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I have literally never come across such a video. I am sure there are such videos somewhere online, and have been in the past too, but equally I am sure that no ordinary web user is likely to accidentally come across them.
I am old enough to remember when a “Hosted on LiveLeak” was a genuine content warning
There were numerous gore subreddits and I remember seeing some seriously heavy videos on Facebook, albeit rarely. Even today, Reddit has a lot of war gore (Ukraine mostly), as well as crazyfuckingvideos with shooting videos and what have you.
I remember I think two months ago, here on Lemmy, I was reading an article that was shared. The OP had stated there were hard images to look at, the first few were nothing bad and the warning was mild, so I continued but midway, it turned into headless corpses and things. This was an account of stuff that happened in China a few decades ago, so it's not like I was purposely looking for monkey gore or anything.
And not to mention all the stuff that was shown to me in highschool from friends which is actually the first time I saw a beheading video. The latest was a Tiktok video that was made to look like something else and switched to a beheading after a few seconds.
I think you just got lucky tbh. This stuff isn't just on the deep web, sometimes you don't even have to look for it.
You must be young.
Well, you're one of the lucky 10,000 today! I'm sending over a video now!
/j
I think "used to be" is key here. After 911 there were tons of violent anti Muslim videos.
I have had a fellow student randomly show me a cartel execution on YouTube before the automatic filters got better. It’s out there, and it’s possible to encounter it by accident.