The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire. Hewitt describes ItemFix as 'something completely different, completely fresh, and something we feel energized about tackling.' He added, 'Sometimes it's just the right time to chart a new path.Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters

Along with, it was part of an early generation of 'shock' sites, the sort of places you'd go to see if you could stomach the human carnage of a car accident. 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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