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LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by andai »

breckenedge wrote: post #40
whymauri wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, yeah. Reddit killed the forum. Google and silo'd social media (FB, TikTom) are eating everything else. I just realized that I barely recognize the modern net vs. the one I grew up with.

You consider Reddit usable? I stopped using Reddit a few years ago, recently came back and tried both the website and (dark-pattern driven) mobile app. It's distinctly worse. Everything seems to have been re-engineered to drive "engagement" and/or mindless consumption.

The userbase is also becoming worse, because they're attracting the kind of idiots that respond to design like that.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

lettergram wrote: post #14

LiveLeak team moved to develop ItemFix - https://www.itemfix.com/ kinda interesting, almost like they are trying to create meme videos. Currently, I don't think it's very good, but generally could become a thing I supposed.

Itemfix is such a bad name. It sounds like it was generated by AI or a domain generator

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by ergot_vacation »

spoonjim wrote: post #55

Four LiveLeak videos will always stay in my head. WARNING: even in text this stuff is horrifying. Stop reading if you don’t want to have nightmares. 1) an ISIS video where a 7 year old kid or so goes through a building where a bunch of hostages are tied up. He shoots them dead in succession. He looks like he’s about to cry throughout the whole video — but he doesn’t. 2) a completely covered up woman(?) in Iran is exe…

Appreciate you and others detailing some of this stuff in this thread. I mostly have to stay aware from content like this; don't really have the psychology for it. But I'm glad it's documented.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by jimmygrapes »

ryandrake wrote: post #38

I happen to think a lot of the pandemic denial and downplaying had to do with the media's refusal (for valid privacy reasons) to show what was actually going on in ICUs everywhere. The lack of graphic coverage kept the pandemic's worst effects out of sight, out of mind for a lot of people, allowing them to focus on and rage against the less important side-issues like how awful masks are and how upset it made them to…

We did get an absurd amount of Tik Tok videos with seemingly empty hospitals and nurses with apparently enough time to choreograph dances though

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by Digory »

MattGaiser wrote: post #47
breckenedge wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You consider Reddit usable? I stopped using Reddit a few years ago, recently came back and tried both the website and (dark-pattern driven) mobile app. It's distinctly worse. Everything seems to have been re-engineered to drive "engagement" and/or mindless consumption.

Old.reddit.com does not work for you?

And apollo app on mobile.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by throw_m239339 »

whymauri wrote: post #31
raunak wrote: post #4

Similar to bestgore.com - I suppose as the Internet becomes more and more just Google-land, niche websites such as these two will continue to disappear.

Wow, yeah. Reddit killed the forum. Google and silo'd social media (FB, TikTom) are eating everything else. I just realized that I barely recognize the modern net vs. the one I grew up with.

The only thing Reddit is killing right now is Reddit itself, with their odd UX redesign decisions.

Also, Reddit went from being a place with a lot of room for freedom of speech to a place that disallow a lot of discussions on different opinions and wedge issues. Even Twitter is now more open to diversity of opinions.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by causality0 »

I do hope you also understand our reasons

I mean, I'd like to try, except he didn't actually give us any of those reasons.

Rest in peace, LiveLeak. You were a beacon of reality that shone through the propaganda, the bullshit, and the sugar-coating. Your demise means that people who want to see something like a shooting that's been removed from mainstream platforms will be forced to visit darker corners of the internet. Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool.

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