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Rotten.com
 Screenshot from March 18, 2010 | |
Type of site | Shock site |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Commercial | No[dubious – discuss] |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Defunct |
Rotten.com was an American photo and video sharing shock site active from 1996 to 2012, known for hosting gruesome and bloody images and videos of gore, death, and decomposition, specialising in graphic, gross deaths and violence. The website, which had the tagline "An archive of disturbing illustration", was devoted to morbid curiosities, which included photos and videos of violent acts, deformities, autopsies, crime scenes (including suicides and murders, dead and decomposing corpses, etc., taken as part of police investigations), depictions of perverse sex acts, disturbing or misanthropic historical curiosities, and various recorded media of real events, such as shootings, beheadings, suicides, stabbings, mutilations, torture, murders, terrorist attacks (including suicide bombings, terrorist beheadings, and executions), knife attacks, capital punishments (including by beheading and shooting, and executions by shooting and beheading), surgeries, amputations, gang violence (including mafia and cartel-related violence), self-harm, war photos and videos (including crimes during wartime), assassinations, accidents, injuries, police bodycameras, doorbell videos, CCTV footage, videos and photos of self-defence, dashcam footages, assaults (including assaults with deadly weapons), injuries, cadavers, forensic pathology (including photos and videos), and revenge attacks and killings (including murders, stabbings and shootings caught on cell phones, doorbell video, dashcams, and on CCTV). Rotten.com also hosted some video footage of these events, but these were not extremely graphic, as it was not allowed on the site; it was more of a morbid curiosity website with bloody, gory, and shocking images to shock viewers about how brutal the world is, rather than outright horrendous shock. Much of the material depicted was uncensored, graphic, unblurred, uncut, gory, bloody videos and images (the videos were still quite graphic, though not the most, depending on the video, however, the images were more graphic than the videos mostly).[citation needed][excessive detail?] Founded in 1996, it was run by a developer known as Soylent Communications.[1] Site updates slowed in 2009, with the final update in February 2012.[2] The website's front page was last archived in February 2018.[3]
- ^ "The Internet's public enema No. 1". salon.com. 6 March 2001. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Audra Schroeder. "The legacy of Rotten.com". kernelmag.dailydot.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "rotten.com". 2018-02-10. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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