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The NSFW video is haunting, don’t watch it. I feel literally sick.
by ripped_britches 1y ago
The NSFW video is haunting, don’t watch it. I feel literally sick.
- rossant 1y agoYes. Don't.
- yifanl 1y agoFor anyone else who's accidentally watched the video and feels uncomfortable with the gore, immediately go do a high focus activity to not let it settle in your mind, can be something like Tetris.
- rossant 1y agoAny evidence it really works though?
- yifanl 1y agoAnecdotally, it worked for me, but I'm not really in the mood to look up the literature right now.
- pySSK 1y agoWorked for me. Played some chess online.
- autoexec 1y agoI've seen a paper or two supporting the claim, but I remember that I didn't put much faith in them at the time. Seems plausible enough though, and probably wouldn't hurt anyone so until there's a ton of of high quality evidence for it'd still be worth a shot.
- delecti 1y agoYes. There is better than anecdotal, though not rock solid conclusive, evidence that it works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect#Applications_in_trauma_therapy_and_cravings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect#Applications_in_...
- maxlin 1y agoInteresting. The actually functioning eye bleach thru clobbering your memory with task at hand, I'll legit keep this in mind
- ripped_britches 1y agoWow this is a great tip, thank you!
- duckdriver 1y agoThank you for posting this. I accidentally saw the video and found it extraordinarily disturbing. Appreciate the advice, seriously.
- kstrauser 1y agoAgreed. I’ve seen some stuff over the years, and it made me gasp. I am not remotely a fan of the victim, but that was horrific.
- xnx 1y agoI don't want to watch it, and I'm glad I haven't seen anything more than a still yet. I always wonder if media hiding gore allows people to not get more upset about violence. The lynching of Emmett Till would not have had the same impact without his mother having an open casket funeral. Would things have gone differently if more people had been exposed to images from Sandy Hook?
- whycome 1y agoPeople are a lot more supportive of war when it’s so far removed. People hear of kids dying in “bombings” but ignore the reality that it means they were: crushed, burned to death, dismembered, etc etc.
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- 01100011 1y agotldw; he takes a hit to a major blood vessel in his neck. It is quite shocking. You won't gain much by watching it.
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- dotnet00 1y agoYep, a friend shared the link and a low resolution blurry screenshot, and though I usually click anyway, I kind of just knew that this one would be a bit too graphic to move on from easily. Even though I have an extremely negative opinion of Charlie, I'd feel too bad thinking about the pain his family would be experiencing. The family (especially children) don't deserve that.
- harrisonjackson 1y agoYep, sick to my stomach. Added a bunch of new mute words on x.
- yieldcrv 1y agomany are desensitized, for anyone reading, if you consider yourself that way it’s not haunting or giving feelings of sickness, it depicts a predictable outcome of a high powered shot that hits an artery in a neck. No ability or physical capability for your body to react no matter who you are. It is graphic and shows how fragile we are, how it will go down if you are in that situation
- boppo1 1y agoWhat does it say about me that I've seen so much stuff like this that it barely affects me? I'm in my 30s and have had unfiltered internet access since I was about 8. Gore definitely made me a depressed person in grade school, but the only reaction I'm having to this is concern about: - conservatives getting ready for violence - the state getting ready to use this to further erode civil liberties - the left fanning the flames for conservatives
- GoatInGrey 1y agoDesensitization isn't a profound or "bad" phenomenon in of itself. Humans adapt to their environment and focus more on concerns of a surprising nature.
- ipython 1y agoTBH I think as a society we have become so desensitized to violence because the only exposure we have to it is glamorized in movies and TV. If we saw death up close and personal, perhaps we could become a bit more empathetic. I seriously wonder if, for example, we published the horrific photos of the aftermath of a school shooting, that would result in more honest discourse in this country on gun control.
- Whoppertime 1y agoAnd if we got the horrific photos after the Nice truck attack or the Christmas Market attack in Germany we might realize that being killed by a truck is no less horrifying.
- paulryanrogers 1y agoWhat's your point? We should not outlaw guns because vehicles can still be used to kill people?
- Whoppertime 1y agoEvil people are going to use whatever tools they can get their hands on to commit mass murders. Whether it is flying planes into the world trade center, a truck into a crowded market, or shooting up Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Mohammed. These barriers can be overcome by the ideologically motivated. Japan has very strict gun control and Shinzo Abe was still assassinated by a firearm, even if it was an improvised one
- paulryanrogers 1y agoRight but after the planes were used we started locking cockpit doors and added air marshalls. Shouldn't we respond to the almost daily mass murder and political gun violence? Australia turned the corner on guns. We can too. Or do you want 5yo children to grow up with active shooter drills?
- pitpatagain 1y ago
- GoatInGrey 1y agoIf you're accustomed to combat footage or other videos of victims of violence, this is pretty tame in the grand scheme of things that people are subjected to. For those who want to know without exposing themselves: He's sitting in a chair when he takes a round to the neck. Clean exit. It's over within three seconds.
- lawgimenez 1y agoI agree, r/combatfootage has more gruesome videos than this one.
- Quarrelsome 1y agoI watched the video of the Christchurch shooting and while I don't regret seeing those horrors, there is a particular moment of it that is so horrifically callous that it sticks with me and is particularly haunting (for those that know; its that moment near the curb).
- _ink_ 1y agoThe one thing that Aphantasia is good for. I accidentally saw it on Reddit. No clue, how normal people deal with being forced to see stuff like this over and over again.
- tbrownaw 1y ago> No clue, how normal people deal with being forced to see stuff like this over and over again. Excessive exposure to shock images from forum trolls back in the '90s.
- sliq 1y agoNo, please WATCH IT! It's important to learn how reality really is. This is the process of using 100% of available information. You have been trained to block, censor and avoid everything that doesnt do good on you, but it's extremely important to open your eyes as wide as possible, and let your brain process this, then build conclusions on this data. You feel sick because you cannot process reality.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoI know how reality really is, and it's already hard enough to deal with. I don't need it made more visceral. When bad things happen, you don't have to stare into them with your eyes wide open, any more than you have to maximise your photon intake by staring into the sun. Yes, I feel sick because I cannot process all of reality, and increasing the burden of what I have to process does not make that task any easier.
- ripped_britches 1y agoWell you obviously don’t have an understanding of how people can be permanently debilitated by mental anguish and trauma. This happens to be an unnecessarily gruesome thing for me and it certainly doesn’t teach me anything to watch it that I didn’t already know.
- acureau 1y agoI agree with you. It's easy to become desensitized to tragedy when you're only reading words. Regardless of opinions, it's hard not to empathize with a man shot dead before your eyes. I think it does a lot of good to remove that degree of separation, and reflect on it instead of purging it from your mind.