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00:00In the endless noise of social media, where likes, shares, and notifications became more

00:07important than the rhythm of day and night, my cousin stood as a living example of how

00:11obsession with the virtual world could consume someone's entire being, because he wasn't

00:15just active online, he practically lived there, glued to his laptop screen for hours that

00:20stretched into days, his fingers dancing endlessly across the keyboard, posting, commenting,

00:26lurking, and digging into every corner of the digital world, and for years it seemed like

00:31nothing more than a harmless addiction, just another young guy chasing validation and attention

00:36through endless scrolling.

00:37But then one day I noticed something strange, something that didn't fit the usual pattern

00:42of his life, because without any new job, without any business, without even leaving

00:46his room, money started to flow toward him, not in small amounts but in consistent waves,

00:51cash that covered his rent, new gadgets, expensive headphones, even, designer clothes, and when

00:57I asked him about it he brushed it off with vague excuses.

01:01Freelance projects, cryptocurrency trading, online hustles.

01:05Yet none of it matched the hours I saw him spending glued to forums, obscure live streams,

01:09and hidden corners of the internet that weren't exactly LinkedIn or Fiverr, and my curiosity

01:14soon turned into unease when I began noticing how secretive he grew, locking his laptop even

01:18when stepping out to grab a glass of water, refusing to let anyone near his desk, always

01:24wearing headphones as if the sounds coming from his device were not meant for human ears.

01:29And there were nights when I passed by his room and saw the bluish glow of the screen

01:32reflecting against his pale face, eyes hollow and wide, staring at something that clearly

01:38wasn't a normal social media feed.

01:40But when I confronted him he laughed it off and told me I was being paranoid, that he was

01:44just watching late night streams or working on projects, but the air in that room always

01:49felt, heavier than it should have, like it carried secrets that should never be spoken

01:53aloud.

01:54And the real shift came the day I accidentally glimpsed his screen when he forgot to lock

01:58it, because instead of Facebook or Twitter I saw lines of code, multiple encrypted chat

02:02rooms, and a black interface I didn't recognize.

02:05And at the top corner there was a term I had only ever heard whispered about on the strangest

02:09Reddit threads, the dark web, that hidden underbelly of the internet where the shadows, lived, where

02:16markets, forums, and people gathered for reasons that law and morality refused to acknowledge,

02:21and suddenly all those late nights, that sudden stream of money, the paranoia, it all began

02:27to click together in my head, though I didn't want to believe it, because believing it meant

02:31acknowledging that my cousin was involved in something far darker than I ever thought possible.

02:35But the pieces kept stacking up, packages arriving at odd hours, encrypted USB drives left lying

02:42around, browser tabs, filled with strange usernames and symbols, and sometimes I heard him muttering

02:47numbers under his breath like coordinates or codes, and I remembered a post I had read long

02:52ago on Reddit in one of those horror-themed communities, where someone described how their

02:56friend stumbled into a dark web gig that paid him in Bitcoin for tasks he didn't fully understand,

03:00and at first it was small, translating documents, posting fake reviews, but soon it escalated

03:05into scarier things like identity laundering, financial fraud, and even things too horrifying

03:11to put into words, and I wondered if my cousin had walked the same path, starting innocently

03:16until he was too deep to crawl back out, and every attempt I made to talk to him failed

03:20because his answers were evasive, defensive, even aggressive, like he was guarding some invisible

03:24wall between us, but then, one night, I finally got closer to the truth when he left his room

03:30in a rush after receiving a message that made his face go pale, and in his absence I couldn't

03:36resist peeking at his laptop which he had left open, and what I saw still haunts me, because

03:41the screen was filled with a live chat window where anonymous figures with faceless avatars exchanged

03:46cryptic sentences like, drop confirmed, transfer secured, and cleanup required.

03:52And beneath it, there was a balance of cryptocurrency worth more than I could even imagine, along

03:57with folders labeled in chilling ways, clients, orders, assets, and though I didn't dare open

04:04them, the weight of what they implied was enough to freeze me in place, because this wasn't

04:09just some geek messing around, this was organized, deliberate, and real, and when he returned and

04:14caught me staring, the look in his eyes wasn't the look of my cousin anymore, it was cold,

04:19distant, filled with a warning I didn't dare challenge.

04:22And in that moment I realized I had crossed a line that couldn't be uncrossed, and though

04:26he never mentioned it out loud, I knew he knew that I knew, because after that day he

04:31grew even more secretive, more guarded, and the money kept pouring in, but so did something

04:36else.

04:37Paranoia, shadows, a sense that he was being watched and maybe I was too, because sometimes

04:42I caught glimpses of unfamiliar cars parked near our house, strangers' eyes lingering too

04:47long in public, my phone glitching as though tapped.

04:49And one night I even received an email from an untraceable address with a single sentence,

04:54stay out of it if you value your life.

04:57And, whether it came from him, his employers, or someone else entirely, I'll never know.

05:02But what I do know is that whatever game he was playing on the dark web was bigger and

05:06darker than anything I could understand.

05:08And maybe that's the point, maybe we aren't meant to understand, maybe the only safe choice

05:12is ignorance.

05:13And though I still see him sometimes, hunched over his laptop, fingers flying across the

05:18keys as that faint glow reflects in his eyes, I don't ask questions anymore, because I've

05:23read enough on Reddit to know how these stories usually end, and I'd rather stay alive to

05:28tell you this than end up another name whispered in a forum about someone who suddenly disappeared

05:32after digging too deep.

05:33So take this as both a confession and a warning.

05:36The money might look tempting, the thrill might look exciting, but the moment you step into

05:41the shadows of the dark web, you're no longer just scrolling a feed, you're feeding something

05:44that watches you back, and sooner or later, it always collects its debt.

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