Lots of people talking about beheadings, but the video that I can never unwatch was of a woman in a blank walled room facing the camera and getting unceremoniously shot in the head with a revolver. I’ve no idea if it was real or not, but the lack of, for want of a better word, “spectacle” makes me think it was.
I don’t want to look it up again to find out but if anyone knows for sure…
My worst was a cat that was put into a small cage and then poured gasoline on, and then lit on fire. I didn’t even look it up, I just saw (and heard) it because someone else was watching. I never recovered from that
:(
I saw a lot of unseeable things on the internet, thanks to decades of war and sites like Ogrish. But snuff clips I noped the hell out of.
Goatse
Tubgirl
Lemon party
Yeah, those were simpler times.
And none of them caused me as much distress as the beheading of that journalist. Even as a regular visitor of Rotten.com.
If you’re talking about Nick Berg, he was a defense contractor iirc
It’s good to bear witness to these things.
Two girls one cup
It was chocolate ice cream
I never saw tubgirl but the others were drowned out when idk if it was 4chan rando or someone I was arguing with or something but they posted a picture of what looked like kid about my age at the time cooked like a turkey with the white foot cover things on a big platter on a big dining table and the text you’re next. That shit haunted me for like 20 years.
I had to explain to a younger person what Goatse was the other day. They don’t even know what they missed out on.
Goatse is still alive and well in Mexico but this community bans NSFW.
I’m fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn’t decide.
Now, with hindsight, I’m STILL convinced it was real, but I’m wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.
ISIS didn’t exist formally yet in 2003, but it’s not like they just came from nowhere. I’m fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.
My dad sent me that video without any note or warning 😂
I saw it in that timeframe. Sadly, it’s real… ☹️😭
The one I saw around the same time, perhaps a couple of years earlier, was from Chechnia. It has always been a favourite execution method of Islamists. ISIS didn’t invent it.
it’s not like they just came from nowhere
So a lot of their members were Saddam’s party. Part of ‘debaathification’ involved putting everyone who had been in the party on a list, but the nature of a 1 party state, that includes everyone from professors and traffic engineers to professional throat-slitters and the people managing them. If you were on the list, you could not be employed at any state enterprise. This made anyone whose job didn’t have a private sector equivalent, functionally unemployable.
Remember, the Taliban was prominent back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
I think ISIS came (at least partially) from a group called “Al Quaeda in Iraq” if I recall. They were beheading people long before ISIS.
was it… was it the one with the chain saw? I dont really want to remember it but its burned into my memory.
Wikipedia’s comprehensiveness always amazes me
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Oof, I’m sorry, that’s rough. Flash games?
I remember it! Macromedia Flash sucked ass.
No, Flash was a proprietary platform for animated content before the modern web standards. You’re thinking of the MP3 player.
I’m not sure if you’re being funny and I’m not getting it. Macromedia were the original developers of various web products. Flash and Dreamweaver for example. They were acquired by Adobe and it was renamed to Adobe Flash.
They’re talking about the same Flash you are.
Flash itself was junk. People made some fantastic things with it, though.
Was there an MP3 player named Flash? TIL
Flash games were awesome
Motherload was the best
I still replay it from time to time
I was moderator on an online video platform at the time. I arrived to work early, get my coffee and went to my desk for my morning empty-the-queue-list routine… spitted my coffee, maybe puked a little… and moved on with my tasks!
And now it’s just normalised genocide by countries our governments claim are our allies
Ah yes I remember “three guys one hammer” which was a video of three Ukrainian serial killers stabbing a guy in the eye and repeatedly in the stomach with a screwdriver and then beating him to death with a hammer.
Apparently one of the killers got out of prison in 2019. I imagine he’s probably dead by now, given that he was most likely conscripted.
Last Podcast on the Left recently did a series on those guys. Unfortunately “three guys one hammer” was not a stand alone event.
[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 656: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs Part I - Serial Spree 🅴 https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/219151354 via @PodcastAddict
For the curious
Thank you so much for the link!
Analogue youth, digital teens, here.
Simpler times… when we’d watch Jimmy Savile on TV, and were told he was a beloved children’s entertainer. O_O
Ayyye this is a big thread for LPotL references!
[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 658: Jimmy Savile Part I - Clowns Get Away with Murder 🅴 https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/220772811 via @PodcastAddict
Gotta make a move to a town that’s right for me Town to keep me movin’, keep me groovin’ with some energy
I dont know how i did it as a kid. Teenagers are psychopaths I guess.
Well, at least I wasn’t the only one who had that song pop into their head upon reading the post!
I saw war crimes and decided war was bad. Guess who decided that we shouldn’t be able to see war crimes?
RIP Flash
When I was a kid I saw a video of guy being high on drugs and cutting his own dick off. Was the best demonstration of that drugs are bad 😅
Or maybe he had a really itchy dick, you ever thought of that?
Saw some lemons making party, some girls with a cup definitely not doing the cup song and a few leaks live, but otherwise it was a great time.
I’m still traumatized from some of those MySpace pages.
