Users When Violence Goes Viral Internet gore videos are rewiring a generation of chronically online teenagers. It’s turning human suffering into entertainment—and ruining lives in its wake. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In Jemima’s first year of high school in New Zealand, her social life was flourishing. She had just started going out with a boy in her class, joined the hockey team, was training to be in the New Zealand Cadet Force, and had started competitive swimming. After dates, school, and swim practice, she chose to spend her free time indulging in her favorite online activity: watching gore videos. Jemima’s fascination with gore started when she was 11, when she stumbled across an A.I.-edited video of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting on TikTok. “There were Minions in the place of people,” she told me.…