It all happened very suddenly, and you were pretty vague about the reasons, so I’m just going to cut right to the chase and ask. You announced earlier this month that LiveLeak was ending after nearly 15 years. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Naturally, we wanted to know more, so Input called up Hewitt to discuss the decision to shutter LiveLeak - and what he’s learned about the dark side of humanity over the past decade and a half. Later, on his YouTube channel Trigger Warning, Hewitt said his team “just didn’t have it in us to carry on fighting,” but didn’t get into specifics.
(LiveLeak has often been described as U.K.-based, but its servers were located in the U.S.) He was the one to break the news of LiveLeak’s demise via a blog post, saying it “felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting.” That something is a new video-sharing and remixing site called ItemFix that bans “excessive violence or gory content.” Hewitt is 48 and lives with his family in the suburbs of Manchester, U.K. “It amuses me to no end, and I love to see it.” “The fact that it became some kind of meme, that tickles me so much,” LiveLeak cofounder Hayden Hewitt, the public face of what was an otherwise anonymously run enterprise, tells Input.
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