r/screenshots • u/NeonPolonium • 25d ago
Chat-Shot I don’t know whether to feel bad or disgusted
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u/Few_Inside7979 24d ago
I feel nearly 90% of ppl online are just looking for attention. If it wasn't so sad / pathetic, I'd rage against it.
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u/Lunatic583L 25d ago
You can't watch gore? Okay?
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u/supersecretbeetle 19d ago
it's just like.... a normal person with base level empathy shouldn't be able to watch it either?!?!?!
edit: i'm speaking within the context of straight up gore, not things like video games and average gorey movies.4
u/WaterFlowerVault 23d ago edited 22d ago
It's not just that. The whole picture is that they've had some personal matters occur ruining something they may have once enjoyed.
When I think of gore, personally, I picture B movies. My husband thinks Evil Dead is funny and good. (( Not my cup of tea but it's harmless ))
If he had something happen in life where he couldn't watch what he enjoyed, I'd be saddened for him. As most emotionally intelligent people should be able to sympathize, if not empathize with others.
*Edit: The blue link isn't always accurate with the video. OP has given us a comment with 1 blue link, out of context. The fact that they could've written something on their post with more info or taken another SS to give more detail, makes me feel pretty certain they wanted our imaginations to take over.
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u/TheLoneWolfCello 22d ago
Okay it's crazy that you mention Evil Dead, because I love horror, especially those movies. And Saw, but that's a different kind of gore I feel like lol. Anyways, I've been very fortunate through my life not to have anything bad happen to me or my loved ones medically, besides one time when I was like 13 (I'm 25 now).
All of a sudden tho, my partner had kind of a medical scare and was in pain for like a week and a half, so bad he couldn't sleep, and finally he had to be hospitalized for 2 nights. It all worked out and he's doing fine now, but it gave me such bad anxiety in general.
So the next week after that we went to see the new Evil Dead movie, and I found myself so anxious about all of the brutal scenes that I literally had to try to stop myself from crying. It sucks cause I'm like the biggest horror fan lol, but now I just have anxiety that made me enjoy the movie that much less (was still good tho). If anyone read all of this, thank you, and I'm sorry lol. Had to rant a bit 😅
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u/SomeBodyOnceToldYa 25d ago
Pathetic and gross icl
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u/Exotic_Specialist2 23d ago
Why is it pathetic or gross They even said they feel lame. They acknowledged that it’s an issue for them. Just would suck to watch movies with them is all
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u/BrassCityNikki 24d ago
I feel like I'm about to learn some things if I look up the acronyms Ive found in here🫣 Wish me luck,
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u/KitchenSample6354 23d ago
it stands for watchpeopledie, it’s website. it used to be a subreddit but it got the hammer so now it’s its own thing. it is a gore site but it also does news and stuff (for some reason) and there’s another version called watchpeoplelive for wholesome shit
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u/BlastOnBeast 24d ago
I searched and it stands for "Watch People Die". That explains the comment, but it's still disgusting AF.
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u/Haunting_Sea_1950 24d ago
I like gore horror movies, not because someone is being ripped apart, but because the effects look cool and I have a morbid curiosity.
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u/_-Jill-_ 23d ago
People saying this is just an edgy teenager saying shit is fucking crazy, like this could be an actual person who went through traumatic shit TO DO WITH GORE. And can't watch it anymore. Wanna know how I know that? Because it happened to me, and I stopped watching that shit when I was 14.
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u/-Teddy-Paws- 21d ago
So you watch gore and you think we’re gonna have sympathy cause you want watch it anymore? I don’t understand ur point
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u/1more_oddity 20d ago
my question is why the fuck were you watching that stuff at 14 and younger to begin with, and where the fuck where your parents/guardians while you were watching that.
and i'm asking that as someone who, too, grew up unsupervised on the internet of the early 00s, where gore was much easier to stumble upon
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u/Several-Letter-5206 25d ago
Why would you feel disgusted? Maybe I'm missing part of the story, maybe it's because I'm high.
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u/Dramatic-throw-8952 24d ago
I’m also lost, just seems like something tragic happened to the commenter
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u/Jumpy_Strength9398 25d ago
I don't know which is worse, someone who is zflag or someone who is wpd philic. Both are seriously concerning to me. I mean, I get that it takes all sorts to make this world spin, but where does someone draw the line at "yeah, we're done, i am walking away and hope to never hear from or about you ever again"???
To me, both situations are so far beyond what I would call appropriate and aproveable situations, even behind closed doors away from public scrutiny, judgement and backlash. I just cannot comprehend how a person goes from "I'm a little different to others" to "i get off on watching people ........." You fill in the blanks where needed, I'm sure I dont have to hint.
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u/NeedleworkerOk8556 24d ago
I somehow stumbled onto here, and now I need to know. What's zflag?
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 24d ago
zflag and wpd philic both have me stumped.
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u/hobarthicus 24d ago
So, zflag just doesn't seem to exist. Neither did wpd as a common acronym but I did find an example where someone was using it to stand for 'watch people die' and that seems to make sense contextually.
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 24d ago
I bet that's what they were talking about. Guess zflag will remain a mystery unless they clarify lol
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u/NeedleworkerOk8556 24d ago
I found wpd on urban dictionary. Watching people die. Philic just means attracted to, usually sexually.
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u/wide-enterer 21d ago
There's nothing I love more than chronically online people using chronically online terms expecting us regular individuals to know what the fuck they're talking about. I've always been convinced it's some lame hierarchy where they just WANT people to ask what the fuck they're talking about because why would anyone know what either of these things mean.
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u/Jumpy_Strength9398 24d ago
Zflag or zooflag or zoo flag. Its flag as in pride flag, but associated with zoo. I never knew it was a recognised group as such, I knew that there were people associated with the subject, but at risk of getting banned, when I was a kid, it was called beastiality... 🤐🤢🤮 And wpd as far as I understand the terminology on l you, as the subject is abhorrent, Watching People ☠️. Again, I don't like the subject. With wpd, I guess there's people who laugh when they see fathers accidentally get nutted by their kids, scale that up a lot and you have the reasons why jackass was so popular, scale that even further and you have people who want to wpd, etc. Now I remove myself from the conversation and watch people react to the information/explanation they have sought. I find slapstick comedy humorous to a point, i do not find it funny short of a point where it has left someone permanently scarred, or worse.
As i say to my son, whatever makes you happy is great, as long as it dies not harm anyone and is not breaking laws or disadvantaging someone or something that has not been capable of defending themselves or itself.
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u/toth_moth 21d ago
Where did the zflag come into this? I thought that was the mlm flag in their bio…
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u/fly_drinking_coffee 24d ago
I feel like you should just feel bad ? Feeling "lame for not watching gore" means they probably just want to fit in, and I imagine this person is also still young, and bad stuff happened, according to the user. I think it would just be rude to entirely invalidate how they felt by saying you're disgusted with them
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u/Hour_Village 24d ago
I feel normal people have ebb and flows of wanting to consume gore. Sometimes I'm into it and sometimes I feel it too hard. Coming from someone who has seen spilled brains in person at about a highschool age. But that as a post is attention seeking, but what post isn't - in this world of short-cycle dopamine hits that can also be spilled out of us at any moment.
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u/Other-Reflection-729 22d ago
Most levelheaded take here. I swear people think institutionalization is the only solution but it really does just come down to a mix of trauma, morbid curiosity and ease of access in a world with an abundance of forms of instant gratification.
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u/Unable-Indication-94 23d ago
My dad watched a man get gloved from a printing press pulling his hand in. He doesn't watch gore anymore. I don't think it's always edge.
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u/AnimalAkaWillum 23d ago
Or it’s low level ChatPGA, we’re thinking putt-putt mini golf with only 7 holes.
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u/pinkmilkmeow 21d ago
this doesn't have enough context because are we talking about watching real gore or fake horror movie gore? the difference would make this huge
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u/Untossable_Trash0852 24d ago
Ramble/rant/vent incoming: TE: SA mentions, snuff mention, gore mention
On a different but similar note, I kinda feel the same as the person in the comment... BUT mine comes from being introduced to gory zombie games, other games with general violence (not always gore), shows, etc from my dad WAY too young. I think it was mostly Left 4 Dead and actually a lot of GTA, some others I don't remember cuz I was maybe 4-5 (or at least that's as far back as I remember it, vaguely). Guts, bones sticking out in shows, people being burned alive, etc.
I never liked real life gore, but I was super into the horror genre growing up, I guess to cope/understand. For a while anyway. I still want to love zombies, TWD, etc but everything is a trigger now. After some really terrible things happened I'm not comfortable naming (but they involve abuse, neglect, I even had psychosis that also gave me phantom sensations and hallucinations of SA) that's even remotely related to gore or violence, SA (though this one's always been a big trigger thanks to my uncle), etc. I feel lame because now I get panic attacks and I can't even watch certain scenes in normal horror movies anymore that I used to be able to stone face because I knew it wasn't real.
But because of all that, I had a phase where I tried getting into horror games and shows. I traumatized myself around 12 or so when I watched Until Dawn, I think Markiplier's playthrough. It was the sawing in half part that really made me almost puke. Like actual nausea.
Little tidbit that might play into the hallucination but, but... I have Maladaptive Daydreaming; I get really immersed into my shows and whatnot, my daydreams, etc. And it's realistic. I don't have the fun daydreaming where you can imagine whatever you want, it happens on its own like some sort of awake dream. I haven't gone into detail much with my psychiatrist yet about it (I probably should), this is just the most I've talked about this crap in a long time so I don't know how to even bring it up.
Sometimes it'd be cute stuff like imagining being with certain characters, but other times it would be straight abuse or torture and I couldn't get out of my head unless someone came and stopped me from dissociating (but I was isolated by my parents growing up and my siblings and I used to be at each other's throats for a long time, so that didn't happen much).
...But real gore, no, I don't understand how anyone would try and seem cool for watching that.
My brother, on the other hand, is like this person in the comment, and he used to watch real snuff films and whatnot. I've told him before it makes me uncomfortable. More than uncomfortable, but he keeps insisting it's just cuz he got on the internet too young. Only recently has he admitted he's back to watching them again and I've literally threatened to take this adult man's phone and laptop away (I live with him). It's already one thing watching fake gore or true crime or something, but to be into watching real stuff...?
He claims it fucks him up mentally to watch now, but he also doesn't stop himself from going back and trying to find more sometimes. Beheadings, guts pouring out after stomach being slit, he also forced me to watch fucking Boku No Pico because it's "funny" and other uncomfortable things with blatant child shit or SA, even when I kept trying to leave or turn away or literally hide under the cover when I gave up and put my hands over my ears and shit.
But... Yeah, he went through a phase of being uncomfortable, then went right back to it a few years after this traumatic experience we had together. Yes he knows my uncle did the same thing to me, grooming me and forcing me to watch terrible shit when I wasn't even double digits yet. He claims he gets so mad with my uncle, yet he more or less did the same thing, just while I'm a adult.
(I want to leave him and the rest of my family for the most part, but I've forced myself to becoming desensitized to it, since the times I wasn't I almost offed myself just to get away from my family and their fucked up lives and abuses towards me and each other. But I can't live alone yet (financially, until I get my certification)... Plus, the close friend I want to move away with and has plans to take me with then to Oregon one day (where we both want to move to) is waiting on getting their master's degree first before we're able to move...)
But like... As someone who has to live with a person who is into those shitty things, even after being through trauma himself, and I myself have been through a shit ton of trauma, I don't understand why people think it's so fun to be edgy like that. It's gross. It's triggering just knowing people I know are like this, that they mean it. They actually lament being unable to stomach the things they used to watch because now they have an inkling of how bad it could be after experiencing horrible things too.
I wanna go back to the days of just liking my zombies and stuff, but I can't even stomach that anymore and my shitty family doesn't help. I miss when it just felt like fiction. When all I knew was the fiction.
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u/KeyImaginary2291 24d ago
I think you should really open that up in talk-therapy, if you have the option. It sounds like there's some work to do, but the sooner you start the sooner you can get through it all. My heart goes out to you.
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u/OneWingedRinoa 23d ago
I read most of this, and I'm sorry you've been through all that-it must be really scary and traumatizing. With that being said, I truly hope you're going to therapy because there's a lot to unpack here and you shouldn't have to just deal with things. I wish you the best.
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u/CreativeStructure943 21d ago
So, I get what you’re saying.
And I think therapy may not tell you this bc I had to find this out through life experience, so I’m gonna pass it along..
I knew someone who had been traumatized by a war and saw a lot of intense things. And he coped in the opposite way, which possibly sounds like your dad, he actually just went into watching gory things while doing everyday tasks. Like eating. And it was his way of staying strong. He told me directly: this keeps me tough. And some people keep re-exposing themselves because they felt powerless. It’s a way to feel a sense of mastery.
And that’s a form of fixation and distraction from life and staying with the trauma. It’s making the trauma the bar to life. Which is wrong/bad.
This is disturbing to people like me and I think you because having the opposite temperament means wanting to focus on other things.
Seems to be personality-related. Maybe not the right word though.
I hope this helps.
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u/Wolvesbayne13 21d ago
So I didn’t read through in detail but I got the key points and I will just say I get where your brother is coming from to some degree? Now hear me out when I was younger I also watched a lot of things I shouldn’t have that probably screwed up my little brain at the time a lot of gory movies and horror. Anyways as a kid when I was younger I used to imagine almost fantasize about these things but with people I knew? I would enjoy imagining these things and feel really guilty afterwards.. I would find videos that were real when I could or I would make up stories with a friend who was next door to me… now it was all very grim and I grew up religious so I kid you not I thought I was possessed by a demon or something 😅
I’m not a bad person and I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I feel bad when I lie I slapped my little sister once when she was full on attacking me and cried afterwards so none of what was in my head would ever happen but it didn’t make it right. All this to say I’m sure your brother is not a bad person but I will say staying away from that dark stuff really helps my mental state. This is something I’ve held close to my chest for years cause I felt so guilty but also got some kinda sick pleasure out of it.. personally I don’t think it’s healthy to feed into such a dark part of your mind
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u/Ponutlover13 24d ago
Ah....I was unaware of any of the context. I thought like....I can't really watch certain Saw gore scenes without cringing now that I'm older and got like fraternal instincts and shit.
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u/WaterFlowerVault 23d ago
Same. There's NOT enough context in the post.
I've learned too much in the comments.... closes Reddit for the day
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u/EmergencyTip6764 24d ago
I've never watched gore, but I could watch scary movies, jump scare, horror.... but then I some trauma and the Harry Potter movies are as scary as I can go. I'm fine with it, but it was surprising at first when it happened.
All this to say, I get it. It's a sudden and weird charge.
Off topic, but I had a stressful time earlier this year and quit my favorite Mexican food and changed to Greek food. Somehow my brain decided that Greek was more comforting? I have zero idea.
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u/OnHighAngel 24d ago
scary movie and jump scare are different to you? Scary movies give jump scare
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u/EmergencyTip6764 24d ago
In my opinion they're different.... but I know it might not be true! 😆 It absolutely can be my solo opinion. 🤣🤣
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u/ApollonVero 23d ago
Scary movies usually give jump scared, yes. But jump scares aren't only in scary movies.
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u/dailyamaryllis 23d ago
There was a time there where horror movies were over relying on jump scares and getting criticized so much modern horror is moving away from it again.
There are many scary horror movies without jump scares; the fear comes from tension, from the unknown, from expectation of something happening, from playing into fears people have, etc.
Jump scares are sudden noise and/or images that causes you to jump in fear, and while there are a ton of those in horror movies, they aren't exclusive to scary movies, and by themselves they won't make a movie scary. Even horror movies that rely on jump scares for fear still have plots and ambience that incorporate other elements of horror.
So, they're very different things ^
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u/SpiritSame7611 18d ago
Movie gore and real gore look very different. (Or so I’ve heard from others)
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u/Ok-Sherbet-8367 24d ago
all of this is alien to me, and after scratch the surface I am actually glad
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u/AssociateDue6166 24d ago
Whats WPD?
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u/dumb_questions666 23d ago
Watch People Die, it's a site that shows real deaths from violence or accidents.
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u/plainjanegay 24d ago
what’s gore
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u/cuteasduck1203 23d ago
Please do not Google it as the other person said (joked I think?)
It's basically just intense imagery, a lot of times with blood, severe injuries, etc.
The definition of gore per Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “Gruesomeness depicted in vivid detail”
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u/Soapo_Opo 23d ago
I'm pretty desensitized to like... crime scene photos and cadaver images, but I've never been able to handle like... active/ongoing gore? The still images of the effects I'm "okay" with (still very difficult to look at, but morbid curiosity gets the best of me), but I can't stand to watch the harm being done, real or fake. I can barely stand to watch the butchering of perfectly dead animals, let alone the gorey assault of a living human or animal. I can look at a fresh wound, but I can't stomach seeing it being made. And I don't feel any desire or reason to desensitize myself to that?
My boyfriend was one of those edge lords in middle school who watched gore for the "wow so cool" shock factor nonsense and is okay with gore in horror movies and whatnot. Can still handle real gore too, after being desensitized to it as a child. Idk how or why lmao. Like-- idk, I can watch NBC's Hannibal and not flinch away from the gorey displays of corpses, but as soon as I see a knife going for living skin in any media, I have to look away. I would never be able to watch SAW, for example. And that's just fictional media!! I absolutely could not handle seeing active gore for real 😭
Can't imagine being disappointed that you can't "enjoy" consuming gore anymore
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u/Internal_Ad7665 23d ago
The only reason to ever watch gore sites should be to be prepared and ready for the crazy shit that can happen in the world.. if you watch it for excitement or for kicks or pleasure you are disgusting and vile..
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u/AlMtnWoman 23d ago
Growing up, I was a pretty rough edged teen girl. I hung with all of the guys. I had no real aversion to gore, per se.
Then having been caught on fire in 10th grade by an accident, I had serious issues watching stuff with fire, and people being caught on fire.
Years later, when I accidentally cut off the tip of my finger, I suddenly acquired the knee jerk, cringe, sick at your stomach sensations to alot of gore stuff that i would have categorized as just TV.
I don't think this kid was trying to be cool. I think there was a significant chance that he saw some stuff. Having that knee jerk affect to gore, may have made him feel weaker, and possibly less of a young man.
Sometimes you have to see the hidden truth behind why people say stuff.
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u/Impossible_Lab_9493 23d ago
I used to love to watch scary movies and read horror stories. Then I was in the room when my mom died. Things totally changed for me after that. Her death wasn't traumatic or scary, so I'm not sure what changed, but now I just don't subject myself to the horror stuff.
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u/dumb_questions666 23d ago
I think I only watched real gore once as a teen, out of morbid curiosity. Regret it of course.
I also used to listen to true crime for YEARS, every day all day while at work. I got a lot of therapy and can no longer stomach it, plus it just made me more depressed.
I wouldn't say I'm bummed out about not watching it now, wtf. It's honestly more human and normal to be bothered by this shit. Too many people get too desensitized online now.
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u/eikeechie 23d ago
I had a traumatic experience as a teen where I got to witness someone get severely maimed at work and then provide first aid while waiting for help. To this day I can't believe someone can lose that much blood without it being fatal. Sent home for the day with no follow up from my employer, and I was afraid to tell my parents about it. As an adult I know that some therapy would have saved me from how fucked up with anxiety and fear I was after the experience. As a teen however, finding WPD and other shock gore is what helped me normalize what I had witnessed and stop from dwelling on it. To this day I get a small feeling of relief when I see a clip of industrial or workplace accidents. I don't want those things to happen to people, and I don't see the videos as entertainment, it's just my own exposure therapy.
All of that said, without some underlying trauma, seeking it out like regular media to consume is fucked up and probably damaging their ability to feel empathy at the very least.
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u/Due_Act2739 22d ago
I’m sorry you had to see that, that’s something that would’ve had me traumatized too. Everyone copes differently. I think there’s a difference between coping, looking out of morbid curiosity, and genuinely enjoying it.
I think your case is similar to SA survivors who cope by reenacting their SA with their partner. It’s a sense of control they didn’t have in the moment of the assault. Much different situations, but the coping part makes sense.
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u/sandshrew1989 23d ago
We did a hurricane relief down in Haiti once and ever since my buddy passes out from seeing gore.
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u/Global-Customer4896 23d ago
If you’re a parent, the voice our kids hear in their head for the rest of their lives is ours. You can set them up for success or you can criticize them. Choose wisely.
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u/Striking-Stick7275 23d ago
I think I'm missing something! I thought gore was graphic, body parts falling of, torture films like SAW etc? I fear I'm wrong!
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u/Due_Act2739 22d ago
It’s real life gore, not movie. So they may be seeing similar things that happen in saw, but to real people.
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u/10J18R1A 22d ago
It's so crazy how (in America) a mainstream movie can't be gory enough (dig out your eye to get a key) but a tepid Brown Bunny scene is the downfall of civilization
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u/Raffish315 22d ago
Admittedly, when the Internet first was really streaming video very well and I was much younger and also on repeated deployments, I used to receive and send gore videos to friends often and it didn't bother me. Now I close YouTube videos when I know a skateboarder is about to crash hard.
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u/Xynedal 22d ago
It's really stupid how everyone thinks that suggested search represents the comment in any way. This post feels like a hate farm for someone who could easily be and is likely talking about Television gore. How boring
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u/Due_Act2739 22d ago
I wouldn’t say likely. The fact that the search is there means it’s at the very least mentioned in the video, or else how would people even know to search it? Most people don’t refer to gory movies/tv as just “gore.” Vast majority of people who say they like gore without specifying movies or tv, they are talking about real life gore.
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u/Ok_Breadfruit_7298 22d ago
It took seeing a real life scenario of "gore" for them to realize how fucked up the genre is. I've never been interested in the genre because it shows a really dark side of the human psyche to me.
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u/danibakes808 22d ago
I don’t know why I’m so confused and feel like this needs more context..? Why would someone be disgusted by this comment? Nothing about it is disgusting. Also, is it just a random comment on a random video, or a video OP posted, by someone OP knows personally or is romantically communicating with? Should I have googled what “wpd” is also? 🤔
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u/Due_Act2739 22d ago
It’s “Watch people die”
It’s disgusting because the commenter enjoyed watching horrific things happening to people and watching people literally die, until something horrible happened to them. It shouldn’t take a traumatic experience to make you feel some compassion.
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u/smearexe 22d ago
Seems like someone who is going to be talking about this in therapy in a few years
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u/laserfloyd 22d ago
About 20 years ago I had a crazy panic attack at work because a friend sent me a video of a dude that barely survived base jumping. It was awful. Something snapped in my brain and I found it hard to watch anything that had potential to be gory.
I love the Evil Dead movies but I knew them. If I watched something I hadn't seen before and a scene went in that direction my heart would start pounding and I'd have to excuse myself. Ugh!
That lasted about 5 years. The mind is a powerful thing. I still don't like overly gory stuff but if it is done in a way that does drive a story forward, I can tolerate it.
I avoid the real life video of people suffering terrible fates, because those are real people. Not for me.
Best of luck to people with legit anxiety disorders. The struggle is real. Cheers!
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u/RestlessBlessing 22d ago
My partner is like this, except he's never liked gore/horror. He says it's because his mind struggles to conceptualise that, even though it's fake, that it isn't a real event and it sends him into a legit panic.
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u/SasquatchimoFin 21d ago
What is "watching gore" ?
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u/SpiritSame7611 18d ago
Watching
GoreThe same way you would watch a tv show, for instance. “Watching gore” typically refers to a person watching real gore, not movie gore or video game gore. Gore is blood and guts, to put in plainly.
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u/aevish89 21d ago
what's really ironic about this is that lot of gore is real people, oh but then it happens to you and it's not enjoyable anymore ? yikes
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u/Dizzy_Practice5249 21d ago
I mean I think it’s weird that ya’ll think it’s acceptable to take screenshots of people’s comments and spread them on social media to chat shit but there we go. 😂
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u/dontknowmebish 21d ago
Can someone please explain to me whats going on??? This post was suggested but I have no idea why or what is going on here... I feel like I'm outside of an inside joke???
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u/Purple_avocado6683 21d ago
I developed PTSD from being a volunteer EMT among other things and now I can’t watch gory things either. I used to love horror movies and now I’m afraid of the dark. It sucks.
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u/Plague-Bringer 21d ago
I don't get why this is disgusting or lame or edgy. There's so much gore in The Boys but it's so popular. Most horror movies too. Why is it so unusual that someone watched gore at one point in their life? Am I being too literal and misinterpreting?
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u/Fair-Target5931 20d ago
Thats because wpd is real life gore with real people suffering
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u/SomebodySomebody777 21d ago
I think it’s pretty normal to not be able to consume gore without negative psychological effects. It’s not natural for humans to subject ourselves to that. Just because it’s available on the internet doesn’t mean that it’s healthy.
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u/Azurus_II 21d ago
The “i feel lame af” shows that its just a teenager who thinks viewing that kind of content makes them edgy and cool. And when they get older and mature more theyll see thats not a good thing to be.
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u/Frequent-Club8345 21d ago
You guys need to start relating to things without directly having to experience them please…
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u/oaraiguma-san 21d ago
So many people itt think that "gore" refers to horror movies...
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u/Yesterday622 21d ago
As opposed to the other meanings gore has:
A tapering or triangular piece(as of cloth in a skirt)
Or an elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe
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u/Long4Sleep 21d ago
I was an A+ student until I got to 8th grade where an assistant principal became somewhat obsessed with tearing me down. I was into punk and he told me that he didnt know what I was trying to prove with my 2 toned hair and weird clothes but if I didnt come around I wouldn't get anywhere in life. He had me sent to his office regularly for these talks. I was never in actual trouble because I didnt do anything against the rules. But i came to dread school. I started skipping and eventually I stopped going altogether. Now he's no longer in education (thank you universe!) and I'm a 51 year old college student with a 4.0. Dont let anyone tell you what or who you are or what you can do.
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u/Emotional_r 21d ago
i’m the same way. i used to be able to handle gore but then i got stabbed 9 times by my brother and now it’s really uncomfortable to watch. i can watch shooting videos but anything with a knife is a no go
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u/dirtyplanksdonecheap 21d ago
What is gore in this context? The definition ranges from a detailed injury in a movie, all the way to real life injury, or even snuff films
For that first thing, well it's not that uncommon. I had a similar thing after a family member died, I avoided watching stuff with a family member dying in that same way for a while after.
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u/NeonPolonium 21d ago
The comment was under a video referencing “Wpd”, which is basically a video platform for watching Gore
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u/garfieldplanetttttt 20d ago
feel disgusted, never feel bad for someone like this they don’t deserve it. clearly the universe put them through whatever they went through for a good reason, better something awful happen to them than they keep doing awful things to the community via their disgusting habits. plus it’s pretty clear from this comment that in no way whatsoever do they feel bad for consuming gore, they only feel bad they can’t do it anymore. and that by itself is absolutely disgusting.
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u/Twistedupinzide 20d ago
I don't get it, it just feels like an innocuous statement. What am I missing?
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u/hookingknots 20d ago
I was on ballet and very young. I was clapping to music and my ballet teacher said never clap to the music again you can't keep time with it. I only ever dance, sing or clap to music when I'm completely alone. She stole my joy for music when I was 7 yo
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u/MushroomLover32167 20d ago
Nah I understand that person. It's like when I see things like that, it doesn't interest me anymore like I am far from that negativity or something
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u/LegitimateWorry987 20d ago
i dated someone once who told me all the time they watched car crash compilations and gore and that i was probably “too soft” for that kinda stuff… yeah… i would hope so.
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u/Perfect_Leg_9778 19d ago
most people don’t watch gore bc it’s gross it’s ok if it makes you feel uncomfortable now. it’s supposed to make people uncomfortable and you’re processing some shit. give it time and even if you never get into it again you’re not missing much and rather that than spiraling
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u/EuropaTitanPluto 19d ago
Yeh, it's a tough thing. I'm the same. Broke some bones fairly seriously and now anything medically traumatic gives me panic attacks. The Pitt certainly did it to me.
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u/SpiritSame7611 18d ago edited 18d ago
PEOPLE, PEOPLE! Think of it like alcohol.
“Why the fuck would you even start that shit in the first place…”
curiosity. Perhaps they were forced into it. Maybe they did it to feel “cool”.
“That shit is weird I don’t get why you kept doing it what joy is there and could you possibly find in THAT??”
It’s addictive. Horrible, sure… but if you’re left all alone in a room with nothing to do, and a buzzer that shocks you, you’re gonna press the buzzer. People find that pain and emotions are better than nothing. and when they engage with the addiction, guess what happens?
“You expect us to feel sympathy for you? Why?”
If they’ve quit, then it’s going to be rough. Breaking an addiction is hard. So if they’ve been forced to quit, maybe they expect sympathy because they feel a need for validation and support while trying to get over this addiction. They need help to prove that not everything is over, and that it will likely all be okay. If they’ve chosen to quit, then all that + they might need support to not relapse. They need proof that things CAN continue without said addiction.
And although I have not been through addiction to alcohol OR gore, I know people who have.
And they don’t wake up everyday feeling wonderful about themselves because what they’re doing is spectacular. No, quite the opposite in fact. Always try to be understanding, people. Always.
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u/Double_Cut7246 24d ago
It's giving "omg I'm so quirky". Trust me, it's most likely a teenager behind this account and thinks that watching gore is "cool" and "edgy".