So is 'war porn' a thing now?

B.A._Baracus

Just a random thread for a random thought I had. But The Sun YouTube channel keeps uploading drone videos etc of the Ukraine war (once you click one of them... always in your feed eh) but it's a bit strange when you step back and look at it.

People are dying in these videos and all the comments are like "great!" (Pretty much) ... now I am no soft touch. This is war this is what happens. That's life. Its just the videos are very popular. So is war porn a thing now? Lol.

People enjoy seeing some other poor fu*k get killed?

dxhound2005

It's just a general thing where video exists. It will make the TV news often, when if there was no video, it would never be considered worthy of inclusion in the radio news.

Flinty997

Its just News.

Wanderer78

sex sells, and war is very sexy!

Cluedo Monopoly

100% it is. There are a few addicts on Boards too.

o1s1n

This has been around for years. The only change is the sheer amount of material available now.

magicbastarder

if you're old enough to remember the gulf war, it's nothing new. a war made for TV.

CalamariFritti

It 100% is, especially amongst 'the Sun' clientele.

They seem very happy to have found people (Russians) whose deaths can be officially and without impunity cheered on together with the vilest insults. Plenty of that type around here too. Just have a look at all those couch toy soldiers in the Russia thread.

Flinty997

As soon as Cameras were invented they took them to war.

The only thing new is being offended about everything.

DarkJager21

It is enjoyable to a degree, especially watching scum like the Russians get arms and legs separated from their torsos. I feel absolutely nothing for them so doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Ubbquittious

I was imagining a young Famke Janssen lookalike semi-clad in army uniform getting a good rogering inside a T72

A trench outside Kyiv with a few youngwans bent over a large wooden post and a queue of soldiers puffing away on their fags as they await their turn

An orgy taking place in the back of an army truck with strategically placed ammo boxes

Rikand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-FUkH_tkR0

.......

One eyed Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120019133#Comment_120019133

Open-Source Intelligence

That sounds like a contradiction in terms 😂

I get what you mean though and your interest in the subject, but I think what the OP is referring to are the kind of people who enjoy the opportunity to dehumanise human beings and enjoy watching their “enemies” suffer.

It’s not new, and calling it ‘war porn’ is a euphemism for the fact that it is nothing more than propaganda, no different than “open source citizen journalism”, that goes back as far as recorded history - once humans can be stripped of their humanity, that makes it acceptable to regard them as though they’re not human, which makes it acceptable to derive a certain satisfaction in their suffering and still feel righteous about it.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120019139#Comment_120019139

I understand your anti Russian sentiment but the above makes you sound like a sociopath.

Gatling

We did see have a post on another thread showing a Russian soldier getting head from another Russian soldier on his knees before a Ukrainan drone dropped a grenade on them,

War porn ???

pgj2015

I just watch the videos of Ukrainians killing Russians, have no interest in the videos of Russians killing Ukrainians.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120019082#Comment_120019082

Even before that, many armies had dedicated war artists, sending back sketches and paintings from the battlefield.

With the advent of film, they soon tired out trying to keep up with drawing explosions at 25 frames a second in real time.

dxhound2005

The tradition of the war artists is alive and well.

Jequ0n

I had anticipated something different when I saw the title. How disappointing

j2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120019139#Comment_120019139

It's so crazy how so many libs with Ukrainian flags and LGBT stuff all over their social media etc are bloodthirsty creeps once they get carte blanche to do so. It's almost as if all their moral superiority is absolute bullsh1t and they're awful human beings.

CalamariFritti

oops meant to save draft but was actually in a send post window. wrong thread too ffs

mulbot

It's almost comedic to watch the "Mercenaries", A. K. A. Video gamers, head over to fight with Nazi supporters, only to realise that its not a game and that artillery shell whistling through the air is about to take your head off.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022215#Comment_120022215

To be fair they are getting paid relatively well by the Russians to die in their droves.

Ekerot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120019139#Comment_120019139

Umm Hello, Based Department?

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022035#Comment_120022035

You obviously haven't looked at any Russian accounts,

But no surprise there comrade

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022215#Comment_120022215

Doing a stellar job against the poor unfortunate souls the Russians sent to fight

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022631#Comment_120022631

Unfortunate Russians? I thought they were all subhuman "Orcs"? If you are going to dehumanise, please be consistent.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022035#Comment_120022035

You are so right

The Ukranians should just ask the Russians politely to return home.

🙄

whisky_galore

The Sun.

That's where you went wrong. Right there.

Tony EH

It's been a thing for quite a while. It was around during Vietnam and it was absolutely obnoxious during the Iraq War. But there's definitely been a rise in chickenhawk attitudes with the war in the Ukraine. There are people who love what's going on over there, simply because it gives them something to do and say on social media.

Just take a look at the train wreck threads in here for example. People talking crap about a region in Europe that they couldn't even point to on a map this time last year.

Psychlops

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058276467/so-is-war-porn-a-thing-now

They are Russian invaders, they deserve to die.