{"id":2018030,"date":"2025-09-13T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2018030"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:48:14","slug":"real-life-death-videos-getting-harder-to-ignore-impossible-to-unsee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/real-life-death-videos-getting-harder-to-ignore-impossible-to-unsee\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Death Videos Getting Harder to Ignore, Impossible to Unsee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the 1999 thriller 8mm, Nicolas Cage<\/a> plays a private detective who watches a graphic film of a girl\u2019s murder. His character becomes obsessed with solving the crime. He watches the footage repeatedly, leaving him psychologically wrecked and prone to violence himself. As one character puts it: \u201cThere are some things you can\u2019t unsee \u2026 the devil don\u2019t change, the devil changes you.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, millions of people \u2014 many unwittingly \u2014 saw the devil: a horrific video of 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> getting shot by an assassin\u2019s bullet, his neck gushing with blood, while hosting a student event at Utah Valley University. The video instantly went viral across social media platforms, autoplaying for hours on X, in particular, to countless users casually scrolling their feeds until moderators eventually clamped down on its spread.<\/p>\n

The footage came on the heels of another gruesome viral moment: The death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the 1999 thriller 8mm, Nicolas Cage plays a private detective who watches a graphic film of a girl\u2019s murder. His character becomes obsessed with solving the crime. He watches the footage repeatedly, leaving him psychologically wrecked and prone to violence himself. As one character puts it: \u201cThere are some things you can\u2019t unsee \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2018030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Real-Life-Death-Videos-Getting-Harder-to-Ignore-Impossible-to-Unsee.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}