After visiting sites like theync I’m left wondering how they get all this extreme content. They seem to be updated everyday, and with vid titles like:
“Man Shot and Bleeding Out Lives his Final Seconds Squirming in the Street”
“Sexy Female Dancing with the Devil before She was Brutally Murdered (Murder Pics Below)”
“Disturbing Home Video shows a Man Forcefully have Anal Sex with his Crying Girlfriend (Highest Warning 18+ Only)”
“Guy Upskirts a Girl Wearing a Tiny G String in the Mall”
“SHOCKING: Man Ejected from his Van and Unconsciounce is Beaten and Kicked by 5 Police Officers”
how do they get all this stuff, and have enough to update daily. Looking at the vids the clips seem to be exactly what the titles claim. I’m an old guy, and barely internet literate, is this stuff just sent in by fans or something?
There really are some ugly web sites out there. What they are showing is just the extreme end of the “You’ve Been Framed” type of tv show. There are a lot of cameras out there, and they pick up some sick stuff.
I suppose as long as the freaks who these sites cater for are stuck in front of a computer, the better society is served, but I’m sure these sites encourage people to go out and stage events.
The only reason these sites should be allowed, is to monitor the providers and viewers for future reference!
A lot of this stuff already exists in newsgroups like alt.rotten.images (or whatever its called) and private ftp or torrent tracker sites that specialize in shock. The people who hang out there are connoisseurs of this stuff and know how to get it or at least are well known enough to have people forward them videos. Someone with a shocking video is usually pretty determined to share it. It will eventually find its way up to the well known websites.
Basically, these numerous horrific video sites all share content with each other, if you browse many of them, and often, you’ll see them many videos again and again. Often people will ask for a particular video they’ve lost, and the typical angry response they’ll get will be “Lurk more, noob” or something like that. And there’s a continuum, sometimes sites like consumptionjunction or collegehumor will have a weird, or mildly horrific video. And people collect them, on their blog, and become the source for others, then get donations of things more extremem.
I’m talking about horrific, bloody, videos here. Up skirt shots and the like are just plain old porn. There’s an inexhaustible supply of that. Buy a video camera, and pay your actors and you have any content you need.
I always remember watching the news when Budd Dwyer was on, when I was just a kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old. They only described what he did at the end, 'tho I did hear that someone filmed it to the very end, and it was even on their local news. It wasn’t 'till 10 years ago, that I actually saw the video, online. But before it was a horrific web video, it was the local news, somewhere.
The guys running rotten.com say that extremely graphic video / photo material abounds and is there for the taking, no need to fake variously mutilated people (they do have photoshopped stuff, too, but those are obvious). People get killed or injured in horrific ways all the time and footage of at least the aftermath is often shot. The reason one does not see this outside skeevy internet sites is that mainstream media filters what they show with a heavy hand. I buy that. Think of the number of suicide, homicide, traffic accident or war victims per year, globally. These things don’t happen beyond the reach of cameras and camcorders.
Abusive homemade porn is posted to the internet (4chan, usenet, etc) by the people who make it. Most child porn on the internet (judging from at least one lengthy article on Wikileaks, which fits with what I know about child abuse stats) is put up by family members.
Many beheading and execution videos are circulated as propaganda. For example, there’s the ofex (officer execution) video which was made by Chechnyan Jihadists and then passed around markets and the internet for the pleasure of those who hate the Russian presence in Chechnya (or who just like watching that sort of thing, I guess). There are many other videos out of Afghanistan and Iraq that find their way onto the internet for exactly the same reasons.
After that you have news videos from other countries (Asian and South American countries in particular seem to show just about everything that happens, instead of only broadcasting the moments before things get gruesome). In the case of that dude getting ejected from his car and then beaten, it was from a police dash cam, and a lot of various surveillance tapes get out into the public - posted online by people who have access to them.
I mean just about every video you can name, there is a plausible route for it getting online. Some are accidentally filmed and then leaked online, and some are filmed by passersby and then posted online - like the video of a bunch of Russian teenagers in a burning car filmed by a guy who just arrived at the scene.
Simply put - there are multiple sources, and many collectors, and just like with any community there is extensive sharing that goes on. These sites exist because there is money to be made in shocking, scaring and disgusting people.
And Ivan - I don’t think that the impulse that drives people to watch these things is anything “special”. Just look at the number and variety of reaction videos to 2 Girls 1 Cup.
At the newspaper I worked out years ago, one of the photographers also shot freelance photos for the local police department. Gory stuff from crime scenes, fires and car crashes.
He would keep copies of the photos for himself and put them in albums.
There was a rumor that he had the photo of his wife’s ex-husband being run over by a fire truck.
In summary, this is the answer. If the photo/video exists, it will be shared. The kind of people who don’t want to share those is the kind of people who don’t shoot them in the first place. People shoot in order to show to others. The internet just widens the circle of people you can show it to.
well…people sure seem to know a lot about crazy web sites.
The short answer is nearly every human being on the planet (in the US at least) is carrying some sort of camcorder or cellphone camera.
