> Maybe it's because I grew up on 4chan in the age of goatse, but shocking content is a tiny fraction of how disturbing real life can be. I'm surprised you can

> Maybe it's because I grew up on 4chan in the age of goatse, but shocking content is a tiny fraction of how disturbing real life can be. I'm surprised you can say that. I also frequent 4chan and there have been tons of times that I have to close a thread within the first few posts because I do not want to see the content in them. There have also been times when something I've seen in a thread has lingered in my head for hours after, making me uncomfortable and definitely impacting my mood. > it's nowhere near what every nurse, doctor, firefighter, police officer, soldier, and even teacher will live through over the course of their career. Blood, gore, and dead people are only some things that could trip people up. You have to understand that many of these flagged posts are actually engineered to cause outrage or to trigger the primitive, emotional parts of your brain. Even pure audio alone can scar you - if you're really interested, and I do not recommend this, and I'm going to put a large TRIGGER WARNING here so you can look away before I describe this, look up the dashcam audio of a family traveling down a highway when a 2x4 from a nearby pickup truck falls off the bed and flies through the window, killing the mother instantly. Listen to the screams of both children and the father driving as they realize their family has just been destroyed. It will haunt you more than any "simple death" can because it interacts directly with the emotional core that makes you human. Honestly, I believe only sociopaths can do a job like this and make it out unscathed.