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The same happened with /r/syriancivilwar back in 2014-2015, in that case it was even more depressing because you also had some nutjobs like ISIS directly involved in said conflict, which meant massacres like this one [1] getting reported almost in real time, with images from the place where it had all happened and all that. The 2014 fight between Russia and Ukraine was also heavily documented in almost real time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre

Indeed. The first time I felt this sensation was during the Japanese tsunamis, where we were fed a live, HD footage of the flooding from the vantage point of news helicopters.

I pray that we’ll never have to use tools like these for anything other than leisure.

The phenomenon is at least as old as Baudrillard's work The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Plac...

Definitely surreal to watch war unfold in real time on twitter/tiktok