Yeah, that is what parents really should have been worried about rather than violent video games. The first time I saw someone die online was way more traumatizing than watching a videogame character get dismembered.

Rotten.com was like a rite of passage.

Been on the Internet maybe 23 years or so and I've seen some wild shit back in the day that didn't phase me. Got shown some stuff on kaotic recently and it upset me a hell of a lot more than it would have 13 year old me.

I think this was one of the biggest failings of parents in the 90s and 2000s - the internet was so new that they were scared of all the wrong things and didn’t know how to properly protect their kids online.

I’m eternally grateful I never saw some pretty horrific shit online. The worst I saw was porn and some of those jumps are videos and clips from horror movies.

Edit: I should clarify that to some extent I don’t even necessarily blame the parents. How were they supposed to know? Most of them just used the thing for work or to file taxes or look up the news. They weren’t looking in those dark corners or really even aware they existed until they saw their kids looking at it.

I don't think it's that bad really. I feel like I was more traumatized as a kid by having a lot of pets with short natural lifespans, and just generally all the animal death and gore you are naturally exposed to by living in the country. With videos online it's disturbing, depressing, and forces you to think about human suffering/mortality and the existence of evil people, but it's ultimately just a video that isn't connected to your life, that you can turn off, and probably most people learn to avoid pretty quickly.

Porn site: Please confirm that you are at least 18 years old

Horny 16 year old me: Yes

At that age I was playing Flash games on FRIV, a10.com and my country's agame.com variant (gioco.it). It was literally all I did online, and all I did on computers.

How the hell do you manage to find those.

> 10 year old me watching Neon Genesis Evangelion

I never searched for stuff like this cuz I'm kinda sensitive on this, but I have a friend who would sometimes show me and other friends really disgusting things since we were like 10 years old.

First got online using CompuServe in 1991 and pretty much had near unrestricted access (time limits because phone bill was pretty much it) since.

I was born in 1985.

I did and I always watched creepypastas on YT

Nope. Didn't even have Internet till I was old enough to have a job and pay for it.

I did, but I used it to play Webkinz and listen to T.N.T. by AC/DC on early Youtube and I guess I didn't care to look deeper than that.

At least I am used to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sort of me, except I would immediately leave if I realized it was gore someone was tricking me into. Never liked it then, still don't.

My dad didn’t let me download The Offspring because it would’ve been a bad influence, but I was allowed on the early internet without any supervision.

The problem was never the blood, it was the screaming, crying, and visceral gargling