Man explains what he saw after joining random chat room on dark web to see what would happen

There is much that can be found on the dark web, some of it rather unsavoury.

While most of us use the internet on a pretty much daily basis, right beneath our digital feet there's another network of sites and platforms.

Beneath the regular internet is something called the 'deep web', which is where websites which aren't indexed by search engines reside.

This includes stuff like emails, banking sites and content that's behind a paywall which can't be otherwise found thanks to Google.

Within the deep web is another place that only exists on 'darknets', networks that require specific software or permissions to access.

This is the dark web, and there's a reason why you won't stumble across it just by mucking about online.

As you might already have assumed based off the dark web sites being hard to find, a huge amount of the content on there is very much illegal.

A hacker with years of experience explained that he'd seen some incredibly messed up things on the dark web, including people who say they 'want to see the world burn' and criminals who have encrypted medical data and extorted hospitals for money.

Another said there were 'murder for hire' sites and 'all kinds of different websites that do horrible things', recommending that people didn't go there unless they 'want to be traumatised or hacked'.

While many have stuck to the maxim that it's better you don't know, some have ventured in and been disgusted by what they found.

A few years back TikToker @austinvro showed his viewers what he found on the dark web, including 'red rooms' which he said where places 'where people can pay to watch live tortures happen'.

He then went onto a chat room with a stranger who told Austin they were 'looking for fun rp chat with my daughters', with the TikToker admitting he didn't really know what that meant but was sure he wanted no part of it.

In another chat room on the dark web someone else told him they were 'f25 into roleplaying as younger', which led Austin to say they were 'disgusting people'.

Much that is disgusting goes on via the dark web, as there have been people kidnapped and put up for sale on there, while there are sites which pay people for nude images and link the contact information of those in the pictures.

A 2014 study from the University of Portsmouth found that the most commonly hosted content type on web browser Tor, which is one of the networks which can be used to access the dark web, was child pornography.

After that the study found that the next most popular type of content was black markets selling illicit goods.