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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
Watchpeopledie needs to stop being attacked. It's no different than looking at a documentary of real life. Here's the thing, there's really no jokes on that sub about the material. Its something that will happen to every living creature that will ever exist. Why should we not be able to look at it?
Almost everyone who is there regularly agrees that all the sub really does is make us appreciate our lives and loved ones a little more, and act more carefully when crossing the street. Stick to trying to get coontown gone, or one of the other bazillion hateful subs. Not real life documentary style subs.
Comment by cuntarsetits at 16/07/2015 at 21:40 UTC
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/r/watchpeopledie is probably the most life-affirming and personally positively affecting sub that I visit on a regular basis. Far more so than /r/GetMotivated or /r/UpliftingNews or any other 'positive' sub that I've ever visited it has given me an increased appreciation for life and its preciousness and fragility. At the same time, it has also somewhat paradoxically vastly decreased my fear and dread of death as I have increasingly understood it to be as natural and normal an aspect of life as any other process. Seeing the mundanity of real death on a regular basis has demystified it and stripped it of the overblown hyperbole and freak status given to it by Hollywood and hysterical news reporting. In my view, the taboo around seeing and showing death is what has given it an unnaturally enhanced status and power in the way we perceive it today, more so than at any other time in human history. The unknown is always far more fear-inducing and harmful to the psyche than the known, in my estimation.
Comment by justcool393 at 16/07/2015 at 20:41 UTC
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I like WPD for that (I don't visit there but I respect it), but I was more talking about the other ones.
Comment by funnygreensquares at 16/07/2015 at 21:47 UTC
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I really like r/lastimages for just that reason. I'm too wimpy for the full thing though. But there's a kind of peaceful beauty in the last known photo of someone.
Comment by WyMANderly at 16/07/2015 at 20:53 UTC
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Very interesting perspective, I'd never thought of it that way. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 20:49 UTC
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People are up for censoring any sub they can whilst getting enraged about things like SOPA. These people just show how much they are uninformed on their own opinons.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 21:33 UTC
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Agreed, it's mostly road cams, security cam recordings, and combat footage. Mostly from Brazil. Prime time television is often more twisted.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 23:18 UTC
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I accidentally stumbled on to coontown last night and didn't know what I was reading. I couldn't tell if it was parody or not. I'm guessing not.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 21:46 UTC
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THANK you, sick of us being painted as monsters. Don't like it, don't come in to the sub.
And with these new guidelines that's even easier to accomplish.
Comment by N8CCRG at 16/07/2015 at 21:41 UTC
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I don't know anything about it, but perhaps because it's something personal and tragic to the families of the people involved, and it's being shared among hundreds/thousands/whatever of strangers casually munching on popcorn and clicking and up/downvoting.
Comment by Nacksche at 16/07/2015 at 23:04 UTC*
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Here's the thing, there's really no jokes on that sub about the material.
Good for them, I can't say the same about all other documentary style subs, see /r/cutefemalecorpses ...or don't, it's pretty much what you'd expect from 20yo assholes behind a keyboard. Pretty sad that the moderators there tolerate some of the douchebaggery. Learn some respect, there's people dying and family suffering.
Comment by QQXV at 17/07/2015 at 02:28 UTC
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Has anyone suggested… a name change? The name sounds like it's trying to be funny/disgusting, like that's the intended emotional response. Even just "PeopleDying" wouldn't have the same effect, I think.
Comment by tejmar at 16/07/2015 at 22:03 UTC
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Thank you! I couldn't have said it better....