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Jason Voorhees
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we live in a time where information is everywhere, but genuine understanding is harder to find. News cycles move fast, headlines blur together and tragedies often get reduced to cold numbers “180 dead in Haiti” or “Russian gangs terrorize civilians. These sentences stick in the brains for maybe a day maybe an hour, before they get scrolled past them like some random advertisement for a toothpaste commercial. But when an uncensored photo or video of these things get posted suddenly it’s not just a statistic anymore. It’s a real story and that’s the reason I think gore should be allowed
I get why niggas don't want graphic content. Gore is unsettling it is visceral, and forces everyone to confront realities but I strongly believe sanitizing violence doesn’t make it disappear. Polished headlines or vague summaries are pointless. No one gives a fuck aboit them A death toll becomes a math problem. A war crime becomes a political buzzword. But a videos and pictures. That is someone’s life someone’s pain raw and unfiltered. It demands empathy
Many argued with me in threads saying, “Why post something so brutal? Isn’t it for just shock value and giving attention to evil people?” I disagree with that.
Shock value is what you get in horror movies or clickbait headlines made to exploit curiosity. Posting raw footage isn’t about spectacle.
Mainstream media shows violence all the time in movies, games but when that violence is fictional or edited people conditioned to shrug it off. Real unfiltered footage disrupts that numbness. It is stark reminder that they aren’t plot points. They’re real people, real consequences.
Allowing gore would turn this website into bestgore.com?
And I agree with that. Nobody wants .org flooded with trauma porn or videos that glorifies suffering. This is a looksmaxxing forum first but .org is also one of the handful of forums on the open internet that allows free speech. Manosphere circles have always allowed free speech and allowing users to post whatever they want but context matters. That’s why I think it is important to post the backstory, properly spoiler the videos and photos. Tagging posts as NSFW, using spoiler warnings, and keeping graphic content in offtopic.
Users should be able choose whether to engage and not get blindsided by it but removing that choice all together? By not allowing gore. That is just shielding people from the truth.
In my opinion gore and graphic content as long as it’s shared in good faith should be allowed. The goal should be to inform, to make people *feel* the weight of injustice. then graphic material has its place
I get why niggas don't want graphic content. Gore is unsettling it is visceral, and forces everyone to confront realities but I strongly believe sanitizing violence doesn’t make it disappear. Polished headlines or vague summaries are pointless. No one gives a fuck aboit them A death toll becomes a math problem. A war crime becomes a political buzzword. But a videos and pictures. That is someone’s life someone’s pain raw and unfiltered. It demands empathy
Many argued with me in threads saying, “Why post something so brutal? Isn’t it for just shock value and giving attention to evil people?” I disagree with that.
Shock value is what you get in horror movies or clickbait headlines made to exploit curiosity. Posting raw footage isn’t about spectacle.
Mainstream media shows violence all the time in movies, games but when that violence is fictional or edited people conditioned to shrug it off. Real unfiltered footage disrupts that numbness. It is stark reminder that they aren’t plot points. They’re real people, real consequences.
Allowing gore would turn this website into bestgore.com?
And I agree with that. Nobody wants .org flooded with trauma porn or videos that glorifies suffering. This is a looksmaxxing forum first but .org is also one of the handful of forums on the open internet that allows free speech. Manosphere circles have always allowed free speech and allowing users to post whatever they want but context matters. That’s why I think it is important to post the backstory, properly spoiler the videos and photos. Tagging posts as NSFW, using spoiler warnings, and keeping graphic content in offtopic.
Users should be able choose whether to engage and not get blindsided by it but removing that choice all together? By not allowing gore. That is just shielding people from the truth.
In my opinion gore and graphic content as long as it’s shared in good faith should be allowed. The goal should be to inform, to make people *feel* the weight of injustice. then graphic material has its place
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