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I'd like to see just how horrible someone can make a site. Facebook is a good contender.

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ogrish.

Doesn't exist any more, but definitely traumatized me as a child.

If you haven't heard of it, it was basically a video hosting site focusing on extreme violence and gore.

Tons of clips of people being killed or horrifically maimed in war, car accidents, industrial accidents, 'extreme' magic shows gone wrong, brutal gang attacks, straight up snuff videos...

Some videos off the top of my head I won't ever be able to erase from my memory:

The beheading of Daniel Pearl.

Low resolution video of 9/11, but you could make out people jumping from the towers... and splattering all over the ground. The camera man tracked people the entire distance they fell.

Some insane magic show gone wrong where a man chain sawed his wife in half ... she hadn't managed to fold herself into the right position inside the magic box... her screams and twitching legs were not an act.

A video taken in Fallujah (I think?) of an Iraqi hopped up on an absurd amount of drugs, taken from a US soldier who had just dismounted with most of his squad from a humvee.

Him and others advance down the middle of a street towards the soldiers, all holding AKs. A volley of fire from the dismounted soildiers either took out all the group, leaving them with chunks blown off, writhing in agony, or scattering...

Except this one guy. He's clearly seriously wounded, but is still advancing basically blind firing his AK.

The US soldiers are in shock that he's still walking.

Now for a burst from a 50 cal.

Huge parts of this guy's body are visibly blown off of him, but he still advances.

A second, more sustained 50 cal burst basically liquifies him where he stood.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (10 children)

That and rotten.com have been responsible for a lot of my insomnia, and probably a good chunk of my misanthropy.

You can't unsee things, folks. Don't give in to the temptation. It's not worth it.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How are we measuring?

  • Global harmful impact: it's hard to beat Facebook
  • Disgusting: long ago, I got a spam advertising a dedicated CSAM site. I looked to see it it was really what it said, and sent it to NCMEC when I saw that is was
  • Actively malign: 8chan is up there, as are old fashioned hate groups.
[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 15 points 2 days ago

I kinda meant horrible design, but I guess these categories are good measurements too

[–] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nextdoor has gotta be in the top 10.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is amazing how toxic people on that site are. Especially when you consider it's not anonymous and the people are literally in your neighborhood

[–] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

It's a shitshow. LinkedIn, too.

[–] Stache_@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

meatspin.com

An absolute classic

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Goatse raises an objection.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

8chan

Literally 4chan, but worse.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you even land there?

I only know 4chan through comments, I wouldn't even bother looking for another site like that lol.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

4chan wasn't even the first, it was an English version of a japanese site (futaba channel) which was an image board version of a forum (2channel).

Back in the late aughts, there were a ton of *chan sites. Some even more unsavory than 4chan.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With Facebook and x.com you pretty much understand the risks going in.

But with stack overflow there's so much naivete required to create an account and begin asking questions. The good stuff is laid out right in front of you: people asking similar questions and getting thoughtful responses to deeply technical questions. It feels rewarding to get your first answer approved.

But then after months of "trying" you hit the wall. A sudden deluge of hostility and toxicity. Bipolar moderation staff suddenly deciding your content has no value and dumping you on a curb at night with a shitty smug comment, to the applause of bloodthirsty hoards of bootlicking trolls.

Nothing could have prepared you for this. It's hell. All of your work for nothing, any chance of justice or restitution gone. Every promise broken.

It's insidiously evil and I hope every member of their staff (unpaid moderators included) goes bankrupt and loses their home to foreclosure.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

I like the random red button on the left with no description. Had to click

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Blue, actually. Very, very, very blue.

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[–] emmetcooper@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

In terms of social, political, and geopolitical harm, no platform beats Facebook. At least in X there are community notes. In Facebook, none of that.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Eons ago I made a shocksite-"game" where you basically could trick people into visiting, and you got a point for each unique visit. The site was basically a collage of the usual, such as goatse, tubgirl, et.al. I guess that was the worst, and putting no effort into the design didn't help either. Once the /b/-tards on 4chan found out about it, traffic really skyrocketed.

Anyways, years went by, and I didn't have time or interest in maintaining it anymore, so I let the domain name Expire. I chuckled a bit a while back when I realized that the domain had been bought by a jewelry brand, and they used it as a webshop. If only they knew the history.. they obviously haven't checked out the internet archive for that domain.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lately, google.com has been absolute trash.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Terms and conditions apply. This site was intentionally made to be as infuriating as possible.

[–] bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That was fun!

But I don't get the one with

"Answer very, very carefully. Do you agree to the terms & conditions?"

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[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Same here. It worked a few minutes ago, but I guess Lemmy hugged it to death in the meanwhile.

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Almost any "pop" news / science / gossip / chat / lifestyle article site with ad and pop-up blockers off. Just. Jesus Christ. What the fuck. The fact that some people browse the internet like this... AND the fact some people actually made it in the first place..

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Stileproject and rotten.com were absolute horror shows. Stileproject just seems to be porn now, but I saw a photo once in like 2005 or so of a guy standing on his head with his legs apart with a full size fire extinguisher jammed deeply into his ass.

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I was a lot younger and dumber I used to hang out on 4chan. Still can’t unsee shoveldog

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'll bite.

4chan both is and is many different places at once.

It's a huge retro gaming community, a rather tame cosplay community, a fantastic literature community, the largest individual DOOM community on the entire internet, a played entirely straight paranormal board that will take you seriously in many instances, and one of the best music forums on the internet, not to mention many of our first introductions to arch and Gentoo came from /g/, and that fancy neofetch you all like so much(quit using it).

SURROUNDED BY pedophiles, nazis, lolcows, narcissists and trolls.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

That's correct. Then 2016 happened and infected the whole website.

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