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Don't ask me which ones tho, cuz I'm an old
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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I saw someone the other day claiming that the WWW was always as sanitized as it is now and I was like like "lol... no."
I remember when you could very easily just stumble upon CP, or bestiality, or any number of disgusting, fucked up shit doing a Yahoo search for something totally inocculous.
I think it was Behind the Bastards that hit the nail on the head about this in an episode in the last couple of weeks: Rick Rolling is goatse for normies. Even the links you trick people into clicking have become relatively sanitized as the web democratized.
And honestly, goatse was far from the most extreme thing that was completely commonplace on the old web. Turn of the century Internet culture was wild.
Sometimes I wonder if all the random murder/gore/beastial shit we stumbled into will be the millennial version of boomers leaded gas fumes, causing some underlying mental issues. Bet a psychology student could get a couple papers out of that.
Accidentally got my mom with meatspin since she was stalking my AIM lol. Serves her right 🤣