Searching for and watching weird videos. WARNING Possibly triggering.

[scorpiogirly]

What would you think of a person who searched for and watched extreme execution videos?

Video 1 - burglar being repeatedly stabbed by a security guard

Video 2 - soldier being executed via knife to throat.

There are probably more. After watching, these were shown to friends… for some reason.

Sorry, I have tried to use wording that keeps it from being so graphic as I possible could.

Is this type of curiosity ever okay? What would be the motivation for watching such things?

I'd think they were fucking nuts and want nothing more to do with them.

Morbid curiosity? Not something I want to see, mind.

If they're watching them for entertainment and seeking out more of them, that's worrying. I think most people would find that sort of thing disturbing and certainly wouldn't choose to watch it. How did the friends react to being shown it?

I’d be very creeped out and keep well away from them. I can’t think of any reasonable reason for watching videos like that unless you had to (e.g your a police officer investigating a crime).

Why do you ask?

I'd be horrified, and I would think the person was disturbed.

Me either. It’s not something I could watch, I can’t even watch a fight on the street.

The friends weren’t impressed with it.

I ask because it’s something I have learned about someone, and it’s made me feel very uneasy. Just wondered what others thought of it.

I’m assuming these aren’t available on the regular web?

There's not much searching to be done sadly, there's a Reddit sub dedicated to videos of violent horrible deaths.

I agree maybe morbid curiosity? I googled the liberation of the concentration camps, after reading there was footage. It's hard to watch, but the world had to/has to know exactly how depraved the nazi's were. There's also the grim sort of fascination around serial killers.

What sort of other stuff was in the search history?

I haven’t seen the search history. I just know if these two videos.

I do have a fascination with serial killers myself, but that’s as morbid as I get.

Things like this are really weird, it's like the Sadam execution video. I really didn't want to see it but people kept talking about it and then there I was one sleepless night, randomly searching it. Horrid and I wish I hadn't ever seen it.

This doesn't sound like large public interest pieces though, where you can't escape people discussing it. I wouldn't be causally chilling with someone who a) took pleasure in watching these sorts of videos or b) sent them onto friends. I wouldn't want to risk them sending them to me.

One of two videos occasionally I’d assume morbid curiosity. Regular occurrence, an unhealthy obsession.

But equally, I think people who describe themselves as “fascinated” by serial killers a bit odd tbh; it isn’t entertainment, it’s real people who had lives and families involved.

Not sure there’s a huge difference.

Kids or adult? As a teenager it was a bit of a thing for some kids. A morbid fascination and there were sites like Gruesome.com etc. I wouldn’t think it’s an exclusively dark web thing.

A friend of mine’s husband watches these, he worked in war zones and saw all sorts of violence and brutality and from what my friend says it’s a way of coping with being so very desensitised. I won’t pretend to understand the psychology but I don’t think it makes someone a bad person

I'd be extremely uneasy. It's known that psychopaths search out these things, in the same way as they tend to start off by torturing insects and small animals.

Actively searching for them? I mean, I've accidentally seen images of things like this and intensely regret it, even years later wish I could have never seen it. The descriptions of some of the videos out there are enough to make me want to bleach my brain.

I'd absolutely want nothing to do with someone who actively sought out and watched graphic real life execution videos.

Yeah, it wouldn't sit well with me at all.

I had a boyfriend in my twenties who watched a number of real execution videos on the internet. Taliban beheading with a knife type videos in all their gory detail. He was otherwise very, very normal. I think it was morbid curiosity. I couldn't watch personally as I'd find it too vile, disturbing and ultimately upsetting but I think many men (people?) are more desensitised to violence than me.

It really doesn't denote a psychopath though. He really was otherwise a very nice, kind and stable guy!

I'd think this was a curious teen and leave it....

@Sammy900

I'd think this was a curious teen and leave it....

But OP says she knows the person, she hasn't said it's a teenager. If it was an adult, I'd find this repulsive and disturbing.

@scorpiogirly

I’m assuming these aren’t available on the regular web?

They easily could be. There’s quite a few subreddits with horrifically graphic things on them.

I actually did watch some out of morbid curiosity. Just because of that - morbid curiosity.
I don’t think that makes me disturbed or psychopathic!

I’d think the person was potentially very disturbed, and not want to have anything more to do with them. I’d think the same about some extreme types of sadistic porn too, to be honest.

I don’t think it’s a normal thing to do to seek extreme videos of execution out repeatedly - it can’t be anything but morally wrong and evil to treat real violence as if it’s a form of video entertainment; and tbh I’d secretly think the person either mentally unwell or psychopathic.

I don't mind watching crime stuff on tv, like the one called The worlds most Evil killers. It is an eye opener, to learn just how many depraved and evil people there are, or have been, in many many civilised countries. You never know who is living amongst normal everyday people.

If they only watched two it could just be curiosity.

I follow a woman on instagram called mrs angemi she does autopsies and she runs a website called the gross room which you can subscribe to.It has some very graphic videos and photos on there of car accidents and people who have been murdered or committed suicide.I subscribe to it cause I find it really interesting,she also writes a lot of info about how the person died though it’s not just photos and videos.

To be honest if it's only those two videos I wouldn't think that much of it.

I wouldn't want to see that and I would be pissed off if a friend tried to show them to me, but I don't think it automatically makes them a whacko. It could just be some morbid curiosity. It's not that hard to find stuff like that if you actually want to see it.

If they're watching these kinds of videos a lot and getting pleasure out of them, then THAT would be the point where I would be disturbed by it. I know there are groups online where people share these sorts of things. That's whacko territory and I wouldn't want to associate with that person.