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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On a scale of 1 to Goatse, this is barely a Two Girls, One Cup.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Not even a Tubgirl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's important to remember that goatse was a series of photos.

Let that stew a bit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Think about how old those girls would be now. Probably grandmothers.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t know who watched this as a kid. One of my first internet cartoons. Loved it!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It was quite revolutionizing if you ask me. While it often had to buffer a bit, it was amazing how smooth the animation, sound and music was using nothing but 56k modem at the time. And then there was the gore and mental scaring, but besides that, amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, we got started with REJECTED by Herzfeldt.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't tempt them, I've only just cleaned that mess up.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, yea ummm

I'll leave the eyes gowron to protect the instance

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Problems averted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah man, the old IRC days were something else. Unchecked piracy, access to just about everything anyone could want, but then you also had unsolicited DMs with cp. And if you dropped your firewall for even a minute, you'd be cleaning up virus infections because Windows 95/98 practically invited people inside.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I literally watched a guy die on the shroomery's IRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brandon_Vedas

And as was the style at the time, we figured he was fucking with us or assed out, and went on with our day.

[–] chicken 7 points 2 months ago

"I told u I was hardcore"

Oh that's where that's from

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Unchecked piracy, ew, where? Here?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

oh yeah i'm totally desensitized.

it started with goatse then continued on through lemonparty and bluewaffle and it only got worse from there.

i have, and i'm not even really kidding about this, developed a religious fixation where if there's a video of someone dying i am spiritually required to watch because i can at least symbolically bear witness to what they've been through and ensure that at least vicariously they did not go through it alone ._.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was so scared of seeing the image and was just like "meh". Then reverse image searched it to see the source and still felt like the stuff I was looking at wasn't real.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I actively sought out shit like that in those days, when I was a teenager. That morbid curiosity isn't there anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People today think a reference to loss is massive psychological trauma... Unless you have after images in your head for the next few days, it doesn't even register.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure the reactions to loss are meming on the reactions to the actually traumatic content of the older internet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm kinda scared to check my messages even though it's probably deleted and that I actually saw worse shit, which I won't talk about since it is a trigger to a lot of people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yea you most likely did, fair warning, it might be deleted live but depending on your app/UI it might still show in the inbox. That's how I saw it, Boost had it still cached in the inbox

[–] Trincapinones 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What happened?

EDIT: If anyone is as lost as me here's some info: https://downonthestreet.eu/post/69636

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

When I finally gave up and moved my email domain from self-hosting to gmail, I was receiving 17,000 items of spam daily. I just couldn't handle it on my consumer internet connection and I want to say AMD K6-2.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

what happened? has it not hit me yet or did i just click "mark all as read" before the image could load?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The spammer really needs help!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Give me some low fi beats with a jump scare randomly in it