Meaning of Red Room | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
2. According to an urban legend, a room where people are tortured and murdered for an audience of viewers via the Dark Web, the viewers sometimes voting or bidding on the form of torture to be performed.
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3. A torture chamber.
4. A purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
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5. A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
6. A VIP room.
7. The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.

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Examples

“The kids' party venue had three play spaces: the red room, the blue room and the yellow room.”

“When the huge figure, brought to bay, turned to face them he fought madly, desperately, bellowing forth his anguished defiance all the while, and it took the help of the guards of the red room to overpower him and carry him away in spite of the weakening tortures to which he had been subjected.”

“A repressed memory of torture in a red room could in principle be a phenomenally vivid image; what makes it unconscious in the Freudian sense is that it comes out in dreams, slips, fleeing from red rooms and the like rather than directly controlling behavior.”

“"There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered.”

“One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured.”

“This was the second night he had visited the red room, and no matter how much they beat and tortured him, Agent Hughes had no idea how Kwesi had vanished without a trace.”

“In fact some fake 'red rooms' on the Dark Web use scenes from mainstream horror films to deceive viewers into believing that they are attempting to access extreme content.”

“In the red room, the people are cut into pieces and shown live on red room.”

“The plot centers around the player accessing the Dark Web to find a red room, where someone is streaming the live torture of a person. The player must examine the code of various websites in the game to determine the URL of the red room, while avoiding having their computer hacked or being kidnapped by online enemy (Hospodar, 2021).”

“Join the red room to watch torture, murder and gory content on a live stream.”

“The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.”

“It's...very strong evidence that they were involved in what looks to be some dark web red room shit.””

“A "myth," an "urban legend," is exactly what everyone who hasn't been on the deep web will tell you about red rooms.”

“A red room is something that exists on the dark web. It's where anonymous individuals pay significant sums to watch someone die in real time.”

“One night, at around 1 am, I decided to visit the dark web. Interestingly, I came across some online shopping websites, and I received a message from someone that contained a link to a red room.”

“He was chained up to the cross that hung against the wall of the 'red room'. It was actually a dungeon, with the aforementioned cross, complete with restraints, hanging from one of the padded red walls. On the floor was a fuck horse, various whips and paddles, and of course the swing.”

“This, you did not expect to see. A full, complete, total 50 Shade of Grey red room with a St. Andrews cross, floggers, whips, cuffs, and loads of other things you've never seen, but are immediately interested in.”

“"Now you're making me worried. Please tell me you don't have a red room.” “What's a red room?” “You know, a playroom. A sex playroom.””

“If the red room is playing host to the high-rollers you would have to have a VIP card to get in.”

“At night, resident DJs and international guests the caliber of Peter Kruder have everybody shakin' their booties in the well-preserved Art Deco hall or at the "red room" upstairs.”

“The red room is growing crowded. Jakob does not recognize any of them pushing through the velvet curtain, these loud-speaking men holding champagne flutes in ringed fists, lean women who stand in clusters, heads bowed together, murmuring in low tones.”

“My best part of the revamped music awards festival was the introduction of the red room.”

“I sat in what they referred to as the red room, with Jennifer.”

“The Chamber of the Legislative Assembly (formerly red room) , similar in size and decor to the blue room, was used by the Legislative Council until it was abolished in 1968.”

“On a number of occasions the Canadian flag was displayed in the National Assembly's red room; there were other occasions when it was not .”

“Towards the end of the interview, Kirkby frantically signalled Israel — the duke of York was approaching down the Privy Gallery that led to the 'red room'.”

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