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What was the saddest/most touching thing you saw on the internet? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I once went down a rabbit hole on YouTube of "photos taken of people right before they died" (why the hell did I do this, I don't know), but some of those images have stayed with me forever, particularly:

Two men embracing that are trapped on top of a wind farm windmill that is on fire and they know they're both going to die because it's either jump to their death from the top or try to make it down the ladder, which is the part that's on fire.

The little girl whose legs got trapped under water and they were unable to free her and she sat there for I dunno how long. Her hands turned white and her eyes turned black and then she died.

Horrible haunting shit that I wish I'd never seen.

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

Sir Terry Pratchett tweeted his own meeting with Death.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/CQuR8LVKhUE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

xxx*~…I liked dis caus' I cry evry time…~*xxx

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I miss old YT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I watched a woman who represented herself as being a food expert, who also recommended extra virgin olive oil for all cooking purposes, especially where it was not suitable as the smoke point of the oil is out of alignment with the cooking needs of the other ingredients.

I mourn for billions and billions of olives wasted in food that must, by the rules of cooking, be bad. And for the hundreds of millions of people who have been wrongly informed by someone who's celebrity gimmick overwhelms their technical ability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Rachel Ray?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if Netflix counts, but I watched Dear Zachary on there and it broke me for a while.

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

Happy cake day!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! Happy belated cake day to you too

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lsjdUUha4s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The flying kiwi bird animation on YouTube. I'll have to find it when I have a minute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A dude getting stabbed in the neck by several people. The camera got real close but I'll spare you the details. I wasn't even trying to find gore or anything. This was randomly uploaded in a shitposting facebook group without any censoring. Haunts me to this day.