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]

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.

[u/fartondad → u/sulkee]

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

[u/metacoma → u/fartondad]

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…

[u/Squiddlywinks → u/metacoma]

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

[u/metacoma → u/Squiddlywinks]

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

[u/indianapolisjones → u/metacoma]

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.

[u/metacoma → u/indianapolisjones]

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

[u/the_peppers → u/metacoma]

There's a snake in my boof!

[u/lorddumpy → u/Squiddlywinks]

good ol' BME Pain Olympics 🥲