Discussion How did you know of SS and what was your first impression?

[idfwlnh]

I was just wondering so I made this thread.

I came across SS on Youtube, a channel called "Tantacrul" posted a video named "Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen". The video changed the names involved, but after searching it for a while, I finally find it here. Actually years ago I tried to find sth similar but couldn't so I gave up, so I'm happy to finally break in here.

The video, of course, like any other videos abt SS, saying that we encourage people to do this do that but I just know that's not the case. Imo giving "encouragement" like good luck or so isn't encouraging people to you-know-what. It's not like talking over and "I can fix her/him" would work anyway, so I don't like how people talk about the community here. But the community itself, It's great! I literally spend 8 hours per day recently just being on this site reading stuff.

 

[tiokapaws]

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[K14~♡]

I think I first found out about this site years ago from a yt video, like maybe around my early to mid-teens? I'm not sure if it was really about SaSu (memory is vague) but the contents of the video are similar to what you described; a pro-suicide cult website who encourages people to die. I think it also framed the members as perverts or something (or maybe I'm mixing that up with another video I watched about an SH discord server). Anyhow, at that time I had no interest in checking the site out and I forgot about it. But the idea of a site that won't judge you for being suicidal and shares information about methods stuck with me. I wished for something like that for a long time but I didn't actively search for it. I somehow also thought that all spaces like that were taken down

Anyway, fully discovered this site this year when I was finally actively searching for methods. I started on reddit, found out about Duckduckgo and the site Lost All Hope through there, then an ex friend of mine said that hanging can kill you pretty quick, got curious and searched more about that on Duckduckgo, then this site appeared in the results

I felt happy when I first browsed in this site. Like oh hey turns out the space I've been wishing for exists after all. I also felt touched seeing how supportive the members are and how people are helping each other out. Felt like I finally found where I belonged

 

[maki]

googled suicide forums and the wikipedia page came up so i thought id check it out

first impression was wow it's actually a puzzle game where the goal is solving what dsl is

 

[asymptoteofidealism]

I found it when I was looking for suicide manuals, especially that book "the complete manual of suicide."
I think my first impression was something like cool...there has to be some place that suicidal people can discuss potential methods. You can't talk to people in real life about any of this.

 

[yume_]

Same as you, youtube video. It brought so many new members to this forum, Probably the media that most spread information about this forum. It tried to hide the name Sasu, but failed horribly, it was really easy to find it.

I had this morbid curiosity, since i was also suicidal, to give a look inside the forum. Turns out there are some sweet people here.

 

[Nitlott]

I came across SS on Youtube, a channel called "Tantacrul" posted a video named "Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen".

Hey, me too! I guess it kind of popularized the site. I remember thinking how sweet that forums like these exist, especially nowadays. And also that the video didn't leave much room for thinking positively of it, so I searched it up. Though it's the most well done video on YT about SaSu. Then I lurked here for some time, then quit, then lurked again and finally made an account this year. I guess that's it... I think most new people on here got here from articles, videos, etc. That's even ironic that people voicing their concern (well, most of the time their resentment) about this site are the reason for more users every time

 

[morina]

googled suicide forums and the wikipedia page came up so i thought id check it out

first impression was wow it's actually a puzzle game where the goal is solving what dsl is

Same lol, I just actively searched for a community like that. Didn't know that so many people come here because of YT videos intending to do the opposite.

 

['Sraom]

youtube vid. honestly it does the exact opposite of what they're trying to achieve a lot of the time, it just makes this place more popular

 

[FoxSauce]

Yourube Tantacrul went to check it out he was just exaggerating