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Dalton: Look up Funky town full on reddit
Dalton: its what first pops up
I pulled up reddit on my phone and started typing, expecting to find some new meme format. I was not expecting gore. There were numerous posts under the name. Some of them stated that they were only parts. The first post looked complete, so I clicked on it. A stupid mistake on my part.
The man's skull was prominent. It was red. Very, Very, red. It looked like a cross between the marketing poster for scorn and a dead body from a silent hill movie. It had no eyes, no skin, and no noticeable teeth. Then the video panned out, and the once inhuman shape was now shown to be attached to a very human looking body. A thin man laying in a tile canvas of smeared blood. An IV could be seen in the video. A quick look at the comments revealed its purpose.
Xpepe3634: It’s adrenaline, it's so he doesn’t pass out.
Someone reaches their hand over the man’s neck. In their hand is a dollar store box cutter with the blade extended. The hand pressed the razor into the man's neck and drew back.
A fresh coloring of crimson flowed from the lacerated throat. The hand reached forward again and drew back once more, deepening the wound. The hand reached forward again. And again
And again.
And again.
And again.
And with each reach of the hand the knife deepened the wound. It seemed as if they wanted to pull the man's head from his body. At once the armed hand disappeared and the camera moved to show the whole man's body. One could only hope that, despite being drugged with liquid energy, the victim had passed out from the pain. A vain hope, for in the next second, the dying man is shown to raise his handless arm out.
A foot kicked the limb away.
I closed the app. I looked to Dalton on my left. I looked back at my phone and pulled up the previous chat.
Nelson: Did not need to see that, but thanks.
Dalton laughed.