End of an era: LiveLeak self-destructs after 15 years of providing unmitigated gore & all things NSFW
The famously gruesome site, which has hosted the most offensive content online – and refused to budge in response to complaints about it – has finally given up the ghost. A tamer incarnation called ItemFix is replacing it.
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The famously gruesome site, which has hosted the most offensive content online – and refused to budge in response to complaints about it – has finally given up the ghost. A tamer incarnation called ItemFix is replacing it.
Hayden Hewitt, co-founder of LiveLeak and now ItemFix, did not directly confirm in any of his statements that the site was being dropped because of censorship, or that it was bowing and scraping before the deadly monolith of deplatforming, or any of the other grim fates that befall sites like it. Such bullying has plagued most alternative media outlets in the past several years.
However, in one response on Twitter Hewitt
mentioned that
“the very pressures of doing what were a large part of the reason for moving on. It wasn't exactly a Wordpress blog on $2.99 hosting.”
In a video posted on YouTube channel Trigger Warning, he also described the new normal in no uncertain terms:
“I don’t f**king like it. I liked it much better when it was the Wild West.”