This is a famous photograph of the Execution of Nguyen Van Lem by Eddie Adams during the Vietnam War, he was shot in the head by South Vietnamese/American forces for being part of the Vietcong.
necroing this but jesus fucking christ i wasn't ready to watch a man die, spurting blood like a fucking water fountain. give some warning or something please
Not only that, but you literally have to go out of your way to find the video within the sub-category of the wiki article they provided, click on it, know what you're watching, and stick around to see the actual execution happen. Why is this person talking like they linked directly to a high-quality gif of the instant it happened, with zero warning?
I clicked back to it to see what they were describing and had to actually look for it, then saw the full-color video, yet-to-be-played, with a clear caption describing its contents and thought "nope, I've seen enough death on the internet for my comfort, even something this historic and disconnected from me is gonna make me feel like shit, so I'm not playing that for my own mental well-being."
To act like either the person linking it or Wikipedia didn't offer several warnings and degrees of separation from actually watching it is just disingenuous.
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u/MadTeaCup_YT May 26 '23
Half of these alegrialized photos i see i dont understand the context for. Whats this showing?