DVLPR

2y

What’s so crazy about it

dawg

2y

What you listed isn’t that wild . Choppy videos of cops shooting and killing someone etc.

Only recent video I’ve come across that had me cringe from the wtf of it, think it was trending but it was a video of some uk guys in the mall arguing and then trying to fight and some guy pulled out a razor blade or knife and slash some dudes jugular and that dude bled the f*** out right there, there was no saving him he was gone in a minute

necromancer

2y

technically you're right, death has been a spectacle for a very long time

lynchings, witch burnings, public execution in the town square, propaganda of the deed, etc.

but i do think that death has lost its sacredness in the current consciousness, and there is something visceral to real-world violence that can't be replicated in media that affects people a lot in different ways

violence is much more mechanized and efficient now, you can watch combat footage videos with POVs of dudes doing insurgency with no remorse and all the brutality that entails in a short amount of time

theres a reason death videos/combat footage are always put out by various paramilitary groups and d*** cartels because its effective propaganda, its intense and it resembles the media we consume, it also defiles the enemy in death

dawg

2y

What you listed isn’t that wild . Choppy videos of cops shooting and killing someone etc.

Only recent video I’ve come across that had me cringe from the wtf of it, think it was trending but it was a video of some uk guys in the mall arguing and then trying to fight and some guy pulled out a razor blade or knife and slash some dudes jugular and that dude bled the f*** out right there, there was no saving him he was gone in a minute

Jody

2y

Can be argued it’s normal
I mean people would gather to watch public executions like it’s a sporting event

DZE

2y

Everything man, ignores all context and differences as well as the negative mental impacts of watching death for pleasure has always had.

Like yeah Romans watched slaves kill each other in the Coliseum as an escape from starvation and plague so yeah y’all just sensitive.

Simulacra

2y

I think it helps us cope with death tbh the generation raised on gore videos and videos of police killings are gonna be less afraid of death because that curiosity has been indulged so much

Also a reminder of how truly fragile life is you could be gone in a second

Jihyo

2y

I’ve personally seen dozens and dozens (maybe triple digits) of people die irl while I was inches away tryna save them

I never go out of my way to watch those kinds of videos. Never even click on them. Not that it would make me queasy or f*** me up, just that seeing someone kill another person doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Just lmk what happened in the video and I’ll use my imagination.

I do think it makes a lot of people wrongfully detached. Hardly anyone has real tangible experience with death. Watching all those videos all the time, idk. People think s*** is jokes or a game or something.

skibidihawk2ahh

2y

I’m not desensitized to that s***

I missed that wave of watching gory s*** online

dawg

2y

What you listed isn’t that wild . Choppy videos of cops shooting and killing someone etc.

Only recent video I’ve come across that had me cringe from the wtf of it, think it was trending but it was a video of some uk guys in the mall arguing and then trying to fight and some guy pulled out a razor blade or knife and slash some dudes jugular and that dude bled the f*** out right there, there was no saving him he was gone in a minute

Nayuta

2y

Is there any study that’s been on this before? People like to say this s*** should be so bad for the human psyche, but humanity has seen a lot of death over it’s time as entertainment, battle, hunting, disease, etc

And why would it only be bad for humans, what about other animals?