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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.
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.
Rotten.com was like a rite of passage.
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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.
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Been on the Internet maybe 23 years or so and I've seen some wild shit back in the day that didn't phase me. Got shown some stuff on kaotic recently and it upset me a hell of a lot more than it would have 13 year old me.
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 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.
Porn site: Please confirm that you are at least 18 years old
Horny 16 year old me: Yes
Honestly, I was clicking "Yes" since I was about 10 years old.
one of my classmates sent hardcore porn in the school group chat 💀
so i guess thats one way to find out about those
I did the samw, but also perused rotten.com
Curiosity, chance and searching skills I guess
> 10 year old me watching Neon Genesis Evangelion
First got online using CompuServe in 1991 and pretty much had near unrestricted access (time limits because phone bill was pretty much it) since.
I was born in 1985.
I never searched for stuff like this cuz I'm kinda sensitive on this, but I have a friend who would sometimes show me and other friends really disgusting things since we were like 10 years old.
I did and I always watched creepypastas on YT
I did, but I used it to play Webkinz and listen to T.N.T. by AC/DC on early Youtube and I guess I didn't care to look deeper than that.
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!
