# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/21 "2014-06-10T10:55:15Z")
A fetish where a person wants to become more and more dog like, down to removing their fingers to have more paw like hands \<\<\\>\>. My mind still tries to tell me it was probably an April Fool site or something. ---
**Author:** ![highrollinwooded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@highrollinwooded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/highrollinwooded)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/22 "2014-06-10T11:17:31Z")
Porsche girl…devestatingly horrible… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/23 "2014-06-10T11:51:16Z")
> [@Toxylon](#): > > 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. Came in here to post this. Soldier, alive and conscious, lying on ground with captor’s foot on his head, point of captor’s large knife at the side of his neck. On cue, knife plunges into neck, and captor begins sawing forward (toward adam’s apple) with it. Soldier screams shortly after it begins, but screams are soon drowned out by the gurgling as the captor saws through his trachea. Rotten dot com has all the horrible still photos you’d ever care to look at (actually, the Rotten library has a huge collection of interesting and funny essays), but the real shock sites - places like ogrish, consumptionjunction, and steakandcheese - had full-motion videos. Not just of hardcore and shock porn, but the goriest, most violent video clips from around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/24 "2014-06-10T13:47:54Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > 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! I saw on a friend’s journal a pic from a jewelry ad. It was a ring with a heart outline, and two hands were gripping the sides of the heart. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/25 "2014-06-10T13:52:44Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > 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. A friend of mine got busted for it. He had amassed a collection at his workplace, and one of his coworkers found it. Maybe you didn’t \*actively \*look for it in your travels to internet depravity, but it’s out there. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/26 "2014-06-10T15:01:54Z")
I didn’t “come across” the Daniel Pearl video, but my non-digital dad really wanted to see it so I had to find it and watch it (because God forbid he should be able to press play himself). There are a LOT of things I refuse to look for now. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/27 "2014-06-10T15:17:44Z")
One night I read a short comic about a girl being molested by her dad. I have NO IDEA why I did such a thing and wish I had never done so. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/28 "2014-06-10T18:40:04Z")
If watching a movie on Netflix counts as coming across online, I have to go with “The Human Centipede.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/29 "2014-06-10T18:43:03Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > 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. It was a hole in the sky. It was a story on religion, I believe, which makes it even funnier/worse/both. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/30 "2014-06-10T19:00:16Z")
There’s this website I used to go to that had photos of dead people on it. I knew I would regret going to it but somehow I couldn’t resist, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/31 "2014-06-10T19:06:21Z")
Zombie porn. Which is becoming disturbing common. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/32 "2014-06-10T19:10:22Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > The website rotten . com This. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/33 "2014-06-10T19:11:12Z")
There’s this one site called [Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com) that has an unimaginable amount of drivel and drama. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/34 "2014-06-10T19:34:34Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > 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. I had to search for that. That is seriously fucked up shit. Those poor people got the piss beat out of them and were pushed back in every time they got out of the flames. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/35 "2014-06-10T19:40:07Z")
In 1998 I surfed into a body mod site that had an article by a guy who had done DIY surgery on his penis. Frankly it doesn’t rank high on the list of items that appear above, but it is one of those things that’s hard to erase. I have a son who is 15. He’s at that age of curiosity, and the Internet gives the curious much more power than when I was that age. I told him many times that there are things on the Internet that he does not want to see, no matter how curious the description might make him. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/36 "2014-06-10T19:47:09Z")
The Chechen soldier thing already mentioned. The gurgling will haunt me to my grave. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/37 "2014-06-10T19:50:38Z")
Ugh, why did I google tub girl?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/38 "2014-06-10T20:07:53Z")
> [@highrollinwooded](#): > > Porsche girl…devestatingly horrible… ☹ Can you give us some clue what this entails? Goatse still sickens me every time I think of it. It was the site that taught me to control my curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/39 "2014-06-10T20:19:40Z")
I’m not sure its the worst thing I’ve stumbled across, but when I was looking for truck parts, a site for “transvestite midget dog-fuckers” popped up, so there is that out there, I guess. You can’t make this shit up. EDIT: Porsche Girl is a waste of a perfectly good car. ---
**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 10, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436/40 "2014-06-10T21:51:20Z")
Oh, I got another one. On Facebook, one of my friends commented on a photo of a baby with two heads, and so the photo showed up in my news feed and I got disturbed by it (my friend found out my feelings about it, and apologized, though it was Facebook’s fault rather than my friend’s fault.) Though I imagine that’s pretty tame compared to the other stuff in this thread. Speaking of Facebook, I also have some friends who are outraged at the killing of children in war zones - which is understandable, and I hate it too - but who think it’s okay to share pictures of bloody dead children on Facebook to make their point. (Rarely happens, and haven’t seen it in a while, thankfully.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-thing-that-youve-ever-come-across-online/690436.md?page=3)