If you wanted to see footage of America firing Hellfire missiles at fighters in Afghanistan, you looked to LiveLeak.Īs the world got more complicated and more people surged online, Hewitt and others tried to better moderate LiveLeak. If a friend wanted to show you footage of a drug cartel beheading via chainsaw, they were showing you on LiveLeak. If you wanted to see footage of the Saddam Hussein execution you went to LiveLeak. LiveLeak contained much of the same footage but framed it in a more respectable way and the creators framed it as a place for citizen journalists to post uncensored videos of world events. Along with and others, Ogrish was a place people went to when they wanted to see the worst the web had to offer. LiveLeak began in 2006 as an offshoot of the early internet shock site Ogrish. I'm sat here now writing this with a mixture of sorrow because LL has been not just a website or business but a way of life for me and many of the guys but also genuine excitement at what's next.” “The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people.
“Nothing lasts forever though and-as we did all those years ago-we felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting,” LiveLeak co-founder Hayden Hewitt said in a blog post explaining the change.
