I was poor often throughout my childhood, and apart of that came my family living with others at random points, and from that I had older cousins as well as not specifically related family friends expose me to many things I probably shouldn’t have seen.
I think I first visited 4chan when I was maybe 9 (although I was 12 before I became an active shit poster), and from there that’s basically a bit of the worst of the worst from all over.
I gave the above context to explain how at each instance I really just wanted to fit in because I was technically homeless and suddenly living with teenagers, so I went into it hard. I laughed at gore videos, watched porn, racist humor to the Nth degree, etc. I just emulated the behavior I was being exposed to because that’s how children socialize. I didn’t really introspect on it until I was a teenager and figured I’d never ever show a kid the things I’d seen. It’s really kind of fucked up, honestly.
Now this was a time period when the scary parts of the internet from the previous generation was “Don’t get lured out by a stranger and kidnapped” or something dumb like that. They had no idea what kind of deep abyss of fucked up things the internet had to offer, all for free, all on demand.
I don’t specifically regret having these experiences. I think having been lightyears ahead of the curb on horrible bodily disfigurement helped me cope with some issues I had as a kid (I saw the aftermath of a shotgun suicide first hand). It fucked me up for a little while because I knew the guy, but it wasn’t like having nightmares on repeat kind of fucked up. I dealt way more with the psychological aspect of suicide than I did with seeing an actual victim, and I can really only say it’s because that was kind of tame to what I had been watching for the few years by that point.
That is kinda fucked up. Understandable though, peer pressure sure is a bitch sometimes. Making you do things you should have never done, all for the sake of getting that feeling of “fitting in”. Especially when you are not yet mature enough to even realise that what you are doing is bad.
Rotten.com days. I don’t know if it was bad to satisfy that curiosity but I got over it pretty quick. And nowadays I can safely avoid any of these crazy videos, knowing I’ve seen it all. I guess that’s why they call it morbid curiosity.
Yeah, that is what parents really should have been worried about rather than violent video games. The first time I saw someone die online was way more traumatizing than watching a videogame character get dismembered.
Yeah, seen a guy get his brain poked out with an umbrella trough his eyes while he was still alive. Got the image tattooed into my brain. Definitely more traumatizing then any kind of video game including postal.
The problem was never the blood, it was the screaming, crying, and visceral gargling
The moment of death when everything is over. All the horrible shit is done but you just have to sit with the fact this person’s conciseness is gone. That’s what fucked me up back in the day.
My dad didn’t let me download The Offspring because it would’ve been a bad influence, but I was allowed on the early internet without any supervision.
My mom threw out my brother’s tape of Green Day’s Dookie because Billy Joe said Shit in Basket Case.
We sang green day at fifth grade “graduation”, but they didnt allow us to say “dead skin”. I never would have even noticed the phrase if they didn’t bring attention to it by banning it, but its so fucking silly.
That’s definitely an odd one
Similar story, my friends dad told my friend off because he saw the song “Get Fucked, Stud” by Biffy Clyro on his iPod when we were on holiday. My friend promptly renamed it to "Stud"😂
Rotten.com was like a rite of passage.
It was essentially just police uploading their worst crime scene photos.
B0g.org was the real shit
The best!
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Execution was a public spectacle just a few hundred years ago, and gory combat was just a sporting event in Rome… For the last few hundred years humans have seen less gore and dismemberment than at any other time in human history.
I think this was one of the biggest failings of parents in the 90s and 2000s - the internet was so new that they were scared of all the wrong things and didn’t know how to properly protect their kids online.
I’m eternally grateful I never saw some pretty horrific shit online. The worst I saw was porn and some of those jumps are videos and clips from horror movies.
Edit: I should clarify that to some extent I don’t even necessarily blame the parents. How were they supposed to know? Most of them just used the thing for work or to file taxes or look up the news. They weren’t looking in those dark corners or really even aware they existed until they saw their kids looking at it.
I dodged goatse and lemonparty. Got hit with tubgirl once though.
I printed out copies of goatse and hid them all over my friend’s room 😅
I was 18 when 4chan started, the unrestricted internet was a wild time as a teenager
LemonParty isn’t one I’ve ever seen but goddamn is it funny as a concept. I’ve actually never heard of “tubgirl”. I’m picturing “2 Girls 1 Cup” in a bathtub and I am NOT here for it lol
Yeah, you’re not too far off. Not gonna describe it in detail though.
Thank you for your restraint lol My sanity is grateful
Back in the early 90’s there was this website called “Rotten”, there was a lot of fucked up pictures of suicide and and dismemberment.
I visited the site once, I was around 14 at the time…
Back in the early 90s there was no internet in the form we know it. It was in later half of the 90s.
Confirmed, rotten.com started in 1996.
The Stile Project was worse
Early 00’s 4chan’s one hell of a drug.
I did the same, but also perused rotten.com
one of my classmates sent hardcore porn in the school group chat 💀
so i guess thats one way to find out about those
Curiosity, chance and searching skills I guess
I did and I always watched creepypastas on YT
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At least in my school kids were sharing gore to shock each other. You open random link and you cant unsee what you have just seen. No sane person google for that shit.
I don’t think it’s that bad really. I feel like I was more traumatized as a kid by having a lot of pets with short natural lifespans, and just generally all the animal death and gore you are naturally exposed to by living in the country. With videos online it’s disturbing, depressing, and forces you to think about human suffering/mortality and the existence of evil people, but it’s ultimately just a video that isn’t connected to your life, that you can turn off, and probably most people learn to avoid pretty quickly.
Hah! Joke’s on you! I’m such an old fart we didn’t even have the internet to fuck with our heads.
Yeah, it’s like, “Nope, there was no internet for me to have access to! Guess I was just born like this.”
Nope. Didn’t even have Internet till I was old enough to have a job and pay for it.
Same here. We did have dialup but it was slow and uninteresting at the time.
Got a paper route and upgraded the household to 1 Mbit. It was great!
