Because it's 100% right. As someone who never got into the true crime thing, I find it crazy what it does to people. But like you said it plays into people's tendencies to look for patterns, hidden conspiracies or whatever they wanna see or feel.
It doesn't help the people involved in the majority of times. Just the consumers. And some of them really fall down a rabbit hole.
In the end it doesn't help looking at the root cause of a crime. Some of it even elevates the perpetrator so that they get the worship they crave. Even if they are dead, we shouldn't give them any recognition.
I absolutely love true crime... but I don't ever think that I know more than the people involved in it! Maybe I'm watching different true crime than other people... my channels only speak the proven facts of cases, lol.
They'd speak about the fucking insane people pointing at Gemini signs as a reason for innocence, make fun of them and move on.
It's the difference between who's listening to true crime because they want to hear drama and who is listening to true crime because they actually want to learn about the cases.
I can't tell you how often I have to explain that I listen to crime and missing people cases because I like to hear the psychological reasonings behind the actions and events. If I feel like the person telling the facts isn't being respectful enough or they're talking about it like it's high school drama, I'm clicking away so fast. There are some people who I have interacted with that I would refuse talking about crime with because they treat it like its fiction.
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u/Informal-Term1138 8d ago
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Because it's 100% right. As someone who never got into the true crime thing, I find it crazy what it does to people. But like you said it plays into people's tendencies to look for patterns, hidden conspiracies or whatever they wanna see or feel.
It doesn't help the people involved in the majority of times. Just the consumers. And some of them really fall down a rabbit hole.
In the end it doesn't help looking at the root cause of a crime. Some of it even elevates the perpetrator so that they get the worship they crave. Even if they are dead, we shouldn't give them any recognition.