• DUMBASS@leminal.space
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    3 months ago

    I found rotten.com when I was like 11 or 12, I was desensitised early to shit like this.

    Early internet is why us millennials are so fucked in the head.

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      3 months ago

      I bonded with my wife over things like rotten.com in college. Neither of us are into anything like that, Not Kink shaming just saying It was a cultural experience.

      I take it back if you’re into violence i am kink shaming that.

  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Ah man, the old IRC days were something else. Unchecked piracy, access to just about everything anyone could want, but then you also had unsolicited DMs with cp. And if you dropped your firewall for even a minute, you’d be cleaning up virus infections because Windows 95/98 practically invited people inside.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    oh yeah i’m totally desensitized.

    it started with goatse then continued on through lemonparty and bluewaffle and it only got worse from there.

    i have, and i’m not even really kidding about this, developed a religious fixation where if there’s a video of someone dying i am spiritually required to watch because i can at least symbolically bear witness to what they’ve been through and ensure that at least vicariously they did not go through it alone ._.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      I was so scared of seeing the image and was just like “meh”. Then reverse image searched it to see the source and still felt like the stuff I was looking at wasn’t real.

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    3 months ago

    I’m kinda scared to check my messages even though it’s probably deleted and that I actually saw worse shit, which I won’t talk about since it is a trigger to a lot of people

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      3 months ago

      Yea you most likely did, fair warning, it might be deleted live but depending on your app/UI it might still show in the inbox. That’s how I saw it, Boost had it still cached in the inbox