# Whats the worst thing that you've ever come across online? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436 "2014-06-09T21:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ContentWithTomorrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@ContentWithTomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContentWithTomorrow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/1 "2014-06-09T21:41:58Z")
I was just through my spam folder in email and was signing up for a website when I came across an email. At first I thought it was a legitimate from one of my friends. I misread the link as deviantart and clicked it. Nothing popped up but my antivirus immediately detected a trojan. There are worse things out on the web that one can encounter. Whats your worst? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/2 "2014-06-09T22:15:01Z")
Fan videos of beyonces single ladies, both creepyand disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/3 "2014-06-09T22:20:43Z")
The website rotten . com ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/4 "2014-06-09T22:48:04Z")
At different times, I have accidentally come across both goatse and tubgirl. As for less-well-known things, well, there was that video that I watched of an artist vomiting paint onto a canvas. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/5 "2014-06-09T23:23:57Z")
I’m not sure it’s a good idea to post the originating addresses here. A lot of junk e-mail recycles valid addresses of people who have nothing to do with the junk in question. My address could be in this list (it’s not) and I wouldn’t find it funny. ---
**Author:** ![ContentWithTomorrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@ContentWithTomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContentWithTomorrow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/6 "2014-06-09T23:47:13Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > I’m not sure it’s a good idea to post the originating addresses here. A lot of junk e-mail recycles valid addresses of people who have nothing to do with the junk in question. My address could be in this list (it’s not) and I wouldn’t find it funny. It would automatically go to spam… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/7 "2014-06-09T23:50:44Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > At different times, I have accidentally come across both goatse and tubgirl. . . . I do kind of admire the various homages and nods to goatse – like a particular video-game where a hatchway and conduits mimicked the – um. And there was some controversy over a Time magazine cover where (if memory serves) fingers were tearing a hole in an American flag in a way that might have been inspired. What a world! ---
**Author:** ![akeimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@akeimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akeimi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/8 "2014-06-10T00:27:14Z")
An erotic story that could only have been written by someone with the impulses of a serial killer. Torture porn + cannibalism + death… It was mixed in with normal non-torture-y, non-murder-y stories, and I didn’t understand what I was about to read until it was too late. Up until it crossed the line into nightmare fuel, I thought it was a “non-consent/bondage” story that was a little too intense, with tone issues. I tried to tell myself it was someone just trying to _understand_ a mind like that, but nope, I don’t believe it was. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/9 "2014-06-10T00:35:08Z")
Goatse, no contest. It was under a spoiler box, but no real warning was given. PS I am unaware of tubgirl. Plan to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/10 "2014-06-10T00:42:11Z")
It was posted here and we deleted it. I showed sick friends at work–they agreed that mindbleach won’t work. jarsquatter or jar squatter. Really, really–don’t go looking for it. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/11 "2014-06-10T01:04:44Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > The website rotten . com Now that you mention it…Ogrish. Thank Jeesub it’s gone… I think. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/12 "2014-06-10T01:12:14Z")
I won’t link to it but there is a video on youtube of people being burned as “witches” (Africa, I think). As bad as watching live humans burn to death is, the vision of their accepting of their fate is just unfathomable. I will never, ever forget that video. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/13 "2014-06-10T01:53:00Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > The website rotten . com Probably this. At the same time, I am sort of glad the internet has a space for things of this nature. There’s a horror artist out there that needs references, and the internet is ready to provide. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/14 "2014-06-10T02:06:00Z")
I believe Ogrish became LiveLeak a few years back. I’ve been on Rotten(dot)com, which is pretty bad but even worse are BestGore(dot)com and TheYNC(dot)com. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/15 "2014-06-10T02:40:31Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > jarsquatter or jar squatter. Really, really–don’t go looking for it. Seriously. You are a mean, mean person. :eek: Second worst thing I ever saw = for awhile there was a video called “BME Pain Olympics” floating about, which depicted a man cutting off his own penis & testicles, accompanied by heavy metal music although I’ve since learned that it was a very realistic-looking fake. Still very nasty to watch. First worst = 2girls1cup, definitely. Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemon Party & Meatspin were all pretty bad (actually Meatspin was kinda funny) but 2G1C wins the award for the only Internet video so far that’s actually made me puke in my mouth a little. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/16 "2014-06-10T03:49:30Z")
Jesus Camp. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/17 "2014-06-10T04:54:10Z")
I’m taking out the links in the OP. Sorry if you’re just trying to help, but posting actual links to sites that you say have viruses probably isn’t the best idea. ---
**Author:** ![interestingtwist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@interestingtwist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interestingtwist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/18 "2014-06-10T08:41:07Z")
2 girls 1 cup tied with Daniel Pearl video. Both sick and horrible in their own way. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/19 "2014-06-10T09:03:58Z")
Well… let’s just say they weren’t joking about that rule 34. For starters, who knew that there was such a thing as a panda fetish? That said, in a way I’m more surprised by what I _haven’t_ ever come across online, which is… child porn. Going by what the media tells you, the internet is flooded with the stuff. Still, after more than a decade of falling into (or jumping down) one rabbit hole of perversion after another (I must have consumed enough brain bleach to fill a swimming pool by now), nothing. Zip. Nada. And thank God, obviously. I would never, ever seek it out. Still, I’m beginning to think that it doesn’t actually exist. That it’s mostly mythical, like snuff films. If it was out there, I imagine that I would have stumbled over some by now. For the longest time, I lived in fear of seeing some by accident. But no, not even a hint of it. (If you have the links to prove me wrong, please, for the love of God, don’t post them. I don’t want to know.) ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/20 "2014-06-10T09:33:20Z")
I’ve seen everything listed so far, and taken stuff like Tubgirl with a big grin, but there’s a readily available video that still haunts me, showing two Chechen men torturing and then decapitating-by-knife a Russian POW. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436.md?page=2)