Serious answer: I remind myself it’s normal to be shocked by some stuff people do/create. I check the content against my ethics, and try to decide if I’m being uptight or if it really is messed up. If it’s something that isn’t unethical/harmful but I just don’t like, then I remind myself that not everyone needs to share my tastes.
If it’s genuinely terrible I allow myself to feel the anger/sorrow for a bit, try not to let it become excessive, and congratulate myself on having limits that fit my ethics. I remind myself that good people exist and they are the ones I want to support, emulate, and engage with. As others have mentioned, distraction can also help. Video games, music, socializing - whatever will move your train of thought along.
What a great way to word it!
Thank you for taking the time to explain your way of handling tha reality of being exposed to the internet!
I became desensitized thanks to copious gore at 13 😂
Goatse, 1man1jar, 2girls1cup, Mr. Hands, BME Pain Olympics, and unhealthy amounts of 4chan means the horrors of today slide off me like water off a ducks back.
Add tubgirl, 3 guys 1 hammer, kids in a sandbox, Mr hands, blue waffle and a whole lotta other stuff that shouldn’t have been as unfiltered and uncategorized as it was at the time.
Same. Although I had a couple of re-sensitizing events when each of my children were born. But sometimes the allure gets to me…
Eyebleach:
Fluffball c:
Yup! Willow, our latest. 2 months old.
Going to the vet:
Coming home from the vet:
He craves violence
Ohh thats him! Didn‘t recignise him curled up like that. Very handsome catto :)
Oh man I remember rotten.com
Nothing is shocking anymore
I still remember browsing WPD, pretty sure the part of me that gets shocked on the internet died a long time ago
I desensitized myself years ago by looking at the worst I could find. It was bad for my mental health so I stopped. Now I’m no longer desensitized and a lot of things affect me again.
I prefer it this way.
And its bro’, bangedup.com…(nsfw, nudes, but very tame vs 20 years ago…)
stileproject too
ogrish
I had blocked ogrish out of my mind
The community there was 4chan in it’s infancy
…populationpaste, efukt…
Gardening, Hiking, Watching nature’s beauty without humans.
Time. But even then, it will pop into your head to say hi every now and then.
I saw my first truly horrible Internet thing two decades ago, and it hasn’t gone away. Sorry.
- back button
- use the mantra “I clicked on this, I chose this, I clicked on this, I chose this” a bit.
- you receive +1 to personal responsibility
I once saw a car accident on a freeway that involved burning bodies within the cab of the vehicle. Nothing I’ve seen online compares to that. Maybe I’ve just avoided the worst of the worst online, but nothing has been that graphic.
Playing guitar, or doing something else where I can’t be thinking about it in the background such as Tetris as the other person mentioned, or reading a book
Make a joke in the comments.
Keep thinking about it until it’s not weird anymore
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/
is there a lemmy equivalent?
Watch something worst
I once worked in a questionable industry, where there was no such thing as NSFW (nor NSFL). My coworkers and I would have competitions to see who could freak each other out the most; this was back in the goatsie, 2g1c, and bme pain olympics days. 🤮
It’s not my thing, but at the same time it doesn’t affect me much anymore. Though, as all things evolve over time, things probably have only gotten worse.
