Back روتن دوت كوم Arabic Rotten.com Danish Rotten.com German Rotten.com French Rotten.com Italian Rotten.com Japanese Rotten.com Polish Rotten.com Portuguese Rotten.com Swedish Rotten.com Turkish
 Screenshot from March 18, 2010 | |
Type of site | Shock site |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Commercial | No[dubious – discuss] |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Defunct |
Rotten.com was an American video and photographic sharing shock and gore site, promoting morbid curiosity and death, active from 1996 to 2012, known for hosting gruesome and bloody images and videos of blood and gore, and death and decomposition, specialising in graphic, gross deaths and violence, including graphic violence. The website, which had the tagline "An archive of disturbing illustration", was devoted to morbid curiosities, which included photos and videos of violent acts, deformities, autopsy photos and videos, police case forensic videos and of suicides, dead and decomposing cadavers, mysterious deaths, and random and other deaths, etc, and police crime scene forensic images and videos, (of unlawful killings and homicides, including murder, taken as part of criminal investigations), depictions of perverse sex acts, disturbing or misanthropic historical curiosities, and various recorded media of real events such as shootings, beheadings, suicides, stabbings, mutilations, torture, murders, terrorist attacks (including suicide bombings, terrorist beheadings, and executions), knife attacks, capital punishments (including by beheading and shooting, and executions by shooting and beheading), surgeries, amputations, gang violence (including mafia and cartel-related violence), self-harm, war photos and videos (including crimes during wartime), assassinations, accidents, injuries, CCTV, videos of self-defence, dashcam, assaults (including assaults with deadly weapons), injuries, cadavers, forensic pathology, (including photos and videos), and revenge attacks and killings (including suicides, stabbings, murders, and shootings caught on cell phones, dashcams, and CCTV). Rotten.com also hosted some video footage of these events, but these were not extremely graphic, as it was not allowed on the site; it was more of a morbid curiosity website with bloody, gory, and shocking images to shock viewers about how brutal the world is, rather than outright horrendous shock. Much of the material depicted was uncensored, graphic, unblurred, uncut, gory, bloody videos and images (the videos were still quite graphic, though not the most, depending on the video, however, the images were more graphic than the videos mostly).[1][excessive detail?] Founded in 1996, it was run by a developer known as Soylent Communications.[2] Site updates slowed in 2009, with the final update in February 2012.[3] The website's front page was last archived in February 2018.[4]
- ^ Pfeffer, Miki (2014-11-18), "What the Ladies Were Saying", Southern Ladies and Suffragists, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 978-1-62846-134-3, retrieved 2025-02-10
- ^ "The Internet's public enema No. 1". salon.com. 6 March 2001. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Audra Schroeder. "The legacy of Rotten.com". kernelmag.dailydot.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "rotten.com". 2018-02-10. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-12.