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Comment by AussieWog93

14 days ago

I remember watching this kind of content for free on Liveleak back in the day.

Maybe they should get edgy teenagers to do the content classification rather than third-world rural women with minimal media exposure.

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Markoff  14 days ago

I was not big fan of Liveleak, but I really enjoyed WatchPeopleDie community, one could learn a lot in the comments about how to be safer in the enviroment (I'm aware they moved to website, but it's not same anymore, too much friction to visit it)

after being the regular visitor of WPD I stand at the junction waiting for my turn shielded by the traffic lights pole and always look in the eye of the driver when crossing the road, especially if it's tall truck

some ppl don't realize how many lives actually WPD saved, but hey now we have victory nobody is exposed to this disturbing content and making silly jokes about death, right?

  • cm2012  14 days ago

    I actually agree with this, I was a weekly WPD user and it was downright educational.

rramadass  13 days ago

Watching it once in a while because your brain craves novelty (good or bad) is not the same as watching all sorts of graphic imagery (not just pron) for 8+ hours a day 6/7 days a week.

throwawaygmbno  14 days ago

This is obviously a flippant comment that shouldn't be taken seriously. But the loss of LiveLeak seems like the loss of the journalism that the Internet was supposed to bring. There were a lot of odd things posted on there with some unneeded commentary but it was a place that would post unfiltered content that other places were scared to post. A lot of it was disgusting that I wouldn't watch, but it's weird to think that the Internet is censored now in a way where it's hard to even find it.

You can find areas of propaganda where site rule breaking will be allowed if it serves the interest of the owner, but you really have to seek it out. It's even weirder that the latest generation is self censoring common words so they can show up on sites like TikTok. Billionaires buying newspapers to censor seems less strange but sadly something I also didn't expect.