The full video is about 75 MB so I can’t upload it here unfortunately, and it seems like you need to use the Telegram app to view it, but it’s really incredible (also mute the audio, it’s shitty added techno music).
Description: the video starts with an overhead shot of a soldier lying next to a burned-out tank, clearly taken from a drone. The soldier appears to be dead. However, the POV drone is equipped with powerful optics and zooms in; we see that the soldier is only pretending to be dead, and the optics can see his chest move as he breathes. He’s wearing sunglasses but we can clearly see him tensely looking up at the drone.
Moments later, a smaller drone carrying an explosive flies at him and detonates. He yells for a medic then collapses as blood begins to flow from a head wound. Eventually he lies motionless.
The whole thing could easily be submitted as a short-form horror drama about modern warfare.
I dont think anyone in the general sense can be irreversibly desensitized to violence and suffering, I think you can always distance yourself from content like liveleak and try to ground yourself more in the everyday.
That’s definitely been my experience. In the height of my teenage edgelord phase I was mainlining /b/, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and Liveleak to the point where nothing really fazed me–it was just part of my daily life. I’m still desensitized today such that I can still tolerate it, but now there’s discomfort or even a reaction where before there was none.