FYI Some papers on psychological issues with watching gore, murder, violence ect

[Tattooedmaniac]

So was going through some medical research and came across these papers, they make for great reading if you want to see how a phycologist may say how tapped you are in the head for watching gore and violence lol 😆

 

[SickToDeath]

 

[Smokinrav]

Its fine. I read part of the first one. Their major mistake (and its the first one, so the whole thing is flawed) is thinking gore watchers and readers are seeing "victims"
We first inhabitants long ago understood we were watching real life, as it happened, for the first time in human history. Not victims, just life.
Now, the amount of empathy shown those survivors of real life incidents is down to the consumer. This place is, uh, notably lacking in that department lol.

 

[DokraOwl]

It's one thing to watch gore as a way to learn and understand the realities of life and death, and another to watch it in a manner one would a depraved form of pornography. When I see gore I am more inclined to think of it as uncensored news or a way to learn to survive in a similar real world situation.

I recently tried to watch a movie called the House that Jack Built, and I couldn't even get through half of it. The entire premise was the explicit depiction of uncensored gore told through the lens of a psychopathic serial killer. All I could think of while watching that movie was the mental state of the director and the people who made it and how depraved they must be. There was nothing funny, nothing cool, nothing good about it, it was just sick.

I sometimes think of that movie and its intended audiance, whoever that can possibly be, and juxtapose it with myself, who has been watching gore since grade school. I thought I was part of the "gore for the sake of gore" audience but realised I'm not, since I hated the movie and couldn't finish it.

Then I think there must be some huge psycological or intellectual divide, as I recall a normie-ish coworker once putting a phone in my face and showing me the video of the Chinese factory worker get spun to a bloody mess and he laughed the whole time he was showing me, as if seeing that was some entertaining novel thing to him he just had to share. And all I said, which was how I really felt, since I had seen the video before, was it just made me feel grateful to not work in a similarly dangerous factory and how it made me feel grateful to be alive and in the cushy job I was in, and how terrible to was for the man to die that way.

He didn't like that response. And so there I noticed the disconnect between those who watch gore for laughs and those who watch it to understand reality.

 

[Teeshine]

Its fine. I read part of the first one. Their major mistake (and its the first one, so the whole thing is flawed) is thinking gore watchers and readers are seeing "victims"
We first inhabitants long ago understood we were watching real life, as it happened, for the first time in human history. Not victims, just life.
Now, the amount of empathy shown those survivors of real life incidents is down to the consumer. This place is, uh, notably lacking in that department lol.

Liberal abstracts, Im sure. They dont nor ever will 'get it'. I like real news, real issues, real people, like on here

 

[SearCutFAL]

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I go to various race tracks to watch the action, but I don't Race home.

When various sources come up with this stuff, they usually start out with preconceived notions
and their articles are designed to express those notions as facts, but they're only just opinions.

 

[Exploring.Gore?]

WHAT IT MEANS (simple):

• Normal human trait: curiosity about danger/death
• Purpose: learn threats → improve survival
• Not a disease → no “cure” needed

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WHAT THESE PDFs ARE FOR:

• Measure morbid curiosity (24-question scale)
• Explain why people like horror/crime
• Study personality + behavior patterns
• Predict who will choose disturbing content

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CAUSES / DRIVERS:

• Fear + need to understand danger
• Low disgust sensitivity
• Thrill-seeking + rebellion traits
• Younger age → higher curiosity

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BENEFITS (WHY IT EXISTS):

• Learn about threats safely
• Better awareness of danger
• Psychological “practice” for worst-case events
• Social advantage (knowing critical info faster)

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DAMAGES / RISKS:

• Desensitization to violence
• Increased aggression / dark thinking (possible)
• Anxiety or fear reinforcement
• Addiction to disturbing content
• Reduced empathy (if extreme)

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WHEN IT BECOMES A PROBLEM:

• You actively seek extreme gore frequently
• It affects mood, sleep, or behavior
• You lose emotional reaction to harm
• You prefer it over normal life activities

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CONTROL (NOT “CURE”):

• Limit exposure (time/content filters)
• Replace with safer curiosity (science, psychology)
• Avoid escalation (don’t go from mild → extreme)
• Balance with positive content

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FINAL:

• Moderate = normal, useful
• Extreme = risky, needs control
• It’s a trait, not an illness
  
  
  

 

[SickToDeath]

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WHEN IT BECOMES A PROBLEM:

• You actively seek extreme gore frequently
• It affects mood, sleep, or behavior
• You lose emotional reaction to harm
• You prefer it over normal life activities

Everyone on GG:

 

[Solomon Kane]

I'm drawn to the site for 2 reasons.
1- gotta love the free speech part.
2- gore? Just a reminder that on the human scale of life, just reminds us that some people are just plain, stupid, blind, determined, vicious and brutal. Trick is to know your shit and focus.
Someone mentioned that "Lucky" should also been listed. Yep, definitely agree.

 

[REDRUM616]

Just drink more and watch the world go round and round. That’s what I do, but I’m worried that the earth slowed down by .311 milliseconds. I’m going to miss a lot while I’m sleeping

 

[hedgerow]

i don't enjoy gore/violence and don't even watch some of the vids, especially the ones that involve beatings.
High-speed vehicular collisions are my favorite, i was watching one and it somehow brought me here. It's like a clubhouse for me now.

 

[Smokinrav]

I'm drawn to the site for 2 reasons.
1- gotta love the free speech part.
2- gore? Just a reminder that on the human scale of life just reminds us that some people are just plain, stupid, blind, determined, vicious and brutal. Trick is to know your shit and focus.

You forgot unlucky, cuz damn, we see a lot of unlucky motherfuckers in the wrong place and time.

 

[The anarchist]

i don't enjoy gore/violence and don't even watch some of the vids, especially the ones that involve beatings.
High-speed vehicular collisions are my favorite, i was watching one and it somehow brought me here. It's like a clubhouse for me now.

I love watching and laughing at any type of human gore but on the other hand I do not watch or click on anything related to any type of gore that has animals hurt or killed👍 my favorites are electrocution's😂😂👍

 

[I_like_suicide_vidz]

It's crazy I came across This tonight because my wife and I are out delivering Uber eats and I'm watching gore videos and she said, "I've never met anyone who watches videos like that all the time." And I told her it isn't because I get off on watching them, death just fascinates me, suicide especially. I've been watching gore videos since I was in middle school. I will say this, I don't like watching women get hurt and sometimes I can't watch cartel dismemberment videos because it is just over the top. I'm pretty sure I'm not a psychopath or sociopath because I feel empathy and other emotions and all that jazz.

 

[Smokinrav]

It's crazy I came across This tonight because my wife and I are out delivering Uber eats and I'm watching gore videos and she said, "I've never met anyone who watches videos like that all the time." And I told her it isn't because I get off on watching them, death just fascinates me, suicide especially. I've been watching gore videos since I was in middle school. I will say this, I don't like watching women get hurt and sometimes I can't watch cartel dismemberment videos because it is just over the top. I'm pretty sure I'm not a psychopath or sociopath because I feel empathy and other emotions and all that jazz.

Your fine, and if you can share that you visit GG and still keep her, well friend, you fucking won the game. I sure as hell can't come fully clean to the wife. I hint tho...

 

[BeHappy⚕️]

It's one thing to watch gore as a way to learn and understand the realities of life and death, and another to watch it in a manner one would a depraved form of pornography. When I see gore I am more inclined to think of it as uncensored news or a way to learn to survive in a similar real world situation.

I recently tried to watch a movie called the House that Jack Built, and I couldn't even get through half of it. The entire premise was the explicit depiction of uncensored gore told through the lens of a psychopathic serial killer. All I could think of while watching that movie was the mental state of the director and the people who made it and how depraved they must be. There was nothing funny, nothing cool, nothing good about it, it was just sick.

I sometimes think of that movie and its intended audiance, whoever that can possibly be, and juxtapose it with myself, who has been watching gore since grade school. I thought I was part of the "gore for the sake of gore" audience but realised I'm not, since I hated the movie and couldn't finish it.

Then I think there must be some huge psycological or intellectual divide, as I recall a normie-ish coworker once putting a phone in my face and showing me the video of the Chinese factory worker get spun to a bloody mess and he laughed the whole time he was showing me, as if seeing that was some entertaining novel thing to him he just had to share. And all I said, which was how I really felt, since I had seen the video before, was it just made me feel grateful to not work in a similarly dangerous factory and how it made me feel grateful to be alive and in the cushy job I was in, and how terrible to was for the man to die that way.

He didn't like that response. And so there I noticed the disconnect between those who watch gore for laughs and those who watch it to understand reality.

Can't lie
Lars von Trier is one of my favourite directors
The house that jack built is shlock... but God the scene where he kills the mum and kids is so.. skin crawling good, the eyes of the actress are just perfect 👌
He's made a load of good ones (dog ville is great, if you can get past the aesthetic decisions, Melancholia is a bit slow but okay as well)
But anti-christ is one of my absolute favourite movies, everything about it.. the way it's shot, the occult nods, all the symbolism, the barmy escalation, the weird "therapist-come-husband with grieving psychotic wife" relationship, the darkness behind what's really happened.. and best of all, the unhinged "you're leaving me, you bastard!" She screams whilst looking for him in the woods..
Ah.. oh.. oh it's just great

Sorry
Just felt a need to jump in

 

[BeHappy⚕️]

You know as a teen I probably thought this was all real news
But there's only so many mass shootings or war (well okay, war is a gift that never stops giving) but there's only so many actually news worthy happenings...
At some point you don't really "need" to see someone get hacked up with a machete, or swan dive from a balcony or be pulled into a wood chipper to understand that it can and does happen 😅
If that's still real news after the 100th time I dunno, maybe you're missing the news for gore clips.
I obsessively watch just about everything on here, got my own lines
No naked autopsy stuff generally, no women or kids being hurt (although hits and shootings with women I can watch, but it's the beatings and what not, triggers something of a response in me)

I couldn't say why I watch the videos though
Just like being shocked and it almost never happens because we've just seen so much...
I reckon I got pretty excited when I first saw the stuff when I was younger
And then went through the "this is real life" shtick and got a bit sleuthy...
But now I just casually catch up on whatever videos are new
And unless it's at the level of the masturbeheading or worse, It's just.. habit,
Always waiting eagerly on something disturbing though 😅
Terrible... Just terrible...
And I also sorta like watching the suicide videos but I think that's just some pathological obsession at this point with the subject broadly.. 😴

(The person I'm with also ends up catching up on the morning offerings here, with a slightly "tailored" selection.
It's weird when you desensitise a good person, and they're your partner.. you feel kinda evil, corrupting even...)

Safe to say and probably the same for alot of people on these sites.. I'd feel worse and much more strongly about just being a bit rude to someone in person than I would watching basically anything on here

It's the screen you know
The screen that keeps it all so unreal

 

[Smokinrav]

You know as a teen I probably thought this was all real news
But there's only so many mass shootings or war (well okay, war is a gift that never stops giving) but there's only so many actually news worthy happenings...
At some point you don't really "need" to see someone get hacked up with a machete, or swan dive from a balcony or be pulled into a wood chipper to understand that it can and does happen 😅
If that's still real news after the 100th time I dunno, maybe you're missing the news for gore clips.
I obsessively watch just about everything on here, got my own lines
No naked autopsy stuff generally, no women or kids being hurt (although hits and shootings with women I can watch, but it's the beatings and what not, triggers something of a response in me)

I couldn't say why I watch the videos though
Just like being shocked and it almost never happens because we've just seen so much...
I reckon I got pretty excited when I first saw the stuff when I was younger
And then went through the "this is real life" shtick and got a bit sleuthy...
But now I just casually catch up on whatever videos are new
And unless it's at the level of the masturbeheading or worse, It's just.. habit,
Always waiting eagerly on something disturbing though 😅
Terrible... Just terrible...
And I also sorta like watching the suicide videos but I think that's just some pathological obsession at this point with the subject broadly.. 😴

(The person I'm with also ends up catching up on the morning offerings here, with a slightly "tailored" selection.
It's weird when you desensitise a good person, and they're your partner.. you feel kinda evil, corrupting even...)

Safe to say and probably the same for alot of people on these sites.. I'd feel worse and much more strongly about just being a bit rude to someone in person than I would watching basically anything on here

It's the screen you know
The screen that keeps it all so unreal

Great post. You're right. After some 30 years of this, there's nothing I haven't seen. Yet I still watch. I'd like to think its not voyeurism, but by now, maybe it is?
I don't watch beheadings anymore. Seen that 1000 times. But everything else? I'm all in.
Certainly nothing shocks me anymore. I retain my empathy though, and for that I'm grateful. I'm still not a monster.

 

[Richard 1986]

My fav vids : Burning men , set ablaze by angry mob , drowning , jumpers ... Why ? I don't know ... I have killed so many people in video games but nobody in the real life !! If murder was legal i would have no problem to kill !! My current life not being great , i just have hatred rooted in me ...

 

[DokraOwl]

Great post. You're right. After some 30 years of this, there's nothing I haven't seen. Yet I still watch. I'd like to think its not voyeurism, but by now, maybe it is?
I don't watch beheadings anymore. Seen that 1000 times. But everything else? I'm all in.
Certainly nothing shocks me anymore. I retain my empathy though, and for that I'm grateful. I'm still not a monster.

Maybe deep down I am like this as well but just can't bring myself to accept it. Perhaps it is an innately human pathology to want/need to see others die and/or suffer so it makes oneself feel better about themselves not being in the same situation while concurrently feeling a bit superior as a consequence.