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Type of site | Shock site |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Defunct |
Rotten.com was a shock site active from 1996 to 2012. The website, which had the tagline "An archive of disturbing illustration", was devoted to morbid curiosities, pictures of violent acts, deformities, autopsy or forensic photographs, depictions of perverse sex acts, disturbing or misanthropic historical curiosities and hosted explicit, real-life, photographs and videos of real events such as suicides, murders, torture, open surgeries, mutilations and accidents. Founded in 1996, it was run by a developer known as Soylent Communications.[1] Site updates slowed in 2009, with the final update in February 2012.[2] The website's front page was last archived in February 2018.[3]
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- ^ 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.