Death seems to have become an easy way to generate clicks on the mainstream internet. It’s profoundly disturbing

Henry Williams is a London -based writer based in London .

He argues that there is an unspoken obsession that is equally as widespread and pernicious a voyeurism over death.

It is not just on dark web’ snuff websites and chat rooms where this obsession lurks.

Death seems to have become an easy way to generate clicks on the mainstream internet.

It’s time we interrogated this obsession with death, why murder is so often going viral.