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By October 2020, the site had changed to its final incarnation, briefly including the original liver cyst video by mistake. | By October 2020, the site had changed to its final incarnation, briefly including the original liver cyst video by mistake. | ||
On February 16 2022, Kekma.net reached 30 million visits, and the creator removed all shocking content from the site, after three years of operation. The site now shows a message explaining that the site had served it's purpose, which was to study how a shock site can spread across the world with no advertising budget in the modern internet era. The creator encourages people to make their own website to replace Kekma.net. Despite the shutdown of Kekma.net, the two community websites, stumpgrinder.info and tube.kekmahub.com remain active. | On February 16, 2022, Kekma.net reached 30 million visits, and the creator removed all shocking content from the site, after three years of operation. The site now shows a message explaining that the site had served it's purpose, which was to study how a shock site can spread across the world with no advertising budget in the modern internet era. The creator encourages people to make their own website to replace Kekma.net. Despite the shutdown of Kekma.net, the two community websites, stumpgrinder.info and tube.kekmahub.com remain active. | ||
On February 28, despite Kekma.net being shut down, Kekma's hosting provider banned the site. Kekma.net now redirects to tube.kekmahub.com. | |||
[[File:RIPKekma.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|The message displayed on Kekma.net shortly before getting deleted.]] | [[File:RIPKekma.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|The message displayed on Kekma.net shortly before getting deleted.]] | ||
==Spread and history== | ==Spread and history== | ||
