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LiveLeak was a British video sharing website, headquartered in London. The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site which closed on the same day. [2]
May 20, 2021 · Over the course of nearly 15 years, the video-hosting site LiveLeak — which abruptly shut down two weeks ago — became known for a lot of things, none of them seemly. The site first rose to...
- Childhood
- Transgressive Teen Or Ambitious Adolescent?
- Gore, Citizen Journalism and Hacktivism
- But Why Didn’T Liveleak Manage to Hold More Political?
- Middle Child Syndrome
- Itemfix, The Disciplined Adult
- Different Times, Different Manners
During LiveLeak’s infancy as Ogrish, the website was related to the Shock blog or gore porn discourse (you might remember rotten.com or Goatse). The website hosted videos of atrocities such as executions, suicides, beheadings, rape, general mutilation. It can also be labeled as dark tourism by providing fetishized sight. Gore porn is used metaphori...
While LiveLeak was the result of the domestication and moralization of gore porn, its fetishizing sight still remained under the hood. This led to a dichotomy in how the same content is perceived.CCTV footage leaked information or just straightforward captures of unethical activity: LiveLeak offered a platform for all types of content in name of re...
Of course, the liberating element here is that news becomes democratized. Legacy news media’s censorship of gore content and even events that weren’t deemed newsworthy found a new platform to circulate through. Citizen journalism attempts to report the reality after the news media’s camera lens stopped rolling. They were the dirty or the explicit v...
The activism of WikiLeaks (and the transparency movement it ushered in) is not quite prevalent in the demographic of LiveLeak. Both have made legacy news as sources for information, albeit in a disproportionate matter. But while the content might be crossposted from the former to the latter to widen the scope, LiveLeak tends to lean on the fact tha...
Two groups congregating on a platform to both consume and circulate information positioned LiveLeak as a middle child in some ways. On the one hand, it was the transgressive and edgy older brother to YouTube. He guided you to more obscure content your parents didn’t want you to see. That same rebellious attitude is juxtaposed by his politically con...
The growth spurt of LiveLeak spanned 15 years, eventually reaching the ceiling in early May 2021. Not because of dizzying heights in its success, but because the waves of fake news, misinformation, (rightwing) extremism, polarisation and online conspiracism made the sea levels of the digital climate rise. It requires an increase in content moderati...
Earlier, I wrote about the emerging phenomenon of digital hygiene, a socio-technical aim to reform to control individual’s internet usage. In addition to appealing to cybersecurity, immoral content consumption is also immoralized and discouraged. The termination of LiveLeak–and the transition into ItemFix–signifies the pervasiveness of digital hygi...
May 7, 2021 · LiveLeak, a website best known for hosting violence and gory footage that mainstream sites wouldn’t touch, has shut down after fifteen years in operation.
Jun 18, 2014 · Liveleak initially rose to prominence as a hub for footage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. American and British news agencies were not providing much video coverage of the...
- Internetweek
May 6, 2021 · Infamous video sharing website LiveLeak has shut down after 15 years. The shock site was notorious for hosting violent and gory clips banned elsewhere.
May 6, 2021 · Online video sharing site LiveLeak has shut down after 15 years, according to its co-founder Hayden Hewitt. The site was infamous for hosting explicit and violent content, including executions....
