The BME Pain Olympics played a significant role in the era of "desensitization" on the internet.
The "Pain Olympics" was an early internet shock video that circulated on file-sharing networks and shock sites such as Steakandcheese.com and Ogrish around 2003–2006. The term was also used more loosely to describe online contests or dares involving self-injury, typically among users on message boards like Something Awful or 4chan. pain olympics wikipedia