Liveleak Sick Comments

paska

Are the people who comment on the LiveLeak videos really expressing their feelings? Are there so many sick people in the world?

I was going to post an example but I decided against it. Have a look yourself at one of the videos and see for yourself.

Atoms for Peace

Birds of a feather flick together.

SEPT 23 1989

What were you looking for on Liveleak?

VonZan

Why else would you visit liveleak other than to get your sadist fix?

Trigger Happy

You would need to be sick to enjoy watching those videos so why be sickened by the comments?

pleas advice

give us an example there OP, or the general gist of the kind of stuff your talking about

Uncharted

Person on internet shocked by sick comments on notoriously sick internet site.

Fann Linn

pleas advice wrote: »

give us an example there OP, or the general gist of the kind of stuff your talking about

Why don't you look for it yourself?

Rubberchikken

never heard of it. aint going near it.
and if you dont want to be 'upset' then op, stay away from it or grow a pair.

Gatling

Must have something to do with another thread on here about an accident today

pleas advice

Fann Linn wrote: »

Why don't you look for it yourself?

i don't want to see any of the stuff thats on there, but wouldn't mind knowing what kind of comments the OP is talking about

hatrickpatrick

Liveleak is for anything deemed too graphic or violent for YouTube, essentially. So naturally it attracts a mixture of people who are genuinely curious, interested in a specific story, trolling, or just into violent stuff.

irishgrover

@op - genuine question ---- are you trying to trick people into accidentally seeing those videos on liveleak from the M50 accident earlier today? Because without provide some context and a warning, then that is what could happen.....

I'd visit liveleak randomly. Maybe 5 times a year or something. Often by mistake, sometimes out of curiousity, if something has happened and someone comments there's a video of picture on LiveLeak (like today).

I don't particularly enjoy gore videos, but I do think it's worth watching a few to get an idea of the real world, especially when you see some of the mad stuff going on in the 'desert countries' out there.

Although I wouldn't claim to be immune to blood and gore, I feel like, if I was at the scene of an accident, I'd be much more useful knowing that people are made up of lots of not-nice-looking things, and i'd be more use, than if I seen something I didn't expect and got myself sick at the roadside.

I think everyone has a morbid curiousity, to varying degrees. It's not some mad psychopath thing. Not everyone who views these kind of things is rushing out the door to murder a load of people. I think it's expected that people will see these kind of things and find them interesting.

That said, I do find the general nature of society, where many will be more interested in recording such events, rather than assisting, is more of an issue than the after-effect of people viewing such videos online.

But I think I'm just rambling now.

I'd say the comments are mostly from young teens who think they're very clever or funny and crave attention. Like a lot of society.

Arghus

It's hardly that surprising.

pleas advice

pleas advice wrote: »

i don't want to see any of the stuff thats on there, but wouldn't mind knowing what kind of comments the OP is talking about

To give an example (contains a bit of a gorey description):

a video surfaced of a car accident, where a person was completely beheaded. The footage showed the head, completely separated from the body.


Naturally, an extremely unpleasant video, and one that you wouldn't like to have shared online if you knew the person involved in the accident.


One of the comments was 'how can we be sure he's dead?'.


A lot of people would find such a comment, on such a severe video (that was fairly tasteless and disgusting to record in the first place) to be quite insensitive and out of place. But people online crave attention. Which is fine, to a degree, but when it reaches sadistic levels like that, it seems a tad short-sighted and unfair on the victims.

It's always worth thinking, before you write callous or 'funny' things about sensitive topics: How would I feel if that was my dad/brother/etc. And your attitude usually changes.

pleas advice

ok, i went looking at the first video on the front page of that site

This is what receiving Obamacare feels like.

Wouldn't not receiving universal health care be more an apt metaphor?
Being Australia this guy would have been taken to and treated in hospital for free.

Back in my day, no matter how many wheels it had, we called that ROLLER SKATING, and only hair-dressers and 12 year old girls did this. If you were male, you were beaten badly. Once. As a Warning. Pink flamingos showed up on the offenders yard, and their parents were called into the office at their jobs.
The neighbourhood thus remained free of questionable sexuality for many years...until Michael Jackson and Culture Club arrived. Then YOUR fruity little generation took over.
Be proud.

Haha rightwingers are renowned for closet homosexuality which is why you're so twisted. Come out of the closet be a ****ing normal human being, it's not right being this cowardly and weak ****breath, you know it. I think you're thinking people will not do anything because of your age I saw an old class mate of mine he's 44 like me has a walking stick he'll be you in 10 years **** he probably is you now, ****ing ****breath coward lol.

the kind of stuff youd find on sites populated by people who have been banned off all the other sites...

pleas advice

Deleted User wrote: »

To give an example (contains a bit of a gorey description):
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thats just a bit of dark humour, nothing as bad as i thought

ARNOLD J RIMMER

Liveleak is interesting.

Many of the videos show the reality of what happens in the world.

I think ignorance is bliss for most people.

How Soon Is Now

Im gone past the point of being affected by watching things so im not the best example :pac: but ya i dont think to much into comments people make on these sites or internet in general!


In fairness if your looking at those videos or pictures the comments mean nothing!


The way ive seen people react to fairly tame *for me* pictures and videos on here and elsewhere if they seen some the things out there they probably pack it in altogether!!

hatrickpatrick

Deleted User wrote: »

It's always worth thinking, before you write callous or 'funny' things about sensitive topics: How would I feel if that was my dad/brother/etc. And your attitude usually changes.

Anecdotal, but it's funny how subjective that can be: A very close relative of mine was badly injured in a freak accident a number of years ago and walked the border line between life and death for several weeks in hospital before thankfully fighting his way back to us. Because he's involved in an area of government oversight and would be quite well known, it appeared as a headline in most newspapers, including The Journal. Someone in the Journal comments section wrote "very convenient for him to have an 'accident' given the things he's been exposing in recent years, I'm sure there are plenty of higher-ups who are delighted about this".

Now this comment was downvoted to oblivion and attracted a reply chain along the lines of "Jesus, people who know him are going to read these comments, think how you'd feel if you were related and you saw a sick comment like this" (given the nature of the accident, any suggestion of outside involvement was entirely farcical) - but in fact, the comment gave myself and my family (and later the injured man himself) a very badly needed laugh after several days of non-stop stress, sadness, anger and fear.

So y'know, I totally get the point you're making obviously, but you'd be surprised at how some people deal with tragedy and the kind of dark humour which can actually be sort of cathartic. I felt like jumping into the comments thread and thanking the poster for giving us a laugh, going against all the "what if his family sees this" posters, but as I use my full name and Twitter account on the Journal I didn't want to identify myself and invite a bunch of email spam from journalists etc.

Obviously one can never assume that people will react this way so it's still a dick move, but I'm just throwing it out there that dark internet humour can actually offer a badly needed release of tension for people in the thick of a horrible situation. It did for us, anyway.

hatrickpatrick

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Anecdotal, but it's funny how subjective that can be: A very close relative of mine was badly injured in a freak accident a number of years ago and walked the border line between life and death for several weeks in hospital before thankfully fighting his way back to us. Because he's involved in an area of government oversight and would be quite well known, it appeared as a headline in most newspapers, including The Journal. Someone in the Journal comments section wrote "very convenient for him to have an 'accident' given the things he's been exposing in recent years, I'm sure there are plenty of higher-ups who are delighted about this".

Now this comment was downvoted to oblivion and attracted a reply chain along the lines of "Jesus, people who know him are going to read these comments, think how you'd feel if you were related and you saw a sick comment like this" (given the nature of the accident, any suggestion of outside involvement was entirely farcical) - but in fact, the comment gave myself and my family (and later the injured man himself) a very badly needed laugh after several days of non-stop stress, sadness, anger and fear.

So y'know, I totally get the point you're making obviously, but you'd be surprised at how some people deal with tragedy and the kind of dark humour which can actually be sort of cathartic. I felt like jumping into the comments thread and thanking the poster for giving us a laugh, going against all the "what if his family sees this" posters, but as I use my full name and Twitter account on the Journal I didn't want to identify myself and invite a bunch of email spam from journalists etc.

Obviously one can never assume that people will react this way so it's still a dick move, but I'm just throwing it out there that dark internet humour can actually offer a badly needed release of tension for people in the thick of a horrible situation. It did for us, anyway.

I would imagine many people eventually will laugh about the bad things that happen to people they know. It's different, however, when the person does actually die, and it's in a very gruesome way.

My brother travels to work every day on the motorway. If that was him in the video, although I would probably find 'jesus he lost the head' comments funny a few years down the line, within hours or a week of it happening, I think i'd be devastated.

I know a girl whose brother died 3 years ago, and the mere mention of him has her welling up. Her family are still broken up over it and I know she'd never ever find anything humorous about it. Even when people who haven't seen her in a while mention him with a 'sorry about' comment, she kinda changes the conversation but it still stays with her (negatively).

Personally, I think, considering it's a subject that can cause such hefty and severe grief for people, that it's not worth trying to be funny about such subjects.

Me and you will forget about this thread tomorrow. If a family member seen tasteless comments, they'd probably stay in their head forever.

hatrickpatrick

Deleted User wrote: »

I would imagine many people eventually will laugh about the bad things that happen to people they know. It's different, however, when the person does actually die, and it's in a very gruesome way.

My brother travels to work every day on the motorway. If that was him in the video, although I would probably find 'jesus he lost the head' comments funny a few years down the line, within hours or a week of it happening, I think i'd be devastated.

I know a girl whose brother died 3 years ago, and the mere mention of him has her welling up. Her family are still broken up over it and I know she'd never ever find anything humorous about it. Even when people who haven't seen her in a while mention him with a 'sorry about' comment, she kinda changes the conversation but it still stays with her (negatively).

Personally, I think, considering it's a subject that can cause such hefty and severe grief for people, that it's not worth trying to be funny about such subjects.

Me and you will forget about this thread tomorrow. If a family member seen tasteless comments, they'd probably stay in their head forever.

Sure, that's totally fair. Although I'd also add that I'd imagine most folks in such a situation would know not to peruse the various sewers of the internet and expect to read uplifting things. Liveleak is notorious enough that someone who's directly involved in such a situation probably won't go looking through the comments there. Same with Reddit, 4chan, etc.

I'd hope so, anyway.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Gatling wrote: »

Must have something to do with another thread on here about an accident today

Mod note: As above, closed!

Buford T. Justice