• dan00@lemm.ee
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    I don’t know who watched this as a kid. One of my first internet cartoons. Loved it!

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      It was quite revolutionizing if you ask me. While it often had to buffer a bit, it was amazing how smooth the animation, sound and music was using nothing but 56k modem at the time. And then there was the gore and mental scaring, but besides that, amazing!

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    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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      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.

    • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
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      My older sister showed me the hand-in-blender pic when I was like 12 and I can still picture it in my mind. All these years later I still haven’t stuck my hand in a blender – thanks, sis!

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        Lol my sis showed me a trans female bottom operation, at the dinner table no less. Still feels like a threat. A scalpel delicaly slicing open a penis. Shudders

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        5 days ago

        The ones that’s stuck with me was the dude who stewed himself in his bath and a motorcycle accident where his face was ground off from the road.

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      Same but tbh I quickly grew out of that shit and stopped seeking it out pretty early as well.

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    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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    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 ._.

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      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.

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    People today think a reference to loss is massive psychological trauma… Unless you have after images in your head for the next few days, it doesn’t even register.

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      I’m pretty sure the reactions to loss are meming on the reactions to the actually traumatic content of the older internet

  • Jerkface (any/all)
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    When I finally gave up and moved my email domain from self-hosting to gmail, I was receiving 17,000 items of spam daily. I just couldn’t handle it on my consumer internet connection and I want to say AMD K6-2.

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    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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      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

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    Give me some low fi beats with a jump scare randomly in it