Published Mar 3, 2011
YouTube is home to every great viral video, like "The Bed Intruder," "Star Wars Kid," and "David After Dentist." But besides these hilarious "videos du jour," YouTube contains a dark subculture of videos depicting self-injury.
In a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers studied the 100 most-viewed videos that appear when one searches "self-harm" and "self-injury." With more than 2 million views, on average, almost every video had explicit pictures of injuries, most commonly cutting.