Hi! I’m still leaving this up, as it is your first post here. However, please review the rules. “People who watch morbid videos?” is not an actual question. Next time, please post an actual question as your title. TYSM!!!

that's why I watch "morbid facts" on YT. it satisfies my morbid curiosity without showing me any Gore.

I just thank God it’s not me getting my body flattened in a hydraulic press. 😬

People differ in sensation seeking, which partly explains the behavior

I watch morbid videos because I’m fascinated to see things I’ve never seen before. The other day I watched a video of a vet doing surgery on a cow’s eye. I couldn’t believe how he cut around the eye and all this pus was removed.

Another video a cow’s nose was totally clogged with snot. The vet stuck a huge syringe (without the needle) up the cow’s nose and pulled. This whole glob . . . well, you get the picture.

I watched a surgery where they amputated someone’s leg shortly after my leg was amputated. I’m curious but I also watch anything with pus or blood. I don’t feel guilty about enjoying it.

I fall asleep to watching/listening to homicide investigation interrogations. Often the darker and the more disturbing the better for me, otherwise it’s too boring. I find them interesting and relaxing

The most I can do is true crime, which, to be honest, I’m totally obsessed with lol. But when it comes to gory videos of people dying and shit like that? I can’t do it! Not only am I like your friend in the sense that I would feel guilty and disgusting afterward… But I am constantly reminded of the fact that the person dying is someone’s child. Someone’s parent. Someone’s best friend. Etc. they are a real person with a life and memories and loved ones. Watching them die like that would make me feel awful. How would I feel if it were my loved one on there? People watching them die for entertainment? I can’t imagine.

My older brother used to visit rotten.com when we were kids/teenagers. I wouldn’t even watch it back then. He showed me one video when I was about 12 years old, and I remember this immediate feeling of impending doom… Like God had been watching me, and I was gonna go to hell or something. It was terrible! Lol. So I haven’t watched that shit since.

My fiancé found a website the other day that was basically the new version of rotten.com and he watched video after video for about 45 minutes straight. I kept telling him to get the hell off there and stop watching that shit. But it was like he was engrossed. He said it was like a bad car accident. He didn’t want to keep watching, but he couldn’t look away. Finally, he put the phone down and he was literally in tears. He hugged me and said, “This world is so full of evil.” It was like he was in shock. He did a lot of praying afterward. 🙁

For me personally it was morbid curiosity. In most civilized parts of the world society does a pretty good job of censoring anything that has to do with the insides of the human body. Even a picture of excessive blood on the ground will be heavily censored. I feel like we sanitize so much to a point that it takes away a certain “realness” to life. Life is messy sometimes. The insides of the human body should not be something we fear or find grotesque. I can understand someone not wanting to see the aftermaths of an axe murder or something gruesome but to some people processing that kind of information is extremely interesting. I don’t actively seek out that type of info anymore. I got most of my questions answered back on the Rotten.com days. I also tried to reason with myself that it might make me “stronger” somehow, psychologically. I think there’s definitely something to that now though. I think getting through the squeamish factor is a real thing that can’t happen without being familiar with “gore” to an extent. I also tried to tell myself that there’s plenty of people who have to deal with scenes of that nature on a daily basis such as police, DR’s etc, etc. I don’t really look at stuff like that anymore. I’m glad I did because it opened my eyes to a lot. The human body is a fascinating object……and if you haven’t watched that fascinating object blown into chunks by a grenade well then maybe you haven’t lived 😂

Here's my experience so take it with a grain of salt. When I was a kid, I used to watch stuff like that. We didn't have internet back then but we did have faces of death which was a VHS you could rent.

As an adult, I'm a combat vet, a retired police officer and worked as a part-time emt. Having saw that stuff in real life, I have no desire to watch any of that again and we'll go out of my way not to.

It's one thing to watch something and think it's interesting or fascinating. It's another thing to see it in real life when you actually have to smell it and see the lives attached to the destruction.

This is where PTSD comes from. It's probably hard for a young kid watching some gory clip to understand how much that impacts you in real life when you see it.