Maybe a stupid post, but I'm just wondering, how did you guys/girls discover darknet markets? (markets, not the subreddit)
I learned about the original Silk Road while watching Drugs Inc, the episode with the chick selling MDMA she got from Silk Road, I believe. There was a disclaimer telling about how FBI seized the hidden site, but I thought "hey man, there's probably more than one market like that" and searched it up right away and there it was, instructions on how to access Silk Road 2.0. it was like being a kid in a candy store for the first time.
I google'd "buy cocaine online" when I was really drunk a few years back. Found an article about SilkRoad and started learning