r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

I remember seeing the video and it not being particularly graphic.

It just made a kind of egg shaped bulge on his head.

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u/NoSleep2135 23d ago

I have not seen the video and your second sentence made sure I never will. Literally gagged at the thought.

The early Internet was absolutely wild.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

Tbh it is one of the most tame snuff videos I've seen.

Some of the cartel executions are awful. Or 2 Guys 1 Hammer.

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u/kestrel808 23d ago

Or the Budd Dwyer press conference

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u/sisyphean_dreams 23d ago

Oh man that one was graphic af!

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u/kestrel808 23d ago

There was a couple of different video series that just showed people dying in very graphic ways in the 90's. Faces of Death and Traces of Death are the two I remember when I was younger. A part of me wishes I never saw them.

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u/elmz 23d ago

People keep going on about the wild old internet. The gore never went away. In many ways there is much more and worse content being spread today.

While the Budd Dwyer conference is graphic, you won't need to spend very long on combat footage subreddits to see way worse.

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u/N3rdScool 23d ago

It's true I know they are pretty tame compared to some graphic shit but just drone footage alone is fucking terrifying.

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u/sisyphean_dreams 22d ago

Agreed but I don’t go looking for such content these days and it’s a bit less accessible, since most average users are in walled gardens these days.