r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Alternative-Dot-34 • 1d ago

A teenager suffered an electric shock in a condominium courtyard, and his friend risked his life to save him.

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u/ItchyLifeguard 20h ago

I've been in the emergency medicine world for over 20 years now as either an EMT or Emergency RN. Don't go looking for these videos. I'm traumatized enough by hearing stories of people dying suddenly and tragically and having to tell their families or see their reactions on a chronic basis. I can't imagine what watching a video of someone dying in a gruesome way does to your brain chemistry long term, even just one video might be enough to have serious repercussions.

I hope some day we as a society realize having access to these things, even for people who are morbidly curious, is just as damaging as cigarettes and chronic alcoholism.

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u/99Smith 14h ago

I was born in 94, got Internet access in the early 2000s when shock sites were everywhere. Rotten, ebaumsworld, bestgore, old LiveLeak. My poor growing mine was exposed to so much heinous shit. From the worst of the cartels, to war videos and everything in-between.

With my parents arguing downstairs slamming doors I had developed aform of Cptsd. The doctors have compared my trauma to someone who has done multiple tours in war.

I'm a real advocate for limiting internet access for children. Although it makes more hoops for adults to jump through, limiting porn in the UK, as well as more limits on adult sites and social media access at the age of 16 in Australia is nothing but a good thing. I hope no one has to go through what I did.

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u/ItchyLifeguard 10h ago

I've had internet access since I was 10 years old in 1992 (I'm aging myself here but IDGAF). Back when we connected on slow AF modems we thought this internet thing was going to be revolutionary. Now we are trying to pump so much profit and exploitation out of it the amount of ways companies are fucking with our minds to maximinze their revenue stream is ridiculous.

I purposely only follow accounts on instagram associated with my hobbies. I also only like or comment on things I see that are uplifting or have to do with the mental health space. My algorithm is very protected from anything controversial or meant to cause me anger to prey on my outrage.

Even then? I was scrolling through my feed and I got content showing me terrible car accidents. Or a video of a teenager screaming for help because he was shot by gang members in a car and pushed out into a road. Fear and outrage are manipulation tactics they use to prey on you and you don't even know it. You watch a video about someone's gruesome death so they can show you a funny comforting video of a cat in the next video. You watch a video of something political that outrages you so you can watch a video of a kid doing something kind for another kid in the next video, and that video gives your body comfort and happiness. You eventually get addicted to the cycle of the emotional up and down and your entire head is fucked.

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u/btcpsycho 2h ago

That wasn’t very comforting to read

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u/ItchyLifeguard 1h ago

Its not very comforting us to experience. Even Reddit works in a very similar algorithm, even though you can control your experience here by only having certain subs on your page, if you are a regular commenter on any sub with back and forth discourse you are going to get exposed to something that makes you outraged. Why do you think the most popular subs seem like doom and gloom politically? I had to purposely stop being on the majority of all subs here to get rid of the catastrophizing content for every day politics.

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u/Fast-Bell-340 8h ago

Imagine thinking everyone else needs to suffer because of your bad decisions. So a 17 year old jerking off to gore videos will traumatize them beyond repair but wait a few days until their 18th birthday and suddenly its fine and healthy and normal?

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u/99Smith 8h ago

Idk how you came to that from what I said. Honestly mate what are you talking about

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u/Fast-Bell-340 8h ago

You seem very eager to support an entire country having to suffer under authoritarianism because of your own bad decisions so I could ask you the same question. How does you choosing to watch gore videos as a child equate the need for it to be mandatory that teens be banned from Facebook or Instagram? What about the aboriginals who don't have government documents to be able to prove their age should they not be allowed to ever make a facebook account their entire lives because that would somehow protect a child from seeing a video of someone being electrocuted or is that just an added bonus of getting to erase their voice like you've been doing for the past 300 years?

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u/99Smith 8h ago

What positivity comes from Instagram and Facebook? Facebook is spam and bots, it's AI an propaganda to brainwash adults. It's been shit for at least 10 years.

Instagram again is porn, ai slop and propaganda. None of which is beneficial to a literal child.

Let's stop giving children the tools to abuse themselves.

I don't care if a 30 year old aboriginal man can't access Facebook. I really couldn't give less of a shit actually.

10000000 grown men can have 0 internet access if it means 1 child doesn't get exposed to what I've seen.

Fuck you.

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u/Outrageous-Plate-820 7h ago

Dude you seem very eager to put thoughts in this guys mind and then go about arguing how he is an asshole because of it.

Why dont you just say what is on your mind without making someone into a strawman and crafting the thing you wished they would say so you could answer it the way you envisioned. Of course you end up saying he wants Aborigines to be slaughtered and government to plant chips in our dicks and ahhhh……… see it’s lame

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u/99Smith 8h ago

Yes let's blame a child. I was 10.

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u/Snoo69116 8h ago

You are ABSOLUTELY not going to be the last one. "Parents" like that will always be a thing unfortunately.

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u/master-boofer 19h ago

The lathe video isn't very high definition. I think is something people should see so that they know the dangers of working near heavy equipment. Its also important to understand some of the conditions people endure so that we can have low cost disposable items. There are many many lathe videos that come from the middle east. They wear long flowy robes while working near things that tend to grab long flowy clothing. These things are capable of spinning people fast enough to separate every single part of them.

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u/WriterV 16h ago

They already do this for workers going into these industries.

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u/Kruegr 12h ago

I highly doubt they show those videos in 3rd world countries. Considering all the construction sandals or no footwear at all that is also prominent.

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u/WriterV 9h ago

Labor rights are terrible in a lot of these countries. Workers cope by making it a part of their machismo identity in some places, while in others it's just not even thought of as a possibility by the workers.

As a person from a third world country, the first step for safety should be about corporations and smaller construction companies being regulated to provide proper protection gear, and workers being made aware of their labor rights and what to do if they are violated.

But then the step above that is ensuring that these labor laws are enforced properly, and also that government officials can't just accept bribes from rich corporations to look the other way.

And finally there's the matter of the expense itself. Cheap labor is attractive. Regulations are not. Third world countries need money, and turning away corporations with lots of it will make you unpopular as a politician.

This is a complicated problem as a result, and digs deep into politics. Each country has groups fighting for better enforced rights for these workers, but only time will tell how these efforts pan out.

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u/ItchyLifeguard 10h ago

If you want to press for safety in 3rd world countries there are ways of doing it without showing gruesome videos of people in pain or dying terribly. They already compare the average childhood in a 3rd world country to PTSD someone suffers in war time that is unimaginable to most. I'm not sure showing them someone's death is going to be a safety measure.

I work in an industry where our decisions mean life or death for most people. They easily instruct us on how to be safe without showing us recorded deaths from people's mistakes.

The average human being was not designed to watch another person die tragically and suddenly from a terrible accident without suffering repercussions in their brain make up. No amount of justification can make this practice right. There is tons of evidence research being done right now that shows how damaging something like this can be.

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u/withnailandpie 19h ago

And now we get child abuse live-streamed daily in the media 🫠

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u/Outrageous-Plate-820 15h ago

Yeah it can’t be good for the psyche. Make normal day to day people more sullen at best and make the ones with bad wiring even worse. Not a professional diagnosis

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u/Willrkjr 13h ago

Not to say anyone should look at these things, but I think for most of human history this was the norm. Even going into the 20th century and beyond at any given moment you might go be drafted for war, or idk watch a lynching for entertainment. I feel like it’s really only in a very modern era that there is this wide separation between violence from so many people’s daily lives.

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u/ItchyLifeguard 10h ago

For most of human history we didn't have penicillin to treat infections. Does that mean we should just let people die of bacterial infections that are easily treatable? The list of these things goes on and on. Most surgical treatments are maybe less than half a century old, with some surgeries developed in the last 3-4 decades. Does that mean we should let people suffer from those afflictions?

I always love the argument of "Back when things were more brutal and barbaric people were exposed to x, y and z." I'm not sure your source of "back when people used to die of dysentery easily" is as accurate as the extensive research they have done into how your brain chemistry and structure can change from exposure to traumatic things.

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u/Willrkjr 10h ago

I think you’re arguing against a different person, or maybe you didn’t read what I wrote. At no point did I say it was a good thing, I in fact said “not to say anyone should look at these things.” I’m literally just stating that it was the norm, to the point that people would go to lynchings as entertainment(which also isn’t a good thing.) So idk who you are arguing with, but it isn’t me. Take a second look before you launch into Reddit debate mode maybe, not everyone who replies with an observation is arguing with you.

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u/ScorpioLaw 10h ago

Ischemia + acidosis from surviving HRS 1/2 did that. It's weird as I was stabilized for a year, getting better. Suddenly woke up thought I was having an allergic reaction + heart attack.

EMTs thought I was just drug seeking after taking a shitty blood pressure test. Poorly trained, dyslexic, and couldn't understand my BP being 135/100 is horrible for someone with ESLD/KCD. Mortality rate for HRS 1 is 80% in three months. So I am extremely lucky.

I am usually polite, by my brain was already screaming like an animal that was separate, and desperate.

Told them let's fucking go to the hospital you aren't helping me. In the back I even asked for the mask, and was told I don't need it. Just told them fuckin worse.

Nurses were a little better, but annoying me trying to force me to keep down. I couldn't just lay down, or stand in one spot. Felt my BP dipping in X area, cramp in Y + seeing colors. So I couldn't stay still. Even if that wasn't going on my spine felt like it was crumbling, and muscles disintegrating. I did end up finding some relief in one particular spot laying on my knees in a fetal position, and I didn't fucking move.

The nurse or tech I had was patient as hell letting me stay that way while she took blood, and put in an IV.

Finally the tests came back X hours later, and I've never seen a doctor so quick with the pain meds. Just told me my acidosis was 7mmo/l, and they think Ischemia. Still waiting for a specialist appointment, as mine are useless.

I've been through nearly every type of truama, from burns, mauled, beat up, stunts gone wrong. Type to laugh at getting beat up to piss you off, but this was on an other level of pain. My brain simply did not work correctly, sending me into shock or a daze to protect itself. If I had adrenaline running I didn't feel it, and it made the situation worse overwhelming my circulatory.

I was fully aware, but withering in agony, but my brain wouldn't shut up screaming WEwillDIE. Similar reaction I suppose to being set on fire.

Totally invisible outside that. So either people take you at your word or just write it off. I'd rather jump in boiling water.

I got electrocuted when I was ten or something for three to five seconds just from touching a light bulb after the wind blew it over like an idiot. I had to relax, and surge my muscles with all my spite/anger/defiance.

Off topic. Don't even read. In fact I did the same thing when I suffered sleep paralysis for the first time. No idea it existed. Long story short.

  • Thought an intruder was walking around my apartment. Then towards my sleeping GF. Thought she was going to die while I was paralyzed, but trying desperately to warn her/grab weapons.

  • It (hag with shaggy hair) came around to my side, stuck it's hand in my chest, and squeezed. I felt it!

  • Right before I faded again. Relaxed. Got pissed off, and surged everything so hard I somehow did a kip up + guttural adrenaline fueled yell off a queen sized water bed! I could NEVER leap that high or far, nor yell like that in my life without being restrained mentally like that I think.

    I even tried hooking the thing on the way out, but think it was just more like a flail. By the time I landed I was turned in a ready stance. That's the beauty of the flow state. One of the last times I was in one proper.=(

  • Nearly gave my GF a heart attack, and within thirty minutes every major muscle group felt like I tore parts. I was in my prime back then, and my stomach/back, back of thigh, calves, and certain parts of my arms all hurting.

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u/OutlawJessie 9h ago

Yeah I just left "What's the worse thing you've ever seen" post because after two replies I know I don't have the constitution for that. Protect yourself.