Internet Urban Legends

I'd like to know too, OP!

OP, the second part of your post immediately made me think of this column from The Straight Dope discussing snuff films. Originally published in 1993 the article discusses whether snuff films actually exist and mentions a film much like you describe:

[quote]Anomalous weirdness. McIlvenny says the third film involving an actual death was a bizarre religious number from Morocco in which a hunchbacked kid was torn apart by wild horses while men stood around and masturbated. Sick, but not intended as commercial pornography.

Now I’m curious if this is the same film being discussed or if there’s some weird tribe of men jerking off while kids are torn apart by wild horses

Well Reddit used to be filled w 4chan geeks & non-attractive people. They've since moved on

Gotta love Roaring Kitty

Nice change up from the kinds of incel guys w/weak facial features & domineering mothers. Lazy mothers, btw

They're one step away from scarf & doorknob

Spare us all

R2 - that sounds very similar! So it may actually exist after all.

Who was Blue Agave?

R6 - I'm sad I didn't join DL during his time, apparently he had some great gossip!

An in depth article about Lake City Quiet Pills:

Channel Zero was actually a horror anthology series that was based specially on creepypasta, or internet stories on forums that position themselves as real stories.

It ran for four seasons on syfy. It never had very high viewership but each season was excellent.

It’s probably best known from the Tooth Child from Candle Cove, the story from the first year.

I have cancer! Please send me money!

R9 Ugh! That picture is so gross!

Great read, r8. Lake City Quiet Pills is quite the rabbit hole

"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet"- A man says he recorded it off a German radio station in 1984 during a broadcast featuring local musicians. Internet detectives have been working on discovering the song's title and artist for ten years, but no luck. If you love 1980's music like I do, it's a great song, but some think it's not genuinely vintage.

Not nearly as dramatic as some of the examples above, but the silicone pinch test.

According to internet wisdom, you can test a piece of silicone cookware for fillers by pinching or twisting it. If the pinched area turns white, it is full of fillers, and is potentially toxic. If it doesn't, it is 100% silicone, and is safe to use.

This is unscientific nonsense. I have not found one scientific source to confirm this. This myth seems to stem from an article in the New York time in the early aughts. They interviewed a woman who opened a shop selling silicone bakeware in Manhattan. Her argument as to why people should buy from her was that everything in her shop was 100% silicone, and passed the pinch test.

Every mention of this myth on the internet, if they site references - most don't, eventually leads back to this article.

This is the most excruciating read, r8. I'm 1/4th through and this writer has repeated himself numerous times already.

Anyway, by the time I got to the obviously fake post by his friend announcing his death, it became pretty clear that this was the work of one person creating a "mystery" where there really is none.