During the late 2000s, it became a massive "reaction video" trend on platforms like YouTube , where people would film their horrified responses to watching the footage. Fact vs. Fiction

: The founder of BMEzine, Shannon Larratt, was the host of the original viral videos in 2002. He was a central figure in the body modification community until his death in 2013.

If you spent any time on the wilder parts of the internet in the mid-2000s, you probably heard the name whispered like a digital ghost story: the BME Pain Olympics . Often bundled with other notorious shock videos like 2 Girls 1 Cup