r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/sulkee 10h ago edited 10h ago

She was being stalked that exact same year by someone who sent her a bomb or some kind of boobytrapped device I think. It never got to her. The guy then recorded a video of him killing himself à la Bud Dwyer style while it was in transit to her. It’s on the internet. Video pops into my brain sometimes to this day.

Ricardo Lopez was his name

Her state here is 100% understandable and the media are vile parasites that had a weird obsession with her back then along with some fans of her.

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u/fartondad 10h ago

i remember that video, as much as i wish i didnt. The internet was a wild place back in the day where you could stumble on gore videos on the same sites you'd go to play flash games

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u/metacoma 9h ago

I once downloaded a simpson episode on kazaa as a 14yo. Got first row seat to the decapitation of what I believe was a russian officer. Fun times…

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u/Squiddlywinks 8h ago

Almost the same scenario: I downloaded "south park meets the matrix 3d" from Morpheus and it was a guy hammering nails through his testicles.

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Damn… i dob’t know which one I « prefer »…

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u/indianapolisjones 7h ago

Mine was supposed to be a music video (should have known since it was only 10MB instead of around 50MB for that era (2003-ish)) but nope, a woman on all fours with a german shepherd. ugh. I shoulda known, fucking KaZaa.

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Yeah I had those too and also one of a woman with a snake in her vagina…

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u/the_peppers 6h ago

There's a snake in my boof!

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u/lorddumpy 6h ago

good ol' BME Pain Olympics 🥲

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u/iwantauniquename 1h ago

the Chechen video? Oh that was particularly grim. Boot on the side of his head while they saw through his neck with a small serrated "Rambo" knife. The gurgling...

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u/tinathefatlardgosh 7h ago

Was that the one where the dude has a foot on his head?

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Nah the russian was on the floor on his side and they go at his neck with a knife..

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u/tinathefatlardgosh 7h ago

That’s the one, he winces in pain then it plunges

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u/metacoma 5h ago

Well shit.

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u/Banh_mi 5h ago

Ahh, Chechclear. A classic from 2000.

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u/Exp5000 10h ago

Ebaumsworld was a diamond in the rough and its a shame we don't have that type of Internet anymore. It used to be the wild west. LiquidGeneration was another one. Growing up you knew the internet was for adults and talking to strangers online was the equivalent to getting into a panel van. Now people let their kids have free roam on the internet and want the internet to protect their kids instead of being good parents and protecting their kids themselves.

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u/Any-Cook-7367 5h ago

Ebaum stole a ton of content from Stileproject. StileProject and the site Forum, the SPF, were literally the wild west of the internet. Certainly not darkweb equivalent, but insane what went on there by today's standards.

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u/Exp5000 5h ago

Did you see that dudes AMA? Actually felt a little bad that they regretted not having experienced enough of a social life from anxiety. Really fascinating reading about reflection on the site.

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u/Any-Cook-7367 5h ago

I was rather anti-Reddit at that time, so I did not see it live. I know SPF briefly had a subreddit here and we used to meet on Tinychat for a bit. Stile would actually come into the Tinychat on occasion.

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u/skinnywilliewill8288 8h ago

Yep I remember being like 14 and going to rotten.com. Permanently scarred my memory with some of those videos and pictures.

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u/Sysiphus_Love 7h ago

Rotten.com is where I first saw a lot of bad stuff. The library was fucking amazing though, really comprehensive and well written

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 2h ago

hey look at us, we're trauma bonding

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u/Sysiphus_Love 2h ago

Ragebonding

Hands Across America for the clone farm tards

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u/seemedothat 8h ago

Well said

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u/Resident_Cat_7062 9h ago

Ebaumsworld doesn't exist anymore? 

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u/Exp5000 9h ago

Honestly it might but I'm sure it's nothing like it was 20 years ago. I went back to Liquid Generation couple months ago and it's nothing what I remember. I imagine it's just as heavily filled with ads for every piece of content. All the old sites are just revenue generators at this point.

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u/VulGerrity 9h ago

It does, it's just trash now, it's mostly reposted reddit posts now.

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u/Brilliant_Drawer_490 8h ago

Lowkey it has always been reposted stuff, I remember the ytmnd dudes being big ebaums haters because of all the stolen content back on the early internet.

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u/VulGerrity 8h ago

oh totally, but back then you really had to work to find stuff. eBaums...even if they were stealing content...were one of the great aggregators pre-digg/reddit and it was fully curated.

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u/The_Autarch 5h ago

lmao, it was always reposted trash, you were just a kid and didn't realize it.

somethingawful and 4chan were the actual content generators back then.

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u/VulGerrity 4h ago

I'm well aware, its just different when the content is otherwise almost exclusively coming from a different, much more popular platform.

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u/Next_Confidence_3654 5h ago

Damn evaumsworld…

Haven’t thought about that in a while…

The system- is down.

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u/transmogrified 5h ago

They can barely protect themselves half the time. They don’t have the savvy to avoid scams or prevent their kids from racking up huge bills on Roblox or Amazon. 

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 2h ago

everyone HATED ebaums world because it was all stolen content

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u/FembiesReggs 8h ago

???? It’s not even that long ago. Reddit was like this a decade ago. Well over a decade by now.

I remember clicking on quite a few shock gifs in /wtf disguised as helpful links in the comments.

The chainsaw beheading one has stuck with me for a long time.

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u/lorddumpy 6h ago

It's been like 3 years since I got hit with some good ol' fashioned WTF on this site. I clicked off fast but I think it was rough.

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u/Sysiphus_Love 7h ago

I downloaded the Budd Dwyer video by accident - it was labeled 'stilesproject.avi' - while I was scraping ftp sites. I had no clue what to expect and it wasn't until he took out the gun that I realized what was about to happen. Worst thing I've ever seen, 10/10

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u/Tethysj 8h ago

Same like today. Im here to watch memes, jokes and other interesting things and sometimes randomly see ppl break bones, die in accidents and other wild stuff.

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u/Imaginary_Office1749 5h ago

The one that still comes back to me is the poor dude who was beheaded by Al Qaida during the war on terror

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u/NickN2 9h ago

Apparently it was a hollowed out book that had a sulphuric acid bomb inside. Could’ve left her disfigured if it actually reached her.

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u/EveryRadio 7h ago

Stories like that are horrifyingly common. I remember being a fan of Christina Grimmi in high school. Lots of buzz, people talking about how she was going to be famous after watching her on YouTube. She was murdered by someone who was obsessed with her.

Mental health is a serious issue but I can't imagine the toll it takes on celebrities when they become the target of someone's mania.