What is the most horrifying thing you've seen on the internet that didn't involve gore?

“UK votes to leave the EU”

Headlines showing idiocy is ruling the roost

there are entire villages in northern cyprus where they speak Greek to one another, only switching to Turkish when a foreigner walks in the room.

There are monasteries and mosques dotting the countryside in equal measure

Your experience of that is pretty much the key reason I've not bothered to explain this outside of a very limited specialist community I owed a lot to as I was putting it together.

I keep seeing new finds that would be really interesting to discuss, and I kind of hate seeing users confused about their own ancestral history while sitting knowing the answers, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be the one putting controversial answers out there in a more public way.

People are fucking nuts and it seems each day care less and less about actual truth and facts and more about tribalism and confirmation bias to the point of irrationality.

Over the next few years a lot of stuff will be identified by AIs capable of better correlation of data points than researchers to date, and then it can be the AI that gets to be the object of crazy people's ire and not actual humans that were just nerding out over research and data.

I've experiences this on Lemmy and have blocked some instance, but probably just gonna give up on Lemmy too. I think I'm over talking to people (or bots? Who knows...) on the internet. It's all bullshit anyway, politics, memes, advertising, blah, blah that doesn't actually provide any meaning or positive things to my life. I was a passive observer of the internet for a long time before getting more active on reddit, and then Lemmy. I'm so tired of having to defend my opinions and people trying to start arguments out of nothing, and I don't care enough to research political shit to provide a truly airtight argument before someone tears it apart, or whatever else other fight someone is trying to start on any given day. At one point I was arguing about something with someone, and we both had the same position: "Trump is bad", but for some reason they were really going after me, even though we're on the same side, because i was consuming "too much conspiracy news" thinking that the 2024 election was gonna get violent from Trump's supporters. Really just over the social aspect of the internet in general, to be honest.

Elaborate, please.

What the fuck.

Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire so I could 1) cover these things immediately and 2) have enough influence to change the rules

Dolla dolla bill

Far from the worst thing I have seen, but I went to a catholic school, and was somewhat involved with the local church associated with that school. There was a woman that was considered a good catholic woman, involved in everything, went to church every Sunday…the lot. One day I’m getting driven to school, we’re sat at some traffic lights and there’s a guy opposite whose car won’t start, she’s sat behind him going mad. I learned something that day.

My credit card was cancelled due to nonpayment, so of course my credit score went up (a lot) because my DTI went down

... and written there in my last income slip was "here's an extra 2000, to my favourite employee, ya filthy cunt."

Blue Waffle, it still invades my thoughts it was too nasty

How about Two girls one cup?

The one with the man's wife in the passenger seat?

His cries were horrifying and so sad.

Although I don't have kids everything I've heard about the Ruby Franke/8 Passengers case made my blood boil. That scumbag saw her kids as nothing but a way to get clicks and money, and I'm glad that she's going to rot in prison.

And related to this, add animal abuse to the list of things that make my blood boil too. It's wild to think that until recently there was such a thing as a thriving "monkey torture network".

This seems like it involves gore.

I'm so happy that I didn't see any of that. I did see a picture of a woman eating shit straight from someone's ass twice tho. It was gross, but at least not anywhere near as bad.

Ugh that will probably never leave you. I haven't seen CSAM since I stumbled on it in the 1990s but what I saw is still burnt into my brain. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

This is one of the reasons I stay on kbin, it doesn't autoload images.

Similarly, I was on a sort of diary forum and someone decided to share their very graphic life story with no warning whatsoever.

I mean I get why they shared it but it was so horrifying to know that a child went through that. I mean I know there's always the possibility it was a fake post but given what I know about confirmed cases (including someone I know personally), I believe it.

Birds or fruit?

Yes, you need to say more. I have absolutely no idea what that is and I don't want to Google it if it's really that horrifying.

I don't and I'm ok with that.

Like honestly, what the fuck is wrong with people? I remember adding random people on Snap (back then, I used it a lot for scambaiting so I'd talk to deposit scammers a lot) and in my recommended, there was a person called "(name-of-girl) Dog" so you would think maybe it's just a person posting pictures of their dog on their stories, right? Wrong. (Content warning) >! It's a girl selling videos of her fucking her dog !< I just noped out of there, didn't even try to find out if it was real (should hopefully be fake, as regular pic sellers usually are, but you never know).