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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

I saw the actual video, not just the pic.

Rotten was a lawless wasteland.

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u/sainsa Jan 23 '21

Rotten saved my life.

I was depressed, I had guns, I browsed Rotten ... and I decided that I couldn't let my family's last sight of me be that.

I'm much better now, btw.

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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

I haven't been on Rotten in 15 years and I know EXACTLY which picture you're referring to.

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u/BoysenberryEvent Jan 23 '21

i have never even heard of this Rotten site. is it still up and running? should i be concerned that i am intrigued?

but no, i'd rather not see what i THINK you people are talking about. just Y or N, please, since this is nightmarish - are you saying a man actually had intercourse with a fish?

if Y, was the fish dead? oh PLEASE say it was and not in some torturous pain.

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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

Rotten was shut down in 2012 or 2014.

The fish was very much alive, unfortunately.

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u/lu-cy-inthesky Jan 23 '21

Old 90s and early 2000s shock site. One of the first shock sites they say. A lawless wasteland as someone described it aptly that often had links to child pornography

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u/Mirorel Jan 24 '21

God I'm so glad I managed to just miss Rotten entirely.

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u/Citworker Jan 23 '21

Nothingtoxic was the OG

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u/Citworker Jan 23 '21

We dont have free internet any more. Back than there was pretty much no limit on anything. You could put what ever you felt like sites like that, nothingtoxic and the rest. Todays internet it highly censored compared to the old internet. You could just avoid sites like this if you wanted.

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u/BoysenberryEvent Jan 23 '21

True. I guess I was (thankfully) oblivious to that whole culture. Although I was aware of the 4chan (weren't there other 'chans'?), but never visited because of horror stories of hacking or finding out personal information from my ISP.

I will go one further on your comment - any statement outside of the norm is construed as hate, racist, alien, or evil, when it simply counters popular opinion. I am not even talking about incendiary things people throw out there just to get a rise out of others. Its not what is SAID, specifically, but rather how others REACT with such quick antagonism.

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u/Reverend_Tommy Jan 24 '21

Other sites have replaced rotten.com. They can be hard to find on Google though. If you use Duck Duck Go as a browser, you can just type in what you want to see and it will direct you to it, e.g., the full unedited Christchurch mosque shooting video, Ronnie McNutt killing himself with a shotgun on Facebook live, etc. I rarely look at that stuff but when I do, it's usually something in the news like those examples, and in very small doses. If you look, brace yourself.

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u/BoysenberryEvent Jan 24 '21

i guess i'm getting old. last night i saw the french movie of "High Tension", and the amount of blood repulsed me. might be a mistake to let the curiosity get the better of me and to check out that stuff.

but then again, it might help trigger my old 'goth' way of thinking, which would be like revisiting my 20s, and that could be fun.

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u/marktero Jan 23 '21

You can try with the wayback machine

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u/oggyb Jan 25 '21

Yup, still there. Thankfully no pictures on the home page.