What is 'No Mercy in Mexico' trend? Gory videos shared on social media as part of disturbing trend
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: The ‘No Mercy in Mexico’ video trend is gaining traction and attention on TikTok. Several distressing videos posted on the platform as part of the trend depicts terrible crimes being committed in addition to having heartbreaking graphic content.
One video showed a father and son being slaughtered, whereas in another video a woman was seen being ruthlessly hit with an object. All the videos posted under this trend are indeed very disturbing. But what is this ‘No Mercy in Mexico’ video trend? How did it originate? We are also going to look at some of the online reactions to the trend.
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What is ‘No Mercy in Mexico’ trend?
Three clips, totaling two minutes and 50 seconds, were posted to the Documenting Reality website on January 18, 2018, by a user named "capadonna", and the popularity of violent videos spread to other platforms during the following years. According to the horrifying video, a father and child were ruthlessly killed in Mexico. The boy lies on the ground and weeps as he observes his father's awful death while a group of people hit the father with knives and other sharp objects.
The people seen in the video striking the father and boy are allegedly members of a gang. The father was clearly seen in terrible discomfort. The sharing of such gruesome and terrible clips should be condemned, but the "No Mercy in Mexico" video became viral on social media, especially on TikTok, where users started fervently sharing it. The hashtag "#nomercyinmexico" accumulated millions of views on TikTok and other social media platforms.
How did ‘No Mercy in Mexico’ become a trend?
"No Mercy In Mexico” went on trending on social media after people started sharing similar videos on TikTok and other social media platforms. People started to use little excerpts from the original 'No Mercy video in Mexico' to create other TikToks and quick videos related to the original video. All the videos are equally disturbing and as a result several on social media started to condemn the material.
Social media reactions
Several people on social media became uncomfortable after watching the disturbing videos on social media as they came out and expressed their disgust over the clips. One person wrote on in the comment section of a YouTube video, “I watched it and I will not lie I felt my heart pounding out of anxiety. The kid got it the worst. The poor boy was forced to watch his dad get beat and killed and was killed the worst, really felt for them. It stayed in my head for a bit but it’s what I asked for if I let my morbid curiosity take control.”
“It’s insane how humanity can kill people without feeling bad, chills went down my spine when I saw the decapitation on the guy,” another added. "Watched it and it was truly disturbing. I cannot imagine what they were going through, the boy was innocent, and yet, the cruel and evil people killed him and his father. The boy was forced to see his father brutally beheaded. This means there really are devils in this world, and they even had to send body parts to the mother. The boy did nothing wrong, he got it worse. May the dad and son’s souls Rest In Peace. And I hope those killers and other cartels live in hell,” yet another user remarked.