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[–] three@piefed.social 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, and it's about to be 2 deep 4 him.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"How I spend my leisure time is superior to how you spend your leisure time."

As though trash books and thought-provoking television don't exist.

Edit: oh wait... I see the actual joke. Thought-provoking television indeed.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are saying one uses imagination and the other doesn't.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

My original point is that either can engage the imagination, but that point is overshadowed by the jar.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both kinda do though because at first i couldn't imagine what the boy is watching, but after i saw that video for myself not a day goes by without imagining it.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Well that's definitely a whole other level to the image. Kinda gross, kinda inspiring. I think I hate-love it now.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What is the TV's shadow? It seems like a pair of legs standing on a box and a small floating rectangle.

The book, meanwhile, looks like a convoluted mess. Crashing spaceship, T-Rex/Godzilla, and what might be Dracula's castle. If there's a coherent story in this, I have got to read it. Book title? :P

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I can't believe no one in the comments has told you yet. I want to tell you because I just learned about it last week! It's horrible! A man in Russia, only legs & feet in the camera frame, squatted over an empty glass jelly jar with the lid on it, tons of lubrication, and he kept going until the entire jar was fully inserted in his rectum.

Then you can hear an explosion sound. But it was an implosion sound. It was the sound of the jar being crushed & glass shattered inside of him. The man didn't make a sound. Complete stoic silence which lends more creepiness to the video.

Then we see tons of blood dripping out of him, down his legs, all over the floor. The man starts manually digging glass chunks out of his asshole. That's all I remember. I never actually watched the video myself but that's the description.

Follow up: he never went to the doctor for this injury because he says he didn't want to deal with the embarrassment. He had some scarring. He says he healed within a couple weeks. He says he has no regrets. He makes tons of fringe kink videos, this was apparently nothing unusual for him. But he waited until the event was far enough in the past before he posted the video online, over a year after it happened. It happened in August a few years ago. He posted it in December a year and a half later.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This wasn't "a few years ago". It was probably closer to 15 or 20 years ago. I remember watching it in college.

That being said, the description you gave is accurate. I've only seen it once, and that is exactly what is burned into my memory. Also the taste of Disaronno because that was the only bottle I'd snuck in, and I needed something to drink.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It was around the same time as 2 girls 1 cup IIRC

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is like actually worse than just watching it, you're a master storyteller.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Ah thank you, I wish I could direct you to the original source I got that from, THEY were epic master storyteller because what I gave was my own version from memory of what they wrote. I think it was an article on vice dot com or some similar publication.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you! That text description is more than enough for me. Expertly told.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

After reading this and the replies, I am legitimately not sure if this is a joke or not. I'm not going to go try to find out, but if this is a joke, this is an absolute master class. Bravo.

Very real yes and a very commonly mentioned piece of internet history

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

It's absolutely true. I am not clever enough to make up fiction.

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Dear god, who would make such a video and why would people want to watch that? And where would they be able to watch that, do you happen to have a link in case I find someone дебил enough for wanting to see it?

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

IIRC, didn't he sort of shift his weight and the corner of the jar hit the ground and that's what made it break?

I'm not going to find it and watch it again, but that's what I recall from never unseeing that more than a decade ago.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The TV's shadow has been edited to a still from an old shock-gore vid, "1 man 1 jar". I don't recommend looking it up.

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[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I’m 14 and this is so deep fr

E: I agree though that when a book clicks it paints a picture far more vivid than a screen ever could.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ddplf@szmer.info 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, a relic of the late stage of this meme format where hardly anyone remembered what the "POV" stands for.

Good thing it effectively died soon after

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Unless you have aphantasia, in which case books are either just text or very limited images.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tv can lead to imagination and books can leave no lasting impression.

However in recent years I've taken more to books because video programmes seem to be getting dumber.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dunno man. TV just seems like plays in the magic frame.

Also things you watch spark the imagination if it's a good piece of art

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

your talk about art sparking the imagination tells me you don't see two legs and a jar in the tv shadow.

...or maybe you do, who am i to judge.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I can do both.

As an artist, a good movie or videogame can get my mind racing with cool ideas to draw or model.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Missing another kid farther to the left watching Andrew Tate on his phone.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] JimFox@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

...and the jar breaks... oO

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ITT: People who need to take a closer look lol

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I'll admit I didn't know what the shadow from the TV was until I read the comments. I went back to change my downvote to an upvote

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Its actually so much funnier watching people compare the "blandness" of the TV to the book lmao.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that T. rex in the book is clearly about to do something terrible.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heh...yeah...that sound of the jar breaking will haunt me for the rest of my days.

[–] Batmancer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was having trouble identifying the shadow of the tv.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I never thought I'd be thanked for mentioning 1 man 1 jar...

Lol you're welcome.

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Both are having fun \o/

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

As someone with aphantasia I never got why people enjoyed reading

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone without aphantasia, I don't always quite get it either. Reading is often a last resort medium for me, but it does have it's place. Plain text primarily engages my narrative imagination (where is the story going) and only a little bit of visual imagination (since it's kind of hard to convey certain things like body language in text without being very boring), while for example a video might invoke narrative, visual, and auditory imagination. Video games are even better to me, as they engage narrative, visual, auditory, and decision making imagination. It's about stimulation to me, the more coherent the better, and books just don't seem to stimulate enough for my imagination to kick off to where it's enjoyable to read.

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