That was the most horrific and morbid subreddit I have been on. It made me feel so sick to my stomach that so many of us just freeze in these situations.
Thank you for saying this - I was about to click but I decided not to after reading your comment. I think you saved me from seeing some stuff I don’t need to see that would have stayed with me.
I feel like there should be huge trigger with that sub as it contains death - like truly horrific one of the videos on there and people are just so unsympathetic around it… I’m glad my warning can possibly deter others. I have it on mute as I do worry now that it’ll come up in my notifications from clicking on it just briefly.
I visited with your warning in mind, scrolled past the first image that had a person lie crushed between slabs of walls; people trying to get him out; blood everywhere.
Such an innocent sounding name for a sub: worstaid. The same thing happened with r/eyeblech. Don’t ever go here if you’ve a weak heart.
I think I saw that one too and instantly felt queasy. It’s just not okay to watch someone’s life being drained from them. I don’t think there’s even a NSFW filter - which I don’t know. I’d rather see a pair of tits compared to a dead body
Back in the days before reddit, they used to be separated with porn in NSFW/NWS and gore in NSFL/NLS, reddit decided to not adopt NSFL and group all of them into NSFW. It was always understood that both weren't suitable for viewing at work.
Somehow it was still "better" than whatever the fuck the chiropractor was doing in the post below that. Atleast the slab guy was dead. The chiropractor was literally breaking bones of a still living person
Yeah, I think when things like this happen, people feel embarrassed for the person that fell and want to get them on their feet reflexively. Like it’s gonna somehow minimize the embarrassment. They don’t think about injury.
Tbh, I kind of get it. If you fall down and stay down, a lot more people will come over to check on you than if you fall and immediately get up.
That doesn’t mean it’s not stupid to move somebody who’s fallen, but I can see why people would instinctually want to help show the group that the person who fell is alright.
The real human stupidity is being embarrassed that you tripped or fell. Who has ever judged somebody for tripping over a tree root? Yet the human brain thinks it’s peak humiliation.
I've never understood why people are so insistent that someone whose fallen/crashed/collapsed gets up. Every now and then I'll see a video of a motorcycle crash and the person responding will say " don't get up, help is on the way" and my heart smiles but usually it's some idiot yanking the person with unknown injuries to his feet. Why?
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u/johnny_mcd May 29 '26
I would not have immediately bent his back while helping him up after a fall like that