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I remember them banning trenchcoats at my school which sucked for my friend who's family was poor and the only coat he owned was a trench coat long winter for my dude

"Think if the children!" They put multiple filters on our school computers and we always found exploits. Just parent your kids.

The internet used to be soooooo mysterious back then

I find it interesting that all of these "think of the children" organisations always blame the content creators/publishers when their sites very clearly is aimed at adults. And if these parents are so concerned with what their child are doing online, why are they allowing them to browse that freely. They are the ones who are responsible for what they allow their children to do online. It's like having a house filled with loaded guns lying around everywhere and then blaming the gun manufacturers when your 3-year old shoots himself...

My mom (nurse) showed me this website when i was 12. i love you mom

I remember stumbling upon Rotten around 7 or 9 and one of the photos that haunted me the most was a man's head chopped off on a helicopter pad. It further enabled a fear I had in really fast moving ceiling fans for a long time.

I draw the line at kiddy porn, that should be illegal. Everything else is fair game, and even if I personally don't like it I will never try to supress you.

It's weird how it has become part of the late 90's / early 2000's internet experience to just, be young kids exposed to huge amounts of shock imagery.

So you're telling me that you can't grow a cat in a jar?

Every middle school sleepover had that one friend that would pull this site up. I never looked, I didn’t want to know.

Soup of man anyone? The elderly man left his bath heater on and cooked himself for weeks after death? Tried taking him out and his bone slipped out of is flesh.. over cooked and tender

“Strange diseases” *picture of ninja* you’re a legend 😂😂😭

I miss this internet. The "Wild West" period of the internet (everything up to roughly 2007, pre-widespread smartphone/Facebook usage AKA pre-normies) was so drastically different to the internet of today that it might as well be something else entirely. RIP.

I think this is the first Whang video i've seen where it's daylight in the background

It's library section was so ahead of its time when it came to conspiracies. I'll never forget the words of their librarian. "We're all in this together but we all die alone."

I can never get the image out my head of the old man who died in his bathtub and turned into soup or all the meat grinder pics🍖🥩

The Devil and I went back in time and sent you that email. Will provide video proof at a later date.

Ah yes, I remember this being the ultimate edge-lord site back in school days where if you could handle visiting this, you would be hailed a king within your group of odd outcasts. I miss school very much.

I remember Bonsai Kitten appearing in the news on my country (Chile) I was just a child back then and I was fucking terryfied, so for like a full week I didn't let our cat to go outside of the house.

"On April 20th..." *ears perk up* "1999" ah, right

I'll never forget that kids hand in a meat grinder

I had a stronger stomach back then when I could tolerate Rotten morbid contents, but man, I developed more of a empathetic nature as I grew older.

I remember the Rotten site, it was one of those things me and my friends used to nervously visit once in a rare while when we were tired of flashring/albinoBS/ebaums/newgrounds, etc. Most of the shit was just kind of interesting in a Ripley's kind of way (like a black and white photo of a dude casually showing his ass, which was blackish cos it was struck by lightning). But there was occasionally deeply (VERY DEEPLY) regrettable clicks like a pic of a drowned chick lying next to a gutter, she was pasty and bloated like a balloon with soft eyes that looked melted and jello-y. Some of the mental images of what I'd seen there never left me, even as an adult that's on the cusp of 30. But that was kind of the magic of the internet in those days, you never know what you'd find if you carelessly click around. It sometimes felt like you'd see more bizarre personal webpages (usually shittily constructed) than ads. Imagine that.

I remember getting mails with Bonsai Kitten pictures and thinking it was real when i was a kid, it disturbed me for years. Until this day even tho i know it's a joke it still gets to me. I can't stop thinking some weirdo thought it was cool and tried it for real somewhere in the world.

Rotten made me afraid of trains. Please kids, get off the tracks. You can’t win.

Loved this in depth look at Rotten. I've discussed it before but you did a waaaaaay better job here!

Huh, I always just dismissed the nature of that site as freaking sickos that got off with gore, not radical free speech advocates

Sometimes I wish I was alive in the 90’s just to experience things like early internet, Y2K... it all seemed so wild. Great video!! They give me a little inside of what I missed while in the womb!

Bill Clinton signing an anti indecency law OMEGALUL

uploading at 6 AM EST. Whang you're an absolute madman

I’ll never forget the guy boiled into soup... RIP soup guy. And the helicopter decapitation. ...what a time to be alive.

Hey Whang, ever considered doing a video on the history of the tumblr Socially Unacceptable Artwork? I remember first finding their blog a couple years back and finding it interesting just how many really disturbing artworks were in their NSFW section, like hardcore euro guro content involving vocaloid mascots, anime characters, OC's, and etc. They were taken down only to respawn several times before seeming to fade into obscurity.

“Who to sue” made me laugh out loud. Haha.

COPA... or you could try parenting instead.

Just a lame joke? Tell that to my cat, his name is Beaker.

Our teacher used rotten as a demonstration of workplace safety around 2013

Am I the only one who actively avoid such disturbing contents like real gore? I've been on the internet for years and can get used to anything but some things I don't want to get used to.

I see Rotten the same way I see 4chan. I don't like the sites, but I like what they stand for. I don't like the mentality of those who visit them, but I like the mentality of those who created them. In an ocean of "We must censor this, for the sanity of future generations" versus "We can't censor this, for the sanity of future generations", both sites just decided "Screw this noise, here's something to piss both sides off and we're gonna do whatever we can to keep this legal. And when it stops pissing people off, we'll make it even more extreme, just to prove a point."

I'll never forget the Asian girl in the bathtub shooting liquid doo-doo straight up into the air.

Burlington coat factory trolled? I lost it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I will always remember the photo of a guy with his arm up to his elbow chunked up in a meat grinder. Thanks Dan, it’s as vivid as the day you called me over to the computer to see it.

I'm a newcomer, holy shit, this channel is awesome. Expertly entertaining, and I'm still laughing when he cut to Ninja at "diseases." Nicely done!

tubgirl is probably pushing 50 now. Sobering.

Rotten is so tame nowadays when you see some other websites showing recorded videos of even worst content.

I remember rotten, I was mostly interested in weird diseases at the time, another kid told me about it. It's weird how I sound like an old person talking about the days of rationing now

As an angsty teen I loved rotten. The one I remember the most was the old guy who made a home made bath heater out of a kettle element and got stuck in the bath. The pictures were of this lumpy burnt human soup

The person or persons who wrote the Rotten Library had the cheekiest, most wicked, scathingly-sardonic, offensively poignant sense of humor I have ever encountered in all my travels.

As a person who defines themselves as a child, I hate the argument of “think of the children” the Internet is supposed to be a space where we can all share are views.

Man, I forgot about Rotten. That was a lifetime ago (senior year of high school when we had dial up and AOL).

I remember a photo of a motorcyclist whose head hit a tyre and his face was shredded into tenticles from the tyre with his helmet smashed to pieces. I ride a motorbike now. Go figure.

I feel bad for laughing at the Burlington Coat Factory thing, mostly due to the columbine shooting being involved, but oh my god, that was just perfectly done. I remember the bonsai kittens and I honestly thought they were real as a kid and was so angry.

I was today years old when I learned bonsai kittens is a hoax...

ninja is a strange disease

The second I knew women were the target audience for Investigation Discovery was when they announced ID themed wine bottles

I remember those days: up about thirty six hours past your bedtime, full of energy drinks and fear. Good times.

I loved how you used the: *"Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!?"* Pic/Screencap.

From a mom's perspective, I'm simultaneously dismayed and relieved that my kids will never experience the internet days of yore; furthermore, I have no clue why I am obsessed with reality murder tv shows but oh GOD I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THEM

I remember seeing the bonsai kitten when it happened, photoshop wasn't ubiquitous yet. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, they had me fooled for a good half hour.

"Making a law like that is a very slippery slope." Law Makers: _Honey, where's my skis?_

i love these videos of asian man rapidly teleporting left and right during speech

Awww yeah, rotten. First visit, 1996, at the age of 11. No doubt one of the many reasons for why I am a terrible person.

every whang video: intro backstory on how he found the video subject breif history of video subject lawsuit from big company countermeasures to lawsuit backlash of lawsuit victory for the internet

You keep saying “legislature” but you mean “legislation.” Legislature is the political body - like congress. Legislation is the stuff written to be a law.

I know it's a silly point to make, but Columbine was never the "deadliest" mass shooting of its time. 10 years prior, in Canada of all places, a larger body count was had at Ecole Polytechnique.

3:19 LOL! Mom always makes me watch Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter on Investigation Discovery. I'm glad to know this is some sort of Mom thing.

A friend told me about the site at work in the mid 2000s. I would check it out from time to time out of curiosity. And I have to say, after a few days of looking at a few of the pictures, i felt the ugly in my soul. I've stopped checking it out and never went back.

I don’t know if the site is still operating or what is on this now but back in the day there was a picture of a guy who crashed his motorcycle. His face spit wide open like predator. I think the caption was nothing comes between me and my Harley. Anyways.. this was a guy a friend of mine helped perform surgery on after the accident. She confirmed that this was an authentic picture. Hell she showed me the ones they took during surgery.

Sat here at early on a Sunday morning, couldn't sleep but it's still dark outside. Started binge watching your channel and it's brilliant! I've never heard of loads of the subject matter so I'm just absorbing it all. Really entertaining. thanks.

In b4 Justin Y again

I legit cracked up every single time the name "Burlington Coat Factory" was said. The best part of this is that Burlington Coat Factory has no idea how humorous Burlington Coat Factory sounds when you say Burlington Coat Factory that many times. Case in point, read my whole post out loud. It just gets funnier the more times Burlington Coat Factory is used in a sentence or paragraph to refer to Burlington Coat Factory in such a matter-of-fact way. Burlington Coat Factory takes Burlington Coat Factory so deadpan seriously, and Burlington Coat Factory is only making it worse by repeating Burlington Coat Factory. P.S: Burlington Coat Factory.

I totally forgot about bonsai kitten, oh man. It's so weird to think back to that era of the internet. I miss it, tbh.

I think I was such a normal but not normal child. I never searched to see dead bodies, went on omegle with friends to see weird things or other weird things. the worst things I saw were just fake "creepy" videos on youtube. I've always been a wimp though.

STRANGE DISEASES (shows picture of ninja)

I remember in high school some weirdo in my class, would print pictures from that site and show them to kids in the class. Noone liked him and he was soon expelled. To this day, no matter how hard I tried, I can still see those images.

We need rotten back again now more than ever.

The Train Oops section and the person that was laid out decomposed on a rock forever cemented my ability to minimize screen fast af. Lol.

Best gore finishing what rotten started

Rotten had a lot of great sister sites that unfortunately are no longer updated. Rotten Library, Rotten News, NNDB, GapingMaw, Penny Postcards & Dr Sputnik just to name a few are absolutely fantastic in their own right, but unfortunately hopeless outdated. It's a shame the owner(s) of Rotten didn't pass the torch on to others to continue keeping the site active. What's also notable is they never had ads or anyway to monetize Rotten, so how they went for so long without income is really astonishing in itself.

I remember discovering the site as a kid at a friend's house after school. I thought it was the most disgusting thing i've ever witnessed, but for some odd reason, i couldn't stop watching it, haha. After that, i spent like hours trying to find pictures of Kurt Cobain's body and other dead celebrities, and also of the victims at Columbine. Back then, my family didn't had that much money so i had to wear my brother's trench coat for a while, so i kinda experienced the whole "trench coat ban" at school at some point, but i never got suspended or anything, because i always left my coat at home, and thanks to that, i got sick, haha.

I remember the one photo that gave me nightmares wasn't even gore. It was a photo of a thick lady wrapped in string so her skin rolled out between the string like a ripple going through her body. This description sounds way cooler than it looked. And honestly the aol chatrooms had the worst things out of all the internet.

i want a fancy shaped adult cat

I can’t even remember the exact age I found Rotten. I was just a lover of urban legends and horror stories and I had run out of stuff to read. So I desperately looked through links until I found some site that leaked crime scene photos (no clue if they were real or not). I was shocked, but now I was able to see the injuries described in horror stories. I was morbidly curious. I started searching up the gory imagery described in the horror stories I read. Through that searching, Rotten came up in the search. I was a messed up kid who was just curious. That was all.

Internet culture came pretty late in my country so the first time I (sorta) heard about Rotten was around early 2000's, although basically it all started when I was surfing with a friend in an Internet cafe, and my friend suggested me to search up for that site but he couldn't recall its name. Eventually we settled with "Disgusting pictures" and all we got was a photo of someone's dad sleeping.

I remember this one "guy played chicken with a train.... he lost."

I remember finding this website back then. It had some hugely disturbing pictures on it, most memorable to me a picture titled "nothing comes between me and my Harley", showing a picture of a guy with his jaw ripped clean off and his tongue hanging down before his neck.

Yep, I remember being a teenager in 97 and waiting 5 mins for one image to loa on Rotten lol it would usually be something like a decapitated motorcyclist in South America. I can't remember how we discovered Rotten but I think we may have been looking for photos of the Essex Boys Rettendon gangland shootings.

the idea of a bottle shaped cat made me laugh out fucking loud lol

I forgot all about Bonzai Kittens. Classic!

I watched 6 Russian conscripts, tied, hands behind their back, laying in the dirt. Looked like it was dawn by the lighting. You could see everything but the embers from the previous night's campfire still glowed in the low light. The sneering Chechen walked up the line of the young conscripts, giggling as he grabbed the small, blunt looking knife. Could be have been more tan a 5 inch blade. The first boy, couldn't have been older than 19, could do nothing but grimace as the sneering Chechen grabbed him by the hair, lifting his head of the ground, exposing his throat. At first he didn't make a noise, he never cried out in pain. Just kept that grimace and his eyes shut tight. When that tiny blade got half way through his windpipe, then the noises started. Blood shot out through his clenched teeth and poured from his mouth, his nose and his neck. The noise of air mixing with blood. Gargling from the inside of his stomach. Involuntary defining sounds of agony - while his mouth remained shut tight. Seeing this wasn't the worst part. Seeing the 5 remaining young men bound in the same way, listening to this happen next to them and hearing the Chechen laugh. That was the hardest part to swallow. I could out myself in their shoes. None of them looked up from the ground. One by one they went down the line. Taking their time. The sun started to come up more and you could see the area glisten bright red. By the 5th conscript they got bored. The cut him loose and played with him a little. Stabbing him in the skull, the neck, the back. He still got up. They let him run a few meters before they dragged him back. He kneeled in all fours like a dog this time, while his head was all but sawn off. Alive and in agony the whole time. I saw this video on rotten when I was 8 and have never seen it again. It's my oldest, clearest childhood memory. I was a weird kid after that. As I grew older I suffered from anxiety and acrophobia. Not as a direct result of that video, but because of a series of events that video set off. Thanks Rotten

So... All the people who found Rotten through their mum - How did that happen? Was she like 'I found the _best_ site, I've gotta show my pre-teen child!' or was it more a she heard of it and told you not to go there, but you did anyway, coz, gawshhh I can _handle_ it, _MUM,_ I'm 11 now, jeeze! kinda deal? The idea of browsing Rotten with my mum is worse than anything actually on Rotten lmao

I’ll never forget the day my dad told me about this site. We used to watch crazy ass movies together and he had quite a past so he was really excited to be able to see the real thing again

dude am I crazy or do I keep hearing pokemon game sound bits

Waking up at 6 am has never been better...

Ok, the use of earthbound music swayed me, u get a thumbs up

*BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY*

When I was a kid looking at this site, I kept looking around the room to see if my mom or little brother was in the vicinity. I kept thinking, I am looking at this, I hope this is legal.

I first heard of Rotten because the company I’ve worked for since 1999 was one of the ones that threatened legal action against them. They were even mentioned in this video. However, the image that had them threatening Rotten actually became a favorite among my coworkers. We even had a printed copy framed in our office.

I found out about it in HS. Our art teacher gave no fucks at all. We'd just browse it on the one computer in the classroom. Some kids would turn away, some would pretend it was funny with fake-laughs (No idea why, but it was very obvious). Very few were pleasuring themselves, so that was a good sign at least.. I remember very little about it, but some things do stick out: Dude who had his face nose-down turned into a bloody squid from a motorcycle accident. Some guy dead on a train track with a floppy face. Then you have the infamous Tubgirl. I was never that fascinated by gore. It was interesting when I was a youngling for about a second. Now, I'm neither shocked or interested. I do believe, however, that at a certain age, at least seeing some of that stuff is...kinda good for you? For instance, Budd Dwyer, while horrific, has deep layers of social, and psychological questioning attached to it (Filter even did a song about it). I've seen a lot of violence and some death growing up, and I think knowing that life is not like a movie can help kids during potentially traumatic events when they arise. I mean, it's still gonna fuck you up on some level if you have decency in your bones, but going through life with nothing but daises in your brain can unbuckle you if something traumatic ever happens. I also believe some who experience the worst of the internet could get fucked in a very bad way. There's no turning back, and some weak stomachs regret it. It's a messy topic for sure.

I loved rotten and the dailyrotten news. I submitted stories to their "Daily Rotten News" and was always excited when one of my submissions made it to their list of "rotten news." I forget how I found it. I knew about it in HS when it first came out and I showed it to my college buddies. It was fascinating.