What are your thoughts on true crime as a genre?
I have a few opinions about it that I’m happy to share but more curious about what you all think
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AuRevoir · 36-40, M
True crime is great for a lot of reasons. I learned to late in life to use true crime as a pick me up in life. If I ever feel guilty of all these minor things I do. I watch or listen to true crime episodes. And realize no one got raped because of me. No one got murderers because of me. No one was held captive and abused in horrible fashion because of me.
It makes any mistakes the mind could worry about seem insignificant.
True crime also has its disgusting simp side. Ironically mostly from females who for some reason believe that because some guy is hot. He shouldn’t be locked up in prison. Not a lot of big brains out there. There’s also the disgusting goth like people who get tattoos of famous serial killers who raped and murdered children. I don’t care how edgy you think you are. You do something like that. Attempting to idolize some freak with a tattoo of them on your body. You deserve every bad thing that could ever happen to you.
Other good things about true crime is that it helps to bring awareness to things. Helps people recognize possible social patterns and behaviors of abuse… Helps people to learn certain rights they have within the legal systems… Also helps them to learn to be more careful with what information you give out… Helps people to learn to better communicate within their own socials groups. To be better about going out in larger groups, especially when doing things like drinking. It’s crazy how many people who go out alone while drunk end up getting kidnapped by thinking they just willingly got in the car of their taxi service when instead it was a stranger pretending to be an Uber, and then they later end up dead. All because being under the influence impairs your judgement enough to make major mistakes like that…
Apps like Snapchat have been exposed for causing people’s deaths due to the ability to stalk someone through it. They finally just caught the pedophile who killed the two young girls who tried going on a hiking adventure together as friends, but we’re stalked through the Snapchat app and eventually murdered because of it… It’s one of the main reasons I’ve slowly moved more away from that app. As they essentially don’t take any responsibility for the tragedy that occurred so they’re pretty scummy in my opinion.
It makes any mistakes the mind could worry about seem insignificant.
True crime also has its disgusting simp side. Ironically mostly from females who for some reason believe that because some guy is hot. He shouldn’t be locked up in prison. Not a lot of big brains out there. There’s also the disgusting goth like people who get tattoos of famous serial killers who raped and murdered children. I don’t care how edgy you think you are. You do something like that. Attempting to idolize some freak with a tattoo of them on your body. You deserve every bad thing that could ever happen to you.
Other good things about true crime is that it helps to bring awareness to things. Helps people recognize possible social patterns and behaviors of abuse… Helps people to learn certain rights they have within the legal systems… Also helps them to learn to be more careful with what information you give out… Helps people to learn to better communicate within their own socials groups. To be better about going out in larger groups, especially when doing things like drinking. It’s crazy how many people who go out alone while drunk end up getting kidnapped by thinking they just willingly got in the car of their taxi service when instead it was a stranger pretending to be an Uber, and then they later end up dead. All because being under the influence impairs your judgement enough to make major mistakes like that…
Apps like Snapchat have been exposed for causing people’s deaths due to the ability to stalk someone through it. They finally just caught the pedophile who killed the two young girls who tried going on a hiking adventure together as friends, but we’re stalked through the Snapchat app and eventually murdered because of it… It’s one of the main reasons I’ve slowly moved more away from that app. As they essentially don’t take any responsibility for the tragedy that occurred so they’re pretty scummy in my opinion.