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A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to its viewers, though it can also contain elements of humor [1] or evoke (in some viewers) sexual arousal. [2] Shock-oriented websites generally contain material that is pornographic , scatological , racist , antisemitic , sexist , graphically violent , insulting , vulgar ...
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Rotten.com was a shock site active from 1996 to 2012. The website, which had the tagline "An archive of disturbing illustration", was devoted to morbid curiosities, pictures of violent acts, deformities, forensic and autopsy photographs, depictions of perverse sex acts, disturbing or misanthropic historical curiosities and hosted explicit, real-life, photographs and videos of real events such ...
These videos are often uploaded to the Internet by terrorists, then discussed and distributed by web-based outlets, [8] such as blogs, shock sites, and traditional journalistic media. In 2013, a beheading video by a Mexican drug cartel spread virally on Facebook.
bestgore.com (stylized as BestGore.com and abbreviated BG) [2] was a Canadian shock site active from 2008 to 2020 and owned by Mark Marek, [3] which provided highly violent real-life news, photos and videos, with authored opinion and user comments. The site received media attention in 2012, following the hosting of a video depicting the murder ...
[10] Open-source software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images". [11] [12] As the site evolved, it survived what Stile reported was webhost troubles, [13] and a major hacking incident. [9] [14] By 2004 AlterNet wrote that it and other similar shock sites "aren't grossing out teenagers anymore." [15]
Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, [10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will [11] [12] Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.