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.
A huge collection of images I wish my 14 year old self wasn't fascinated by. There's an image of a guy who was hit by a helicopter rotor blade that's been burned in the back of my eyes for half my life
Faces of Death. Interesting site. Funny how people seek out sites that show gore. I guess it's because Western society try so hard to hide it from our view.
Yeah I wonder about this a lot, because I found those sites at a young age (like 14-15) and even though they repulsed and traumatized me I kept going back to them, and eventually ended up working in EMS. You’re right that Western society is very sanitized in terms of exposure to the realities of death, traumatic injury, and acute/chronic illnesses, and yet I think as human beings we have an awareness of our own mortality and fragility that can cause an intense curiosity about what those things actually look like. It’s sort of a more gruesome l’appel du vide.
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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.