I remember them banning trenchcoats at my school which sucked for my friend who's family was poor and the only coat he owned was a trench coat long winter for my dude
*whose - the possessive pronoun indicating "belonging to who or whom" who's - a contraction of "who is", "who was", or "who has". Possessive pronouns never use apostrophes.
Our school blocked some sites like satanism sites, but not christian sites. They also didn't block the NRA, but did other interest groups/organizations. My IB class had to jump through so many hoops to have access to sites for our research essays and whatnot.
my mate managed to get hold of an admin account by means of an impressive bit of misdirection and sleight of hand in a computer science lesson and yea that's how we got access to stuff that should have been blocked
my school is so bad that if the article contains profane language or the words movie or game the page is automatically blocked. the word unblocked is also blocked too XD
I draw the line at kiddy porn, that should be illegal. Everything else is fair game, and even if I personally don't like it I will never try to supress you.
I find it interesting that all of these "think of the children" organisations always blame the content creators/publishers when their sites very clearly is aimed at adults. And if these parents are so concerned with what their child are doing online, why are they allowing them to browse that freely. They are the ones who are responsible for what they allow their children to do online. It's like having a house filled with loaded guns lying around everywhere and then blaming the gun manufacturers when your 3-year old shoots himself...
And today nearly every child grow up with a smartphone and the internet challenges, only on tiktok the have millions of brutal videos, drug abuse and more
plus think about where it came from, murders, maybe not even discovered put there, people taking photos ofother peoples problems sometimes death, thats just insensitive. it's not your problem but dont fight for that to exist, your argument is right, but in this case, it just shouldnt be there
Gravy web surf what’s up dude!? I hope you do more videos like the Wendy’s finger chili, that shit was fire. I been sharing that one with like a hundred people.
Soup of man anyone? The elderly man left his bath heater on and cooked himself for weeks after death? Tried taking him out and his bone slipped out of is flesh.. over cooked and tender
Ah yes, I remember this being the ultimate edge-lord site back in school days where if you could handle visiting this, you would be hailed a king within your group of odd outcasts. I miss school very much.
@Siedler Joe It's not a problem of parents wanting their children to see that shit, it's a problem that kids are curious and also are sheltered too much which makes them want to see and do shit more. Also, alot of these helpless kids you are putting into 1 category with 1 outcome is complete bullshit, yes it does scar some kids and there are creeps who enjoy seeing that nasty shit but there are also just as many if not more who are just curious sbout real life events from a source that has nothing to gain from outright lying about things. We deserve a source who will try to post factual events and pictures or video to go along with said event, we deserve a perspective of the common human and not one of a "high ranking " member of society.
You're right about that too. If you didn't go to these sites like Crazyshit and rotten then you were set as an outcast which is really strange looking back. lol
I remember stumbling upon Rotten around 7 or 9 and one of the photos that haunted me the most was a man's head chopped off on a helicopter pad. It further enabled a fear I had in really fast moving ceiling fans for a long time.
haha, damn I've just posted this and saw your message. That shit got stuck with me too!! It was a Sea hawk on a navy deck...That image stuck with me forever...
I miss this internet. The "Wild West" period of the internet (everything up to roughly 2007, pre-widespread smartphone/Facebook usage AKA pre-normies) was so drastically different to the internet of today that it might as well be something else entirely. RIP.
@@pantost5533 There was a hoax on Rotten dot com where they convinced people that you could grow a cat inside of a jar. It was called Bonzai Cat. It was so ridiculous that it was hilarious
@@DoubleOddJosh I mean, honestly, if you did it right you probably could. Not really any functional difference to those square melons they make in Japan, or how the Chinese used to deform women's feet in those wooden box shoes. It's horrifying, but probably possible.
Charley An Same. I don't know why I wanted to see that kind of crap when I was a kid... but now that I have people I love and care about it disturbs me more to view that kind of shit.
It's library section was so ahead of its time when it came to conspiracies. I'll never forget the words of their librarian. "We're all in this together but we all die alone."
@@clarencep90I remember being on Rotten over at a friends house and he showed me two mexican guys getting beheaded with a chainsaw. It ruin my cranium and brain for weeks.
I see Rotten the same way I see 4chan. I don't like the sites, but I like what they stand for. I don't like the mentality of those who visit them, but I like the mentality of those who created them. In an ocean of "We must censor this, for the sanity of future generations" versus "We can't censor this, for the sanity of future generations", both sites just decided "Screw this noise, here's something to piss both sides off and we're gonna do whatever we can to keep this legal. And when it stops pissing people off, we'll make it even more extreme, just to prove a point."
,so you stand on the sidelines like a btch while all the counter culture sites get ate up/throttled by big tech? Supporting them in private from a far is worse then just screaming for them to be removed. At least those people have balls.
I remember Bonsai Kitten appearing in the news on my country (Chile) I was just a child back then and I was fucking terryfied, so for like a full week I didn't let our cat to go outside of the house.
@@pantost5533 El video po wea, la wea de los gatos Bonsai de que habian unos chinos metiendo gatitos en botellas y despues vendian la wea. Toda la historia qla era falsa, pero la dieron en las noticias como si la wea fuera real y capaz que haya hasta un capitulo qlo de la ley de la selva hablando de la wea.
I think they're being sarcastic, since there were politicians and religious leaders who were anti-gay marriage who got caught having sex with men and male prostitutes.
@@plokijuh5830 I think they're talking about Juanita Brodderick and a few other women William Clinton (allegedly) raped, not to mention: - while "getting a blow job from someone who is not your wife _while in the office and on the clock_ " may not be that big a deal to you, Bill still should have went to jail simply for compromising himself. What if Monica had a gun/knife/pair of scissors/ a tape recorder/bug to plant under the desk while blowing him? Hell, his entire secret service detail should have gone to jail too for allowing someone without a proper pat down to regularly go into the Oval Office. Could you imagine turning on the news and seeing a report about the Oval Office blowing up because someone with a bomb blew off the president? Thankfully for Bill, Monica wasn't politically motivated.
I remember rotten, I was mostly interested in weird diseases at the time, another kid told me about it. It's weird how I sound like an old person talking about the days of rationing now
@@JustinWhangYt It's most likely the fact that the person experiencing said disease is still alive, very much so in fact. Gorey deaths are dead people, no longer living or suffering, when disease stricken people are alive and suffering from a potential life changing and emotionally/physically scarring ailment. I'm tired as shit, so I'm sorry if this didn't make much sense.
I remember the Rotten site, it was one of those things me and my friends used to nervously visit once in a rare while when we were tired of flashring/albinoBS/ebaums/newgrounds, etc. Most of the shit was just kind of interesting in a Ripley's kind of way (like a black and white photo of a dude casually showing his ass, which was blackish cos it was struck by lightning). But there was occasionally deeply (VERY DEEPLY) regrettable clicks like a pic of a drowned chick lying next to a gutter, she was pasty and bloated like a balloon with soft eyes that looked melted and jello-y. Some of the mental images of what I'd seen there never left me, even as an adult that's on the cusp of 30. But that was kind of the magic of the internet in those days, you never know what you'd find if you carelessly click around. It sometimes felt like you'd see more bizarre personal webpages (usually shittily constructed) than ads. Imagine that.
I know the post mortem pictures of Elizabeth Short/Black Dahlia have often been shared around for shock value and have a desensitized quality, esp cuz theyre black and white, but the picture of her face in particular randomly emerges in my mental image and makes me feel sick. I feel so guilty for feeling that way because she was a human being and doesnt deserve to be remembered that way
@@InvaderGIR98 Yeah, I support these sites’ “free speech” drives, but it’s just a disturbing invasion of privacy (and not at all educational) to pass around pictures of corpses that definitely didn’t get next-of-kin’s consent to share…
Oh yea I remember me and my friends doing ‚competitions‘ of how could scroll down further. This + starting to frequent 4chan as a tween (rule 30, I know) definitely shaped me. I also won‘t forget how I was an Inu Yasha fan at about 8 y/o, googled for a picture to print and hang on my wall and poor little me had to look at hentai on the first page of image results. Truly a different time :‘)
Hey Whang, ever considered doing a video on the history of the tumblr Socially Unacceptable Artwork? I remember first finding their blog a couple years back and finding it interesting just how many really disturbing artworks were in their NSFW section, like hardcore euro guro content involving vocaloid mascots, anime characters, OC's, and etc. They were taken down only to respawn several times before seeming to fade into obscurity.
@@wolfetteplays8894 I'll be honest in that I don't think so. They were up before Undertale and its sequel, and I don't think any of the respawns came up during that time. Some infamous ones I remember from their NSFW section are a one page of vocaloid Kaito cutting himself while crying and I think having his tears wiped (euro guro, and it was fetishized and he looked younger). I remember vocaloid Miku having her head cut off. I'm remembering plenty of scat pics but not specifics.. I also remember an Orochimaru from Naruto torturing and r*ping someone in a h*llscape. Plenty more. I also remember their other sections where they had a great execution but terrible concept for the good artwork that was just plain wtf, and of course a section for just plain bad and ugly artwork for really weird proportions or other weird stuff (some fandom shipping was here, and I remember some either Sonic or Shadow x Shrek)
I will always remember the photo of a guy with his arm up to his elbow chunked up in a meat grinder. Thanks Dan, it’s as vivid as the day you called me over to the computer to see it.
A.J. Bauer Both of my moms (divorced parents) are obsessed with investigation discovery. Why is this a thing??? why are there so many moms obsessed with this???
@@stinky9706 My initial assumption is that it was because Mom knew who Joe Kenda was before the show even existed. Every episode of Homicide Hunter takes place in Colorado Springs, which is where we used to live when I was young. Apparently Mom had been living in Colorado Springs before I was even born and we left in 2000 over the mother of all family dramas which I won't go into. Apparently she would read about crimes that Lt. Joe Kenda solved in the papers. In 1996 Joe Kenda retired from the force and in 2011 he got his own show: Homicide Hunter. Only recently have I made notice of her watching this show and I'm not sure when it started exactly. Mom loves to force me to play Skip-Bo and Phase 10 (The most boring card games ever made) and after my sister got a Hulu account I talked her into letting us watch reality TV while we played. Personally, I don't care for most forms of reality TV but it was a good distraction for a while. After running out of episodes of Kitchen Nightmares she asked me if Joe Kenda was on Hulu and I found him. So recently we had been watching this show together while playing mostly Phase 10 since the game usually lasts 40 minutes (The length of each episode). Occasionaly she'd say something like "Oh, yeah I read about this one in the papers." During one of the episodes she named a suspect before the show even did because she recognized the case. While I wasn't as into as her I did find it interesting and was surprised at the show's high budget gore effects. I assumed this was just a trip down memory lane and this was just a thing with MY Mom specifically. But I guess this is a running theme with Moms? Fine by me, murder is actually pretty interesting. There are definitely lamer things she could force me to watch.
Sometimes I wish I was alive in the 90’s just to experience things like early internet, Y2K... it all seemed so wild. Great video!! They give me a little inside of what I missed while in the womb!
Yeah, but you had to use a dialup modem to access it. As the phone service was cheaper in the weekends, I could only get on the internet on Saturdays and Sundays. I could download one 3MB mp3 file in the 40 minutes per day I had. And if I was lucky, it was actually the song I wanted and the compression didn't completely drown out the music.
Y2K was wild. Turns out the "computer bug" they warned us about was a giant android mosquito that terrorised the world for 3 days straight before being scared off by Japan's military and their secret gundam army. Sadly all of the photos online were destroyed by a problem with the clocks.
Asking out of curiosity who was born in '93, but what was it like browsing sites like Rotten back in the day? I know people usually meme about how slow the Internet was back then, but I can only guess how frustrating or difficult it may have been if that's the case.
I remember seeing the bonsai kitten when it happened, photoshop wasn't ubiquitous yet. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, they had me fooled for a good half hour.
I remember a photo of a motorcyclist whose head hit a tyre and his face was shredded into tenticles from the tyre with his helmet smashed to pieces. I ride a motorbike now. Go figure.
I remember that photo with the caption "don't put fireworks in your mouth" also,very disturbed having heard the actual story at that tender age, good old internet
I remember getting mails with Bonsai Kitten pictures and thinking it was real when i was a kid, it disturbed me for years. Until this day even tho i know it's a joke it still gets to me. I can't stop thinking some weirdo thought it was cool and tried it for real somewhere in the world.
You're not much younger than I am! I was a university freshman when I discovered Rotten for myself, and somehow I managed to retain my empathy for humanity.
remember it would load so slowly. it would load from the top of the picture and progress lower. So when it was a horrible picture like from rotten, the tension would build as it would load over the course of 2 or so minutes. Man that was horrifying seeing something fucked up and not knowing exactly what it was until a minute later when the rest loaded in.
As an angsty teen I loved rotten. The one I remember the most was the old guy who made a home made bath heater out of a kettle element and got stuck in the bath. The pictures were of this lumpy burnt human soup
BOOOPPER DOOOPPER it was so long ago i dont remember. Im sure u could search it on the site. I would link it but i dont really enjoy seeing that stuff anymore
I remember in high school some weirdo in my class, would print pictures from that site and show them to kids in the class. Noone liked him and he was soon expelled. To this day, no matter how hard I tried, I can still see those images.
From a mom's perspective, I'm simultaneously dismayed and relieved that my kids will never experience the internet days of yore; furthermore, I have no clue why I am obsessed with reality murder tv shows but oh GOD I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THEM
I'm a mom and I don't care for ID network lol . Which is odd because I otherwise love true crime documentaries and books. I remember the rotten site when I was a teenager and in high school in my study hall we were allowed to view it along with porn sites. This was obviously before schools set up firewalls.
A friend told me about the site at work in the mid 2000s. I would check it out from time to time out of curiosity. And I have to say, after a few days of looking at a few of the pictures, i felt the ugly in my soul. I've stopped checking it out and never went back.
Pay attention to the commercials and you can instantly tell who the channel is marketing toward. It's one of the reasons the media doesn't go after drug companies in this country, ever notice their commercials? Watch the show Ancient Aliens sometime and you can tell what they think of people who watch the show, nothing but how to kick your addiction to drugs commercials.
Rotten had a lot of great sister sites that unfortunately are no longer updated. Rotten Library, Rotten News, NNDB, GapingMaw, Penny Postcards & Dr Sputnik just to name a few are absolutely fantastic in their own right, but unfortunately hopeless outdated. It's a shame the owner(s) of Rotten didn't pass the torch on to others to continue keeping the site active. What's also notable is they never had ads or anyway to monetize Rotten, so how they went for so long without income is really astonishing in itself.
@@pogue972 couldn't we just do the same thing that every one from SCP did and just bring all that fun trolling and awesome digusting stuff back? I mean it's all still out there as far as content just need it to be brought back up to the surface :) make morbid curiosity great again :D!!
@@fatman6660 There's tons of sites with pictures of death & horror. I can't post the links or it will get marked as spam. There was one that charged for access, I can't recall the name off the top of my head. But Google will help you find them. Findadeath is one of my personal favorites, but unfortunately the original owner now gives tours of murder sites & cemeteries in LA and doesn't update as frequently. TH-cam also has a lot of gore too, believe it or not.
I legit cracked up every single time the name "Burlington Coat Factory" was said. The best part of this is that Burlington Coat Factory has no idea how humorous Burlington Coat Factory sounds when you say Burlington Coat Factory that many times. Case in point, read my whole post out loud. It just gets funnier the more times Burlington Coat Factory is used in a sentence or paragraph to refer to Burlington Coat Factory in such a matter-of-fact way. Burlington Coat Factory takes Burlington Coat Factory so deadpan seriously, and Burlington Coat Factory is only making it worse by repeating Burlington Coat Factory. P.S: Burlington Coat Factory.
What is a strange disease.....you can't just make a statement and not add the subject of the statement. If no one gets this then r/whoosh just came for you like a ninja in the dark of night.....
I feel bad for laughing at the Burlington Coat Factory thing, mostly due to the columbine shooting being involved, but oh my god, that was just perfectly done. I remember the bonsai kittens and I honestly thought they were real as a kid and was so angry.
trevor wall Not really Best Gore has some tendencies to censor shit not aligning with their owners political beliefs. The site you want to see is DocumentingReality, yes it is a paid site but they aren't removing comments.
@@chdreturns I know what you mean the bg comment section is a total shit show I personally like it for the crash carnage and workplace accidents I ride and work with machinery so I like to think it keeps me from becoming complacent and ending up in a bucket
Best gore is run by a raging racist piece of garbage. There's a whole section about the "holocaust hoax " and the captions about murdered woman are more disturbing than the pictures sometimes.
Yep, I remember being a teenager in 97 and waiting 5 mins for one image to loa on Rotten lol it would usually be something like a decapitated motorcyclist in South America. I can't remember how we discovered Rotten but I think we may have been looking for photos of the Essex Boys Rettendon gangland shootings.
I can’t even remember the exact age I found Rotten. I was just a lover of urban legends and horror stories and I had run out of stuff to read. So I desperately looked through links until I found some site that leaked crime scene photos (no clue if they were real or not). I was shocked, but now I was able to see the injuries described in horror stories. I was morbidly curious. I started searching up the gory imagery described in the horror stories I read. Through that searching, Rotten came up in the search. I was a messed up kid who was just curious. That was all.
I think it's pretty healthy to find just about everything facinating, never hurts to understand things. If anything, it makes people much more well rounded when they decided to find out for themselves why people do XYZ, starts that realisation of why people do stuff and why bad things happen, instead of just making up whatever sounds about right!
My morbid curiosity in dark and disturbing stuff came more in my 20s, I wasn't equipped emotionally to see that shit even in my teens, Twisted Metal Black alone fucked me up and that was 2000s CG. I only ever heard about that kind of really disturbing stuff at school sometimes, and at the time was taken aback and glad I didn't see it. These days, I'm more curious, not that keen on seeing grisly violence and gore, but it's surprisingly fascinating to read about really dark things such as the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary, or various war crimes.
I first heard of Rotten because the company I’ve worked for since 1999 was one of the ones that threatened legal action against them. They were even mentioned in this video. However, the image that had them threatening Rotten actually became a favorite among my coworkers. We even had a printed copy framed in our office.
I’ve only recently discovered this channel, and may I just say I absolutely love your content! If you ever consider it, you should do something with Internet Historian. You both make a very similar kind of content (although you go about it in different ways) and both of you do it very well! It’s always interesting hearing about the history of the internet from entertaining personalities! Keep up the good work, you’ve definitely earned my subscription!
I found out about it in HS. Our art teacher gave no fucks at all. We'd just browse it on the one computer in the classroom. Some kids would turn away, some would pretend it was funny with fake-laughs (No idea why, but it was very obvious). Very few were pleasuring themselves, so that was a good sign at least.. I remember very little about it, but some things do stick out: Dude who had his face nose-down turned into a bloody squid from a motorcycle accident. Some guy dead on a train track with a floppy face. Then you have the infamous Tubgirl. I was never that fascinated by gore. It was interesting when I was a youngling for about a second. Now, I'm neither shocked or interested. I do believe, however, that at a certain age, at least seeing some of that stuff is...kinda good for you? For instance, Budd Dwyer, while horrific, has deep layers of social, and psychological questioning attached to it (Filter even did a song about it). I've seen a lot of violence and some death growing up, and I think knowing that life is not like a movie can help kids during potentially traumatic events when they arise. I mean, it's still gonna fuck you up on some level if you have decency in your bones, but going through life with nothing but daises in your brain can unbuckle you if something traumatic ever happens. I also believe some who experience the worst of the internet could get fucked in a very bad way. There's no turning back, and some weak stomachs regret it. It's a messy topic for sure.
Agree totally, anyone can learn to see such things, and may benefit from that resilience. Seeing death with your own eyes was commonplace not that many hundred years ago!! Seeing really nasty stuff made me aware unconsciously that I was able to see those things without damage in person, and I never had any doubts as an EMT that very little could get to me. But then again, I find major trauma fascinating! Most people have a morbid curiosity, and yeah, it does feel strange and poignant to see someone who was deceased for the first time. I think you've hit on a key life learning point: what tv shows, films, and book show you isn't fact! People often don't drop dead after a single bullet wound to the chest, car's don't blow up GTA style as standard when they crash. Or that most serious fights are over in a matter of seconds. Blood packs and squibs are massive exaggerations of bullet wounds, which don't even bleed until a good few seconds in, and you won't see chunks of gore going everywhere! Death is inevitable, and I think people build a fear of it. Seeing someone go from unsustainable heart rhythm, to cardiac arrest, and then gradually change colour and appear to just become a she of a person... it change my life in a lot of ways.. it made me better at my job to see what people look like when they're on the edge, I look forward to death, and want to know what it feels like, what happens afterwards, if anything. I know that cardiac arrest feels much like passing out, and after than, you don't have senses for long after going unconscious. Sure, the part leading up to that may be painful or distressing, that's all I'd rather not experience. What would scar one person, could be the making of another
That motorcycle victim with the squid face thing you mentioned was the most brutal thing I'd ever seen at the time, I later read somewhere the guy turned out to be a victim of you can call him that of attempted shotgun suicide
Do you remember the taxi driver who ate a 12g point blank shit was grim oh and the Brazilian bus shooting wtf I was literally 12 thinking about it I definitely should not have been looking around on there
Yep. Chechclear will forever be with me. It changed me. It was horrible to see what things people only talked about or nonchalantly said. It changed me.
So... All the people who found Rotten through their mum - How did that happen? Was she like 'I found the _best_ site, I've gotta show my pre-teen child!' or was it more a she heard of it and told you not to go there, but you did anyway, coz, gawshhh I can _handle_ it, _MUM,_ I'm 11 now, jeeze! kinda deal? The idea of browsing Rotten with my mum is worse than anything actually on Rotten lmao
I feel like it was more of a “I heard of this awful site called Rotten today, have you heard of it??” kind of thing, I found some interesting stuff that way when I was a teenager lol
Sat here at early on a Sunday morning, couldn't sleep but it's still dark outside. Started binge watching your channel and it's brilliant! I've never heard of loads of the subject matter so I'm just absorbing it all. Really entertaining. thanks.
The person or persons who wrote the Rotten Library had the cheekiest, most wicked, scathingly-sardonic, offensively poignant sense of humor I have ever encountered in all my travels.
of course it is. This moustachio wearing über cool nerd is just trying to project meaning and importance on something stupid and fucked up on the internet.
The story behind it was that the guy who created it found photos of crime scenes, odd diseases, medical deformities, and so on really interesting and wanted to create a place for them.
I heard of Rotten by word of mouth in middle school but, when I first heard of it, my family hadn't yet owned a computer or the internet. We eventually got a computer and I eventually checked out Rotten and I was shocked out of my mind. Soon, I went back and then discovered Steakandcheese ans Stileproject. Good times...
Love your content man, but you need to look deeper into Nord VPN. They absolutely do keep records of where you go, and if they are contacted by legal authorities about where you've been, they will provide the information. Just looking out for you here. I don't believe you're lying to anybody, but you've been misinformed. I don't want you to "Philly D" yourself. :)
the dude I thought the same, too. Once a VPN service becomes so big or corporate(just like any other service) the magic is lost & they have more possible liabilities to protect themselves from. That being said, my dumb self uses Hola, because I'm lazy. I need to switch already. I've installed & uninstalled that thing so many times just for one-time usage. I shudder to think what my poor laptop has been subjected to because of that poor decision... Getting a new laptop soon though & will probably just buy a more reliable/private VPN instead of risking it like the old one...
I know it's a silly point to make, but Columbine was never the "deadliest" mass shooting of its time. 10 years prior, in Canada of all places, a larger body count was had at Ecole Polytechnique.
I watched 6 Russian conscripts, tied, hands behind their back, laying in the dirt. Looked like it was dawn by the lighting. You could see everything but the embers from the previous night's campfire still glowed in the low light. The sneering Chechen walked up the line of the young conscripts, giggling as he grabbed the small, blunt looking knife. Could be have been more tan a 5 inch blade. The first boy, couldn't have been older than 19, could do nothing but grimace as the sneering Chechen grabbed him by the hair, lifting his head of the ground, exposing his throat. At first he didn't make a noise, he never cried out in pain. Just kept that grimace and his eyes shut tight. When that tiny blade got half way through his windpipe, then the noises started. Blood shot out through his clenched teeth and poured from his mouth, his nose and his neck. The noise of air mixing with blood. Gargling from the inside of his stomach. Involuntary defining sounds of agony - while his mouth remained shut tight. Seeing this wasn't the worst part. Seeing the 5 remaining young men bound in the same way, listening to this happen next to them and hearing the Chechen laugh. That was the hardest part to swallow. I could out myself in their shoes. None of them looked up from the ground. One by one they went down the line. Taking their time. The sun started to come up more and you could see the area glisten bright red. By the 5th conscript they got bored. The cut him loose and played with him a little. Stabbing him in the skull, the neck, the back. He still got up. They let him run a few meters before they dragged him back. He kneeled in all fours like a dog this time, while his head was all but sawn off. Alive and in agony the whole time. I saw this video on rotten when I was 8 and have never seen it again. It's my oldest, clearest childhood memory. I was a weird kid after that. As I grew older I suffered from anxiety and acrophobia. Not as a direct result of that video, but because of a series of events that video set off. Thanks Rotten
They showed this video or part of it on a news channel when I was a kid. No warning or anything of the sort. I saw some seconds of it but the image is still very vivid. Terrible thing to see when you were the least prepared for it.
You are a good writer. Also when i was younger i used get an itch to watch gore but i have never seen that video .Has to be the most brutal killing. Very brave soilders those russians.
Man so many of your videos bring me right back to middle school in the mid-early 2000’s lol. I remember they had top ten poops people had taken that looked weird, helicopter accidents, etc, it was messed up. The internet was the literal Wild West back then
Boomers : Revolutionize the world with the the internet practically making all information free and accessible. Zoomers : Use it to upload dog filter selfies
My sister was of those idiots who thought bonsaikittens was real. To make it worse she was around 16 and still thought it was real, she probabley thinks Facebook videos are real too.
What fucks me up about reality so much is how much the Overton Window has shifted. As a horror movie loving death metal burnout of the 80's, I loved hating republicans. Now you have radical leftists complaining about stand up comedy jokes. I don't even know who to hate anymore.
I loved rotten and the dailyrotten news. I submitted stories to their "Daily Rotten News" and was always excited when one of my submissions made it to their list of "rotten news." I forget how I found it. I knew about it in HS when it first came out and I showed it to my college buddies. It was fascinating.
I remember discovering the site as a kid at a friend's house after school. I thought it was the most disgusting thing i've ever witnessed, but for some odd reason, i couldn't stop watching it, haha. After that, i spent like hours trying to find pictures of Kurt Cobain's body and other dead celebrities, and also of the victims at Columbine. Back then, my family didn't had that much money so i had to wear my brother's trench coat for a while, so i kinda experienced the whole "trench coat ban" at school at some point, but i never got suspended or anything, because i always left my coat at home, and thanks to that, i got sick, haha.
I’ll never forget the day my dad told me about this site. We used to watch crazy ass movies together and he had quite a past so he was really excited to be able to see the real thing again
I remember the one photo that gave me nightmares wasn't even gore. It was a photo of a thick lady wrapped in string so her skin rolled out between the string like a ripple going through her body. This description sounds way cooler than it looked. And honestly the aol chatrooms had the worst things out of all the internet.
Internet culture came pretty late in my country so the first time I (sorta) heard about Rotten was around early 2000's, although basically it all started when I was surfing with a friend in an Internet cafe, and my friend suggested me to search up for that site but he couldn't recall its name. Eventually we settled with "Disgusting pictures" and all we got was a photo of someone's dad sleeping.
Safety Not Guaranteed: th-cam.com/video/rj9acDtMooA/w-d-xo.html
Ebaumsworld vs YTMND: th-cam.com/video/gNQK_oaCauE/w-d-xo.html
Make something about ogrish
Whang! How old are you, my man? I figured my sister and I were the last living people with accessible AOL accounts lol.
Dude how many people have told you to start a podcast? Anyways start a podcast!
Chrono Trigger!! 😉😊😎
HE'S GETTING STRONGER.
WHANG! IS GETTING STRONGER.
WE MUST.
STOP HIM.
I remember them banning trenchcoats at my school which sucked for my friend who's family was poor and the only coat he owned was a trench coat long winter for my dude
Sick profile pic my guy. Garruk shall return
@stockart whiteman yeah fuck em trench coats used to be cool
I no longer have black trenchcoats because of that
*whose - the possessive pronoun indicating "belonging to who or whom"
who's - a contraction of "who is", "who was", or "who has".
Possessive pronouns never use apostrophes.
Oof trench coats are gay
"Think if the children!"
They put multiple filters on our school computers and we always found exploits. Just parent your kids.
Our school blocked some sites like satanism sites, but not christian sites. They also didn't block the NRA, but did other interest groups/organizations. My IB class had to jump through so many hoops to have access to sites for our research essays and whatnot.
my mate managed to get hold of an admin account by means of an impressive bit of misdirection and sleight of hand in a computer science lesson and yea that's how we got access to stuff that should have been blocked
I used a vpn to access TH-cam, Myspace, and Twitter
my school is so bad that if the article contains profane language or the words movie or game the page is automatically blocked. the word unblocked is also blocked too XD
@@Dumb_Killjoy nice pfp. Three Cheers is the best.
The internet used to be soooooo mysterious back then
Kinda makes me feel nostalgic.
Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland!
Still is if you know where to look
For real, how I miss those old days of IRC and easy hacks
It still is it's called the deep web
I draw the line at kiddy porn, that should be illegal. Everything else is fair game, and even if I personally don't like it I will never try to supress you.
Fair
Isn't it funny that gore and shock and free speech content is still being censored but pedophilia is slowly becoming normalized? :^)
Hazarth It’s all part of their plan.
@Stale Bagelz wow, your personality is as stale as your bagels, huh
@@Hazarth it's literally the opposite but ok
The Devil and I went back in time and sent you that email. Will provide video proof at a later date.
Thank you
Shit, at this point I wouldn't be surprised.
of fucking course
you two would
Now that’s a crossover im on the internet for
My mom (nurse) showed me this website when i was 12.
i love you mom
Bro you gotta tell us why
W h y t h o ?
@Slimmestbox oh you want to see the link?
@@bus_fingers cause
@@GOFFBITZH666 Why not?
It's weird how it has become part of the late 90's / early 2000's internet experience to just, be young kids exposed to huge amounts of shock imagery.
Its the pluto in scorpio generation the people born until 1996 are all interested in this morbid shit..
I find it interesting that all of these "think of the children" organisations always blame the content creators/publishers when their sites very clearly is aimed at adults. And if these parents are so concerned with what their child are doing online, why are they allowing them to browse that freely. They are the ones who are responsible for what they allow their children to do online. It's like having a house filled with loaded guns lying around everywhere and then blaming the gun manufacturers when your 3-year old shoots himself...
And today nearly every child grow up with a smartphone and the internet challenges, only on tiktok the have millions of brutal videos, drug abuse and more
why look at those sites, i dont understand why it needs to exist though, its sick-
plus think about where it came from, murders, maybe not even discovered put there, people taking photos ofother peoples problems sometimes death, thats just insensitive. it's not your problem but dont fight for that to exist, your argument is right, but in this case, it just shouldnt be there
@@LanguageBLOX1_Altwhy shouldn't it be ? Really why? Do you have any objective point? Or is it all subjective?
@@Ggggggfefdffporn existed before the digital era man.
I think this is the first Whang video i've seen where it's daylight in the background
No way is it really you wavey?
It is
Gravy web surf what’s up dude!? I hope you do more videos like the Wendy’s finger chili, that shit was fire. I been sharing that one with like a hundred people.
I never knew it was a window untill i read this comment
I started shooting this one at night, but I got tired and redid it in the morning
Soup of man anyone? The elderly man left his bath heater on and cooked himself for weeks after death? Tried taking him out and his bone slipped out of is flesh.. over cooked and tender
What?
Autumn Rose jeez.. rotten sounded exciting
Was the guy's name Stew?... I'll see myself out.
That’s disgusting!
Who would overcook a soup with so much potential?
I remember! I wish I didn't!
Ah yes, I remember this being the ultimate edge-lord site back in school days where if you could handle visiting this, you would be hailed a king within your group of odd outcasts.
I miss school very much.
@Siedler Joe It's a parent's job to protect their kids, not the government.
@Siedler Joe It's not a problem of parents wanting their children to see that shit, it's a problem that kids are curious and also are sheltered too much which makes them want to see and do shit more. Also, alot of these helpless kids you are putting into 1 category with 1 outcome is complete bullshit, yes it does scar some kids and there are creeps who enjoy seeing that nasty shit but there are also just as many if not more who are just curious sbout real life events from a source that has nothing to gain from outright lying about things. We deserve a source who will try to post factual events and pictures or video to go along with said event, we deserve a perspective of the common human and not one of a "high ranking " member of society.
You're right about that too. If you didn't go to these sites like Crazyshit and rotten then you were set as an outcast which is really strange looking back. lol
LMFAO RIGHT?!
Siedler Joe Kids shouldn't be on the internet you fucking commie
I remember stumbling upon Rotten around 7 or 9 and one of the photos that haunted me the most was a man's head chopped off on a helicopter pad. It further enabled a fear I had in really fast moving ceiling fans for a long time.
haha, damn I've just posted this and saw your message. That shit got stuck with me too!! It was a Sea hawk on a navy deck...That image stuck with me forever...
i remember that picture
I member that
i see that too ..
@@mcclussy552 You "member that"..? What, are you like 8 or...
Every middle school sleepover had that one friend that would pull this site up. I never looked, I didn’t want to know.
ignorance will not save you
I was that friend.
@@Capybaraism Same.
That was me. Sorry..
Dont forget me calling you a pussy cause you wouldnt
Rotten made me afraid of trains.
Please kids, get off the tracks. You can’t win.
Thomas The Tank Engine is a serial killer
this reminds me of the south park episode where they make fun of memes
Can't win?
HOLD MY BEER!
@@trdacy oh looooordie
Mind the gap :^)
Loved this in depth look at Rotten. I've discussed it before but you did a waaaaaay better job here!
Thanks, I appreciate that!
hi reignbot
OMG it's Reign Bot! When you doing Faces/Traces of Death?
Ahh i love you Reignbot. Glad to see 2 of my fav youtubers colliding like this
Whoop! Hey, cool of you to give props. Muahs.
I can never get the image out my head of the old man who died in his bathtub and turned into soup or all the meat grinder pics🍖🥩
The guy who only had his knees sticking out? I remember.
Yeah i could imagine
Omg the meat grinder......
i remember that. image stuck in head forever
druеe dorbеrt grandpa soup
I miss this internet. The "Wild West" period of the internet (everything up to roughly 2007, pre-widespread smartphone/Facebook usage AKA pre-normies) was so drastically different to the internet of today that it might as well be something else entirely. RIP.
I wish you could take the people who only really got online in the web 2.0 era and transport them back to this time and see what happens.
@@JustinWhangYt honestly they would probably just stop using the internet
@@paul123701 haha so true
@@JustinWhangYt I'd give them 5 minutes before they get their first virus
Essentially it was like the dark web found on a geocities or angelfire site. Lol
So you're telling me that you can't grow a cat in a jar?
No they just want the cat jars to themselves.
Damn :(
it just sounds cruel
@@pantost5533
There was a hoax on Rotten dot com where they convinced people that you could grow a cat inside of a jar. It was called Bonzai Cat. It was so ridiculous that it was hilarious
@@DoubleOddJosh I mean, honestly, if you did it right you probably could. Not really any functional difference to those square melons they make in Japan, or how the Chinese used to deform women's feet in those wooden box shoes. It's horrifying, but probably possible.
I had a stronger stomach back then when I could tolerate Rotten morbid contents, but man, I developed more of a empathetic nature as I grew older.
Same.
Same man, I’m honestly glad about that.
@LeCoolFace Then don't correlate between the two.
@LeCoolFace - Thanks, Lt. Commander Data. We humans have what are called "expressions".
Charley An Same. I don't know why I wanted to see that kind of crap when I was a kid... but now that I have people I love and care about it disturbs me more to view that kind of shit.
It's library section was so ahead of its time when it came to conspiracies. I'll never forget the words of their librarian. "We're all in this together but we all die alone."
I'll never forget that kids hand in a meat grinder
Yo I remember that one. Damn that was some other shit.
The one I remember most is the parrot sitting on a big dick. That was just weird and funny.
Why you even fking bring it up. Hnnnnnng
All mangled and twisted👌
@@clarencep90I remember being on Rotten over at a friends house and he showed me two mexican guys getting beheaded with a chainsaw. It ruin my cranium and brain for weeks.
I see Rotten the same way I see 4chan. I don't like the sites, but I like what they stand for. I don't like the mentality of those who visit them, but I like the mentality of those who created them.
In an ocean of "We must censor this, for the sanity of future generations" versus "We can't censor this, for the sanity of future generations", both sites just decided "Screw this noise, here's something to piss both sides off and we're gonna do whatever we can to keep this legal. And when it stops pissing people off, we'll make it even more extreme, just to prove a point."
@@silenthills3801 I was wondering the same?
Lando Calrissian Maybe their talking about the constant trolling and doxing on 4chan that makes it famous?
,so you stand on the sidelines like a btch while all the counter culture sites get ate up/throttled by big tech? Supporting them in private from a far is worse then just screaming for them to be removed. At least those people have balls.
True.
COPA... or you could try parenting instead.
Holly austin you know parents don’t wanna do that! The blonde boss lady is letting me have a vacation. 🙄🤣
(Sarcasm don’t worry)
people can't handle "adulting" in their 20s, we both know parenting is beyond anything short of failure for them.
This aged well
Moss ' wowie
Moss ' ikr
I remember Bonsai Kitten appearing in the news on my country (Chile) I was just a child back then and I was fucking terryfied, so for like a full week I didn't let our cat to go outside of the house.
Si me acuerdo wn skskks también salió la noticia de 2 guys 1 hammer, no sé que tan viral tuvo que ser la wea pa que salga hasta en las noticias
Wena cabros, de verdad salió la wea de los gatos acá? En que canal?
El mega o algún canal así
@@pantost5533 El video po wea, la wea de los gatos Bonsai de que habian unos chinos metiendo gatitos en botellas y despues vendian la wea. Toda la historia qla era falsa, pero la dieron en las noticias como si la wea fuera real y capaz que haya hasta un capitulo qlo de la ley de la selva hablando de la wea.
That’s actually kind of cute. Lol the naïveté.
Bill Clinton signing an anti indecency law OMEGALUL
Hey now he did not have any sexual relationship with that women
I think they're being sarcastic, since there were politicians and religious leaders who were anti-gay marriage who got caught having sex with men and male prostitutes.
Getting a blowjob does not equal watching the sick shit on those websites you weird fucks.
@@plokijuh5830 I think they're talking about Juanita Brodderick and a few other women William Clinton (allegedly) raped, not to mention:
- while "getting a blow job from someone who is not your wife _while in the office and on the clock_ " may not be that big a deal to you, Bill still should have went to jail simply for compromising himself. What if Monica had a gun/knife/pair of scissors/ a tape recorder/bug to plant under the desk while blowing him? Hell, his entire secret service detail should have gone to jail too for allowing someone without a proper pat down to regularly go into the Oval Office.
Could you imagine turning on the news and seeing a report about the Oval Office blowing up because someone with a bomb blew off the president? Thankfully for Bill, Monica wasn't politically motivated.
Big Chungus
I like how you guys say that all accusations of rape without evidence are bad except for the guy who represents the party you hate
I'm a newcomer, holy shit, this channel is awesome. Expertly entertaining, and I'm still laughing when he cut to Ninja at "diseases." Nicely done!
Yeah 🙂
uploading at 6 AM EST. Whang you're an absolute madman
hey man can you spare a bottle of water, please im dehydrated
Wow its cuestar
@@welljustwithouttheyep347 wow its well yep
@@birbinabasket maybe you should go outside and collect some of that rain since it's a rainy day
what if it's acid rain
“Strange diseases” *picture of ninja* you’re a legend 😂😂😭
I choked on my water when he did that 💀I died 🤣
I remember rotten, I was mostly interested in weird diseases at the time, another kid told me about it. It's weird how I sound like an old person talking about the days of rationing now
Disease pictures always freaked me out way more than gore.
@@JustinWhangYt me too!
I was always freaked out by the maggot stuff. The Gore stuff never bugged me
@@adamburdt8794 yeah, really disturbing!
@@JustinWhangYt It's most likely the fact that the person experiencing said disease is still alive, very much so in fact. Gorey deaths are dead people, no longer living or suffering, when disease stricken people are alive and suffering from a potential life changing and emotionally/physically scarring ailment. I'm tired as shit, so I'm sorry if this didn't make much sense.
I remember the Rotten site, it was one of those things me and my friends used to nervously visit once in a rare while when we were tired of flashring/albinoBS/ebaums/newgrounds, etc. Most of the shit was just kind of interesting in a Ripley's kind of way (like a black and white photo of a dude casually showing his ass, which was blackish cos it was struck by lightning). But there was occasionally deeply (VERY DEEPLY) regrettable clicks like a pic of a drowned chick lying next to a gutter, she was pasty and bloated like a balloon with soft eyes that looked melted and jello-y. Some of the mental images of what I'd seen there never left me, even as an adult that's on the cusp of 30. But that was kind of the magic of the internet in those days, you never know what you'd find if you carelessly click around. It sometimes felt like you'd see more bizarre personal webpages (usually shittily constructed) than ads. Imagine that.
I know the post mortem pictures of Elizabeth Short/Black Dahlia have often been shared around for shock value and have a desensitized quality, esp cuz theyre black and white, but the picture of her face in particular randomly emerges in my mental image and makes me feel sick. I feel so guilty for feeling that way because she was a human being and doesnt deserve to be remembered that way
@@InvaderGIR98 Yeah, I support these sites’ “free speech” drives, but it’s just a disturbing invasion of privacy (and not at all educational) to pass around pictures of corpses that definitely didn’t get next-of-kin’s consent to share…
Oh yea I remember me and my friends doing ‚competitions‘ of how could scroll down further. This + starting to frequent 4chan as a tween (rule 30, I know) definitely shaped me.
I also won‘t forget how I was an Inu Yasha fan at about 8 y/o, googled for a picture to print and hang on my wall and poor little me had to look at hentai on the first page of image results.
Truly a different time :‘)
Hey Whang, ever considered doing a video on the history of the tumblr Socially Unacceptable Artwork? I remember first finding their blog a couple years back and finding it interesting just how many really disturbing artworks were in their NSFW section, like hardcore euro guro content involving vocaloid mascots, anime characters, OC's, and etc. They were taken down only to respawn several times before seeming to fade into obscurity.
Yeah, i could probably see someone into Hatsune Miku gore
Was that the one that had Asriel scat h*ntai and the dead children from fnaf? If so I might remember that, unless it’s a knock off.
@@wolfetteplays8894 I'll be honest in that I don't think so. They were up before Undertale and its sequel, and I don't think any of the respawns came up during that time. Some infamous ones I remember from their NSFW section are a one page of vocaloid Kaito cutting himself while crying and I think having his tears wiped (euro guro, and it was fetishized and he looked younger). I remember vocaloid Miku having her head cut off. I'm remembering plenty of scat pics but not specifics.. I also remember an Orochimaru from Naruto torturing and r*ping someone in a h*llscape. Plenty more. I also remember their other sections where they had a great execution but terrible concept for the good artwork that was just plain wtf, and of course a section for just plain bad and ugly artwork for really weird proportions or other weird stuff (some fandom shipping was here, and I remember some either Sonic or Shadow x Shrek)
@@--.._ me too, I wanted him to make a video on that!
I will always remember the photo of a guy with his arm up to his elbow chunked up in a meat grinder. Thanks Dan, it’s as vivid as the day you called me over to the computer to see it.
Yes I remember this
I think about this one often since I work at a processing center/slaughterhouse...
Penis in a mousetrap is seared in my mind as well but I definitely remember the meat grinder!
First picture I saw on the site years and years ago. WOW.
That was a classic. Made me scared of meat grinders.
3:19
LOL! Mom always makes me watch Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter on Investigation Discovery.
I'm glad to know this is some sort of Mom thing.
A.J. Bauer Both of my moms (divorced parents) are obsessed with investigation discovery. Why is this a thing??? why are there so many moms obsessed with this???
@@stinky9706 Hey, I'll take it over some shitty soap opera any day.
@@stinky9706 My initial assumption is that it was because Mom knew who Joe Kenda was before the show even existed.
Every episode of Homicide Hunter takes place in Colorado Springs, which is where we used to live when I was young.
Apparently Mom had been living in Colorado Springs before I was even born and we left in 2000 over the mother of all family dramas which I won't go into.
Apparently she would read about crimes that Lt. Joe Kenda solved in the papers. In 1996 Joe Kenda retired from the force and in 2011 he got his own show: Homicide Hunter.
Only recently have I made notice of her watching this show and I'm not sure when it started exactly. Mom loves to force me to play Skip-Bo and Phase 10 (The most boring card games ever made) and after my sister got a Hulu account I talked her into letting us watch reality TV while we played. Personally, I don't care for most forms of reality TV but it was a good distraction for a while. After running out of episodes of Kitchen Nightmares she asked me if Joe Kenda was on Hulu and I found him.
So recently we had been watching this show together while playing mostly Phase 10 since the game usually lasts 40 minutes (The length of each episode). Occasionaly she'd say something like "Oh, yeah I read about this one in the papers." During one of the episodes she named a suspect before the show even did because she recognized the case. While I wasn't as into as her I did find it interesting and was surprised at the show's high budget gore effects. I assumed this was just a trip down memory lane and this was just a thing with MY Mom specifically. But I guess this is a running theme with Moms? Fine by me, murder is actually pretty interesting. There are definitely lamer things she could force me to watch.
Same here, mom watching ID murder mysteries, I don't know what's up with that....
Moms love Joe Kenda
Sometimes I wish I was alive in the 90’s just to experience things like early internet, Y2K... it all seemed so wild. Great video!! They give me a little inside of what I missed while in the womb!
Nothing has really changed! You just have to go deep searching on google.
Yeah, but you had to use a dialup modem to access it. As the phone service was cheaper in the weekends, I could only get on the internet on Saturdays and Sundays. I could download one 3MB mp3 file in the 40 minutes per day I had. And if I was lucky, it was actually the song I wanted and the compression didn't completely drown out the music.
I miss the 90s
Y2K was wild. Turns out the "computer bug" they warned us about was a giant android mosquito that terrorised the world for 3 days straight before being scared off by Japan's military and their secret gundam army. Sadly all of the photos online were destroyed by a problem with the clocks.
I remember a site similar to rotten with gore videos back then called steakandcheese. Back when millions of people would play games on Shockwave.
Awww yeah, rotten. First visit, 1996, at the age of 11. No doubt one of the many reasons for why I am a terrible person.
I too first visited the site in 96 at the age of 11. Guess that makes us the same age.
Youa Numbah Oneah Racist you never went on there in 1996
Asking out of curiosity who was born in '93, but what was it like browsing sites like Rotten back in the day? I know people usually meme about how slow the Internet was back then, but I can only guess how frustrating or difficult it may have been if that's the case.
I was 6 in '96 but i remember looking at it a lot in early 2000's
@NPC#6789 Orange Man Bad I have no idea how you guys had the patience to wait that long.
I remember seeing the bonsai kitten when it happened, photoshop wasn't ubiquitous yet. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, they had me fooled for a good half hour.
Bonsai Kitten? Should I look that up?
Child Of Bhaal did you even watch the video?
Thunder HammerX bonsai kittens fucking ruined me back in the day. I didn’t know for years!
Wasn't bonsai kitten just a hoax ?
Fiesta Red yeah but it was popular around a time when shops were harder to distinguish.
I remember a photo of a motorcyclist whose head hit a tyre and his face was shredded into tenticles from the tyre with his helmet smashed to pieces.
I ride a motorbike now. Go figure.
I remember that picture and it was brutal! I later read somewhere the guy actually attempted suicide with a shotgun and that's what happened
That’s one of the few pictures I remember in vivid detail. 😣
I remember that pic, it was one of my favorite, it had the caption, "nothing becomes between me and my Harley"
eeehhhwww yeah where his jaw was missing and the tongue was sticking out D: he actually became a human cthulhu
I remember that photo with the caption "don't put fireworks in your mouth" also,very disturbed having heard the actual story at that tender age, good old internet
I remember getting mails with Bonsai Kitten pictures and thinking it was real when i was a kid, it disturbed me for years. Until this day even tho i know it's a joke it still gets to me. I can't stop thinking some weirdo thought it was cool and tried it for real somewhere in the world.
In b4 Justin Y again
Get lost
Ayeee nextpo
Nexpo he retired
Is this what you are doing now 😂
He gave you his formula and now you're using it lol
Man, I forgot about Rotten. That was a lifetime ago (senior year of high school when we had dial up and AOL).
You're not much younger than I am! I was a university freshman when I discovered Rotten for myself, and somehow I managed to retain my empathy for humanity.
Dial up, aol, and Doom.
Haidar Rajabi speak up sonny. Can’t hear ya
remember it would load so slowly. it would load from the top of the picture and progress lower. So when it was a horrible picture like from rotten, the tension would build as it would load over the course of 2 or so minutes. Man that was horrifying seeing something fucked up and not knowing exactly what it was until a minute later when the rest loaded in.
Rotten, stickdeath, deathclock dial up internet that charged by the minute on the phone line, allowed on 20 minutes per day :)
"On April 20th..." *ears perk up*
"1999" ah, right
i know what you mean but still, you can celebrate it on april 20th
I was only 10 years old when the Columbine shooting happened.
I’ll never forget the guy boiled into soup... RIP soup guy.
And the helicopter decapitation.
...what a time to be alive.
As an angsty teen I loved rotten. The one I remember the most was the old guy who made a home made bath heater out of a kettle element and got stuck in the bath. The pictures were of this lumpy burnt human soup
Holy shit. I remember that. Parts of him also came up through the sink. Iconic.
I remember that too, that was nasty
austn8675 link?
Gee, that was the most disgusting thing I ever saw, never forgot about it!
BOOOPPER DOOOPPER it was so long ago i dont remember. Im sure u could search it on the site. I would link it but i dont really enjoy seeing that stuff anymore
I remember in high school some weirdo in my class, would print pictures from that site and show them to kids in the class. Noone liked him and he was soon expelled. To this day, no matter how hard I tried, I can still see those images.
From a mom's perspective, I'm simultaneously dismayed and relieved that my kids will never experience the internet days of yore; furthermore, I have no clue why I am obsessed with reality murder tv shows but oh GOD I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THEM
The second you become a mother you develop an addiction to ID network it's just science
Mom here. Can confirm.
My mom is obsessed with them too
I'm a mom and I don't care for ID network lol . Which is odd because I otherwise love true crime documentaries and books. I remember the rotten site when I was a teenager and in high school in my study hall we were allowed to view it along with porn sites. This was obviously before schools set up firewalls.
yore
A friend told me about the site at work in the mid 2000s. I would check it out from time to time out of curiosity. And I have to say, after a few days of looking at a few of the pictures, i felt the ugly in my soul. I've stopped checking it out and never went back.
The second I knew women were the target audience for Investigation Discovery was when they announced ID themed wine bottles
Pay attention to the commercials and you can instantly tell who the channel is marketing toward. It's one of the reasons the media doesn't go after drug companies in this country, ever notice their commercials? Watch the show Ancient Aliens sometime and you can tell what they think of people who watch the show, nothing but how to kick your addiction to drugs commercials.
STRANGE DISEASES (shows picture of ninja)
Yeah the poor lad Had Ligma
wHaT's LiGmA ?
@@odioalospoopers uh these nuts haha rekt epic win
Autism is strange, indeed.
Yellow fever
tubgirl is probably pushing 50 now. Sobering.
Bwahahahaha...my group of friends would just randomly reference tubgirl to people who had no clue what the hell we were talking about.
What was tubgirl?
@@milosmoore4400 she was tubgirl
Milos Moore
Paraphrased from google:
Tubgirl is a viral image of a girl post-enema in a bathtub having explosive diharrea in her own face.
Oh shit
Rotten had a lot of great sister sites that unfortunately are no longer updated. Rotten Library, Rotten News, NNDB, GapingMaw, Penny Postcards & Dr Sputnik just to name a few are absolutely fantastic in their own right, but unfortunately hopeless outdated. It's a shame the owner(s) of Rotten didn't pass the torch on to others to continue keeping the site active. What's also notable is they never had ads or anyway to monetize Rotten, so how they went for so long without income is really astonishing in itself.
I read that entire god damned library. Really well written stuff.
@@YouaNumbahOneRacist Same. I kept checking for updates to it for years afterwards.
@@pogue972 couldn't we just do the same thing that every one from SCP did and just bring all that fun trolling and awesome digusting stuff back? I mean it's all still out there as far as content just need it to be brought back up to the surface :) make morbid curiosity great again :D!!
@@fatman6660 There's tons of sites with pictures of death & horror. I can't post the links or it will get marked as spam. There was one that charged for access, I can't recall the name off the top of my head. But Google will help you find them. Findadeath is one of my personal favorites, but unfortunately the original owner now gives tours of murder sites & cemeteries in LA and doesn't update as frequently. TH-cam also has a lot of gore too, believe it or not.
Friggin joeflake over here
I legit cracked up every single time the name "Burlington Coat Factory" was said. The best part of this is that Burlington Coat Factory has no idea how humorous Burlington Coat Factory sounds when you say Burlington Coat Factory that many times. Case in point, read my whole post out loud. It just gets funnier the more times Burlington Coat Factory is used in a sentence or paragraph to refer to Burlington Coat Factory in such a matter-of-fact way. Burlington Coat Factory takes Burlington Coat Factory so deadpan seriously, and Burlington Coat Factory is only making it worse by repeating Burlington Coat Factory.
P.S: Burlington Coat Factory.
I don't get it. What's supposed to be funny about it?
@@SselluosS burlington coat factory
@@SselluosS It's one of those "the more you say something the weirder it sounds" phenomenons.
@@kilderok I thought it only applied to one word. Either way its not really funny.
It was so funny I forgot to laugh
ninja is a strange disease
25,000 Subs with No Videos Challenge say that again and ima hack you, your never going to get to 25,000 because ima moder lol
@skullpull 101 bellz
What is a strange disease.....you can't just make a statement and not add the subject of the statement.
If no one gets this then r/whoosh just came for you like a ninja in the dark of night.....
@@arm003 lmao your joking right?
I feel bad for laughing at the Burlington Coat Factory thing, mostly due to the columbine shooting being involved, but oh my god, that was just perfectly done.
I remember the bonsai kittens and I honestly thought they were real as a kid and was so angry.
Im laughing at it now!!
😂
Best gore finishing what rotten started
trevor wall Not really Best Gore has some tendencies to censor shit not aligning with their owners political beliefs.
The site you want to see is DocumentingReality, yes it is a paid site but they aren't removing comments.
@@chdreturns I know what you mean the bg comment section is a total shit show I personally like it for the crash carnage and workplace accidents I ride and work with machinery so I like to think it keeps me from becoming complacent and ending up in a bucket
@@chdreturns
Sometimes you can get into the site without paying if you know somebody, I have an account before it went paid.
Guess you like viruses.
Best gore is run by a raging racist piece of garbage. There's a whole section about the "holocaust hoax " and the captions about murdered woman are more disturbing than the pictures sometimes.
Yep, I remember being a teenager in 97 and waiting 5 mins for one image to loa on Rotten lol
it would usually be something like a decapitated motorcyclist in South America.
I can't remember how we discovered Rotten but I think we may have been looking for photos of the Essex Boys Rettendon gangland shootings.
Have you since seen the images from workhouse lane?
@@blacktoothfox677 yeah, they were brutal.
I can’t even remember the exact age I found Rotten. I was just a lover of urban legends and horror stories and I had run out of stuff to read. So I desperately looked through links until I found some site that leaked crime scene photos (no clue if they were real or not). I was shocked, but now I was able to see the injuries described in horror stories. I was morbidly curious. I started searching up the gory imagery described in the horror stories I read. Through that searching, Rotten came up in the search. I was a messed up kid who was just curious. That was all.
I think it's pretty healthy to find just about everything facinating, never hurts to understand things. If anything, it makes people much more well rounded when they decided to find out for themselves why people do XYZ, starts that realisation of why people do stuff and why bad things happen, instead of just making up whatever sounds about right!
My morbid curiosity in dark and disturbing stuff came more in my 20s, I wasn't equipped emotionally to see that shit even in my teens, Twisted Metal Black alone fucked me up and that was 2000s CG.
I only ever heard about that kind of really disturbing stuff at school sometimes, and at the time was taken aback and glad I didn't see it.
These days, I'm more curious, not that keen on seeing grisly violence and gore, but it's surprisingly fascinating to read about really dark things such as the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary, or various war crimes.
Just a lame joke? Tell that to my cat, his name is Beaker.
I first heard of Rotten because the company I’ve worked for since 1999 was one of the ones that threatened legal action against them. They were even mentioned in this video. However, the image that had them threatening Rotten actually became a favorite among my coworkers. We even had a printed copy framed in our office.
Ok, the use of earthbound music swayed me, u get a thumbs up
I’ve only recently discovered this channel, and may I just say I absolutely love your content! If you ever consider it, you should do something with Internet Historian. You both make a very similar kind of content (although you go about it in different ways) and both of you do it very well! It’s always interesting hearing about the history of the internet from entertaining personalities!
Keep up the good work, you’ve definitely earned my subscription!
I loved how you used the:
*"Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!?"*
Pic/Screencap.
I found out about it in HS. Our art teacher gave no fucks at all. We'd just browse it on the one computer in the classroom. Some kids would turn away, some would pretend it was funny with fake-laughs (No idea why, but it was very obvious). Very few were pleasuring themselves, so that was a good sign at least..
I remember very little about it, but some things do stick out: Dude who had his face nose-down turned into a bloody squid from a motorcycle accident. Some guy dead on a train track with a floppy face. Then you have the infamous Tubgirl.
I was never that fascinated by gore. It was interesting when I was a youngling for about a second. Now, I'm neither shocked or interested. I do believe, however, that at a certain age, at least seeing some of that stuff is...kinda good for you? For instance, Budd Dwyer, while horrific, has deep layers of social, and psychological questioning attached to it (Filter even did a song about it).
I've seen a lot of violence and some death growing up, and I think knowing that life is not like a movie can help kids during potentially traumatic events when they arise. I mean, it's still gonna fuck you up on some level if you have decency in your bones, but going through life with nothing but daises in your brain can unbuckle you if something traumatic ever happens.
I also believe some who experience the worst of the internet could get fucked in a very bad way. There's no turning back, and some weak stomachs regret it. It's a messy topic for sure.
Agree totally, anyone can learn to see such things, and may benefit from that resilience. Seeing death with your own eyes was commonplace not that many hundred years ago!!
Seeing really nasty stuff made me aware unconsciously that I was able to see those things without damage in person, and I never had any doubts as an EMT that very little could get to me. But then again, I find major trauma fascinating! Most people have a morbid curiosity, and yeah, it does feel strange and poignant to see someone who was deceased for the first time.
I think you've hit on a key life learning point: what tv shows, films, and book show you isn't fact! People often don't drop dead after a single bullet wound to the chest, car's don't blow up GTA style as standard when they crash. Or that most serious fights are over in a matter of seconds. Blood packs and squibs are massive exaggerations of bullet wounds, which don't even bleed until a good few seconds in, and you won't see chunks of gore going everywhere! Death is inevitable, and I think people build a fear of it.
Seeing someone go from unsustainable heart rhythm, to cardiac arrest, and then gradually change colour and appear to just become a she of a person... it change my life in a lot of ways.. it made me better at my job to see what people look like when they're on the edge, I look forward to death, and want to know what it feels like, what happens afterwards, if anything. I know that cardiac arrest feels much like passing out, and after than, you don't have senses for long after going unconscious. Sure, the part leading up to that may be painful or distressing, that's all I'd rather not experience.
What would scar one person, could be the making of another
Tubgirl is an infamous shitplay jpeg of a Japanese "schoolgirl" having an enema fountain going from her ass into her mouth
That motorcycle victim with the squid face thing you mentioned was the most brutal thing I'd ever seen at the time, I later read somewhere the guy turned out to be a victim of you can call him that of attempted shotgun suicide
Do you remember the taxi driver who ate a 12g point blank shit was grim oh and the Brazilian bus shooting wtf I was literally 12 thinking about it I definitely should not have been looking around on there
Yep. Chechclear will forever be with me. It changed me. It was horrible to see what things people only talked about or nonchalantly said. It changed me.
I was more of a steakandcheese fan
Wow, that one flew under my radar.
hey, its that black guy that has no patience for bullshit.....like me, keep up the good fight man
drewpickles? or am I the only one? I feel kinda... not good about that
They were good, along with consumptionjunction, before becoming a forgettable porn blog.
LMAO I just wrote close to the same before I seen your comment
So... All the people who found Rotten through their mum - How did that happen? Was she like 'I found the _best_ site, I've gotta show my pre-teen child!' or was it more a she heard of it and told you not to go there, but you did anyway, coz, gawshhh I can _handle_ it, _MUM,_ I'm 11 now, jeeze! kinda deal? The idea of browsing Rotten with my mum is worse than anything actually on Rotten lmao
I feel like it was more of a “I heard of this awful site called Rotten today, have you heard of it??” kind of thing, I found some interesting stuff that way when I was a teenager lol
Sat here at early on a Sunday morning, couldn't sleep but it's still dark outside. Started binge watching your channel and it's brilliant! I've never heard of loads of the subject matter so I'm just absorbing it all. Really entertaining. thanks.
The person or persons who wrote the Rotten Library had the cheekiest, most wicked, scathingly-sardonic, offensively poignant sense of humor I have ever encountered in all my travels.
Rotten is so tame nowadays when you see some other websites showing recorded videos of even worst content.
i want a fancy shaped adult cat
Bonsai kitties!!
Check out dobbiekats there so weird looking and cute
Get an oriental shorthair, they look like Adam driver and if you don't pay attention to them they'll just complain instead of killing you
RIP to all those kittens killed lol
I remember those days: up about thirty six hours past your bedtime, full of energy drinks and fear.
Good times.
I totally forgot about bonsai kitten, oh man. It's so weird to think back to that era of the internet. I miss it, tbh.
Waking up at 6 am has never been better...
You were up at 6 and you didn't make me a sandwich?
that's why rotten existed? I thought it was just for the love of gore...
of course it is. This moustachio wearing über cool nerd is just trying to project meaning and importance on something stupid and fucked up on the internet.
The story behind it was that the guy who created it found photos of crime scenes, odd diseases, medical deformities, and so on really interesting and wanted to create a place for them.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797 and called it "rotten. com"? sounds a bit odd. source?
It was intended as a gross out and shock site. I was just explaining the exact origin.
I was today years old when I learned bonsai kittens is a hoax...
GiDD you’re a big 6 month old now
Thank fucking God. Rotten legit traumatized me when I was a kid, but they were certainly in the right with their fight against censorship
I heard of Rotten by word of mouth in middle school but, when I first heard of it, my family hadn't yet owned a computer or the internet.
We eventually got a computer and I eventually checked out Rotten and I was shocked out of my mind. Soon, I went back and then discovered Steakandcheese ans Stileproject.
Good times...
What are the last 2 websites?
Love your content man, but you need to look deeper into Nord VPN. They absolutely do keep records of where you go, and if they are contacted by legal authorities about where you've been, they will provide the information.
Just looking out for you here. I don't believe you're lying to anybody, but you've been misinformed. I don't want you to "Philly D" yourself. :)
Always use TOR
the dude I thought the same, too. Once a VPN service becomes so big or corporate(just like any other service) the magic is lost & they have more possible liabilities to protect themselves from.
That being said, my dumb self uses Hola, because I'm lazy. I need to switch already. I've installed & uninstalled that thing so many times just for one-time usage. I shudder to think what my poor laptop has been subjected to because of that poor decision... Getting a new laptop soon though & will probably just buy a more reliable/private VPN instead of risking it like the old one...
Whang, honestly dude you deserve at lot more subs and viewers with the content you share and deliver, always great and informative keep it up!
I know it's a silly point to make, but Columbine was never the "deadliest" mass shooting of its time. 10 years prior, in Canada of all places, a larger body count was had at Ecole Polytechnique.
I watched 6 Russian conscripts, tied, hands behind their back, laying in the dirt. Looked like it was dawn by the lighting. You could see everything but the embers from the previous night's campfire still glowed in the low light.
The sneering Chechen walked up the line of the young conscripts, giggling as he grabbed the small, blunt looking knife. Could be have been more tan a 5 inch blade.
The first boy, couldn't have been older than 19, could do nothing but grimace as the sneering Chechen grabbed him by the hair, lifting his head of the ground, exposing his throat.
At first he didn't make a noise, he never cried out in pain. Just kept that grimace and his eyes shut tight. When that tiny blade got half way through his windpipe, then the noises started. Blood shot out through his clenched teeth and poured from his mouth, his nose and his neck. The noise of air mixing with blood. Gargling from the inside of his stomach. Involuntary defining sounds of agony - while his mouth remained shut tight.
Seeing this wasn't the worst part. Seeing the 5 remaining young men bound in the same way, listening to this happen next to them and hearing the Chechen laugh. That was the hardest part to swallow. I could out myself in their shoes.
None of them looked up from the ground.
One by one they went down the line. Taking their time. The sun started to come up more and you could see the area glisten bright red. By the 5th conscript they got bored. The cut him loose and played with him a little. Stabbing him in the skull, the neck, the back. He still got up. They let him run a few meters before they dragged him back. He kneeled in all fours like a dog this time, while his head was all but sawn off. Alive and in agony the whole time.
I saw this video on rotten when I was 8 and have never seen it again. It's my oldest, clearest childhood memory. I was a weird kid after that. As I grew older I suffered from anxiety and acrophobia. Not as a direct result of that video, but because of a series of events that video set off.
Thanks Rotten
They showed this video or part of it on a news channel when I was a kid. No warning or anything of the sort. I saw some seconds of it but the image is still very vivid. Terrible thing to see when you were the least prepared for it.
don't be such a pussy
@@wrpOUTLAW he was 8
Read the whole comment
wrpOUTLAW shut the fuck up
You are a good writer. Also when i was younger i used get an itch to watch gore but i have never seen that video .Has to be the most brutal killing. Very brave soilders those russians.
"Close it! Close it! Close it!" ... memories...
Your friends AOL profile lol. Hey Whang what's your AIM I have some sweet MIDI files I want to send your way.
Man so many of your videos bring me right back to middle school in the mid-early 2000’s lol. I remember they had top ten poops people had taken that looked weird, helicopter accidents, etc, it was messed up.
The internet was the literal Wild West back then
I love how I can learn about all my ancestors, being born in 2000 means that 1996 is basically before common knowledge.
To you its history to me it's nostalgia
Yup, I was 26 when you were born.
Mister Skelly Why is this sentence so fucking confusing
I was (insert age larger than 18) so your experience is irrelevant
I agree
"Making a law like that is a very slippery slope."
Law Makers: _Honey, where's my skis?_
Internet was a gift of the 30 year old boomers.
You're welcome zoomers.
The only thing they deserve *sip*
Shut up Boomer!
Boomers : Revolutionize the world with the the internet practically making all information free and accessible.
Zoomers : Use it to upload dog filter selfies
Gas the Boomers
@@bobbybrine6547 respect your elders
No one:
Burlington Coat Factory: "Besmirched"
Please do a video about the website "Dan's Gallery Of The Grotesque"
My sister was of those idiots who thought bonsaikittens was real.
To make it worse she was around 16 and still thought it was real, she probabley thinks Facebook videos are real too.
Hahaha.
facebook videos are real, they exist
What fucks me up about reality so much is how much the Overton Window has shifted. As a horror movie loving death metal burnout of the 80's, I loved hating republicans. Now you have radical leftists complaining about stand up comedy jokes. I don't even know who to hate anymore.
That's easy, Leftists
the jews?
Meanwhile you have the right wing banning books all across the country.
I loved rotten and the dailyrotten news. I submitted stories to their "Daily Rotten News" and was always excited when one of my submissions made it to their list of "rotten news."
I forget how I found it. I knew about it in HS when it first came out and I showed it to my college buddies. It was fascinating.
Still remember some classmate showing it to me on the school library computer.
I remember discovering the site as a kid at a friend's house after school. I thought it was the most disgusting thing i've ever witnessed, but for some odd reason, i couldn't stop watching it, haha. After that, i spent like hours trying to find pictures of Kurt Cobain's body and other dead celebrities, and also of the victims at Columbine. Back then, my family didn't had that much money so i had to wear my brother's trench coat for a while, so i kinda experienced the whole "trench coat ban" at school at some point, but i never got suspended or anything, because i always left my coat at home, and thanks to that, i got sick, haha.
I always thought this website was something my brother made up.
I’ll never forget the day my dad told me about this site. We used to watch crazy ass movies together and he had quite a past so he was really excited to be able to see the real thing again
I remember the one photo that gave me nightmares wasn't even gore. It was a photo of a thick lady wrapped in string so her skin rolled out between the string like a ripple going through her body. This description sounds way cooler than it looked. And honestly the aol chatrooms had the worst things out of all the internet.
Internet culture came pretty late in my country so the first time I (sorta) heard about Rotten was around early 2000's, although basically it all started when I was surfing with a friend in an Internet cafe, and my friend suggested me to search up for that site but he couldn't recall its name. Eventually we settled with "Disgusting pictures" and all we got was a photo of someone's dad sleeping.
The Train Oops section and the person that was laid out decomposed on a rock forever cemented my ability to minimize screen fast af. Lol.
Our teacher used rotten as a demonstration of workplace safety around 2013
We had faces of death at first then the internet came and rotten was born lol
Ouija ZaZa Gaming some of it was real, most was fake
Ouija ZaZa Gaming wrong, I know for a fact that the cyclist scene near the end was real
@@linktidal2902 if it was stock footage, it was real.
@@voltageesq. yep. tbh traces of death is a better mondo film.
@@linktidal2902 eh, i don't really care for actual death scenes. it's your opinion tho.
Heard it in school, too! Watch it first secretly in IT class of all places, lol!