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greensky@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What is the creepiest/most disturbing internet rabbit hole you've gone down, and why?

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What is the creepiest/most disturbing internet rabbit hole you've gone down, and why?

greensky@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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    anything qanon related will make your brain implode faster than a carbon fiber pressure hull at 12k feet.

    edit: this is not a good thing

    • IPTVSports28@vlemmy.net
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      Yeah, I’m all for conspiracies and many have been proven true over time. Q is a whole different world.

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        I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

        Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

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          That would be nice.

      • Zippy@sopuli.xyz
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        Actually few have been proven true.

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          Government surveillance and things like Iran-Contra and MK Ultra are what I’m meaning.

          • Zippy@sopuli.xyz
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            Those were not exactly conspiracy theories. They were investigated and proven. They were illegal from the start.

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    Tor. A serious study of as many .onion sites as I could find. There are many reasons why people want to be anonymous. I don’t know why, I just felt compelled to look at the edges of humanity.

    • fubo@lemmy.world
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      Back in the early 2000s, I heard tell of Freenet, thought it sounded like a cool project, and started poking around there. I soon determined that a lot of the material being exchanged there was not anything I wanted anywhere near my disk, even encrypted. Deleted it pretty darn quick.

    • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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      this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

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        Drug dealers, arms dealers, hit men, conspiracy theorists with apparent mental health issues, child porn. I was at least somewhat amused until the last, then it was like, “Yeah no, I’m done with this” All you need is a copy of TAILS.

  • chungusam0ngus@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK, his head just kind of did that sometimes.

    • Hotwarioinyourarea Ⓥ@slrpnk.net
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      Please elaborate. I’m veeeeery interested.

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        Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

  • sukuna@lemmy.one
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    Linux distros

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      Are you talking about Hannah Montana Linux, Ubuntu Satanic Edition, or Justin Bieber Linux?

      • 🕷️ Spider Tax 🕷️@lemmy.ml
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        Don’t forget Red Star Linux!

      • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
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        After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

  • lemmychatwitpeeps@lemmy.ml
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    Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      There’s way more to schizophrenia than just seeing something that’s not there, though.

      • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        Look up, you’ll see the point as it passes by

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    One time I had a weird skin thing and was trying to look up whether I should be worried about it, and stumbled onto a bunch of shit about Morgellons Disease, in which people think they have fibers or parasites growing out of their skin.

    I just had a weird ingrown hair.

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    In trying to prove to a friend that fluoride in the water wasn’t bad, I had to dig into the conspiracy to refute each point.

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      Did your research end up changing your friend’s mind?

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        Not OP, but take a wild guess

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        He did conceded on some the absolutely bat shit claims but couldn’t bring himself to fully believe the fluoride shouldn’t be in the water.

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    • mrmanagerA
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      Can you post your points?

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        Sorry this was a long time ago. The guy has definitely mellowed some since though he did have a brief Stephen Crowder stint during the pandemic. Old habits die hard.

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    I can’t recall the creepiest, so here’s a kinda eerie website I found called Terminal 00:

    https://www(dot)angusnicneven(dot)com

    It’s not necessarily super disturbing, but it has a design that is a bit eerie and trippy, to me at least.

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    Eugenia Cooney, YouTuber and streamer who seems to be dying of anorexia. There’s more disturbing shit such as her weird relationship with her mom and the way she seems to pander to anorexia fetishists.

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  • Stanislav N. aka pztrn@bin.pztrn.online
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    Start to program.

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