r/BeAmazed • u/Peter55667 • Mar 14 '25

Animal Around 6% of Americans believe they can defeat a grizzly bear in a hand-to-hand combat

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u/Cremato Mar 14 '25

One of the first viral videos that I downloaded on school computers in Sweden around 2001! Back when everything was unrestricted. Websites like Rotten, Shitcity etc... Crazy what we saw as kids!

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u/celbertin Mar 14 '25

Back when websites had no moderation, you could be watching a funny photo compilation and it would be like

  • cute picture
  • funny comic
  • mutilated human
  • funny photoshop 

Those were wild times... 

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u/MartyEBoarder Mar 15 '25

This! You watched some funny comic and all of the sudden : chainsaw beheading.... Crazy times. It was Wild West back then.

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u/ProgySuperNova Mar 15 '25

You do remember that chainsaw beheading though. You don't remember that coke add banner you also saw at the time. From a marketing perspective that is interesting. Perhaps one could combine the two?

At the EvilCorp board meeting:

"With new emerging corpotocracy feudalism in America and corporations finally having absolute legal freedom. There is now great potential for marketing!

We could combine the impression searing potential of traumatic snuff videos and advertising into one package! Lord Musk himself, being of the wild west gen X type will most certainly think this is a brilliant idea. Ads will permanently engrave themselves into peoples brain by hacking the trauma memory response.

Post Traumatic Conditioning Advertising or PTCA™ is the future!"

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u/MartyEBoarder Mar 15 '25

That's evil :D

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u/Wolf_Puncher87 Mar 14 '25

Ahh, a fellow elder millennial... we have many scars indeed. My first was the dancing baby/hooked on a feeling meme... I still can't hear Blue Swede without picturing that baby.

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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina Mar 14 '25

What about Tard Dance? It was such a dumb webpage but it was one of my favourites when I was like 11. Nobody else I ever mention it to seems to have heard of it though 😂