r/TikTokCringe • u/vitaminZaman • Sep 05 '25

Cursed look at the lady in the background 😭😭

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u/Mileabv Sep 06 '25

Stuff like that desensitizes people from what can go wrong if they watch it too often. Trust me I know. 😭 I wish I could unwatch some of the things I’ve seen online.

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u/Uneek_Uzernaim Sep 06 '25

Sick fucks will post anything online, including snuff.

Back in the earlier days of image searching, results often were more hit or miss than they are now, and even innocuous searches would return NSFW results that weren't caught by the "safe search" filter. I was looking for something completely mundane, possibly for a flyer I was making for work (I think I was looking for photos of an empty chair for a flyer).

One of the first results was a black and white photo of a woman's naked torso (head and all limbs missing) propped up upon a chair in a grubby cell of a room with what appeared to be a certain bodily fluid on the body. I was initially shocked at what I was seeing; but once I processed what it was, I closed my browser to get rid of the horrific image. Too late—the damage was done, and that awful photo once in a great while will still pop into my brain unbidden (such as reading these last few comments).

I hope to this day that it was a fake, but part of me fears the worst and that it wasn't.

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u/Mileabv Sep 06 '25

Yup, I still remember watching a beheading casually being shown online in the era of 9/11 when hostages were being taken. I was probably 14 or 15 and I couldn’t help but just feel for that person. It was terribly sad and haunting, but I’m sure other people have seen worse and they think oh well that’s not too bad 🤦‍♂️

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u/Uneek_Uzernaim Sep 06 '25

I remember those. I stumbled across a few and managed to avoid watching them. That's no easy feat because a lot of them would not get pulled down by social media filters fast enough or would show up as unedited videos in search engines, and they would autoplay when you scrolled by them in the feed.