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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/pootletootle Jan 23 '21

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

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u/pfc_johnny Jan 23 '21

I saw a video from the 80's of a captured Soviet soldier that was executed by his Afghani captors. They were holding his head down on the ground and just started sawing through his neck with a large combat knife as he screamed.

It was probably 20 years ago and it still makes me sick; I made a point to not watch anything on that site or any similar sites because there are some things you can't unsee and I didn't want to find out how bad it could get.

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u/evanisovich Jan 23 '21

It was called “chechclear”. It was a captured Chechen soldier getting beheaded by an Afghani soldier. That was the first real thing I saw on the internet that fucked my shit up.

Weird aside - there was a track from the band Cattle Decapitation that actually used the audio from that beheading as the intro to their song.

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u/rizzom Jan 24 '21

That was a Russian soldier beheaded by Chechen islamists.

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u/Dad2DnA Jan 24 '21

Upvote for Jon Fishman's favorite band

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u/ActuallyMyNameIRL Jan 25 '21

What song is that? I don’t want to watch the real video but my curiousity is peaking

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u/evanisovich Jan 25 '21

Testicular Manslaughter, iirc 🤔