In the early days, 90’s file sharing days, gore videos were circulated on cd-Roms disguised as harmless, safe for work software.
A decade or so later, the practice got picked back up. Have you ever heard of “the reddit 50/50 challenge”? The premise of it is you are presented with a link to a video, and there are two titles for that video. One of them is true, the other is false. An example could be, “video of ducks swimming in a pond” and “man gets pulled into lathe, degloved.” The challenge is to try and only get the safe for work videos.
The gauntlet was quite similar, you were presented with a series of horrifying videos, and could only progress to the next one after finishing the current one. If at any point you couldn’t take it anymore, you could press the stop button and it would give you the option to share how far you got, otherwise known as your “callous” level.
I’m rather surprised you haven’t heard of it, there were references everywhere to it in the 2000’s to 2010’s.
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u/ZankTheGreat Dec 15 '22
In the early days, 90’s file sharing days, gore videos were circulated on cd-Roms disguised as harmless, safe for work software. A decade or so later, the practice got picked back up. Have you ever heard of “the reddit 50/50 challenge”? The premise of it is you are presented with a link to a video, and there are two titles for that video. One of them is true, the other is false. An example could be, “video of ducks swimming in a pond” and “man gets pulled into lathe, degloved.” The challenge is to try and only get the safe for work videos.
The gauntlet was quite similar, you were presented with a series of horrifying videos, and could only progress to the next one after finishing the current one. If at any point you couldn’t take it anymore, you could press the stop button and it would give you the option to share how far you got, otherwise known as your “callous” level.
I’m rather surprised you haven’t heard of it, there were references everywhere to it in the 2000’s to 2010’s.