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In December 2008, veteran journalist Caitlin Moran was surfing the web when she came across

a link on a chatboard. The link was accompanied with the message. See if you can keep your

breakfast down after watching this. I couldn't. Overdramatic titles and comments compelling

uses to click links are a common sight in the internet age. There's even a term for

them. Clipbait. Caitlin Moran took the bait. In Caitlin's words, the link took us to

some footage shot on a mobile phone in some bland, murky woodland. It appears to be early

summer. 15 feet away, there's a man on the ground. It's immediately clear that a great

many terrible things have happened to him quite recently and that he would die very, very

soon. She watched one minute and 47 seconds of the eight minute video before turning it

off. She couldn't stomach anymore. However, that short amount of time was etched into

her memory, a horror that would never leave her.

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