/Have you seen them
all the videos?
3 guys 1 hammer
1 guy 3 kittens
1 lunatic 1 icepick
cartel beheadings
did you watch them yourself
or only through someone else’s face
did you send them on
pass them hand to hand
like something forbidden
did curiosity draw you in
or did you already know
what you would find
did it unsettle you
only for a moment
did you turn it off
or let it finish
and afterward
did you think of them
as people
did you think of their names
their rooms
their families
or did it end
exactly where the video did
just something seen
and left behind/
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM UTC
/Have you seen them
all the videos?
3 guys 1 hammer
1 guy 3 kittens
1 lunatic 1 icepick
cartel beheadings
did you watch them yourself
or only through someone else’s face
did you send them on
pass them hand to hand
like something forbidden
did curiosity draw you in
or did you already know
what you would find
did it unsettle you
only for a moment
did you turn it off
or let it finish
and afterward
did you think of them
as people
did you think of their names
their rooms
their families
or did it end
exactly where the video did
just something seen
and left behind/
When I was a teen I spent hours watching horror media and eventually found shock videos popular in the 2000s/2010s. Out of curiosity I watched them.
Looking back I think about the real people involved,. their lives, families, and how it would feel if their final moments were online forever. I no longer watch or support gore/death content and have grown tired of mondo movies shockumentaries. I still enjoy horror, but I’m more aware of the line between fiction and real suffering.
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