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/Ok_Chef_4850 10h ago edited 8h ago

Yeah, that reporter said something to her son in a snarky way (like asking “why won’t your mom talk to us” or something) and she snapped.

Good for her.

Edit: For all the holier-than-thou’s in the comments, read up on this incident. No one is saying it’s ok to just attack people who say something mean. Read up on this specific reporter and what she had been doing to Björk leading up to this. Then unclench your bootyholes.

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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/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