Bernd Jürgen Brandes responded, and the two met in Rotenburg, Germany. With Brandes' consent, Meiwes killed and consumed portions of him, videotaping the entire process.
Investigations following the Meiwes case revealed over 400 registered users on the forum from various countries, including Germany .
Beneath it, another paragraph: "The ledger is missing. The ledger is probably the ledger. The ledger has names. The ledger has letters about consent, but consent can be messy. Who decides what consent means? Does it mean you can be eaten? Did you sign away your life?"
The is a digital record of one of the most notorious and controversial corners of the early internet: a web forum dedicated to anthropophagic (cannibalistic) fantasies. While the site was primarily a space for roleplay and dark fiction, it gained global infamy as the meeting ground for Armin Meiwes and his voluntary victim, Bernd Brandes , leading to a landmark murder trial in Germany. What was the Cannibal Café?
The interview broke mid-sentence, cut by a static burst that sounded almost like applause. A follow-up file had the same voice, but darker, frayed: "There are rules. Consent. Witnesses. Names recorded. But rules can be bent. Stories can be swallowed. We made a religion of taste."