We've been online for 16 months, one of which we were down for because Namecheap fucked us out of our original domain, WatchPeopleDie.co and we had to try to get the word out about the new domain to many thousands of people with no way of contacting them. So really, only 15 months.

And we've now hit a million registered users, all of whom will be receiving this snazzy profile badge to immortalize this historic achievement of theirs momentarily.

It was only last December that we hit 100k. Late last December. In 9 months, we have grown 900% to a million of you creeps. That's both worrisome and really cool. A million users was apparently such a big deal for Facebook that their fancy headquarters had a giant party and it was dramatized in The Social Network -

We don't have offices and we currently have no funding because we got banned from Ko-Fi, and it's mostly just some autistic retards putting this together and maintaining it in their spare time. I actually just AFK'd a Slack huddle at my real job to throw this post together. It's a far cry from some big corporate office party, and what I'm saying is you guys should all pitch in and buy us a yacht to party on so we can show Zuckerberg up.

Thanks for using WPD. You are deeply unhealthy, but you are beloved. By me. Now let's see how fast we can get to two million.

I love you.
💋 xoxo clitpeeler

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Yes, we know what the cat blender video is. No, we don't want it here. We've had to ban like 5 people (including a semi-regular) just today for posting it.

Stop fucking posting animal abuse you retards. Stop asking for it as well. I am seething, and I cannot cope. Stop being retards thanks bye

PER 18 USC § 48, ANIMAL ABUSE CONTENT IS fucking FEDERALLY ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO:

• POSSESS
• DISTRIBUTE
• SOLICIT
• PRODUCE

IT IS fucking ALSO ILLEGAL FOR US TO PLATFORM.

Instead of uploading videos of animals dying, how about you save everyone some trouble, make your parents proud for the fucking first time and create some OC for /h/suicide, bitch?

FUCK OFF

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LINK TO THE MAP HERE: https://u.osmfr.org/m/1027433/

Anyways, me, @sog, @Slavo, and @water have been working on a map. A map, of DEATH!

Here's the gist: each flair gets its own symbol and color. The pin indicates where the video took place. The square pins are the general location (usually the street/neighborhood), the upside-down droplets are exact.

To search for a specific video without panning through the map, all you need to know is either the country or date in which it happened (date is more specific, so go with that if you can). On the left-hand side is an icon that looks like three square tiles, click it and then hit "Browse data" to enter search. Just type in the country name or the month + year when it happened, and you'll be able to quickly find your video. To get the coordinates, zoom in as much as you can and center your screen on the video you want. They'll be in the URL.

Hitting the three square tile icon also allows you to filter by category. Just hit the eye next to whichever categories you don't want to see to filter them out.

For each video, we've selected the highest-quality post out there to represent it. This means no retarded, unnecessary watermarks or blurry footage! We also added thumbnails, but I think if a lot of you access the site at once, it overloads the system and they won't display. So they might be broken for the next day or two. Sorry about that!

Some notable spots with a very high density of videos include Ecuador, Poland, Trinidad & Tobago, NYC, and Chicago. And not only did I post a dashcam for every Russian territory, we geolocated them all as well.

NOTE: There's no "child warning" in any titles. If they're underage, we usually state the age in the title, but not always. Also no "+ aftermath", "multiple POVs", etc.

FAQ:

Q: Can you add [video] to the map?

A: If you've already geolocated it, yes! Otherwise, only if one of us feels like it.

Q: Can I help out?

A: If you're at least semi-active on this site and you're actually interested in this, yes! We obviously vet who gets let in but that's the basic requirements.

Q: Why do this?

A: We have severe autism. Not even memeing here, just the truth. It also allows us to collect the highest-quality versions of videos in one easily-accessible place, but mostly autism.

To close out, here's where a few famous videos took place!

Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation: Google Street View

The Buffalo shooting: Google Street View

Itzdolly's suicide: Google Street View (yes, that's the exact tree)

Bollard ass-impaling: Google Street View

Mississippi store clerk complies with robber, gets shot in the head anyways: Google Street View

Hellish accident at steel mill kills one and leaves several others severely burned by molten steel: Google Maps (technically not that famous but holy shit it goes so hard)

Voice your praise (and constructive criticisms) below. Our map is pretty (albeit not totally) customizable, so if you don't like something about the map, please do let us know below.

^{geeeeettttttt doxxed lmao #DoxTheDead}

Hi WPD. Between that Perry, Iowa shooter having had an account here earlier this month, the countless instances of doxxing between people in chat, the endless spam from infuriated banned users, Polish psychos threatening to cut one another up, the growing deluge of threats from unhinged lunatics, and the content itself here, I've had more than my fill of the whole gore thing.

I hate tedious “I'm leaving [online community] forever” posts, but given that I've been doing communications for this place for like a year and some change, I think one is necessary to allow the site not to tank as people think it's all lost.

It's not. At all.

I didn't found the website, I was simply asked to just assume that role publicly because the actual founder is an intensely private person and isn't very good at communicating by his own admission. You are not losing a developer or anything; WPD will not be impacted by my absence in any way aside from the pinned moderator posts becoming probably much more boring.

Fun fact: I was originally brought on using a different username just to help the then-mod team by restructuring the rules to be less insane and to serve as a lightning rod for user ire. I did this by posting cute animals with scary titles. You all hated them!

In summary: I am leaving effective immediately this will not impact WPD in any way, the actual developer isn't going anywhere. A few new admins have been added and I think most of you like them a lot already. Nothing will change with day-to-day WPD as I was not actually responsible for any of that. The site you all inexplicably love will not be affected in any way by this.

I'll probably pop back in from time to time to post cute animals though.

Have a beautiful day

Bye WPD.

More servers

Thanks to all our sexually desirable patrons, we've been able to add more servers. You might have noticed that the site is a lot faster compared to a few days ago (especially if you live in the US). We are now also load balancing traffic between the US and the EU. In non-nerd terms: Speed go brrr. You can now get your daily gore fix faster than before!

Kind request

This also means that our monthly expenses have increased significantly. As we don't run ads on this website, we are 100% dependant on donations. If you have some change to spare, please consider donating to the site. This can be done with either one-off payments, or via a monthly subscription. We have made small adjustments in our donation model. The rewards are now as follows:

In addition to this, people that donate $20 or more, will temporarily get 50% more marseybux. This promo will run until the 1st of March.

You can find our donation page here!

Keyword notifications

People that donate $50 or more now have access to keyword notifications. You will get notified if specific words or phrases are mentioned. You can enable this in your advanced settings.

Thank you all for helping the site grow! Have a nice weekend!

Pictured: you, browsing by New in WPD without having to constantly scroll past 800 videos of rockets hitting nondescript sand tower #19201.

See here for original announcement: https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/meta/post/102792/are-you-sick-of-shitholistanis-flooding

WPD PRESENTS…

ACTIVE CONFLICTS

We'll be moving all existing videos pertaining to both conflicts to their respective categories. Please ensure that all future footage and discussion goes there as well.

We're trying this as a sort of “citizen journalist” initiative. This allows for the boring stupid videos of rockets hitting whatever dumb shit, forgettable drone grenades in slav trenches, vitriolic sectarian e-fighting from locals, the whole nine yards.

The intent here is to catalog the full scope of the conflicts. Whether that's grainy cell phone footage, bodies on your street, local propaganda, rage at your neighbors, whatever. WPD will serve as a raw, unfiltered repository for all of this, a sort of time capsule for future reference, possible war crimes prosecution, and always a grim reminder of the total spectrum of the cost of war. If more significant conflicts break out, we'll add categories for them as well. When these resolve eventually, they'll go into a Past Conflicts section.

We'll be fleshing these out after the holidays, soliciting banner art, finalizing ground rules for them, the works.

Three other changes!

• In these categories, downvotes function the same as upvotes. This is because you people just blindly downvote footage, regardless of how good or cool it is, if your pet side loses in it and that's super gay. All votes increase ranking in /h/slavshit and /h/sandshit.

• Only one post from each of these categories will appear on a page at a time. This will massively curtail the low quality posts that most people don't care about, but is of prurient interest to those personally impacted by or invested in these conflicts. You can just navigate directly to the respective page to view the posts in full, of course.

• Don't care about third worlders fighting at all? It's now easier than ever to block an entire category. Just click the three dots (“…”) below any post and then click this:

I think that about covers it. I'm getting back to holiday stuff now, thanks for bearing with us through all this. Please report posts outside of these two categories to help us find and relocate them all.

Merry Christmas!

I really don't think they're much of a problem besides the sheer quantity of these retards inundating the site, but I keep getting complaints about garbage posts from them and I'm too lazy to check so I'll just take it at face value and assume this is what's happening.

Here are some options off the top of my head. Suggest others below. Note that "disable registrations", "make the site private", and any posting restrictions for new accounts are completely out of the question.

And that's all I got. Our options are really limited here as far as I can tell. Let's hear your ideas.

Hi! Do you see how my name is all gay and flashy and changes colors? That's the Pride upgrade in the Shop and it's a whopping 200k traumacoins or mbux. It's meant to be a long-term goal because if they were everywhere it would probably cause performance issues since it's a pretty resource-intensive CSS effect. Something you have to work towards.

Work is annoying and hard though, and shortcuts are the smartest way to get through life. If you'd like a chance at just straight up one for free, simply click here:

After Thanksgiving I'll let RNG pick someone at random. Must have over 1,000 truescore.

And that's it really. I went bear hunting today and obviously didn't see a single bear and the entire day was wasted and I'm very unhappy. While you're here, tell me about your day WPD.

My inbox and Discord DMs are a deluge of bug reports of videos not loading over the last 10 days or so. We have nearly half a million users and serve tens of millions of requests per month, and the traffic was again becoming overwhelming.

And so we have finished setting up a new server and migrating everything All issues should be resolved now. Please report any further wonkiness or latency issues here.

And, as always, a reminder that WPD runs on a mix of donations (with loads of perks!) and out of pocket expenses. If you'd like to help fund WPD's continued growth and dominance of the gore scene, or if you just want cool digital shit, please do consider donating:

https://watchpeopledie.tv/donate

I'm still out of town until Sundayish. Sorry for the lack of comms about this, it's been very time-consuming. Everything should be GREAT now.

Precedent: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/4chan-user-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-florida-sheriff-in-minecraft-2089548/

However, we are not unreasonable. If you are going to (in minecraft) post, simply provide a video of you carrying out the post in Minecraft to show that you really were just talking about a video game all along and you'll receive a full apology. Otherwise, please refrain from using the website to commit federal crimes.

Thank you.

Update

This was all a big misunderstanding. @blankexe was just talking about a video game and has been unbanned.

I'll distribute this badge tomorrow to all existing accounts, but for now, a bit of verbal masturbation as I speak on this historic (lol) moment.

We've been here since 26 April 2022 - that is eight months. We have been online for less than a year.

From October until November 8th, the original domain - watchpeopledie.co - was stolen by Namecheap and we moved to watchpeopledie.tv with no means of communicating this move to our users, as our old address was stolen. Obviously we got .co back eventually, but it was a month later. To get the original people back, they'd have to randomly check the URL of a site that had appeared to be offline for over a month.

And many of them did eventually.

We have effectively been online for 6.5 months.

And yet we just hit our 100,000th registration.

That is a fucking LOT.

For comparison, our other main site - rDrama.net - has been around since May 2021: 19 months. We only have 15,000 users there despite extensive media coverage of problems we've caused for journalists and political embarrassments. For the past two months, WPD has gained more members each month than rDrama has total members.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's that awful Mastodon Social platform that's meant to be some Twitter killer since big mean Elon owns Twitter now. It is over SIX YEARS old. It has received tens millions of dollars in funding and hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising from news media raging about Elon and touting it as some big nu-Twitter.

Do you know how many users they have after six years and tens of millions of dollars in direct expenses with professional webdevs and corporate backing and everything?

2,500,000

We've existed for 8% as long and have 4% of the users with 0 advertising besides word of mouth. This place was put together by a couple of bored autists and it's maintained by the same and a very small collection of users who keep it clean of fedposts and such.

A mid-sized Mastodon instance, which they consider to be a few thousand users, costs its host several thousand dollars per month. And all it is doing is using preset infrastructure to serve up text and basic multimedia.

We run on a fraction of that and we are video hosting platform. We are also incredibly feature rich, with our own ridiculous digital currency (your coins), an item shop, a goofy hat shop, a casino, a plethora of very diverse and fun graphical themes (currently locked as I force Christmas on everyone), robust profile customization, live chat, thousands of user-created emojis and pieces of art, a dynamic layout, and all sorts of dumb but fun purely optional shit. We've been deplatformed from every level of service provider out there, multiple times. We've been locked out of payment processors. We've even been reported to the center for missing children or what the fuck ever by someone with entirely too much free time.

WPD isn't anything that's going to change the world. But it's a testament to what can be done if independent developers have enough alcohol and the balls to stand up to the tech industry. It's a site for watching shock videos and shitposting and it's got a gay orange cat mascot, but this is incredibly significant what you've all done here by just using that place.

Whether you've financially supported the site through a subscription or crypto, or told your friends about it, or just made a few comments, or even just made an account because I forced you to, I really do mean it when I say thank you for doing that. No bullshit about how we're all some big retarded family or whatever, or how I know you personally, or how you're here for any morally lofty reason or anything like that, but I am being entirely sincere when I say that I am tremendously grateful to each and every single one of you on both a personal and a collective level.

Thanks for using WPD and thank you for putting up with our downtime for the first several months as we sorted out service providers! We have a lot of exciting plans for 2023 for both the people who enjoy posting and using the optional features, and for the overwhelming majority of you who are just here to watch videos. Everything is going to continue to get better and better and I love every last one of you. Romantically. I want to marry you. Slide into my dms.

• clitpeeler 💋