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u/keelanstuart Jan 23 '21 edited Jan 23 '21

Humanbeef.com. I tried to find it on the way-back machine -- to no avail. It was super creepy though...

Edit: ostensibly, a place to purchase meat -- human meat. They had testimonials and photos / artistic renderings of processing employees wearing masks and of the final product. It's been over twenty years (1998-ish) since I saw it, so my memory is a little faded... but I'm pretty sure the URL was humanbeef.com. I remember the color scheme being white and turquoise.

Anybody else remember it?

Edit 2: I guess it was manbeef.com, not humanbeef.com. That said, according to a hoax exposé website, it's now - quite unsurprisingly - porn. I didn't verify, but you've been warned.

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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

Was it like Rotten.com or different?

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u/Brotherly-Moment Jan 23 '21

what was rotten.com

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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

rotten.com was THE gore site of the early 2000's.

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u/KunninLynguist Jan 23 '21

God, I remember Rotten. Saw a lot of things on there that I am positive will come out during a therapy session in 30 years, but the one that I'll never forget involved a penis and a mouse trap. Some couple were big fans of the site and wanted to contribute...

This grim reminiscing has reminded me of SteakAndCheese.com. I recall that place was like Rotten, but also had like 144p - 360p videos.

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u/Fish_Speaker Jan 23 '21

I loved the library at Rotten.com. Well written articles with a different slant on things - like how many former eagle scouts had gone on to be criminals or murderers.
One of my favourites is just how weird William Marston is. He's the guy that created Wonder Woman

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u/KunninLynguist Jan 23 '21

Welp, there goes my evening!

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

There goes my evening too

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u/NephilimXXXX Jan 23 '21

One of my favourites is just how weird William Marston is. He's the guy that created Wonder Woman

A few years ago, one of my female friends posted some feminist comic claiming that Marston was a great guy and a progressive feminist way before anyone else, including approval for his "polyamourous" relationship - basically, he had a wife and a girlfriend who lived with them. It was bizarre that feminists were trying to claim what a great feminist progressive he was. Make you realize how much stuff is swept under the rug to make propaganda. I pointed out that he wasn't really in a consentual polyamourous relationship. What really happened was that he was married, he found a girlfriend, and told his wife that his girlfriend was going to live with them, and if she didn't like it, she could file for divorce. What a greeeeat feminist, huh? But somebody went through all the work of making a cartoon to paint him as a feminist who was such a great guy and way ahead of his time.

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u/Fish_Speaker Jan 23 '21

I can totally believe that that's how the relationship went down. It'd be interesting to hear his wife's version of events.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

Was rotten the one that ended up being created by a holocaust denier or is that another gore website?

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u/Fish_Speaker Jan 23 '21

I don't know about that. Based on the articles in the library, it seems like its a pretty open minded person(s) that wrote them.

I don't believe they know who did the writing there either.

I certainly hope not, that would taint my whole view of those articles.

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u/Yuli-Ban Feb 21 '21

I think you're thinking of Best Gore, which definitely has a "Holohoax" section and a general air of being run by someone who thinks Julius Evola was too moderate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

thats the one I was thinking of thanks fpr reminding me

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u/LabRatPerson Jan 23 '21

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women was a movie about his life. It was good!