the chuck that was spinning at 3000 rpm. Thankfully it was repairable and he got basically most of the functionality in his hand back. (and as we are from Germany it also did not put him in debt for the rest of his life.) But he does have a bunch of grizzly scars to show for it. Really, watching this stuff has me to this day religiously checking that everything on my clothes is in order, my hair tied up tight, and always turning off or securing the machine before doing anything inside it. And that is for my comparatively small hobby machine. (although, that thing still will happily rip of your hand if you get caught in it even if it’s only half as long as I am tall.)
Dude you should do a dive into pre-internet shock/gore physical media/media in general ,like exploitation mondo documentaries, the Mexican crime scene/gore magazine called ¡alarma! And its offshoots, kiyotaka tsurisaki/orozco el embalsamador documentary and his death photography, faces of death/ensuring your place in hell/etc etc.
@ 😂😂 one time in 6th grade we had to pick out a random word out of a hat and make a presentation on it on those big poster papers they sell at Walgreens and CVS and I ended up getting the word “death”, my mom took me to this book shop where they sold all Spanish books and got me a couple of alarma magazines and I posted a bunch of inappropriate ass pics of brutal accidents for the presentation and my teacher failed me and was like “uhh I didn’t mean this kind of death”
@@aconsumingvoid damn your mom was not playing around 😂😂 sorry they failed you! I know that was the last thing your teacher expected that day lol Also, what’s faces of death/ensuring your place in hell?? Never heard of these !
@ haha dude I’m glad I didn’t get sent to counseling that time but at least I did something outside the box! The faces of death is a series of videos that were released on VHS back in the day and it’s just like a mondo type faux documentary with shit like people getting attacked by gators, old autopsy footage and old SWAT footage of shoot outs. A lot of the scenes were faked but idk if you ever seen that classic scene of rich people eating a monkeys brain right after cracking its head open (this one was fake), holocaust footage, scenes with starving kids and shit like that, I think it was released in like 1980. Ensuring your place in hell is much much tamer but it’s pretty weird, its like 3 different parts: one part is called exploding varmints and it’s just dudes hunting varmints/prarie dogs or someshit, the other is called grave robbing for morons and it’s a kid probably from jersey or NYC explaining how to rob graves and sell skulls to oddities shops (a lot of people have been searching for kids identity for a long time now) and another one is some dudes exploring a mortuary. It’s pretty interesting
People who claim that watching gore videos desensitized them to real-life experiences of the things depicted in the videos are categorically wrong. That is not how the brain works. Watching gore videos desensitizes you to watching gore videos. And that's all. Any real-life encounter of a gory situation will not be affected at all. Your brain is smarter than you are when it comes to distinguishing image from reality. It knows, even if you do not consciously agree, that you are safe when watching images on a screen. It knows the 'people' in the video are the wrong size, color, and too flat to be something you're actually witnessing. What causes trauma when experiencing real-life violence and tragic situations is NOT the fact of what occurs, or just the things seen. Your brain experiences everything in full context. The trauma is driven by the extremity of the sensory experience - something no video or even immersive VR can reproduce (nor would it want to... btw we know even full perfect VR wouldn't be traumatizing because actors on film sets aren't traumatized and they are effectively experiencing every detail, the only distinction often being that they know it is not real). The automatic fear response for your personal safety also drives it. These sorts of things just don't happen while you're sitting on a couch scrolling your phone or sitting looking at a screen. And your brain realizes it completely, even if you aren't paying active attention to it. Being human is very interesting, and full of paradoxes. It is easy to get too wrapped up in one thing without stepping back and thinking a bit. One of the things that gore sites can lead to is people being afraid of how fragile human life is, and how extremely dangerous and destructive situations do occur. It's not something you can just rule out. It should be easy to see how this could lead to someone being very scared, and many people do get carried away with that. But I always try to encourage people to fully recognize their own fragility, but then take a step back. Every person that you have ever walked past on the street, every neighbor that lives near you, every single human being that you have ever come into contact with in your life, family, friends, coworkers, everybody. All of them could have killed you with a quick cut to your neck from a 1 inch blade. That is all it would take. And you know that every single one of them could get such a weapon. Every stranger driving by in a car on the street, they could have gunned straight for you. But it is just as important to fully recognize that no one, NONE, out of ALL those people, who had abundant easy opportunity, killed you. In high likelihood, probably none of them have even tried! Our safety does not come from being invulnerable or being strong enough to thwart attackers. It comes from being surrounded by mostly all good people. They don't lack the ability or opportunity to hurt you, humans are fragile enough that pursuing that would be guaranteed to be futile. But they neither want to nor have the will to do it. That, to my mind, makes me feel very safe. Most people are great. Sure there is no shortage of video evidence that people are sometimes terrible to each other... but that is literally just statistics. If someone wanted, they could start a TV network that did nothing but cover lottery winnings and they would never run out of lottery winners to talk about, new ones every single day (there are more than 365 different lotteries that run in the US at different levels). That might make some people feel like winning the lottery is commonplace.... but we know its not. Even very rare events happen "all the time" with a big population. But do they happen to you? To your friends or family? Nah, usually not.
Thank you for this, especially the end. I'm so tired of people doomscrolling and hearing every horrible thing happening in history, watching 10 hours of true crime in a row, and chalking up to people being evil and then promptly getting paranoid and it actually affects their life and outlook negatively It's far from that I don't wanna get too personal, but I oftentimes will post on the less savory parts of the internet about some pretty morbid topics because I've been struggling a bit with my mental health (nothing illegal or morally wrong, just not good for me) and honestly even THEN I could not come across any bad people who wanted to take advantage of my vulnerability, I've only came across concerned people who want to be nice and help (I was especially surprised because I'm also a girl and people have always told me how more targeted women are) Again I don't wanna trauma dump or anything, but it's so I can say from my experience atleast, that I literally went out of my way to look for trouble was met with only kindness and concern, even from places considered the absolute dregs of the internet Genuinely terrible people are actually hard to come by, it's just they stand out more when we come across or hear about them
It still does affect you though. I used to watch a lot of gore and shock videos in middle school, and even now I don't feel anything when hearing stories of people being assaulted, reading news articles about murder, etc and I wish I was capable of feeling horror or sympathy for the victims. Obviously not everyone is affected in the same way or content should be banned/restricted just because it has the capacity to harm a person emotionally, but it's ridiculous to say that just because someone would still be affected if they experienced it in real life means becoming desensitized isn't harmful. Feeling emotions when hearing about real life stories of horrible things others have gone through is healthy and important, and shouldn't be disregarded so casually
Such a great read. That you for putting so many peoples frustrations with true crime and “shock sites” into such succinct words. Most of the edgy teenagers or young adults who binge gore videos will probably never find themselves in a situation where they witness the bodily harm and death of another individual with their own eyes, yet they claim to have so much knowledge on the subject. Of course watching a stranger get decapitated by a terrorist group in a far off Middle Eastern country you can’t pinpoint on a map is not going to elicit a reaction from the average internet user.
@@NE0PHR0NMaybe it’s because you can’t imagine something like that happening to you. You’re basically just admitting that you live vicariously through the internet. Desensitization is not harmful because it only happens to a portion of chronically online adolescents and tends to wear off once they get to know the world more. That’s what happened to me, at least.
Reminds me of the youtuber, FLESH SIMULATOR. She has the same stare, dry delivery, dark subject matter and even has a giant pair of glasses. Only thing missing is a homemade synth soundtrack. All in all I'd give this content creator 1 out of 1 likes would recommend
@@ligma212 That is true, and I agree, but also a completely different argument than the original comment stated. Once we are gone, we don't feel or experience a single thing. Our love ones, though, are a different story.
i just wanna apologize for all the comments here dissing your eye contact with the camera. as someone else who’s also autistic, i have also been told that when i give eye contact, i look terrifying or disgusting, or when i don’t give eye contact, i am not doing enough. i’m sending you all my love 🖤
i don't think it's eye contact with the camera but her reading the script from a monitor. You can see her eyes moving from side to side. So, she's focusing on the text really hard and that amount of focus is what makes it weird
I mean it's noticeable but saying it's creepy isn't cool. She just has an intense stare and as some people said, it's probably due to her reading a prompt. Also, without wanting to sound like a creep I think she looks cute and that should be noticed more than her stare. I mean it's probably nicer to read that you have cool glasses/makeup/hairstyle and not that you have "dead eyes" or some bullshit like that.
Disney's original Pinocchio left me scarred. One of the first nightmares I remember, was being sucked towards a terrible dark air vent, and behind the grating was a silhouette of the toys on the shelves in Gepetto's workshop.
I remember reading an article from the Washington Post about the AR-15 and it's destructive impact. It showed images about the aftermaths of shootings, and one of them was the then recent Uvalde shooting. It didn't show any bodies of the deceased, but did show the horrible aftermath of the shooting. A large pool of blood was in the corner of the room, which was where the children had all huddled around their teacher in their final moments. I think showing the real aftermath of such tragedies, instead of just reducing it to numbers on the front page, can give people an idea, what kind of hell some people had to suffer through and will continue to suffer. People might be inclined to take real action, if they can see the real harm that freely available firearms can do to society. I also don't think you have to show people a mangled body, to make people aware of the reality of death. Something like a child's bedroom that has been left frozen in time after their sudden passing, is the reality of death for many parents. It's not a shocking image, but death shouldn't have to be a spectacle to make you feel aware about it.
Sometimes a mangled body makes you understand more than you would otherwise. I want to be clear before I make my point that I don’t advocate for these types of sites or the audience they attract I stumbled on these types of sites in highschool round the time I started driving. Obviously everyone knows that if you get in a bad crash, you’d die. But id say I honestly didn’t understand the actual realities of unsafe driving until I saw images and videos of what happens to a human being when subjected to the forces of several tons of twisted metal exploding at 70+ mph. Car crashes are so normalized that we don’t really fear them as much as we should, but when you see that type of stuff it really makes you confront the dangers of careless driving and your own vulnerability in a car. I always drive the speed limit and always wear my seat belt now and that definitely wasn’t always the case before (I was a dumb 16 year old) To a certain extent I think there is value in having these types of images available somewhere. I feel like lots of people don’t fully comprehend danger beyond an intellectual understanding, and for education and journalistic purposes this stuff should definitely be available for the public to see should they seek it out. I guess the problem arises when the only ppl willing to collect and publish this type of media are the types with questionable motivations, to say the least.
@@mechadonia I can see where you're coming from. People might be more inclined to drive more safely if they saw a body after a car crash. I do think car crashes isn't always the drivers fault, but due to circumstances outside their control like bad road design or other drivers on the road. There might be a place for such images, but more often than not, they are taken and shared without the victim's or families consent, like the infamous photo of Nikki Catsouras after crashing her car, which got leaked on the internet. The ethics of using such photos and videos will always be dubious, and giving prior consent to it will also be a major legal hurdle. Vivid descriptions of a body after a traumatic death, could help to fuel your imagination of what the body could look like without seeing it, giving you the same need for self preservation. I'm sure someone with much better articulation skills than me could pull it off, but you get what i mean.
@@mechadonia I agree "gore" for lack of a better term is important because it can make people realize how sheltered they are and how dark the world can be. I let curiosity get to me and visited those websites a few times and it made me appreciate my blessings a lot more. The only problem is it's next to impossible to control what audiences are viewing that content like you said the people publishing gore are usually degenerates. Too many freaks and weirdos out there.
I ran The Gauntlet. 🙋🏻♂️I’m glad this stuff went away. Told my son when he hit his early teens to be careful what you let in your head, it doesn’t come back out. Weightlifter, Ukrainian maniacs, the pain Olympics, one guy one jar/one screwdriver…the first taliban beheading video..the web was wild and I regret seeing as much of it as I did.
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That's just it, it really does stick with you and pops back in mind at random points and can really crash a good mood very suddenly. Good advice.
I grew up watching the occasional shock site. Morbid curiosity as a teenage male. Although ive seen my fair share over time its not something I watched alot of. As an adult I worked for my states DOC for 4 years dealing with mental health and maximum security inmates. The shock sites did not at all prepare me for the first time i saw something messed up in person. I remember almost puking the first time i saw severe self harm and a attempt. After dealing with so many violent incidents done by inmate's on other inmates or self harm you do become desensitized in the moment. Its like a switch flips for lack of a better term. Later i did spend some time living in the Caribbean chasing a business venture and was a witness of a gang related shooting that happened on our property were someone lost there life. I remember being relatively calm in the moment getting people to safety and doing basic first aid on a person that caught a round in his leg (plugging the wound with my finger while my buddy used my belt as a tourniquet). Its wild to say but the guy that perished doesnt really bother me. He chose the lifestyle he did. The civilian that got hit in the crossfire didnt choose that. And neither did the kid daughter of the deceased who showed up at the crime scene afterwards. I will never forget hearing her scream and cry seeing her dad lay motionless on the pavement. We as humans are not meant to see certain things.
Also, people online did find the killer faster than police after seeing the 1 lunatic 1 ice pick. A group of people on facebook were searching for the guy who made the video because before he was killing kittens and posting them, and these people were trying to find him in order to stop him before he eventually moves onto a person. After the video, they found him and got him arrested all through the Internet without police help. Killer being Luka Magnotta.
this is a really good video! it allows me to engage with morbid curiosity in an informative way without ending up traumatized lol. i don’t feel gross after watching this and it piqued my interest, well done!!
anyone (like the owner of bestgore) trying to moralize their reasonings for watching or hosting gore content is completely talking out of their ass and they know it. when i was a teenager, i watched a lot of gore videos because i was severely depressed and angsty. when i would read the comment sections of any video posted on bestgore, it would be filled with violent racism, sexism, and more. for the vast majority of people watching this type of stuff online, it's purely out of hatred for the world and of society, or getting off on the suffering of others. this is a great video btw, very well researched and put together!
I had a depressive phase in my 20s where I watched a lot of bestgore and the commentary ended up turning me away from that site. In hind-site, it was a blessing for me since it started to negatively affect my mental health. I disliked the racist and discriminatory “articles” they wrote regarding the pictures they posted. That site turned it into their own personal soapbox and the last thing I wanted to read is a bunch of basement dwelling losers crying and ranting about their opinions (and I say this as a former, apartment dwelling loser lol.) I ended up getting therapy like a functional adult and didn’t really hear much of them other than when they closed down. Good riddance.
Yeah it was awful. I used to watch a bunch of gore (mentally ill kid as usual) back in the day like many, and it was horrible for my psychological being. It's just so horrible and disrespectful to victims. I recall comments praising the graphic murders of women and people of color. Such a horrible phenomenon.
I wouldn't say completely. It can be objectively helpful for getting a more visual understanding of news stories. That being said there absolutely 100% is a perverse spectacle/novelty aspect to these sites that cannot be ignored.
I grew up on this stuff so I feel compelled to join the convo. I justified watching a lot like what you said: “this was the ugly truth. I didn’t want to shield my eyes from it. This was reality.” I didn’t indulge in it necessarily, but it was out there and I felt an odd sense of duty to bear witness to it. But the community surrounding these sites was - this may come as a shock - full of friggin weirdos. Every comment section was full of your typical gallows humor, but also a lot of racism and misogyny. So it’s probably a bit understated to say I don’t trust the average person to share my supposed good intentions with this sort of content. But at the same time I do absolutely miss when the internet was the Wild West.
Please keep in mind that a lot of people (like myself) who watched these types of videos were thinking the same thing as you. We value life and safety and felt a responsibility to reinforce our staunch position against nihilism. I'm assuming you thought the same as me; "How can I be vigilant if I am naive?" That's all we wanted from it. So we didn't engage in the community that used the videos for entertainment. That's sick and sad. But knowing that people actually enjoyed seeing that kind of thing is part of the experience. That's what we went looking for and we found it. Stay vigilant.
@@mrfunnixd7381 that’s always the ridiculous argument people have. If that was your corpse up on screen I highly doubt you’d be like “It’s fine man it’s to show the world how bad of a place it can truly be dude,”
@@ohnobro3770"um akshually I wouldn't care if people saw my corpse on the internet, I can't do anything against it, since I'm dead and I wouldn't care anyways xddd"
Yes they should. Stop advocating for censorship, if people want to see the brutal reality of the world instead of living in ignorance, then that's their own choice to do so without having someone like you to prevent that. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
Oh yeah! Rotten! It was pretty much morbid curiosity for me and people I knew. All of us had never even seen medical injury photos or crime scene ones, we just had fake gore in slasher movies. Wasn't my favorite site and I saw stuff I wish I hadn't but it did bring a sobering reality to what can happen to the human body and what some people see every day as part of their job. The internet then absolutely was the wild west and the amount of "shock sites" I saw, intentionally shocking or not, will never leave me. Thanks for covering this so well.
I personally am someone who absolutely doesn't understand the idea of "morbid curiosity". I have never once had the urge to search out a gore video that is popular because I simply don't want to see that, I know it would scare me and make me uncomfortable so I don't understand why I would seek out it. Same with horror movies, I don't watch them even if they are fake because I would be disturbed. People call me a "wimp" and other names, and I completely agree, I'd rather watch funny videos or things I enjoy than harmful types of media.
It's fine for not understanding people going out to watch gore videos, but don't hobby shame people who watches horror movies, especially since they are inherently staged and no lives got harmed.
Yeah i dunno man, the older i get the more these sites repulse me. I remember being a kid watching these when i definitely shouldnt have been. And it definitely impacted me mentally. We shouldnt be desensitized to these types of videos unless you HAVE to be, like if youre a trauma surgeon, first responder etc. And its rarely just "heres videos that show you the reality of war" and mostly just "heres a video of someones mother/father/sister/brother/friend veering off the road and splitting their head open" and then people in the comments being insensitive. Its dehumanizing
right? idk how people in these comments are so offended by this video. people just wanna do and say horrible shit under the "free speech" excuse. nobody learning shit from watching gore, they're just feeding their own morbidness
imagine dying and having your last video alive being used as a shock factor for 16 year old boys
Thats EXACTLY why I hate gore. I can't imagine the worst, most painful moments of my life being filmed and spread around for weirdos who think they're cool for watching gore to gawk at. And a lot of ppl find the victim's families and spam them with the pictures/videos of their deceased loved ones. And it sort of desensitises not only death, but violence to its viewers. Then we get cases like those two boys who liked gore that wenr out, found an old man, and killed him for their own gore videos.
I’d be fine with the idea of it being viewed and ppl being like “damn that must’ve sucked, glad that never happened to me.”
The part that would suck is a ppl making edgy jokes about it and seeing how many slurs they can fit into a single image description
@@alexweschler9470no, its never okay to post videos of people fucking dying on the internet for spectacle
@@cawtisticoctobearI think they can provide valuable lessons to people. So many people drive recklessly because they think they'll just instantly die if they get into a bad car wreck. Show them a video of what happens when you get turned into a pretzel and are still alive missing limbs in a car wreck. Let people see videos of deadly street fights, so they can see how they start and how to avoid them. Let people see factory accident videos so they don't make the same mistakes. When I started a job working near powerlines, one of the first things they did was show us pictures and videos of people who got zapped to drill into our heads how serious and deadly it is.
i'd be very very happy
i love how you look like you’ve experienced everything that youre talking about
Real😭😭😭
lol its bc shes reading the prompt
XD
Are you implying she's personally been goatsed?
@@Muffinzeshlongun Lol. She doesn’t seem like the type that would enjoy such rude behavior, but since I don’t know her at all I could be wrong. Sometimes it seemed that she was annoyed with having to even include, let alone describe, some of her examples and I can agree if that’s really the case.
Back when the web was at 1.0, regular everyday folk were discovering this new, cool thing to abuse called the World Wide Web. It brought out “the best” in everyone back then. For some, it would kinda be like giving a bratty terror child with little self control or filters access to something where they can create an almost endless amount of instant attention to themselves with whatever kinds of shock media they could dream up at anytime day or night.
If provided the platform or “stage”, those kidults would overload websites to the max with the unimaginable (and they certainly did so as fast as their brains could generate the content).
Since there was zero rules or guidelines for that type of web content besides basic decency or prudish ideas and without any sort of punishment, it was ripe for abuse by the most casual of end user. Most saw it as the Wild West for attention grabs and shock content way before the term “internet points” or “lulz” were a thing.
They were masters of their craft, a craft of which was highly offensive, and most definitely a labor of love.
Good times! 🤣
The thousand yard stare really makes the video
She watched the gore for us so we dont have to😭
Looks like she’s dexxed up
yes.
Pretty apt 😆
Spot on 😂😂
her eyes make it seem like she's actively staring at a compilation of shock videos
GURL WHY ARE YOU STARING AT ME LIKE THAT 😭
She saw too much
Im scared
1000 yard stare but woman
she looks like a war veteran who sits on the porch in a rocking chair all day
Why is she lip smacking like that 😭
As someone who grew up on shock sites, it doesnt prepare you as much as you'd think. I happened to see a 20 year old kid get peppered in a driveby a year ago. I ran to try and stop the bleeding while the ambulance came. He died in my arms. Having it right there in front of you is something very different. I got Diagnosed with ptsd. Nightmares every night. I cant play shooter games where people make choking sounds. Sometimes i have a panick attack when warm water hits my clothes because it takes me back to his blood running all over my body. If my girlfriend grabs my arm out of affection i panick because i remember him gripping my wrists so tightly as i tried to keep pressure on the wounds. Holy fuck. I wish the videos desensitized me more. I can barely function. That night destroyed me. And i have seen it ALLLL online.
I helped in an accident a few years ago, and can confirm that nothing prepares you for the real thing. I'm sorry you're hurting and I hope it gets better
@@haleybeldin9247 thank you. I hope you're healing and okay too. Youre a good person for trying.
It really is one of those things that help to talk about! But it's hard. Because most people, thank fucking God, haven't experienced anything like it.
I also grew up on shock sites, and until someone is dying right in front of you, your brain WILL try to convince you it isn't real on some level. I ended up going to mortuary school, and while I do think viewing images from my textbook, autopsies, and medical cases helped desensitize me somewhat to what I see when embalming, that's a bit different. The people I work with were already bodies when I "met" them, so I've never gotten survivor's guilt the way I have when I've seen someone die. Seeing dead people doesn't affect me, but hearing the grief of their loved ones absolutely does. That human connection is (rightfully) the most difficult to break regarding death.
With time, you will regain some level of normalcy, but I'm so sorry you had to witness that. I know how hard it is, and I'm sure you did everything you could. Sometimes life just hits you with a whammy anyways. Take care of yourself 💜
I'm so sorry you had to experience that, but at the same time thankyou for taking action and trying to save his life, a lot of people wouldn't do this (for a variety of reasons). And even though the kid didn't survive, you gave him a chance to pass with another person trying to help, I've not experienced it (obviously) but I imagine dying on your own with no one trying to help would be very lonely.
Hope your healing goes well mate 💜 I know this won't necessarily help with the PTSD but I'd definitely always proud of what you did that day.
I've seen a young teen get rolled over both his legs by an old woman, around 11 years ago.
It didn't affect me... I still don't go look for gore videos.
How people are affected by real life stuff really depends on each person's personal ability to deal with the stuff.
How I would react with heavier stuff? I don't know.
But knowing myself, I'd probably be able to get through most with the thought "I did what I could. I am not responsible for what transpired."
Idk, I've lived through stuff in my personal life. Where many might break, I fought through.
Just watched this video out loud at work with my grandma
...I have several questions; but first, what kind of work do you do where your grandma is with you lol? Or do you work at home
@@eldritchbidoofyou’re in way OVER YOUR HEAD…you couldn’t handle the answers to the questions your asking
@@1775025 That may be so, but I need answers......even if it drives me mad. The people deserve the truth.....
And you work at youtube
why do u work with your grandma
As a victim of a stabbing I don’t understand how people can find real peoples suffering and pain as entertainment it just doesn’t make sense
It's the evil inside them. Hope u r ok now.
I hope your doing better now ❤
And notice how nobody is in this comment to defend their sick interest when you phrase it for what it really is? Realistically, those going out their way to look for this type of stuff are not mentally okay in the first place.
@@UncreativePF It might be entertainment for some people, but for others I think it's closer to self-harm. People self-harm in times of stress because it replaces a pain they can't control with a pain they can control.
Is it weird to say mention that it may not be for entertainment purposes, but I feel like I nerd out to that sort of thing. It's like a curiosity drive more than unhealthily just looking at the content. I can nerd out to real images of crime scenes, autopsies, and accidents in particular. Looking at textbook anatomy isn't enough.
“The internet is home to a lot of horrible things. Creeps, Rage Bait, Twitter…” that line had me dyingggg
Twitter is the worst of all
Why is twitter horrible? I didn’t catch the joke.
@@jaysant6958people post really crazy things on there. There’s like no guidelines on there and people post all types of porn and gore and racist things. It’s really know for people just saying what ever they want on there it’s pretty toxic and if you aren’t careful it’ll make you dislike humans
@@jaysant6958 Nazi breeding ground thanks to Elon Musk 😒
@@jaysant6958the reasson why these triggered individuals think that Twitter is the worst is most likely due to the fact that since Elon Musk took it over, they no longer have the ability to openly spew hate and other calls for violence towards people who disagree with their demented world views.
Trust me, gore does NOT prepare you for seeing death. Sure you can be desensitized to seeing death on screens and stuff but actually having someone die in front of you, hearing the sounds and seeing the life drain from them, it’s just too horrible to describe.
Edit: god I sound like such an edge lord coming back to this comment, just don’t go watch gore man
@@user-xn6wu4gj3d haha, thank you.
i once saw a guy outside my house get run over. i didn't see him directly, but i saw all the paramedics and police around him.
the most horrible part was when the paramedics all started leaving. not because the person had been stabilized and was going to hospital, but because they were already dead. there was nothing else they could do.
i am lucky to not really have seen any 'gore' stuff, but that event was fucking horrible. i felt so sad.
it prepared me?
@@manboy4720 sorry bro
i can agree with this. i can see gore online and barely feel anything but when i remember what it was like to watch my mom die infront of me i have a borderline panic attack. i still remember the sounds she made and the blood on the carpet after the paramedics removed her
Very proud of the fact that I still do not actually know the contents of most of the popular shock videos/images despite having lived through that era of the internet because whenever someone told me told me I should google something I just said no and spent most of my time playing Barbie flash games and watching vocaloid music videos instead
you should be, because you've saved yourself a lot of trauma. i spent a large part of my adolescence on gore and horror sites and i don't understand why people think it's such a flex to say they've seen it - it's been over 10 years and i still sometimes see those images in my nightmares. it's not cool by any means
You were a smart and empathetic child. Those videos were BEYOND brainrot. It was like soul-rot. Like destroyed your innocence. It was ridiculously stupid to watch at any age.
@@riplimewiresounds like a little baby who shouldn’t have internet access
SAAAAME I WAS OBSESSED WITH VOCALOID
Miniclip era~ Stardoll era~
When i was 12 years old i completed the run the gauntlet challenge, my developing brain was desensitized forever. Since then i’ve only started the challenge a handful of times but never completed it since, i’m sure me and my friends have never been able to erase that first jarring realization of pure horror in the world.
yup me too, same age 😭 and apparently it was alot more scrubbed and didnt have nearly as bad of prompts when i got to it compared to its first years
I used these sites to desensitize myself because I thought crying and feeling sad was a form of weakness growing up in an abusive household. Worst idea ever.
I used to watch gore and thought I was desensitized, but these things really do stay with you and genuinely impact you even if you don't think they do. I recommend you stop engaging in it before your mental health takes a plunge, because it *will* catch up with you, unless you're a diagnosed socio/psychopath. I know my comment seems cringe lol, especially to teens but please keep this message in mind if you read it.
you shouldn't of done that
@@WildVeei thought i was desensitized until i got a medicine caused psychotic episode and it all came back out of nowhere. it really does just lurk in there
staring at me like im posting gore bro
did you try the medicine drug?
@@gianniskatsios8033give him mouse bites
@@gianniskatsios8033 only STUPID people try the medicine drug
He needs mousebites bro
@@gianniskatsios8033 Had to go real bad at the mall yesterday but no way I’m using a public toilet. Ended up just dropping it right on the floor next to the stall. Not my problem.
"The following content may contain suicide or self-harm topics" this is gonna be another banger!
SO TRUE 🔥🔥
Squidward
>sees that
>*clicks*
>sees it's a gothtism baddie
>'oh shit i need snacks and a bowl'
For sure, gives me that warm feeling
What I always think when I see anyone of these types pf. Ideos
This video having no annoying censorship in it was pleasantly surprising. The fact that I could actually understand what was being said already made this video a nice change of pace, but add in the fact that you actually provided some insight on why these types of sites existed and why we can't just make them illegal was really really cool. Bravo!
Bro I fucking hate videos like that so much.
Title be like:
"THE WORST CRIME EVER COMMITED IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, YOU WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS"
Video be like:
...and then Smith proceeded to [REDACTED] to Allison, this lead to her entire [REDACTED], [REDACTED]... ...her parents would on record to say that they found her [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] and [REDACTED].
I HATE IT! Like if you're going to talk about true crime and horrible shit either fucking talk about it and take the demonitisation on the chin or SHUT UP. Tiktok is making everything even worse because you apparently can't talk about fucking anything on there, the ridiculous shit I've seen people come up with to skirt by censors.
Wendigoon does annoying censorship which makes him unbearable
@@slylover123 thank you! I've been saying this for years ever since his first iceberg video, I don't know how the fuck people watch him
Unless you're conservative and you want to make trans people existence censored for the public. Apparently gore is fine but trans people is too far
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts because he wants to make money??? it's stupid as fuck, but people say stuff like 'un-alive' because if you say the word 'suicide' your vid gets age-restricted and won't get ad revenue. and it's even worse on TikTok because you get banned for saying those words.
it's incredibly stupid, and I am in no way agreeing with it
Thank you for the off-putting stare. It’s comforting.
I feel like shocksites have been replaced with places like Twitter and Reddit.
reddit has recently gotten a lot more censorship heavy with gore, subs like makemycoffin and eyeblech (not to be mistaken with eyebleach) have been taken down, though there definitely are still subs with gore content, they are being mostly phase
Mild portion of the content you see on shock sites is from TikTok streams and Instagram reels, so yeah where it's too shallow and unlucky moderation is wacky at times
mainly twitter now
it’s crazy how much of the most abhorrent gore can just be readily found on reddit.
even stuff like instagram and youtube, there’s constantly little things that slip through the cracks. so, you’re kind of right. just because we don’t have shock sites doesn’t mean the internet is free from gore-censorship. if anything, it’s worse.
and TikTok....I've been repulsed more by some of the things I've seen on that godforsaken platform than on any gore site or in any gory movie, not even joking
you know it's gonna be good when youtube is saying "hold on now"
So many people are afraid of being age restricted like it'll get them 0 views and arrested in real life, meanwhile I was actually recommended this on my homepage after watching nothing but Scott Cramer videos for the entire day up until that point lmfao
@@BinglesP more about the money than the views themselves. People Use youtube as income. It really does affect everything.
This type of restriction, I call it 50% restriction.
It doesn't show age restriction (guidelines), but in yt mobile it doesn't autoplay, and there's warning shown if you clicked on it.
Flyingkitty ytp of rickroll is one example IIRC
@@BinglesP you can watch here red Asphalt
@@madisonevans7950 It only does if you _let_ RUclips be your only source of income
I know LiveLeak is mostly remembered for the shock type content but tbh one of my personal most remarkable videos I ever saw on there was a blacksmith making a knife.
Yeah it did have some good stuff without the gore
I never thought of it as a shock site until it went down and all the articles talking about it called it one
Lol, only video i ever saw on there was a woman walking topless in the street.
LiveLeak was actually pretty dope whenever you weren't seeing cartel beheadings. I remember going on it before it got shut down and seeing a really interesting video about some Indian village and their way of living.
You can see the same shit on reddit. YT vids like this feel super grifter to me. You could google shock sites and get this same rundown. My favorite was one that pretended to be a GPS cellphone tracker then fake zoomed into meatspin lol. These new age YT creators try to cover this stuff, but they didnt live it, and its obvious theyre disingenuous if you did. Back then shock was different, it was shock, gore was a different story. Shock could be gore, but overall the term meant what you thought you were looking up wasnt what you were about to see. No one would have considered liveleak shock when it came out either. It was just place reality was documented, for better or worse, most things on liveleak were pretty tame and it was mainly used for piracy, it wasnt super crazy or scary like these youtubers hype it up to have been.
my biggest fear is tripping on the sidewalk and falling onto the road while a garbage truck passes by and kills me because they didn’t have time to brake before driving over my head. only reason i have such bad anxiety about that is because i saw a video of that exact scenario on a gore sight at like 10 years old. i get anxiety in a lot of everyday situations because i’ve seen people die just doing everyday things. granted, this isn’t the type of anxiety that is constantly and overwhelmingly running my life, but it’s definitely enough to feel my heart rate increase and it’s altered the impulsive thoughts i have. even just stepping onto an elevator and looking down at the crack makes me think “what if i die rn because the elevator malfunctions and squishes me in it” etc etc. i wonder how my brain would be if i didn’t get sucked into the gore shit at so young
edit: used the wrong version of brake
People bragging about being desensitized to gore is probably the cringiest thing to me. Every other person on twitter is like this.
Ugh. My ex-best friend was like this. He wasn't necessarily TCC but he was obsessed with TCC topics, believed his past life was a fictional school shooter, and was generally a weirdo. He'd talk about how sweet and innocent I was a lot and almost sent me gore to be funny. He broke the relationship off after I told him to go get help. Freak.
@@TaylorToman remember to pick up the poop from the floor when you miss the toilet or else you risk stepping in it and spread it around the house and your mom will get mad and force you to clean it up even if your an adult and busy grinding cod warzone. dont ask me how i know (i missed the toilet when going number two)
ur actually twitter npc
@@TaylorTomanwhat’s tcc?
true crime community, people who consume media abt killers and incidents like that
“zoomer holding tiny microphone” is like its own youtube sub genre at this point
And the "holding a tiny microphone" genre itself is a subgenre of "zoomers using the microphone on their earbud cables"
@@Jenna_Taliathis is so niche
I don’t have anything to say about the microphone itself, but that wire hurts me
Exactly! Isn't she the world record holder of "shortest microphone cord ever"...?
don’t also forget about 👁👄👁 stare
My brother showed me a lot of shock videos as a young kid. Some of them gave me nightmares (I was under 10), then as I got older I thought “ooh gore doesn’t bother me, I’m edgy and cool”. This was after watching the entirety of Traces and Faces of Death. When I was a kid it almost seemed unreal, I could eventually get past the shock and move into a state of curiosity and awe of what I was seeing. Now as an adult anything remotely gorey (even just written descriptions of gore or brutality) can make me nauseous.
I think it’s so easy as a child to not fully comprehend the actual violence, and you sort of compartmentalize it in your brain as just images and videos; things you would never encounter for real. I think what changed for me was realizing this stuff is easily part of someone’s every day life, or it could happen to anyone at any moment (even me or you). I think also having a string of unexpected, sudden, and violent deaths in my immediate family kind of put it in perspective.
I completely understand what you mean. I was a very depressed child due to some trauma so I eventually felt so numb and disconnected from life that I turned to these shock sites to try to feel something. I was fascinated by gore. Then I grew up, I had a kid, and now anything remotely gory freaks me out because, as you said, it could so easily happen to me or any other living being for that matter. I’m glad to have developed empathy and an overall sense of realization but I’m fearful of those that grew up with these sites that didn’t.
@@anxxxiettty honestly what you guys are describing is normal. That is why children can be taken captive from a young age and be turned into killers. You can mold kids because their brain is elastic. It wont reject something it does not know as bad. Instead it compartmentalized it and normalizes it. Violence in cartels etc, from a young age, those boys are thaught to kill. Anyway. For us, normal people who live in a lawful society, we grow up and realize what we actually saw. The gore is not what shocks me anymore, It's understanding the complexity of the world and how unfair life is. Empathy. Something children lack by nature. That's why its important to take care of your kids. They might grow up to be psycho killers, lol
Felt. Bar for bar.
THIS!! You put my thoughts into words! I was a very depressed kid growing up to the point I wanted to krill myself and after so many years of watching gore videos I summed upon a video of a guy committing the plan I had and it just completely shifted everything for me. Everything became so much more real, now as a young adult whenever I see gore I feel that part of my body get all nasty and burn. It physically hurts me to think that this is real and this can happen
I also think the idea of a sudden death becomes scarier the older you get, because you’ve spent more time and effort working on your life that it’s kind of a sink cost fallacy or something. At least in my experience
It's so much fun watching videos today that examine the "old" internet. The internet of my youth. I was there, Gandalf. I was there, 3000 years ago. . . The internet was a strange, sometimes terrifying, place.
I really enjoy your videos! Thanks so much!
What you win by completing the Gauntlet Challenge is PTSD.
😂😂😂 Exactly. Apt assessment, my friend.
Yes. I have completed it and that was the reward
i agree
Facts 12 y/o me was horrified
Im curious but i have no ba
Lls@@marppram2006
I prefer this type of video essays, direct and calm, no oversaturation of editing or loud voices with lots of inflection, also the neutral stare without a lot of expressions makes me less overstimulated, loved the vid you get a sub 🫶
Yeah reminds me of old RUclips
real!! although the thousand yard stare ( NOT TRYING TO BE MEAN.. ) is kind of offputting and makes me tab out alot.. 😭
I also found it surprising how many RUclips channels made these “Sites you should never visit” videos, they were definitely marketed at children for the views and they never cared that this could change some kids views forever.
They know full well when they say don't watch or look up something that's the first thing most people are going to do
@@GotTheBestLigma and that is advertised toward children in what way? Theres no manipulation there to push those to be recommended to a child who is watching child content. They would have to find it themselves or view something similar beforehand. Because a child looks up a video like that means the uploader is pushing it on them?
Here on RUclips you can watch police activities, peoples got shot or all Kind of violence, those Videos got many Million Views, No censorship. Same with all the news about wars and the thousands of documentarys about warcrimes/ history. Censorship is Just for the youtubers, Not for official News channels and documentarys here in yt...
Exactly how I found some gore / nsfw sites back in 2009 when I was a kid which definitely fucked me up, but it also introduced me to some weird ass sites like Shaye Saint John that scared me more lol
thats how i first got introduced to r34 :( i was a normal kid being innocent and i saw a video that said "do not look up skid x pump r34" so i was like "yknow' what? imma look it up! and that marks the day when i lost my innocence :(
The dead panned/1000 yard stare expression made this video EXTREMELY entertaining!
Not gonna lie those sites made me realize that life ain’t all sunshine and rainbows and that anything can happen to anyone, anywhere in anyway
They literally messed up my mind. Got diagnosed with schizophrenia and in large part they played a role in it.
We don't die and go to hell we already live it day to day
@@RIUUI007how’s things going tho? are u happy with the position your in rn
@@RIUUI007 in my 20s and had a very similar experience to you. The stress over the years at such a young age before my mind fully developed gave me schizophrenia.
Got taken advantage by not just strangers but family the ones you should trust. Got cheated, slighted beat down into a ditch and left to rot.
From homelessness to owning a house.
No matter where you go, or your life situation life is a living hell. Even for the supposed "well off"
All that matters is that you get up and keep kicking
The best life is one of balance. You shouldn't be naive, but you shouldn't turn into a NEET shut in either.
Basically - go out and have fun but be safe and take precaution.
Besides freak accidents (which could also happen in your house) a lot of bad things that happens are cuz of who you know (and I also suppose where you live)
@@htsunmiku from my experience 99% of people will f you if you give them the chance.
People are cruel, mean and self centered. No thanks I'll keep to myself I'm happy that way.
As someone whose a family member of a person who was posted to a instagram gore page, I can promise you the people who run these pages/sites dont give a fuck about the soapboxes they stand on. Its just gruesome obsession for them. I personally dont care if they exist but it shouldnt be so hard to get said posts removed once identified.
fr they have no morals, or well they lack morals and compassion. They're just weirdos lol, no integrity
holy shit that sounds horrible, i'm sorry
This is why you can’t defend it. You can give all the reasoning you want but nobody wants to be anywhere near involved with something like it. I’m so sorry
My condolences, you shouldn't also have to deal with the scum of the internet sinking their teeth into such a tragedy.
try to get it removed and then it will get reposted exponentially more
Nothing beats a youtube video that just talks about the topic and doesn't beat around the bush. Keep it up bestie
Simp
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I’m a welder so I’ve looked at many workplace accident pictures and videos, particularly involving lathes and electrocutions. I did this to see what would happen if I wasn’t careful. I came across one video of the cartel shooting a young child in the head. Nope. Nopenopenope. I was done after that.
Also you got the stare of a German soldier after the battle of Verdun
PARENTS PLEASE DONT GIVE YOUR CHILD FREE INTERNET ACCESS.
Fr dawg parents should actually parent and not let their kids have access to infinite knowledge that contains many many more bad than good things.
this is why at age 11 i saw many shock websites, 🌽, xhamster, was groomed and at 10 i saw 2 girls 1 cup, and why it literally ruined my mental health and traumatized me, dont let your children have free internet access please 🙏
Give them free internet access but monitor it, if they start going places you don't like just stop them.
Too late, instead of limited time on the family computer they are now let loose in VR to look at shock sites
It's fiiine. Finding these websites is like canon event by now
I swear the infanticide and cannibalism incident was the asian artist that was eating food that was designed to look fetal
That is correct.
What is the charge!? Eating a meal! A succulent Chinese meal!
Imagine reading this comment without context
@@ericasmith4800me atm
yeah, iirc it was actually a photo from his art piece, whang talked about it in a dedicated video if memory serves right.
You should feel proud for presenting nuanced views on something this controvereial so succinctly. The tightrope of "this is revolting, I don't trust the motivations of the sites' admins or users, but I don't trust outrage-based politics to police it, either" is a delicate thing to walk, but I feel you do it well. And thank you for making this rather daunting part of Internet history intelligible in such an accessible and non-lurid way.
Watching a mini-horse fuck a 60+ year old woman was just a few clicks in.
The video included audio.
Any form of censorship is bad, there is no reason why material like this should not exist.
Just don‘t consume it! Leave people alone.
can someone explain wtf this guy said but like in fortnite terms or something?
@@pineappleenjoyer9297 This is a certified shit take.
@@pineappleenjoyer9297 ew
I love the small bangs, medium eye brows, and large glasses. It's a vibe I can appreciate ❤
That 90s Daria vibes😅💯❤️
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imagine being in an ambulance and the paramedic says yo dont worry I got you I watch live leak all the time
Nice pfp
Imagine the paramedic saying...man, you're injuries are going to get alllll kinds of clicks on LiveLeak.
@@adamdavid7624imagine the last words you hear before you pass is “This gonna go viral on liveleak”
@@adamdavid7624 Very Dystopian.
@@xSavedSoulxSomeone doesnt know what a dystopia is
The creator of BestGore really tried to use the Jigsaw logic of "going through something horribly traumatic makes you realize your fragility and care about your life more." Did he not see how those movies turned out? lol
I mean, is it not true?
Like a decade ago I binged death videos for like 48 hours and for months I just walked around feeling like I was the only one living in reality. Everyone just smiling eating fro-yo glued to their phones. It fucked me up.
@@ksleep5715 And people are butchering others on a daily basis without any sense of guilt in all of those 3rd world countries these videos are usually coming from. They do the horrible shit and go on with their life if they just changed sneakers.
Ik in some practicing Buddhist they believe in viewing this sort of stuff to disconnect themselves from their human body because in that religion the spirit (who you truely are) is something completely detached from the body or mind.
@@ksleep5715yeah same. It’s a crazy experience. But in reality you are just aware of the evil that goes on. Could be a bad thing or a good thing. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.
I never made/knew the connection between meatspin and leekspin and I'm floored
Makes me with there was a parody of LiveLeak called LiveLeek.
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@@indigomizumi its just a bunch of videos of leeks
Honsetly same. Half convinced this video was joking/misinformed but goddamn....if that's true.....
@@BucketIHead omg miku reference????
when i was 14, i accidentally traumatized myself with '2 girls, 1 cup"... i can still replay the unsightly imagery in my brain and it has certainly traumatized me. since then, i'm always on some degree of guardedness and circumspect whilst browsing the internet on just about anywhere.
for the few of you left completely unscathed out there, i implore you to resist your heightened curiosity while on the internet, especially about taboo subjects like extreme gore or just weird things in general that sound unpleasant. stay safe out there.
man that video was a cake walk compared to 2 guys 1 hammer or 1 guy 1 jar…at least in my opinion
Watched a ton of shock sites in the late 90's, early to mid 2000's. I grew desensitized and removed from videos of that kind of content for a long time, however it could never have prepared me for my first patient death as a nurse. They passed peacefully in their sleep, but I was the last one with them during their final moments and I had to report their death. I cried for almost an hour in the breakroom afterwards. The first stillborn I watched get prepared to be held by their grieving parents truly broke me as a person.
I've since seen genuine traumatic death and gore firsthand, and it never, and I mean never, gets easier. You learn to dissociate through it because you have to, but as soon as reality comes back, there's a moment where it hits you and it hits you hard. I never understood why people in movies threw up upon seeing death until I experienced it firsthand.
You can burry it but it's always there lurking beneath the surface, waiting for you to trip over it.
I’ve seen so many replies justifying gore and why it should continue to exist, but not a single person who’s justified it has been able to answer one question. If it were your mother, sister, brother, father, child, aunt, uncle, close friend, grandmother, or grandfather, how would you feel to see them die in such a gruesome way and then see thousands of people commenting under said video with; “LOL” “Holy shit that was wicked!” “Damn she got messed up” Edit: It’s easy to defend something that you’ve never experienced, because none of you defenders have been in an actual situation where someone is killed in front of you. All of that “it’s fun, it’s entertaining, it’s not illegal” yadda yadda is useless when the real thing is in front of you.
Glad that my content is getting traction.
Or they can't answer why they justify gore "because it prepares you for reality" but then say learning about trans people is too far
@@IIIIIIIIIIIII-w2nso ur js a weird mixture of edgy and insane..!!! Got it 😭
If the material is public and it’s legal to view then I don’t see what the problem is. I think you might wanna get off the internet if you don’t like people exercising the right to free speech.
@@Sussygussy0there is a right to dignity😂 which holds up even after death. U just trynna to be edgy
Being beheaded is one of my worst fears because I watched a lady being beheaded in Mexico online when I was 12
Tbf that’s better than what a lot of the cartel videos entail luckily for you that’s where it ended
I accidentally saw a video of someone being beheaded by an elevator malfunction. I always use stairs since ...
@@slayerofgeese ya I remember a friend showing me a video of the cartel beheading someone with a pocket knife went on for ages just grim shit.
@@jaywalkin1793 Jesus fucking Christ omg
@@slayerofgeese it’s a lot better, still traumatizing😭
Me watching this out loud at work 0:32 in: ill come back later
As a teenager I used to go on liveleak to watch self unalive videos. My hopes was seeing it would make me change my mind or not want to anymore, like others I'd seen online who said seeing it made them change their minds. In my case all it did was trigger me further. It made me jealous of those who actually had the guts to go through with it because while I wanted to die i was too scared to take myself out. Seeing others go through with what I wasn't able to made me hate myself for being too cowardly. Of course now a decade later I've thankfully grown out of that mindset and don't search for that kind of content anymore- but in my case it was more detrimental, and I didn't even realize the affects until a decade later. I'm just glad I was able to heal from that mindset, and I hope anyone else who may have been in my situation can heal from it as well. Please know it's not cowardly of you to not be able to go through with ending it. It's completely normal to have your self preservation instincts kick in. It's proof you're human.
i wish this comment were further up. thank you for this comment, and thank you for being here🤍
Good you're still here.
happy you're still here love :)
do it.
@@based980 go find a job mofo
the thousand yard stare, the dry delivery of someone who grew up way too fast, the 🔥🔥🔥 rotten merch… she’s definitely the expert
"And I turned out fine" The amount of white visible in your eyes disagrees
It's a feature not a bug 🪲
RSF!
@@CarriB65 LMAOO 😂😭
Fr
bro sees every possible outcome of all situations
6:51 WHATS THAT HEAVENLY OST?!? Song name please
Following cause I also wanna know
The song list is in the description, but this specific song is "it won't come back" by MAB - 502 !
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As someone who grew up on gore, I can't tell you how much it messes you up. You'd think "duh??", but as a kid who wanted to see how much I could take, the videos were just videos. After a while, you don't see living creatures, but just videos. It will either ruin your empathy, or make you more empathetic, but it's a coin flip.
Same goes for many other media, such as P0rn.
It doesn't "mess you up" you're not "desensitized" you're completely inexperienced with violence and have a perverse curiosity for it, like most harmless people. The fact that you think you're desensitized to actual violence because you've seen videos with your friends on bestgore shows that you've never gotten so much as a punch in the mouth.
@@theomwithi8786 ?? Where did I write that I got desensitized??
@@Slashy."After a while, you don't see living creatures, but just videos. It will either ruin your empathy" yada yada.
Textbook definition right there. And you are wrong as hell still.
@@theomwithi8786 Oh, got what you meant! I guess it depends on person? My experience is just mine after all :0
2000's older brother core
What
I was and still am that oldest brother haha
can confirm i had an older brother like this
So affliction alex g deftones I love silly cars :3 Rodrick Heffley Rio de Janeiro filter freaky papyrus font of you
@@Amruiz716not something to brag about but ok
Shout out to BestGore and LiveLeak for destroying my innocence at the ripe age of 10
Real
I miss LiveLeak tho. The only one of these sites that had any value
Unrestricted internet access and its consequences..
Facts
congratulations, you now know what it's like to grow up outside of a peaceful country
I can promise watching shock content like that is never to “prepare” yourself for anything. It’s an excuse for a deeper issue, whether it’s curiosity that’s turned to being addicted to the adrenaline rush of these videos, or just plain psychopathy. Normal people have empathy and a normal reaction is feeling sick and wanting to stay away from things like that, but of course people with careers in medical fields and such are the exception, I’m talking about everyday people who are home and watch this on their free time for said “fun”.
Watching that stuff as a hobby just desensitizes you and destroys your ability to empathize , I stay away from edgelords like that and I think you should all too
I took an EMS class in high school and whenever we had extra time at the end of class my teacher would show gore on the overhead projector and then ask us how we’d approach the situation 😳 all the accidents he showed us needed far more than 16 year olds in EMS 1
@@doomngloom96 He probably did not make the best approach
Also, people in medical fields are trained to stay calm in situations like that. No gore porn needed to learn.
why are you staring at me as if im the one hosting all these websites 😭
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She’s on amphetamines and reading a script right behind the video. That’s my assumption anyways lol.
@@finnkyrie4569🧿👄🧿
That’s not very nice.
@@QwerkyWorkings but very accurate
I remember my first shock video, someone I knew in high school had randomly approached me in the halls and said "hey look at this" and it was an ISIS beheading on his phone. No warning, no nothing
when I was in the 8th grade a kid did this to me but instead with a picture of a woman…doing something to a horse. I was so dumb to keep being friends with him after that.
This is a whole sub genre of guy in HS. Same thing happened to me but with a video of a dude getting his dick cut off (During lunch no less)
I was lucky that didn't happen to me, i'm messed up on my own.
I remember one time I was scrolling Facebook and came across a short video from someone in on of the groups I was in, it was supposed to be one of those funny cat videos and the video did initially start out as a wholesome play session with a gorgeous little Siamese kitten, and then like 5 seconds later that same kitten was getting crushed to d~~th. I will *never* forget the howling sounds it made, EVER. 😣 I was shocked and totally taken by surprise and it affected me greatly. What if that was a young child who clicked on it? That probably happened. It's one thing if someone has a morbid curiosity they want to explore safely on one of these sites from time to time, but that's something they are choosing and consenting to do. That's not what happened to me and others that day on Facebook, and I've heard it actually happens a lot now.
And also animals and children gore SHOULD be prohibited 🚫. Those are two things that can *REALLY* fk somebody's mind up. And the people who purposefully create that content belong in the deepest depths of hell.
One of my ex classmates sent me an image of a bear attack survivor for no reason. He was missing half of his face. And yes, he is an edgy teen who thinks looking at gore is badass or cool.
Being obsessively drawn to morbid content online can also be a response to post-traumatic stress
When all you can involuntarily think about is past trauma, then making yourself feel numb and desensitized can actually become desirable, and looking at morbid content does achieve this goal
Just like how drugs can also make you numb
I'd know
I definitely used gore content to psychologically SH. I felt that I was weak and needed to "toughen myself up".
Tbh some people hate people who watch g*re if you ask me, I don’t mind as long as you don’t include me, or send me it. I like horror, and I don’t mind g*re in art. I love it in art.
But like you know those ones that are just so disgusting that you can’t watch it, they make you wince. I have OCD and autism, I don’t risk that. Though I am curious now and I HATE that
@@PlxsteredH34rt I also love horror, gore in art, and have autism
@@foggyshades8338 that explains a lot I've been diagnosed with ptsd
We all feel tough till it happens to us.
I had a "gore" phase in my early 20s. Two things I learned : 1. no matter how numb I became to adults, male or female, being brutalized I never could watch videos of animals or children being harmed/injured. 2. Humans, especially those who are seemingly members of a very prolific Mexican crime organization, are capable of acts so barbaric it is hard to fathom. There are a few videos so "historic" in their depravity that I could say one to three key words and surely someone in this comments section would know what im speaking of. The world of gore is brutal and tragic. I eventually looked inward and realized subjecting myself to those videos was destroying my soul and stopped watching them. I will admit, however, for the darkness in all of us there is an appeal.
Can't watch animals or kids getting hurt either. Actually the gore days ended in the late 90s for me, was a good decision.
Also, Disturbed Reality does awesome coverage of the certain Mexican groups and the videos they put out. No gore in his vids, just talks about them.
Yeah, I feel you on the Mexican Cartel stuff. It’s hard to believe people could be so cold and sadistic. Completely numb to the suffering they inflict. Really made me view humans in a different light. And in a way it does destroy a part of you. Don’t go there anymore, curiosity has vanished. I cringe now when I see teens rating the “worst cartel vid” like it’s exciting to push the limits of the depravity they can see. Always one edgelord that’s like “oh that’s not even that bad, watch this one”
I learned all this too. Thankfully it did not traumatized me as I would watch it when I was in high school but it did for a while make me feel somber. The things that are out there are scary. I stopped watching because I was getting a negative mentality of the world and thankfully I see the positives and sweet things about life now. I will get a random intrusive thought here and there that a child/animal/adult is out there, right now, going through something horrible but I’m able to redirect my thinking. It’s still a sad situation but we have to remind ourselves that there is both good and evil.
i learned that russians are way crazier than we all think
Lesson to anyone in here ,DONT fucking watch funky town under any circumstances
It's crazy how people will moralize about porn and say it's bad for your brain but apologize for gore which has been arguably worse for my brain as a teen than porn.
Depends on the kind of porn too
Watching a conventionally attractive person dance and take off their clothes is fine (I guess), but the moment they start commercializing messed up fantasies is when you know it's bad for people's morals and love/sex lives
neither are good for the mind and soul and both should be banned in their entirety.
@@ligma212 gore is the worst thing to exist that does not involve religion. Lust and addiction is second. They’ll both mess with your personal and social life, career, and future. You just gotta ignore it and seek help from others. They’re the worst things to exist unless you’re counting religious things
The porn industry is shady though.
I had a fucking stroke reading this, what the fuck are you talking about?
The most famous shock video is the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
God, that's trauma inducing, unholy stuff. Especially the foot tap, that is just something else.
and the microphone part…
And when he moves his fists around… i started crying
When he said he was never gonna give me up, I felt like I would never recover
That blue-lit room under that arch looks like a place someone would get mugged at frfr /lh
Hi there, I am a final year medical student and I believe your retracted eyelids can be a a sign of thyroid eye disease, caused by elevated thyroid hormone levels, I hope you are aware of that!
As a farmer these sites taught me a *lot* about on-farm safety that my dad didn't, or didn't know to. Of course there was plenty of content that served no educational value and at the time we weren't there to learn anyway, but there are certainly a lot of folks who can say the same.
Same, as an electrician as much as it desensitized me i learned how things can go south really quick when you're least expecting it.
The best safety PSA's are videos of real incidents.
Ahh, a justification convention. I'm in the wrong room.
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Machine shop safety too. Lathes give absolutely zero fucks about you.
I dated (and almost married) someone with a gore addiction. I tried to be understanding and be involved in their interests and it took me down a rabbit hole of morbid curiosity that ended as quick as it started. Those sites are not for well-minded people. They are for sick people looking for a crazier and crazier high.
Not everybody who looks at this kind of content is "obsessed" or "addicted". For most people it's a casual thing that they do briefly once in a while and then don't even talk about.
I'm sure we can spend all day arguing the morality of posting and looking at corpses but I'll say there's something much more visceral about actually seeing a picture of the carnage instead of just hearing a news anchor describe it to you.
@@wisemage0 I don't think it should be illegal, but I think there's a sometimes blurry line between censored news and shock content where people revel in the worst of humankind.
same here, he sent me a few videos of people getting k1lled in a way or another. he also sent me b3stial!ty. he goes to the same school and im his CLASSMATE. its horrible.
idk id imagine 99% of people on the sites just live a normal life and dont have bodies in their basement lol
@@wisemage0yeah
Always found the BG claim of "public good" hilarious. If you spent more than two seconds on the site, particularly under "articles" of female victims/subjects, such a notion goes right out the window.
That was always a place for edgelord tryhard snowflakes, so special and not like the others npc sheeple or whatever that kind talk nowadays, kek
Degeneracy in the comment sections of shock sites is so intense and flippant it’s almost pure in a sense. Like the darkest and strangest private thoughts a person can have somehow escaped their mind and ended up posted online.
@@mechadoniaright? And the amount of folks seeming to get off on the stuff. Felt like something out of manhunt 1
@@mechadonia [Timi] You can see the cognitive dissonance in boards for ero guro especially on Reddit. Like they act like they are somehow above the fetish content while reveling in the depravity of it.
[Imit] The cockroach mind that is the collective human subconscious is quite simple. The internet is but a reflective of the whole. We can map out the entirety of insectoid bloodlust and longing by the statistics. How many pornography sites exist and are visited daily? Thus the insectoid longing for rutting is reflected. How many gore sites? Thus the insectoid longing for C O N S U M E is both satiated and invigorated. Then we have the deeper and hidden and delicious content that is the true desire behind the mask. Those videos and things that go beyond what was even on these shock sites. The reality of this world is that it is a hell that an entire city like Nanking can fall under seige of mass rape, cannibalism, torture, and murder at a moment's notice. That we are born into THE HELL that is Earth and this life. The mask offers momentary protection but Imit Zeha is always there, lurking in the red. Waiting for the hatred of the cockroaches, their longing to be Puricite, their urge to consume themselves, to break free. Their is no escape.
Best Gore is definitely the worst of these sites by far, dude who owned it was a fucking creep and him even having children is terrifying to imagine, seeing as how he seems to hate women and have a fascination with them dying
Your music selection is dope.
I’ve never been to any of these shock sites, but I had a friend in 6th grade that ran the gauntlet and described some of the videos in detail at lunch. I like how you talked about the censorship issue. It’s really fucked up that an 11 year old was able to watch those videos and I can only imagine that watching them at a young age messes you up, but how do you stop it without stopping other things? And I feel like if they became outlawed they’d still exist and teenagers would still try to find them and might end up in dangerous situations because of it. It’s like how prohibition actually made alcoholism worse because people started drinking stronger unregulated alcohol instead of a beer after work.
Whqt about parental control and supervision?
@@littlehorn0063 kids will be kids, theyll always find a way. a better option is to educate them on why and how these things can be bad for themselves and others and give them some sense of harm=bad
@@littlehorn0063honestly kids watch these outside of the home and a reminder that deleting history is easy. It's not the parent's fault as long as they weren't the ones showing them to their kids. + There are 50 shock sites and you can find gore from RUclips, TikTok, Instagram, Google Pictures, and Facebook- it's easy to accidentally find it. You can find them even by typing mlp
yeah i ran the gauntlet (and was exposed to other stuff) at like 12 onwards and it's desensitised me pretty heavily to gore pictures. i don't really get much of a guttural reaction when exposed to anything violent anymore and i still do occasionally stumble upon awful stuff because i got too curious - i'm hoping to start therapy next year to hopefully treat this stuff and develop sensitivity to it again
(i'm an adult nowadays)
@@littlehorn0063 I agree with that, but that isn’t on the government or the rest of the internet. Some parents just don’t limit their kids internet access and some kids are really sneaky and get on these websites without their parents knowing.
I for sure can say that my 12 year old self was not going to those sites to discuss the geopolitical state of the world.
Also if anyone is interested, I was not desensitized to shit. I still hate watching horror movies, and cried for a week when my cat passed away. Please don't go to those sites.
While I don't want to limit the rights of others, I don't think watching gore on the regular is good for anyone. Real violence is not something to be normalized and desensitized to, because it should not be normal. I understand the place of these sites, but promoting apathy towards violence is not great, in my opinion.
Well said.
Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?
Thank you, I don't believe gore sites should exist at all, they are disgusting, and saying 'well they should its freedom of speech!1!!' Doesn't excuse that bad behavior! I hate when people use freedom of speech as a excuse for shitty things, educational gore is one thing but this is completely different
@@kathycollins3260 I guess those gruesome operation shows were educational, but i'm glad they're gone. Then again, i haven't watched TV in a while. Rescue 911 was a grade school favorite, though.
@@kathycollins3260 There's nothing wrong with documenting horrible events. Isn't that what News Stations do anyway, 24/7? The only difference is that, instead of a five minute fluff piece and nothing but b-roll and narration to fill in the details, this just shows you the actual event. Besides, all gore is educational, in some way - the same way mice won't fall for mousetraps if they see another mouse killed by one. You learn things like:
- Always be incredibly mindful of your surroundings
- Don't do that stunt, that's absolutely not going to end well
- Never travel to cartel territory
- Never ride Chinese escalators
- Never travel to ISIS territory
- Never travel to rural Eastern European
- Fights aren't like in the movies, and you'll probably get your ass kicked
- Unlike in the movies, the best tactic for a knife fight is to run tf away - practice cardio
- Sometimes it's better to run and get shot in the back than to wait for a far more excruciating execution
- The human body is simultaneously pathetically fragile and completely indestructible
my jaw dropped when u said that run the gauntlet is still live
I learned not to click on random links at a young age bc I got sent to a liveleaks video of a guy shooting himself that sometimes replays when I close my eyes. Totally prepared me for that one section of the phishing training at work!
bro …. lol a guy shooting himself…. that’s 2/10 gore , ive watched gore since infancy .. south america family leaves only one in room is wheel chair bound grammy …. the pit bull
slowy
eats
…… that was unreal one that will always stand out
Same but with a beheading video that I don't think I'll ever forget in all my days 😭
@@Kiz-qh4gf why are you acting like watching ts is normal, “heh..that’s 2/10…level..lol” like no it doesn’t make you a cool guy bc you watched this when you were younger
@@Kiz-qh4gfwoah dude you’re so cool. Can we be friends and watch gore and goon
@@Kiz-qh4gfits not a contest bud
I'm 30 now and I used to look at rotten pretty often when I was 16/17. I had a boyfriend who took his own life in a very violent way when I was 16, I had ptsd, got sent to the psychiatric hospital and afterwards I just couldn't feel anything emotionally. The only exception was when I looked at stuff on that site, I'd occasionally feel a little twinge of "oh wow that's BAD." I don't think that that's a good thing or recommend it to anyone, I'm just saying it because as you mentioned there are multiple reasons for a person to be drawn to content like that. More studies should definitely be done on this imo.
am stoned and just sat down with ice cream , perfect
say hi to the ice cream for me
I am not stoned and just sat down with ice cream lmao
I am not stoned and I did not sat down with ice cream just now.
I am stoned but unfortunately I have no ice cream to sit down with
am stoned and I am now craving ice cream
Small ramble coming from random person who consumed bestgore content for years (my middle school years):
I remember being in like middle school going on gore sites and it was oddly popular among my age group; watching mothers and fathers end their lives in front of their children, gangs torture people, very graphic motorcycle crashes, and I'm ngl that very seriously messed me up, i used to think i was like "safe" from the effects of it but you're never really safe from the consequences of watching videos like that when your brain in developing.
Specifically watching bestgore, where i still to this day remember the videos i watched despite literally being unable to remember my own middle school life, i can still vividly remember the videos of horrific events i watched with a flat expression. Watching things like that really did affect things like, my empathy, emotional understanding, the ability to rationalize pain and gore, and even becoming obsessed with death. I lost my self preservation because it was like "well I've seen way worse so I'd at least rather die this way, or this way." It really is bad to be young and watching such things, im not saying it affects everyone like this, im just saying that it CAN and it probably has, some people might just be unaware of it.
Edit: im bad at telling the difference between effect and affect..
When I was younger I came across one video from bestg0re and it scared me so bad that I never watched a g0re video again. The video still remains etched into my memory to this day and I don’t think it will ever leave.
I have a very similar experience, it messed me up man
i agree with people under here. saying how gore prepares you for death? no it doesn’t. watching someone choke on their own blood in real time, shaking in a pile of blood, and laying there, it’s so much more worse than a video.
and yes, gore videos are horrible and should never be used as “entertainment” or “interesting content”. and just looking at the thumbnails of those videos are enough to give me nightmares for days, and long lasting memories, but watching someone, especially as a child, on the brink of death is not the same as watching a screen.
no enough videos or pictures or details can prepare you for death.
@@shatteredteethofgod ?? there’s nothing wrong with wanting to share experiences with others, especially with topics like this, i think you’re just being weird and extra. like it’s never that deep.
@@shatteredteethofgod How do you have the AUDACITY TO COMMENT SOMETHING SIMILAR UNDER PEOPLE WHO ARE SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES, yet tell others that it’s for “attention farming booth.” like my love, you’re a hypocrite, and you clearly don’t understand that people CAN have similar experiences and find something in common with other and talk about it. you clear don’t, which makes you upset enough to reply to everyone’s comments.
I mean the way I see it at least for me is that’s it’s a way to understand violence in history and throughout the world as somebody who lives in America a fairly safe and sheltered country my mom and relatives went through a civil war and she saw many horrible things even as a child and hearing stories about it was scary but I can’t truly understand how horrible it was cause of my own life and I saw quite a bit of gore videos more to understand how horrifying real world violence is obviously it’s not the same as seeing it in person and not everyone views if for “ethical” reasons but atleast for me it does bring a certain level of understanding
git gud
The bestgore guy calling himself a victim of "thought crimes" is bizarre to me. I do think "corrupting morals" is a bullshit reason for arrest (although I also think he definitely Did A Bad Thing), but also like...there was no "thought crime" here? He didn't just think something, he DID something. Once you put something out into the world it ceases to be a thought, it's an action or an idea that people can criticize. He should've gone with the classic appeal to freedom of speech, I feel like. Still not very effective but more applicable to the situation.
freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences, ppl must remember
@@pacipwincess Freedom of speech does indeed mean freedom of legal consequences. Which is what this guy received. The question to me though is whether sharing videos can be counted as speech. I think it can sometimes and not other times
@@bluedog6294 what lol? What you say will always have consequences. If you say something bigoted that can be constituted as hate speech.
Media is always a form of speech bc it's an act of expression.
All speech is free.
@@pacipwincessThe erosion of free speech always begins with self-censorship. Say what you want. But say it with grace and tact or you’ll find yourself socially ostracized. Remember that all speech is free and no government has the moral authority to penalize you for what you say or how you express yourself. Your neighbors, friends, family, and community - well, that’s another story. Consequences are real. But is a truly free society you cannot be jailed or fined for your speech. And guess what - Canada hasn’t been free for a long time. And it’s people like yourself who seem to believe in the nonsensical propaganda of “hate speech” that have so dearly cost us our freedom.
One thing me and some other aprentices did when learning to operate lathes was to go on live leak and watch some the accident videos with these machines. The reasoning being that while you get told and taught how dangerous they are, that is very theoreticall. But seeing some footage of a persone going from in front of the machine to everywhere in the workshop at once, while extreamly disturbing and likely staying with me for the rest of my life, also made us all acutely aware of safety every time when operating the machines and what to not do. To for example not end up as a bloody slinky.
That is awful and really smart
@ “Practically applied Trauma” I would call it. 😅
Overstating it a bit here, we are as a people pretty desensitised compared to the generations in between us and the ones that fought in the world wars. It’s not actually trauma, but these videos definitely stay with you. Which is often not the best thing, but can actually be helpful for specific cases like that. If before turning on a lathe the image of a guy being literally turned inside out by it after messing around jumps to your mind, you most definitely are a lot less inclined to mess around.
In our case we even got a practical example for it working, the one guy who didn’t take part in our watching these videos messed around and got a majority of bones in his hand shattered and the skin ripped open in multiple places because he was fiddling inside the running machine and got his hand into the chuck that was spinning at 3000 rpm. Thankfully it was repairable and he got basically most of the functionality in his hand back. (and as we are from Germany it also did not put him in debt for the rest of his life.) But he does have a bunch of grizzly scars to show for it.
Really, watching this stuff has me to this day religiously checking that everything on my clothes is in order, my hair tied up tight, and always turning off or securing the machine before doing anything inside it. And that is for my comparatively small hobby machine. (although, that thing still will happily rip of your hand if you get caught in it even if it’s only half as long as I am tall.)
Dude you should do a dive into pre-internet shock/gore physical media/media in general ,like exploitation mondo documentaries, the Mexican crime scene/gore magazine called ¡alarma! And its offshoots, kiyotaka tsurisaki/orozco el embalsamador documentary and his death photography, faces of death/ensuring your place in hell/etc etc.
Dude my mom used to watch AlarmaTV and they’d show some wild videos on cable TV in broad daylight 😂
@ 😂😂 one time in 6th grade we had to pick out a random word out of a hat and make a presentation on it on those big poster papers they sell at Walgreens and CVS and I ended up getting the word “death”, my mom took me to this book shop where they sold all Spanish books and got me a couple of alarma magazines and I posted a bunch of inappropriate ass pics of brutal accidents for the presentation and my teacher failed me and was like “uhh I didn’t mean this kind of death”
@@aconsumingvoid damn your mom was not playing around 😂😂 sorry they failed you! I know that was the last thing your teacher expected that day lol
Also, what’s faces of death/ensuring your place in hell?? Never heard of these !
@ haha dude I’m glad I didn’t get sent to counseling that time but at least I did something outside the box! The faces of death is a series of videos that were released on VHS back in the day and it’s just like a mondo type faux documentary with shit like people getting attacked by gators, old autopsy footage and old SWAT footage of shoot outs. A lot of the scenes were faked but idk if you ever seen that classic scene of rich people eating a monkeys brain right after cracking its head open (this one was fake), holocaust footage, scenes with starving kids and shit like that, I think it was released in like 1980. Ensuring your place in hell is much much tamer but it’s pretty weird, its like 3 different parts: one part is called exploding varmints and it’s just dudes hunting varmints/prarie dogs or someshit, the other is called grave robbing for morons and it’s a kid probably from jersey or NYC explaining how to rob graves and sell skulls to oddities shops (a lot of people have been searching for kids identity for a long time now) and another one is some dudes exploring a mortuary. It’s pretty interesting
People who claim that watching gore videos desensitized them to real-life experiences of the things depicted in the videos are categorically wrong. That is not how the brain works. Watching gore videos desensitizes you to watching gore videos. And that's all. Any real-life encounter of a gory situation will not be affected at all. Your brain is smarter than you are when it comes to distinguishing image from reality. It knows, even if you do not consciously agree, that you are safe when watching images on a screen. It knows the 'people' in the video are the wrong size, color, and too flat to be something you're actually witnessing. What causes trauma when experiencing real-life violence and tragic situations is NOT the fact of what occurs, or just the things seen. Your brain experiences everything in full context. The trauma is driven by the extremity of the sensory experience - something no video or even immersive VR can reproduce (nor would it want to... btw we know even full perfect VR wouldn't be traumatizing because actors on film sets aren't traumatized and they are effectively experiencing every detail, the only distinction often being that they know it is not real). The automatic fear response for your personal safety also drives it. These sorts of things just don't happen while you're sitting on a couch scrolling your phone or sitting looking at a screen. And your brain realizes it completely, even if you aren't paying active attention to it.
Being human is very interesting, and full of paradoxes. It is easy to get too wrapped up in one thing without stepping back and thinking a bit. One of the things that gore sites can lead to is people being afraid of how fragile human life is, and how extremely dangerous and destructive situations do occur. It's not something you can just rule out. It should be easy to see how this could lead to someone being very scared, and many people do get carried away with that. But I always try to encourage people to fully recognize their own fragility, but then take a step back. Every person that you have ever walked past on the street, every neighbor that lives near you, every single human being that you have ever come into contact with in your life, family, friends, coworkers, everybody. All of them could have killed you with a quick cut to your neck from a 1 inch blade. That is all it would take. And you know that every single one of them could get such a weapon. Every stranger driving by in a car on the street, they could have gunned straight for you. But it is just as important to fully recognize that no one, NONE, out of ALL those people, who had abundant easy opportunity, killed you. In high likelihood, probably none of them have even tried! Our safety does not come from being invulnerable or being strong enough to thwart attackers. It comes from being surrounded by mostly all good people. They don't lack the ability or opportunity to hurt you, humans are fragile enough that pursuing that would be guaranteed to be futile. But they neither want to nor have the will to do it. That, to my mind, makes me feel very safe. Most people are great. Sure there is no shortage of video evidence that people are sometimes terrible to each other... but that is literally just statistics. If someone wanted, they could start a TV network that did nothing but cover lottery winnings and they would never run out of lottery winners to talk about, new ones every single day (there are more than 365 different lotteries that run in the US at different levels). That might make some people feel like winning the lottery is commonplace.... but we know its not. Even very rare events happen "all the time" with a big population. But do they happen to you? To your friends or family? Nah, usually not.
Thank you for this, especially the end. I'm so tired of people doomscrolling and hearing every horrible thing happening in history, watching 10 hours of true crime in a row, and chalking up to people being evil and then promptly getting paranoid and it actually affects their life and outlook negatively
It's far from that
I don't wanna get too personal, but I oftentimes will post on the less savory parts of the internet about some pretty morbid topics because I've been struggling a bit with my mental health (nothing illegal or morally wrong, just not good for me) and honestly even THEN I could not come across any bad people who wanted to take advantage of my vulnerability, I've only came across concerned people who want to be nice and help (I was especially surprised because I'm also a girl and people have always told me how more targeted women are)
Again I don't wanna trauma dump or anything, but it's so I can say from my experience atleast, that I literally went out of my way to look for trouble was met with only kindness and concern, even from places considered the absolute dregs of the internet
Genuinely terrible people are actually hard to come by, it's just they stand out more when we come across or hear about them
It still does affect you though. I used to watch a lot of gore and shock videos in middle school, and even now I don't feel anything when hearing stories of people being assaulted, reading news articles about murder, etc and I wish I was capable of feeling horror or sympathy for the victims. Obviously not everyone is affected in the same way or content should be banned/restricted just because it has the capacity to harm a person emotionally, but it's ridiculous to say that just because someone would still be affected if they experienced it in real life means becoming desensitized isn't harmful. Feeling emotions when hearing about real life stories of horrible things others have gone through is healthy and important, and shouldn't be disregarded so casually
Such a great read. That you for putting so many peoples frustrations with true crime and “shock sites” into such succinct words. Most of the edgy teenagers or young adults who binge gore videos will probably never find themselves in a situation where they witness the bodily harm and death of another individual with their own eyes, yet they claim to have so much knowledge on the subject. Of course watching a stranger get decapitated by a terrorist group in a far off Middle Eastern country you can’t pinpoint on a map is not going to elicit a reaction from the average internet user.
@@NE0PHR0NMaybe it’s because you can’t imagine something like that happening to you. You’re basically just admitting that you live vicariously through the internet. Desensitization is not harmful because it only happens to a portion of chronically online adolescents and tends to wear off once they get to know the world more. That’s what happened to me, at least.
this is such a good read... thank you for commenting this
Bro you’re staring at me like a fish that just got spear-headed
lmfao
Reminds me of the youtuber, FLESH SIMULATOR. She has the same stare, dry delivery, dark subject matter and even has a giant pair of glasses. Only thing missing is a homemade synth soundtrack. All in all I'd give this content creator 1 out of 1 likes would recommend
love the fleshy simulator. his videos feel naughty 😅
Flesh Sims videos look like the kinda shit you'd see on these sites, only because it would get pulled from every other site
The stare bro ahaha
I thought exactly the same thing!
We need these two to have a baby, just to see what it looks like. For an experiment, that’s all. We’ll release him into the wild when we’re done
A co-worker said he watched 2g1c and laughed saying it pretty much resembled chocolate mousse and I frankly agree now.
Oh HELL no
thanks for not saying “unalive” sigma
imagine dying and having your screams being used in someone's shitty "GOOORRECOOOORE GUYS ITS SO EDGY" musical slop
i would want it if the music was fire
I mean, it's not like you'll even know once you are dead, so.
they made a nice carcass (band) thumbnail
@@zaja2418 I mean there's also their surviving family which is probably worse
@@ligma212 That is true, and I agree, but also a completely different argument than the original comment stated. Once we are gone, we don't feel or experience a single thing. Our love ones, though, are a different story.
i just wanna apologize for all the comments here dissing your eye contact with the camera. as someone else who’s also autistic, i have also been told that when i give eye contact, i look terrifying or disgusting, or when i don’t give eye contact, i am not doing enough. i’m sending you all my love 🖤
Right? I felt so bad seeing those comments like omg its not a big of a deal 😭 people can be so mean for no reason.
I bet neither one of y’all have been diagnosed by a professional as autistic. Lol.
i don't think it's eye contact with the camera but her reading the script from a monitor. You can see her eyes moving from side to side. So, she's focusing on the text really hard and that amount of focus is what makes it weird
They're just worthless neurotypicals.
I mean it's noticeable but saying it's creepy isn't cool. She just has an intense stare and as some people said, it's probably due to her reading a prompt. Also, without wanting to sound like a creep I think she looks cute and that should be noticed more than her stare. I mean it's probably nicer to read that you have cool glasses/makeup/hairstyle and not that you have "dead eyes" or some bullshit like that.
Disney's original Pinocchio left me scarred. One of the first nightmares I remember, was being sucked towards a terrible dark air vent, and behind the grating was a silhouette of the toys on the shelves in Gepetto's workshop.
i love how you're staring at us and seeing directly into my soul. im not joking or making fun of you its extremely comforting to me
I remember reading an article from the Washington Post about the AR-15 and it's destructive impact.
It showed images about the aftermaths of shootings, and one of them was the then recent Uvalde shooting. It didn't show any bodies of the deceased, but did show the horrible aftermath of the shooting.
A large pool of blood was in the corner of the room, which was where the children had all huddled around their teacher in their final moments.
I think showing the real aftermath of such tragedies, instead of just reducing it to numbers on the front page, can give people an idea, what kind of hell some people had to suffer through and will continue to suffer. People might be inclined to take real action, if they can see the real harm that freely available firearms can do to society.
I also don't think you have to show people a mangled body, to make people aware of the reality of death.
Something like a child's bedroom that has been left frozen in time after their sudden passing, is the reality of death for many parents. It's not a shocking image, but death shouldn't have to be a spectacle to make you feel aware about it.
the aftermath is almost more disturbing because it leaves the rest up to your imagination
Sometimes a mangled body makes you understand more than you would otherwise. I want to be clear before I make my point that I don’t advocate for these types of sites or the audience they attract
I stumbled on these types of sites in highschool round the time I started driving. Obviously everyone knows that if you get in a bad crash, you’d die. But id say I honestly didn’t understand the actual realities of unsafe driving until I saw images and videos of what happens to a human being when subjected to the forces of several tons of twisted metal exploding at 70+ mph.
Car crashes are so normalized that we don’t really fear them as much as we should, but when you see that type of stuff it really makes you confront the dangers of careless driving and your own vulnerability in a car. I always drive the speed limit and always wear my seat belt now and that definitely wasn’t always the case before (I was a dumb 16 year old)
To a certain extent I think there is value in having these types of images available somewhere. I feel like lots of people don’t fully comprehend danger beyond an intellectual understanding, and for education and journalistic purposes this stuff should definitely be available for the public to see should they seek it out. I guess the problem arises when the only ppl willing to collect and publish this type of media are the types with questionable motivations, to say the least.
@@mechadonia I can see where you're coming from. People might be more inclined to drive more safely if they saw a body after a car crash. I do think car crashes isn't always the drivers fault, but due to circumstances outside their control like bad road design or other drivers on the road.
There might be a place for such images, but more often than not, they are taken and shared without the victim's or families consent, like the infamous photo of Nikki Catsouras after crashing her car, which got leaked on the internet.
The ethics of using such photos and videos will always be dubious, and giving prior consent to it will also be a major legal hurdle.
Vivid descriptions of a body after a traumatic death, could help to fuel your imagination of what the body could look like without seeing it, giving you the same need for self preservation. I'm sure someone with much better articulation skills than me could pull it off, but you get what i mean.
@@mechadonia I agree "gore" for lack of a better term is important because it can make people realize how sheltered they are and how dark the world can be. I let curiosity get to me and visited those websites a few times and it made me appreciate my blessings a lot more. The only problem is it's next to impossible to control what audiences are viewing that content like you said the people publishing gore are usually degenerates. Too many freaks and weirdos out there.
I read the same article. I agree with you
I ran The Gauntlet. 🙋🏻♂️I’m glad this stuff went away. Told my son when he hit his early teens to be careful what you let in your head, it doesn’t come back out. Weightlifter, Ukrainian maniacs, the pain Olympics, one guy one jar/one screwdriver…the first taliban beheading video..the web was wild and I regret seeing as much of it as I did.
That's just it, it really does stick with you and pops back in mind at random points and can really crash a good mood very suddenly.
Good advice.
Seen MDfrancis?
A lot of the reason why i got curious was because of why it got the name. Thankfully nowadays it's easier finding a detailed description.
I grew up watching the occasional shock site. Morbid curiosity as a teenage male. Although ive seen my fair share over time its not something I watched alot of. As an adult I worked for my states DOC for 4 years dealing with mental health and maximum security inmates. The shock sites did not at all prepare me for the first time i saw something messed up in person. I remember almost puking the first time i saw severe self harm and a attempt. After dealing with so many violent incidents done by inmate's on other inmates or self harm you do become desensitized in the moment. Its like a switch flips for lack of a better term. Later i did spend some time living in the Caribbean chasing a business venture and was a witness of a gang related shooting that happened on our property were someone lost there life. I remember being relatively calm in the moment getting people to safety and doing basic first aid on a person that caught a round in his leg (plugging the wound with my finger while my buddy used my belt as a tourniquet). Its wild to say but the guy that perished doesnt really bother me. He chose the lifestyle he did. The civilian that got hit in the crossfire didnt choose that. And neither did the kid daughter of the deceased who showed up at the crime scene afterwards. I will never forget hearing her scream and cry seeing her dad lay motionless on the pavement. We as humans are not meant to see certain things.
Also, people online did find the killer faster than police after seeing the 1 lunatic 1 ice pick. A group of people on facebook were searching for the guy who made the video because before he was killing kittens and posting them, and these people were trying to find him in order to stop him before he eventually moves onto a person. After the video, they found him and got him arrested all through the Internet without police help. Killer being Luka Magnotta.
Netflix even made a series out of that
this is a really good video! it allows me to engage with morbid curiosity in an informative way without ending up traumatized lol. i don’t feel gross after watching this and it piqued my interest, well done!!
anyone (like the owner of bestgore) trying to moralize their reasonings for watching or hosting gore content is completely talking out of their ass and they know it. when i was a teenager, i watched a lot of gore videos because i was severely depressed and angsty. when i would read the comment sections of any video posted on bestgore, it would be filled with violent racism, sexism, and more. for the vast majority of people watching this type of stuff online, it's purely out of hatred for the world and of society, or getting off on the suffering of others.
this is a great video btw, very well researched and put together!
I came up with a term for that: They're Anal-Linguists, what they say is Oral Excrement.
I had a depressive phase in my 20s where I watched a lot of bestgore and the commentary ended up turning me away from that site. In hind-site, it was a blessing for me since it started to negatively affect my mental health. I disliked the racist and discriminatory “articles” they wrote regarding the pictures they posted. That site turned it into their own personal soapbox and the last thing I wanted to read is a bunch of basement dwelling losers crying and ranting about their opinions (and I say this as a former, apartment dwelling loser lol.)
I ended up getting therapy like a functional adult and didn’t really hear much of them other than when they closed down. Good riddance.
I was similar to you and was always shocked at how blase people were about what they were seeing
Yeah it was awful. I used to watch a bunch of gore (mentally ill kid as usual) back in the day like many, and it was horrible for my psychological being.
It's just so horrible and disrespectful to victims. I recall comments praising the graphic murders of women and people of color. Such a horrible phenomenon.
I wouldn't say completely. It can be objectively helpful for getting a more visual understanding of news stories.
That being said there absolutely 100% is a perverse spectacle/novelty aspect to these sites that cannot be ignored.
Just came into this channel randomly I love it
I grew up on this stuff so I feel compelled to join the convo. I justified watching a lot like what you said: “this was the ugly truth. I didn’t want to shield my eyes from it. This was reality.” I didn’t indulge in it necessarily, but it was out there and I felt an odd sense of duty to bear witness to it. But the community surrounding these sites was - this may come as a shock - full of friggin weirdos. Every comment section was full of your typical gallows humor, but also a lot of racism and misogyny. So it’s probably a bit understated to say I don’t trust the average person to share my supposed good intentions with this sort of content. But at the same time I do absolutely miss when the internet was the Wild West.
I'm in exactly the same boat
It'll go back to being the wild West soon.
I can't wait for Elon to buy RUclips and neuter the algorithm. And comments won't disappear anymore.
Please keep in mind that a lot of people (like myself) who watched these types of videos were thinking the same thing as you. We value life and safety and felt a responsibility to reinforce our staunch position against nihilism. I'm assuming you thought the same as me; "How can I be vigilant if I am naive?" That's all we wanted from it. So we didn't engage in the community that used the videos for entertainment. That's sick and sad. But knowing that people actually enjoyed seeing that kind of thing is part of the experience. That's what we went looking for and we found it. Stay vigilant.
Real
not the heckin racisterinos and other isms on my beheding videos!!!!
These sites should not exist and anything anyone says will not convince me otherwise
These sites exist to show the horrors of our world if you don't like it then do something else
@@mrfunnixd7381 that’s always the ridiculous argument people have. If that was your corpse up on screen I highly doubt you’d be like “It’s fine man it’s to show the world how bad of a place it can truly be dude,”
@@ohnobro3770"um akshually I wouldn't care if people saw my corpse on the internet, I can't do anything against it, since I'm dead and I wouldn't care anyways xddd"
Yes they should. Stop advocating for censorship, if people want to see the brutal reality of the world instead of living in ignorance, then that's their own choice to do so without having someone like you to prevent that. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
@@IJFJJAJIit shouldn’t be done at the expense of innocent people and their suffering. Go outside ffs.
Oh yeah! Rotten! It was pretty much morbid curiosity for me and people I knew. All of us had never even seen medical injury photos or crime scene ones, we just had fake gore in slasher movies. Wasn't my favorite site and I saw stuff I wish I hadn't but it did bring a sobering reality to what can happen to the human body and what some people see every day as part of their job.
The internet then absolutely was the wild west and the amount of "shock sites" I saw, intentionally shocking or not, will never leave me. Thanks for covering this so well.
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@@TimSlee1 omfg shut up
These comments make me so annoyed
@@TimSlee1 ???
@@TimSlee1average critical drinker subscriber
your thousand yard stare has bewitched me
They saw the R. Budd Dwyer press conference
I appreciate the eye contact, but can I please have my soul back?
😂
How the heck did you manage to have eye contact? I played this video multiple times now and them eyes are all over the place 🤪
I'm gonna use this to practice my own eye contact 😂
@@DesertEagleDutchthe thumbnail hahahaha
Too late.... Muhaha
im bamboozled at how the first thing she warns abt is not watching this vid in front of my grandpa while i am in fact watching it in front of him
I personally am someone who absolutely doesn't understand the idea of "morbid curiosity". I have never once had the urge to search out a gore video that is popular because I simply don't want to see that, I know it would scare me and make me uncomfortable so I don't understand why I would seek out it. Same with horror movies, I don't watch them even if they are fake because I would be disturbed. People call me a "wimp" and other names, and I completely agree, I'd rather watch funny videos or things I enjoy than harmful types of media.
No worries you are just a normal sane person unlike those pathetic disgusting looser freaks who watch this shit.
It's fine for not understanding people going out to watch gore videos, but don't hobby shame people who watches horror movies, especially since they are inherently staged and no lives got harmed.
@@WinterandNoodle it’s still a group of sick individuals. Period. Period.
@@WinterandNoodle i didnt hobbie shame anyone, i didn't even mention anyone else besides myself
@@shreksoffspring the way you worded it kind of made it sound like you think the horror genre is on the same level as gore
Yeah i dunno man, the older i get the more these sites repulse me. I remember being a kid watching these when i definitely shouldnt have been. And it definitely impacted me mentally. We shouldnt be desensitized to these types of videos unless you HAVE to be, like if youre a trauma surgeon, first responder etc. And its rarely just "heres videos that show you the reality of war" and mostly just "heres a video of someones mother/father/sister/brother/friend veering off the road and splitting their head open" and then people in the comments being insensitive. Its dehumanizing
right? idk how people in these comments are so offended by this video. people just wanna do and say horrible shit under the "free speech" excuse. nobody learning shit from watching gore, they're just feeding their own morbidness
100%, well said
I mean, if you read the comments, most of the viewers are just getting off to that shit.