LiveLeak was co-founded by the folks behind Ogrish, which also centered on displaying horrific imagery. But it could just be that the initial concept for the site has run its course.
Without more detail, it's tough to pinpoint the exact reasoning for LiveLeak's demise. "The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people." "We felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting," co-founder Hayden Hewitt wrote in a blog post. As The Verge reports, LiveLeak has been replaced with the far less racy ItemFix, a video sharing site that explicitly bans uploading gory or violent content. In 2019, New Zealand blocked access to the site for hosting video of the Christchurch mass shooting. It featured everything from local crimes to terrorist propaganda, like the ISIS beheading of journalist James Foley. The site could be best described as YouTube's evil (and less popular) twin, the place where you'd go to find uncensored footage of humanity at its worst. LiveLeak, once the purveyor of horribly violent videos, was unceremoniously shut down this Wednesday.
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