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.
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.
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.
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.
People bragging about not being desensitized to gore for internet brownie points is equally as whack. Here's that attention you ordered, go do your homework.
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.
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
whats so crazy is that gore is super easy to find now, its even on reddit and twitter. also considering reddit has basically no effective precautions, its SO easy for anyone to find that stuff randomly, since all u have to do is press once to tell reddit that ur over 18 and then u can see everything on there. the amount of people that must've accidently seen things is insane
reddit is still trying to crack down on violence and gore. that whole scene hasnt been the same since cornedbeefapproved got banned a couple years back. scenes of war and death do show up on the front page though, and you don't even need an 18 and over account to see 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.
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
@@randomperson5579 I'd say Reddit being forced to sanitize itself has been a blessing and a curse. On one hand I don't have to deal with seeing random gore videos when looking up a tutorial on a game, on the other hand Spez is able to play the "I am a changed man and I changed Reddit for the better" card even though he was one of the top mods on some of the more awful pages. I think if a person is actively seeking out gore or shock content they will find it regardless of where it is, but that want is not born out of a healthy and detatched curiosity, but is instead just a desire to force an emotional state or symptomatic of a larger mental health issue. In short, I do not think your friend in high school who talked about bestgore videos was all there in the head.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
Individual experience is not evidence. Your results are not the results everyone experiences. Gross generalization helps no one, you just wanted to tell a story about yourself because you're borderline solipsistic like every other comment saying something similar. Not every comment section is a confession and attention farming booth.
I also found it surprising how many TH-cam 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 TH-cam 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 who grew up on gore aswell, this shit is insanely easy to find (reddit) and ive seen the most gruesome shit you could find since the age of 12, cartel beheadings, shotgun suicides, etc. but ive figured out that even though every video you see makes you more desensitized, it chips away every happy part of you, it makes you more paranoid that something will happen to you loved ones, it makes you feel more empty and depressed. Unfortunately my childhood and the thought that the world was full of unicorns and rainbows was taken away far too quick, i wish i could have it all back again and never see that first shock video that got me hooked.
I’m kinda ashamed to say this, but it was the other way around for me. I watched it back when I was a bitter and miserable teen and I found it strangely stress relieving. I just stopped one day and moved on without being traumatized.
I second this :( I’m ashamed to say I use to watch it , everyday I’d wake up paranoid and be scared to go outside of my house, with my family. It really does traumatize you and do some serious damage to you as well, I’m still very paranoid and afraid , but it’s not as bad as it was months ago. I’ve learned over these pass few months, it’s best to ignore your curiosity and trust your gut. But it has also taught me , that this is the sad reality of the world. I’m so glad you said this because I’ve always felt this way , but never knew how to explain it. I hope you’re doing okay now , you’re very strong and I’m proud of you.
@@ilvvjs thank you so much for the kind words and im very happy i had someone to relate to, im doing fine, im still paranoid to this day but im happy that we are getting better, again thanks alot for the kind words and have a great day:)
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.
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
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!
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.
13:38 This defense is disgusting. My husband was forced by a family member to watch gore content (and I believe it was this specific website too). It was traumatic. We're still unpacking it together today. The defense of this website makes me sick.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 TH-cam, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
While I can't stand gore (one of the earliest things I recall seeing with good clarity was a car which had hit a motorway support at high speed in Turkey... that still haunts me a little) the Tubgirl thing was hilariously gross. I remember me and a mate laughing til it hurt at the 'expression' on her face 😂
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.
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.
Watched two girls unalive themselves by jumping off a an apartment building balcony on one of those sites. It messed with me for weeks, and ask myself why I watched that. Then I would hear of some other crazy video and curiosity would again lead me to the site and after watching, I again would wonder why the heck I watched that knowing I cannot handle seeing these things without messing with me. Why do I have to be so curious…
@@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.
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 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 could say the same - knowing that these are real people living around you day to day that are so comfortable saying these things on the internet and genuinely mean it is terrifying.
With the bestgores site the comments themselves should have been proof enough to Merick that the users never logged in to “expose the media for the greater good”, it was people led by curiosity who eventually desensitised themselves to such content in one of the most unhealthy ways
@@zeliminator666 unless you are really on some deep web shit, actual depiction of the act of sa isn't common on the site themselves. As for the deaths, those are a fact of life and nothing changes that no matter how they died. Yes, the acts are offensive, but only the offenders are to blame. But the people near self masturbating on racism in the comments aren't people you would ever like to meet.
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 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.
Great video. It covers these defunct websites' legacies pretty well. Rotten and LiveLeak were arguably the two largest "hubs" for shock content online. I wasn't tricked into viewing anything shocking by my friends. I found it myself out of morbid curiosity as a young kid, looking up weird medical cases, disappearances, myths and unusual deaths. My first shock video was Budd Dwyer's suicide on LiveLeak after reading about the event on Wikipedia, and it was definitely at an inappropriate age. It solidified my interest in true crime, though.
Yeah buddy Dwyer was heartbreaking. So f'd up how he was found innocent after that. He was one that stuck with me just due to how clearly graphic it was. Granted there's certainly much worse like the cartel videos
@@Hay_BayCartels definitely don't fuck around. Has definitely given me context for those "when your friend says 'we aren't scared of you' to the cartel member" memes.
so technically 90% of gen z who had an unauthorized internet access as a kid was groomed on kik or has seen gore videos that not even the fbi knows it really exist
man that sounds like a skill issue. i had unmoderated internet, and stuck to youtube. didnt get groomed since i didnt talk online, didnt see gore until recently when someone showed me cartel videos
Looking through a screen is completely different than experiencing something irl lmao. I mean sure if you’re fragile enough, but a person that went through something horrible irl is in a completely different category.
Thank god someone made a video on the history of these sites without just being like "Here! Let me show you my favourite execution video! Aren't mexicans scary?" :D
been waiting for a vid like this and clicked so fast lol, i literally know ALL the details of ALL the most popular/infamous shock sites and videos but did NOT allow myself to have to visual imagery stuck with me forever
I've never considered people using these sites to prepare for war and medical emergency. It's nice to know some people have found this stuff useful for coming to terms with their own lives, and perhaps preventing them from traumatising themselves in their work. Great video!
I heavily watched gore before becoming an EMT, which helped more than you can imagine. It helps normalize something our brains aren’t meant to see. But as someone who’s suffered with self harm in the past, watching videos of other people doing it also calmed mine and others urges to do so. Most people who watch gore are actually pretty normal lol
@Nekro_bird the two people that outright watched these gore sites and introduced me to it were sociopaths. They were both not normal. Eventually the went on to hurt people. Not physically but they did it in ways "normal people" would not. And they actually enjoyed watching the videos. While I cried or felt nauseous and had ptsd from watching it one sat stoic and the other laughed. Anything but normal. And the comments I've seen under all these gore videos not an ounce of humanity empathy fear or compassion. Just jokes laughs racism trolls and other evil responses. I use these gore sites as a red flag to stay away from anyone who watches them
@@dusk8408 at least I tried to find the humanity in ppl who watch gore. His opinion completely ignored what I said and insulted everyone who does. That’s like calling everyone on TH-cam immature children or everyone on Twitter angry millennials. General categorizing and insulting is illogical and one dimensional.
i think either way whether its to "bear witness" or to say "wow im so edgy", people look at gore to feel like they're on some moral highground and i think thats gross. you shouldnt be looking at people dying and then make yourself think you're a better person because of it. if you really wanna learn about the atrocities in the world read a book, watch the news, listen to true crime or something
Yes. I was 15 doing my homeschool work on a beautiful day. My mother calls me in her room to show me a video. I already felt uncomfortable with her showing me what seemed to be a normal porn scene. She said “just wait”. A cup later, I ran away as far as I could. I hate that woman.
I never really went on dedicated gore sites but when I was like 10 my mom let me make a Reddit account "as long as I asked her before joining any subreddits", as you can imagine I did not do that. One fateful day I was scrolling through an askreddit post while I was on the toilet and someone mentioned this silly little subreddit called r/eyeblech, I clicked on the link because they said not to and what else does one do when you're 10 and someone tells you not to do something, I promptly found out what a decapitated head looked like and came out of that bathroom a changed man. I continued to scroll through it semi-regularly for like a year for some unholy reason.
I joined a true crime group on Facebook expecting DISCUSSION of crime. Multiple times people would state something being interesting with a link and it would be a beheading video. I don’t understand how that group gets away with that.
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
i still remember "running the gauntlet" in middle school with friends and let me say that those videos still keep me up at night, no kids should see these things i don't care what anyone says. And the fact that so many similar sites exist disgusts me.
Unfriended is a great shitty horror movie. My girlfriend and I watched it on a laptop in the dark for full effect recently. Best way to watch that movie fr
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.
My ex bf frequented bestgore and liveleak as a child and now he has a panic disorder and a fixation with wanting to die in the military. I want studies to be done on ppls brains abt this
i have never seen that with people who frequented or became desensitized to seeing gore. might just be a skill issue on his part or something else causing it and the gore probably being a factor
@@theuncappedneedleyouforgot2664 nah he was not great, he had a lot of mental problems that made him a generally angry and paranoid person and he didnt know how to control those traits. He thought everyone and everything was evil/out to get him, i feel like that could definitely be drawn back to the immense violence exposure at a young age 🙃 pretty sure he did in fact join the military so yeah
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.
Thanks for new video Randy, I didn’t grow up watching gore or anything like that so it’s always interested me on the why of how come like 90% of my peers grew up frequenting these sites
I used to watch such videos so much when I was 15-16. I did become rather desensitised over time but I had to stop because I started noticing that this stuff affected my mood in a negative way and made me feel continuously anxious. Some people say that watching gore made them treat death in a more natural way, being more aware how easily life can be taken away. I’m 21 now and not sure how it impacted me. I have a rather strong fear of death, so much that I’m always fearful on planes, trains, cars, worrying about my health etc. Maybe it’s just my mental health problems (I was super anxious even as a child) and it’s not related to my past gore watching experiences. But I think that maybe I still shouldn’t have spent so much time doing this
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
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 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.
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 😂😂
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.
@@riplimewire5825sounds like a little baby who shouldn’t have internet access
SAAAAME I WAS OBSESSED WITH VOCALOID
Miniclip era~ Stardoll era~
"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
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.
People bragging about not being desensitized to gore for internet brownie points is equally as whack. Here's that attention you ordered, go do your homework.
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.
@@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
whats so crazy is that gore is super easy to find now, its even on reddit and twitter. also considering reddit has basically no effective precautions, its SO easy for anyone to find that stuff randomly, since all u have to do is press once to tell reddit that ur over 18 and then u can see everything on there. the amount of people that must've accidently seen things is insane
It was always easy to find
yep gore and deaths are now on youtube but most stuff isnt real/quality is very poor. (e.g the 1991 olympics tragedy, rip gernot reinstadler)
It used to be. Whatever Reddit did recently most subreddits are now abandoned
reddit is still trying to crack down on violence and gore. that whole scene hasnt been the same since cornedbeefapproved got banned a couple years back. scenes of war and death do show up on the front page though, and you don't even need an 18 and over account to see 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.
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
@@randomperson5579 I'd say Reddit being forced to sanitize itself has been a blessing and a curse. On one hand I don't have to deal with seeing random gore videos when looking up a tutorial on a game, on the other hand Spez is able to play the "I am a changed man and I changed Reddit for the better" card even though he was one of the top mods on some of the more awful pages. I think if a person is actively seeking out gore or shock content they will find it regardless of where it is, but that want is not born out of a healthy and detatched curiosity, but is instead just a desire to force an emotional state or symptomatic of a larger mental health issue. In short, I do not think your friend in high school who talked about bestgore videos was all there in the head.
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.
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 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🤍
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_ TH-cam 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 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
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.
Individual experience is not evidence. Your results are not the results everyone experiences. Gross generalization helps no one, you just wanted to tell a story about yourself because you're borderline solipsistic like every other comment saying something similar. Not every comment section is a confession and attention farming booth.
“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
I also found it surprising how many TH-cam 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 TH-cam 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 :(
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 who grew up on gore aswell, this shit is insanely easy to find (reddit) and ive seen the most gruesome shit you could find since the age of 12, cartel beheadings, shotgun suicides, etc. but ive figured out that even though every video you see makes you more desensitized, it chips away every happy part of you, it makes you more paranoid that something will happen to you loved ones, it makes you feel more empty and depressed. Unfortunately my childhood and the thought that the world was full of unicorns and rainbows was taken away far too quick, i wish i could have it all back again and never see that first shock video that got me hooked.
Yeah, I used to watch gore and it really made me depressed and paranoid, luckily I don't watch it anymore
I’m kinda ashamed to say this, but it was the other way around for me. I watched it back when I was a bitter and miserable teen and I found it strangely stress relieving. I just stopped one day and moved on without being traumatized.
I second this :( I’m ashamed to say I use to watch it , everyday I’d wake up paranoid and be scared to go outside of my house, with my family. It really does traumatize you and do some serious damage to you as well, I’m still very paranoid and afraid , but it’s not as bad as it was months ago. I’ve learned over these pass few months, it’s best to ignore your curiosity and trust your gut. But it has also taught me , that this is the sad reality of the world. I’m so glad you said this because I’ve always felt this way , but never knew how to explain it. I hope you’re doing okay now , you’re very strong and I’m proud of you.
@@ilvvjs thank you so much for the kind words and im very happy i had someone to relate to, im doing fine, im still paranoid to this day but im happy that we are getting better, again thanks alot for the kind words and have a great day:)
@@ilvvjs me too
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
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
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!
please stop staring at me like that
😭🙏
the thousand yard stare, the dry delivery of someone who grew up way too fast, the 🔥🔥🔥 rotten merch… she’s definitely the expert
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
"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
13:38 This defense is disgusting. My husband was forced by a family member to watch gore content (and I believe it was this specific website too). It was traumatic. We're still unpacking it together today. The defense of this website makes me sick.
No one should be forced. That is MESSED up.
lmao what do you mean by "forced"? Like in Clockwork Orange?
@Fatymable Manipulation tactics. "If you love me..." "If you're not a loser..." "I guess you don't like spending time with me..."
@@edibleramen oh, well, its not really "forced", but i know, what you, mean
i am so sorry for your husband ☹️🩷
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
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
yeah, iirc it was actually a photo from his art piece, whang talked about it in a dedicated video if memory serves right.
@@Yuki_SeraphimWhang sure did
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 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.
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
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
the mexican cartel videos are a good wakeup call to idiots that cry racism over a country having a border wall
Your eyes are lasering me
I love you please don’t fly away
@@xDARKXWOLF17I’m floating right above you
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 never made/knew the connection between meatspin and leekspin and I'm floored
Makes me with there was a parody of LiveLeak called LiveLeek.
😭
@@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????
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
Oh boy, visiting my grandma at work! Can't wait to watch this video on full volume!
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
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😭
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 research, the way you present yourself, and keep the audience locked in is great. Subbed fs
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
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
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.
Wait so Hatsune Miku's association with leeks all stems from someone spinning their Johnson like a helicopter?!? That's crazy.
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 TH-cam, 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.
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.
😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
Machine shop safety too. Lathes give absolutely zero fucks about you.
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
my childhood
NO LIKES AND NO REPLYIES??
OMG RUBEN SIM I'M A BIG FANNN!!!
crazy seeing u in this type of video
wait u watched gore? 😭
i did NOT expect to see you in the comments
my condolences man
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.
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
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 TH-cam 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!!!!
imagine dying and having your screams being used in someone's shitty "GOOORRECOOOORE GUYS ITS SO EDGY" musical slop
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
Hearing 'tubgirl' immediately de-aged me by 20 years, much appreciated
i still have no idea what that image entails even after all this time. im not gonna look it up
@@berkeleyisonline160I can explain it if you want, imo, it's really not that bad, it's just gross
@@teethtown8159 i'll listen
While I can't stand gore (one of the earliest things I recall seeing with good clarity was a car which had hit a motorway support at high speed in Turkey... that still haunts me a little) the Tubgirl thing was hilariously gross. I remember me and a mate laughing til it hurt at the 'expression' on her face 😂
@@teethtown8159 explain
the room: 💅💖🌈✨🌼
the video: 🔪💀⛓🩸🔥
Women ☕
@@TimSlee1 omfg shut up
These comments make me so annoyed
@@TimSlee1 ???
@@TimSlee1average critical drinker subscriber
I just did the gauntlet.
I mean the cringe one. It was hard.
I appreciate the eye contact, but can I please have my soul back?
😂
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.
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.
Watched two girls unalive themselves by jumping off a an apartment building balcony on one of those sites. It messed with me for weeks, and ask myself why I watched that. Then I would hear of some other crazy video and curiosity would again lead me to the site and after watching, I again would wonder why the heck I watched that knowing I cannot handle seeing these things without messing with me. Why do I have to be so curious…
I feel like I watched the same video
You can say kill here like a normal human being don't worry
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.
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.
why are u staring at me like i made these websites bro 😭
she look like she went to vietnam
100 mg of adderall
she obv has autism or something, be nice
At the camera
tysm for using one of my songs :D video goes hard
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
Tbh I think the comment sections of those sites were waaaay more offensive than the videos themselves.
It's where the actual degenerates hang out.
i could say the same - knowing that these are real people living around you day to day that are so comfortable saying these things on the internet and genuinely mean it is terrifying.
With the bestgores site the comments themselves should have been proof enough to Merick that the users never logged in to “expose the media for the greater good”, it was people led by curiosity who eventually desensitised themselves to such content in one of the most unhealthy ways
So violent rape videos or pictures/murders are not as terrifying as the comments? You didn't think this comment through did you!?
@@zeliminator666 unless you are really on some deep web shit, actual depiction of the act of sa isn't common on the site themselves. As for the deaths, those are a fact of life and nothing changes that no matter how they died. Yes, the acts are offensive, but only the offenders are to blame. But the people near self masturbating on racism in the comments aren't people you would ever like to meet.
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.
why r u looking at me like i made the shocksites
You’re kinda sus Ngl🤨
what proves you didn't HUH?
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
Great video. It covers these defunct websites' legacies pretty well. Rotten and LiveLeak were arguably the two largest "hubs" for shock content online.
I wasn't tricked into viewing anything shocking by my friends. I found it myself out of morbid curiosity as a young kid, looking up weird medical cases, disappearances, myths and unusual deaths. My first shock video was Budd Dwyer's suicide on LiveLeak after reading about the event on Wikipedia, and it was definitely at an inappropriate age. It solidified my interest in true crime, though.
Yeah buddy Dwyer was heartbreaking. So f'd up how he was found innocent after that. He was one that stuck with me just due to how clearly graphic it was. Granted there's certainly much worse like the cartel videos
@@Hay_BayCartels definitely don't fuck around. Has definitely given me context for those "when your friend says 'we aren't scared of you' to the cartel member" memes.
so technically 90% of gen z who had an unauthorized internet access as a kid was groomed on kik or has seen gore videos that not even the fbi knows it really exist
or both
man that sounds like a skill issue. i had unmoderated internet, and stuck to youtube. didnt get groomed since i didnt talk online, didnt see gore until recently when someone showed me cartel videos
@@Isaacthemaniac good for you?
@@Isaacthemaniac calling getting groomed on the internet and being exposed to gore videos as a kid "skill issue" is crazy.
@@Isaacthemaniac aa skill issue????? 😭😭
You have the definition of a thousand yard stare
Considering that she has probably seen some of the most disgusting and vile content on the web, i can understand why.
she’s probably seen more bad shit than most of us lol
They're just reading from a teleprompter. Chill
I can understand
Looking through a screen is completely different than experiencing something irl lmao. I mean sure if you’re fragile enough, but a person that went through something horrible irl is in a completely different category.
Damn lil lady idk what’s more shocking, the sites or the death stare you keep thru the whole vid 😭
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It was from all the traumatic gore videos she watched 👀
My kind of lady lol.
shut up
real
Thank god someone made a video on the history of these sites without just being like "Here! Let me show you my favourite execution video! Aren't mexicans scary?" :D
lmao
Yeah they are😭
I don't think you could do that on youtube. Your bar for standards was pretty low.
been waiting for a vid like this and clicked so fast lol, i literally know ALL the details of ALL the most popular/infamous shock sites and videos but did NOT allow myself to have to visual imagery stuck with me forever
@@majonezowekrolestwo3654 mexican here, boo!
Me after getting shown the most gruesome car crash live leak videos ever in my DRIVERS ED CLASS😭😭
I've never considered people using these sites to prepare for war and medical emergency. It's nice to know some people have found this stuff useful for coming to terms with their own lives, and perhaps preventing them from traumatising themselves in their work. Great video!
I heavily watched gore before becoming an EMT, which helped more than you can imagine. It helps normalize something our brains aren’t meant to see. But as someone who’s suffered with self harm in the past, watching videos of other people doing it also calmed mine and others urges to do so. Most people who watch gore are actually pretty normal lol
@Nekro_bird the two people that outright watched these gore sites and introduced me to it were sociopaths. They were both not normal. Eventually the went on to hurt people. Not physically but they did it in ways "normal people" would not. And they actually enjoyed watching the videos. While I cried or felt nauseous and had ptsd from watching it one sat stoic and the other laughed. Anything but normal. And the comments I've seen under all these gore videos not an ounce of humanity empathy fear or compassion. Just jokes laughs racism trolls and other evil responses. I use these gore sites as a red flag to stay away from anyone who watches them
@@721rena get trauma dumped and called a sociopath any %
@@Nekro_birdhe isnt wrong ive yet to meet a gore watcher who isnt a complete subhuman
@@dusk8408 at least I tried to find the humanity in ppl who watch gore. His opinion completely ignored what I said and insulted everyone who does. That’s like calling everyone on TH-cam immature children or everyone on Twitter angry millennials. General categorizing and insulting is illogical and one dimensional.
i think either way whether its to "bear witness" or to say "wow im so edgy", people look at gore to feel like they're on some moral highground and i think thats gross. you shouldnt be looking at people dying and then make yourself think you're a better person because of it. if you really wanna learn about the atrocities in the world read a book, watch the news, listen to true crime or something
The homophobia and shock content Venn Diagram is often just a perfect circle
Huh? I've never put the 2 together.
? o.O
yep. and not just homophobia but bigotry in general really
Because it all started on Something Awful/4chan
Holy shit Hannah
In the comments: wannabe edgelords that have no idea what they’re talking about.
First time seeing a video from this creator. And I instantly subscribed. Love the tone of voice and how clear their speech is.
Yes. I was 15 doing my homeschool work on a beautiful day. My mother calls me in her room to show me a video. I already felt uncomfortable with her showing me what seemed to be a normal porn scene. She said “just wait”. A cup later, I ran away as far as I could. I hate that woman.
Wow, I'm sorry for you. My mom was a bitch and very verbal abusive. I got away and went no contact
What mother shows that shit to her child
:C what!!! tell me you are not living with her anymore...im so sorry
That’s s***** abuse 😢
Jesus! Why would a mother do that? Hope you're doing ok in life.
I never really went on dedicated gore sites but when I was like 10 my mom let me make a Reddit account "as long as I asked her before joining any subreddits", as you can imagine I did not do that. One fateful day I was scrolling through an askreddit post while I was on the toilet and someone mentioned this silly little subreddit called r/eyeblech, I clicked on the link because they said not to and what else does one do when you're 10 and someone tells you not to do something, I promptly found out what a decapitated head looked like and came out of that bathroom a changed man. I continued to scroll through it semi-regularly for like a year for some unholy reason.
Your way of writing is so funny. 😂
@@User-qo6lp theyre a good storyteller lol
Did it help speed up the defecating process by any chance? 🤭 🤷♀️
Meatspin is downright wholesome.
No assault or horrific accident: just 2 adults enjoying eachother's company. 🥰
Didn't it contain a timer that logged how long it took to click off and comment(s) about how homophobic(?) you were?
I vaguely remember that
@@LisaGreene-o6x Yeah, I think after a hundred spins the site calls you gay. Highschool nostalgia.
I joined a true crime group on Facebook expecting DISCUSSION of crime. Multiple times people would state something being interesting with a link and it would be a beheading video. I don’t understand how that group gets away with that.
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 dont understand how people like watching this stuff and actively look for it... go take a shower...
morbid curiosity
@@IJFJJAJI not a justification for constantly watching that stuff, its perverted and depraved
@@sshiver.videoessays no it's just reality. Like watching uncensored news
@@IJFJJAJITo be honest once you see one bad gore video you seen them all.
@@IJFJJAJI I've seen ur replies on many comments, you're not edgy or cool you're just gross
It’s kind of adorable that Run The Gauntlet was like “if you don’t want to see gore, here’s a try not to cringe challenge ☺️”
i still remember "running the gauntlet" in middle school with friends and let me say that those videos still keep me up at night, no kids should see these things i don't care what anyone says.
And the fact that so many similar sites exist disgusts me.
16:15 One Piece
it's real!
Can we get much higher?
SO HIGHHH@@FatherExo
Unfriended is a great shitty horror movie. My girlfriend and I watched it on a laptop in the dark for full effect recently. Best way to watch that movie fr
Real! I love all kind of shitty movies, but horror is the best lol
it's actually so good
Well damn I guess I need to get a girlfriend then
one of my favorite movies for that reason lmao, went to see the second one in a movie theatre and that also hit too
@@grime69 nah laptop in the dark gf or no gf is a prime experience
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.
My ex bf frequented bestgore and liveleak as a child and now he has a panic disorder and a fixation with wanting to die in the military. I want studies to be done on ppls brains abt this
i have never seen that with people who frequented or became desensitized to seeing gore. might just be a skill issue on his part or something else causing it and the gore probably being a factor
@@CarBleach 🤨
Panic disorder and going into the military are incompatible lmao
Was he a good bf ?
@@theuncappedneedleyouforgot2664 nah he was not great, he had a lot of mental problems that made him a generally angry and paranoid person and he didnt know how to control those traits. He thought everyone and everything was evil/out to get him, i feel like that could definitely be drawn back to the immense violence exposure at a young age 🙃 pretty sure he did in fact join the military so yeah
Shock sites arent dead. They evolved to their own videos that are shared around discord and Twitter and even in some instances youtube.
thank god they didnt. they should be gatekept
Don’t forget Reddit… .
I'm glad someone knows this, I can't even remember the amount of times I've seen disturbing videos be shared in discord servers
So shock sites are dead.
@@digimonlover1632 not really. there are some that are not that mainstream yet
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.
the video itself is great but why are you staring into our souls like that😭😭
Thanks for new video Randy, I didn’t grow up watching gore or anything like that so it’s always interested me on the why of how come like 90% of my peers grew up frequenting these sites
I used to watch such videos so much when I was 15-16. I did become rather desensitised over time but I had to stop because I started noticing that this stuff affected my mood in a negative way and made me feel continuously anxious.
Some people say that watching gore made them treat death in a more natural way, being more aware how easily life can be taken away. I’m 21 now and not sure how it impacted me. I have a rather strong fear of death, so much that I’m always fearful on planes, trains, cars, worrying about my health etc. Maybe it’s just my mental health problems (I was super anxious even as a child) and it’s not related to my past gore watching experiences. But I think that maybe I still shouldn’t have spent so much time doing this