The Cannibal Cafe Forum Archive Access

The debate continues. Do we preserve as a historical artifact to study the limits of human free speech and mental illness? Or do we let it rot, denying neo-nihilists and potential offenders a "cookbook" for atrocity?

The forum gained mainstream notoriety due to its connection with the German cannibal Armin Meiwes (the "Rotenburg Cannibal"), who famously found his willing victim online. While Meiwes used a different platform (the "Cannibal Café" was a separate, later entity), the cultural association stuck. The forum was eventually shuttered by its hosting provider following media pressure in 2008, but not before a significant portion of its user-generated content was saved by web scrapers. the cannibal cafe forum archive

Launched in the early 2000s, the Cannibal Cafe was a clearnet forum (yes, you read that right—clearnet) dedicated to two specific paraphilias: (the sexual fantasy of being eaten or eating another) and consumption fantasy. The debate continues