Rotten.com
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Type of site
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Shock site/News |
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| Available in | English |
| Website | www.rotten.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1997 |
| Current status | Active |
Rotten.com is a shock site with the slogan "An archive of disturbing illustration". It is devoted to morbid curiosities, primarily pictures of violent acts, deformities, autopsy or forensic photographs, depictions of perverse sex acts, and historical curios that are disturbing or misanthropic in nature. The site was founded in 1997, and its format has changed little since then. As of 2009, updates to it are very sporadic and small. The landing page does not appear to have been updated since February 2012.
Rotten.com has been threatened with many lawsuits over the years, mostly in the form of cease and desist citations. These range from serious matters (such as requests to remove pictures of dead relatives from the site) to Burlington Coat Factory asking to take down trenchcoat.org, which was bought as a Trenchcoat Mafia reference, but simply linked to Burlington Coat Factory's webpage. On June 24, 2005, the US federal government ordered that the "Fuck of the Month" section of the site be removed (along with content from several ancillary sites). In posting the page's removal notice, the site's moderator criticized supporters of both Alberto Gonzales and the Bush Administration for the enablement of censorship.
The Rotten Library contains hundreds of articles presumably by the owner of the rotten.com site at http://rotten.com/library/ with sarcastic and entertaining views under the headings of Culture, Art, Medicine, Crime, Travel, The Occult, Sideshow, Language, Cryptozoology, Sex, Imagery, Conspiracy, Religion, Death, Hoaxes, History, Biographies. In the words of the author "... an unforgettable collection of all that mankind swore to forget, but which we have trapped in agonizing clarity to remember always"
In late 1999, The Daily Rotten was started by Thomas E. Dell. This site, updated daily, contains links to news articles that cover the more bizarre, macabre and unpleasant side of life. Stories of terrorism, murders, suicides, cruelty, excrement and abuse are the staple fare of this site. Daily Rotten, also known as Rotten News, is driven by user submissions which are edited by a self-described Rotten Staff Duder. This also features comments for each one of the articles, posted by the registered members; they usually bring similar histories or gruesome images. They refer to themselves as rotteneers, a satirical reference to Walt Disney's Mouseketeers, and/or "rottentots."
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