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Consumption of Death and Suffering

/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/

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Written by
Andy_doll
A / Six Feet Under
Published
Apr 17
Lines·Words
28·110
Notes

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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#morality#internet#mondo#media#death#life#videos#shock
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