31 Times People Were Traumatized By the Internet As Kids

‘When they opened his stomach, it was full of rice and beans’
31 Times People Were Traumatized By the Internet As Kids

The internet’s a cesspool now, but believe it or not, it used to be much, much worse. Terrifying stuff was only a click away, and an ad blocker couldn’t keep you from a barrage of beheadings and definitely illegal animal-related videos.

One Redditor was even traumatized by doing something as simple as shopping for a new bike. He booted up his trusty ol’ Internet Explorer and went to visit the DICK’s Sporting Goods site to see their extensive selection of two-wheelers. Unfortunately, the popular chain didn’t always own dicks.com. I think you know what he ended up seeing instead. 

Other Redditors joined the virtual support group and shared the scars they still have from unfettered access to the internet as kids. Wounds caused by Slenderman, a dick stuck in a mousetrap and a URL chatroom that almost turned into an IRL kidnapping.

SuperDuperCoolDude 3mo ago I was in high school in a votech class and one of the other students pulled up a video, on a class computer no less!, that looked very old, like at least Vietnam War, of a group of soldiers standing around a man, while one of them had a boot on his head. One of them crouched down and stabbed him in the neck and then kind of sawed outward. That was definitely horrible to see. Late 90s and early 00s internet was wild. 18 Reply ...
CopperTop345 . 3mo ago The gore is an obvious choice, but the amount of paedophiles I actively engaged with on MSN truly sends shivers down my spine. I didn't realise at the time, but it's so clear now that that's what was happening. It really was the wild west out there in the early 00's. My parents thought that as long as I wasn't on the computer at night I was safe (lol) 28 Reply ...
MelloYelloMarshmello 3то ago I got groomed by a 30 year old man on Minecraft when I was 15 and moved in with him to spite my mom when I was 17. Yes it was bad, got out at 19 and I'm finally over most of the trauma at 25 - 11 Reply ...
BreezylsBeafy 3mo ago Some guy sent me a video of an axe murder. Luckily I forgot it but I still remember | saw it and my reaction to it. | was like 8-10 5 Reply ...
Jaytaro_Kujyasi . 3то ago the porn ads littering free youtube to mp3 converter websites. pretty sure it traumatized the pcs i have used, too 6 Reply ...
GamerGirl-07 . 3mo ago Pics of greviously deformed babies (like cyclopia, patau's syndrome, anencephaly, acardic twins etc) & aborted fetuses To b fair, | was the 1 who googled em at 10 lol 38 Reply ...
Whiteruns_bitch e 3mo ago This is very Weanie Hut Junior of me but slenderman stories scared the SHIT out of me. | couldn't sleep at night. 44 Reply ...
floopdidoops . 3то ago Sailor Moon and the 7 Ballz. | was just looking for Dragon Ball Z episodes on Kazaa... 43 Reply ...
ZeroDudeMan 3то ago At the local library I accidentally stumbled upon weird BDSM leather daddy stuff when someone at the library left their web browser on after they left. Back then they didn't have restrictions on library computers 60 Reply ...
snowglobes4peace 3mo ago AOL instant messenger, my friend and I were 12-13. It was easy to see who was online and start chatting with strangers on AOL at that time. Person starting chatting us and eventually sent a dick pic that downloaded line by line at 32kbps. This was a small image on the screen, but I remember the dick went all the way to the ground. Xed out of that shit and tried to delete the file, but it wasn't in the pictures folder, it must have still been in a temp folder. My parents later found the picture,
TraditionalTackle1 - 3то ago An old man had a heart attack in his hot tub and he lived alone. By the time someone came to check on him he was basically human soup. - 380 Reply ...
Chewyninja69 3то ago Yeah, a friend of mine had shown me a video like this, but he didn't warn me about it. Не was like, hey, come check this out and I walk over and it some dude getting his head cut off with the world's dullest blade. I was pissed. You can't show people this shit without a warning. It literally is traumatizing and can't give people PTSD. It's fucked up. - 768 Reply ...
Klaus_Klavier 3то ago Goatse, Early Liveleak, Bestgore....the list goes on and on. | was traumatized by the internet a lot around middle school because kids would find it somehow then show it to you 1.4K Reply ...
Verkley E 3mo ago Seeing the guy take his time chopping his balls off caused me physical pain in that area - 277 Reply ...
setsewerd 3то ago Opened the comments looking for this one. I saw this video when I was like 12. Had a couple of friends sleeping over, we were up late making each other watch the most fucked up videos we could find. We made it through beheadings, a hunter couple fucking on top of a dead bear they killed, and God knows what else. My friend vomited on my floor partway into the ball video, and that's when we decided to call it a night. 20 Reply ...
1_art_please 3mo ago Circa 1997ish? I was 17 in a computer lab at school and some kid goes, 'Check this out!' And it was a picture of a guy who had been in a motorcycle accident and his head was ground beef. Before that internet for me was, mostly, online encyclopedias. Thanks rotten.com That image is forever seared into my brain as the most shocking thing I saw in terms of what I knew before and what I knew after was a huge leap. 1.2K Reply ...
 3mo ago I put my a/s/l in a chat room. Found a person to IM and decided it was not a big deal to disclose more info than I should have. I was 12, and I'm 38 now. Somehow, I managed to give my address while talking to this person a week or so... I said b.r.b. gotta check the mail. Не asked what I was wearing. I told him, because I thought that was nice and fun and flirty to do. Innocently, I walked down the street for the mail. On my return (7 houses down the road
Total-donut19 - 3mo ago Omegle in my early teens with my cousin we came across someone who looked like they had hung themselves on camera! Still talk about it to this day, we were traumatised 10K Reply ...
Kimikohiei 3mo ago Found those gore sites in my tweens, def didn't do my mental health any good. Unfortunately saw something terrible on a lime wire download, but it didn't ruin my life. Deleted that thing INSTANTLY bc I thought cops would come for me. - 52 Reply ...
LobsLurgers 3mo ago Huge glass Jar, he shoved it up there... Then it broke!!! Then he frantically tries to get the bloody shards of glass out of his ass Only saw it once, but it lives on forever in a hidden corner of my brain Haven't thought about it in years, thanks reddit 72 Reply ...
Dramatic-Coach-6479 3то ago I grew up in a Christian family so when I saw the animated short film about the two gay kids who fall in love with the help of a living heart at I think 7 I was so scared and cried hahaha I don't know why I was just scared of the way it made me feel (I'm gay now) - 478 Reply ...
QuaranTan 3mo ago The case of Junko Furuta. | read every gory, awful, heartbreaking detail at the age of 15 and I still get a shiver down my spine when | think of it. - 178 Reply ...
ZeusHatesTrees 3mo ago Oh, you know, the usual stuff. Lots and lots of gore and torture and stuff, stuff I didn't myself look up but was shown by third parties. People screaming as they die... Turns out there is a good reason stuff is restricted on the internet these days. 270 Reply ...
TheEpiczzz 3mo ago A video of a motorcyclist who's torn in 2 on the highway with all of his intestines spread across the road. Saw this video when I was 10, still haunts me to this day.
AaronTheTree e 3то ago fucked me up 3 guys 1 hammer gore video, that shir 111 Reply ...
JBx89x . 3то ago Dicks Sporting Goods didn't always own the domain dicks.com. I was 10 and just wanted a new bike. 3K Reply ...
Bighawklittlehawk 3то ago When I was a kid I was obsessed with horses. There was this website I used to visit that was for people who loved horses. One time I made the mistake of typing .com instead of .net. Horselovers.com was people who really, really loved horses. Scarred for LIFE 5.4K Reply ...
alancake e 3то ago Not a kid but late teens... that video of the kid jumping into the sea, hitting a concrete piling and splitting his face right down the middle - - he was still alive but his face was just gone into a huge vertical crater that moved as he tried to breathe/verbalise. Augh. 2K Reply ...
SkullOfOdin 3mo ago | was traumatized as a kid by a video I saw of an autopsy on a man, and when they opened his stomach, it was full of rice and beans. - 5K Reply ...
BoozeLikeFrank . 3mo ago | went on 4chan when I was like 13 and clicked a link to a livestream where a dude shot himself through the mouth with a crossbow using his feet to pull the trigger. Не survived the first few minutes. Never went back on that site again. That's when I learned I wasn't an edge lord. - 2.6K Reply ...
jlegarr e 3то ago Rotten.com had an image of a penis stuck in a mouse trap. This was in the 90s and I still remember the photo vividly, especially the blood and fluid matter that was flowing out from the piss hole. 5 Reply ...

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