Researchers at Harvard University determined that 100% of Millennials suffer from PTSD linked to exposure to the website rotten.com.
  • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    As of press time, Harvard researchers were already onto their next study to determine why podcasts about murder are considered to be so relaxing.

    I have always wondered this and kinda wish there was actually going to be a Harvard study on this.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    212·
    5 months ago

    Yeah, those were good times, when the internet had a kinda crazy edge to it.

    Liveleak, stile, fark and gorgor… Not social network friendly, but had a real personality.

    Remember kids - Rick Rolling was the Safe for Work version of internet trolling…

    All of these special places, lost - like tears in the rain.

    • numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      fark

      Fark is still around, but it’s barely a glimmer of what it used to be before it went downhill. I certainly understand if someone wasn’t aware it was still around, it’s been almost 20 years since the case could be made that it was an important player in the news aggregation category of websites.

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Anyone who has done training for heavy equipment or machinery has had to watch the training videos. Pre1990 stuff was pretty horrific. The 90s until decent CGI was a weird acting scene. Now CGI is just stupid. I learned far more from wpd industrial accidents than any of that and thank the 2000-2016 internet for keeping me alive. You have no idea, or, you might not believe what will kill you until you see it happen.

      • Thteven@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Well it wasn’t all gore if that’s what you mean. The library was full of written articles about all sorts of stuff and the daily news section was basically r/nottheonion

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Nah.

    I simply did not go out of my way to look at unpleasant things, being fully aware that my mind was already quite capable of torturing me.

  • numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I remember that site, but 80s and 90s horror movies had already inoculated me against the gore aspects of it. There were quite a few fictional and non-fictional gore clips movies popping up in video rental stores back in those days. Some of it was pretty grotesque and horrific, perhaps even more so than a lot of stuff you might have seen on rotten.com.