Let me start off by saying that the only way to truly understand is going into that sub yourself, but that probably isn't gonna happen, so I'll try my best to explain.

Ok, so for me (and a majority of the users in certain subreddits), it's a derealization thing. Most of the posts in that subreddit are very quick and unexpected deaths, some are suicide, and some are human attack. These highlight 3 very interesting topics to think about:

• How fragile life is

• Depression and mental illness

• How sadistic some people can be

Now, when you think of a user of that sub, you probably imagine an old man masturbating to pictures of dead children. In reality, the people who browse it simply like to put their life in perspective. Being in there is like seeing the famous picture "The Pale Blue Dot". It makes you think about how small, insignificant, and fragile we are. It's like the ultimate sonder. Each death causes your thoughts to snowball and start to think of increasingly small things that we would normally call unimportant such as: What the person ate for breafast that morning, their last thoughts, if they had family, etc.

The most common misconception, though, is that we go there because we like gore and guts. Everyone who goes there has their limits. For some people it's children, sometimes gore, sometimes if it was suicide, sometimes if it were painful, and so on. There are, unfortanately, some people there who fulfill the stereotypes, and that's where arguments are started.