they're super hot and like what's not to love.
their music and all that.
Fandoms get made fun of a lot. Sure their behavior can be a little over the top
but most of the time they don't deserve the bad rep
we've all been there
a little too obsessed with something that has caused us to act out of the
ordinary besides fans are just people who are
deeply interested in loyal about a hobby celebrity or subject. They're people who
aren't embarrassed to be themselves and no one should be discouraged for that.
Right?
Well there is one type of fandom that should be discouraged and it's on the dark side of Tumblr
Can you tell everyone what Tumblr is?
Tumblr is sort of like a blog that people treat as their virtual diary and there are also
communities that you can get part of
Oh yeah. You've Tumbled before right?
Yes...
Read one your post everyone. Sometimes the hardest choices are the right ones
Or the wrong ones. I don't know yet...
Welcome to Psych IRL my name is Donna
and today we're gonna be looking at the true-crime community on tumblr now I've
seen a lot of videos investigating and exploring this community so I thought
I'd see it for myself I've heard there are a lot of
inappropriate crushes on school shooters
Hey this guy's not too bad-looking I
mean he's kind of hot...Jesus Christ oh my god this is disgusting okay well we
have to throw the whole body away
one disclaimer that I forgot to mention is that not everyone in the true-crime community is like this
Some people are just genuinely interested in learning about the mentality of serial killers
and murderers. Also I do not support the bullying and harassment of others so
please don't go after anyone in this video. I will not be showing any faces
naming any names of these mass shooters because I do not want to glorify that or
bring more attention to them so they will be blurred out and bleeped out but
I will be sharing names of criminals that have already committed crimes so
long ago and their names have already been commercialized because I think that
it helps tell the story a little bit more.
On tumblr the true crime community is a place for people who are interested in
criminology and the history/psychology of serial killers
this interest in deviance is perfectly normal
it's natural to want to know the motives of why someone did a horrendous act but
for some individuals in the true crime community their obsession is taken to an
inappropriate level. A level where school shooters are idolized and even romanticized
Just say no to sawed offs
Bad. No no no.
Many in the community make drawings of these shooters and portray them
in a heroic way. Some drawings also portray them as sad lonely
and misunderstood. The artist of this drawing for instance wrote phrases like
I am a horrible son. If there was a god, he wouldn't let me feel. I destroy
everything I touch. This one has a goodbye letter to his parents and has
the words wrath and vodka in bold letters but of course it's captioned how
could I ever forget about loverboy and this is where things get weird.
I really want to send D letters but I'm scared that they won't give them to him or he
won't write back. I really want to send him my art of him. I could see how one
would feel sympathy for a criminal after learning the childhood trauma this
person has gone through but creating fan art is essentially rewarding them for their actions
Some in the community have even gone too far by creating fantasy relationships
between two mass murderers A lot of these profiles say "I do not condone"
meaning they don't condone the actions of these shooters but these
images say otherwise
Me and my sister are here at the Museum of Death and
we're trying to understand how people like this stuff
You see it on the internet but what about in real life and I think this is a perfect example of that.
The Museum of Death in Hollywood is a
place dedicated to death education but their more controversial displays are
composed of serial killer artwork, Manson family memorabilia, and crime scene photographs
Maybe this place was the real-life version of the true crime community on Tumblr
that would help me get into the mindset of understanding the community better
after all some of their merchandise does bear resemblance
to the artwork we saw online. Maybe the kinds of people in the museum
would give me insight into what kind of people are in this tumblr fandom.
What exactly motivates someone to create an edit of a mass shooting with happy music
or even weirder memes
Me...
Mildly attractive white boys that have killed people
I wanted love. I never got it.
He inflate He deflate
A school with a bunch of people in it
(sighs) that one went too far
My babies: The baby baby, the autistic baby, the surprised baby,
the racist baby, the btchy baby, the angry baby, the large kinky baby
P.S. this was made to be funny don't get a stick up your ass about it you've been
visited by the godlike police no mass shooting today but you better quit your btching
Please don't kill me I didn't do anything to you
Sarcastic: please don't kill me I didn't do anything to you. GET THE F OUT! Poor SpongeBob
This one is self-explanatory.
He says do you love me. I tell him only partly.
I only love true crime and serial killers. I'm sorry.
After touring the museum I found that there was a vast difference between it
and tumblr everything was said in an objective and detached way. We weren't
sympathizing with the serial killers we were examining their motives
I mean there are a lot of serial killer things. There was the black dahlia, there
was Gacy, there was Charles Manson and this cult.
did you feel weird to like look at those things and glorify them sort of?
I don't feel like it's really glorifying death
I feel like you're just learning about it.
and that's why I like this stuff. because I want to know why. I like knowing why
that morning you decided to dress a little more provocatively than usual you
you found yourself flaunting a denim skirt as you strode into school that was
perhaps three or four inches above your knees obviously you weren't completely
daft you were aware of the dress code and so you progress through most of your
day with a jacket bound around your waist until the last period of your day
English which took place in a sweltering oven of a classroom. You sat down
cursing the name of whoever invented assigned seats since you were forced to
share the table with absolute asshats. Of course it was only an hour you had to
spend by their side but it piled up over several weeks and the toil you received
eventually became intolerable as the professor rambled on about Macbeth. Your
eyes roamed around every nook and cranny of the classroom before finally landing
on E. You quickly perk up realizing his gaze was also situated on you or rather
your thighs and the abyss between them that your skirt managed to cover.
And I'm not reading the rest.
Perhaps many of these individuals are hybristophiliacs
Hybristophilia is a paraphilia where one is sexually aroused or attracted to
people who have committed horrendous crimes such as murder
this is sometimes also referred to as the Bonnie and Clyde syndrome
For instance a lot of fan mail is sent to serial killers who have received a lot of media publicity
Cult leader Charles Manson who convinced his followers to commit a series of nine
murders and was convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths
himself got a 25 year old girlfriend
Because I love him.
somehow I've got half a brain that I can see that he is the one that knows what's
going on. He's the one that is in the truth whenever nobody else is and...
what is it about him compared to other people you've met in your lifetime
that makes him so unique and different
Charlie always tells the truth no matter what
Ted Bundy known for kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and then murdering 30 women
had a courtroom filled with women attempting to catch his attention
The trial has drawn women from as far away as Seattle where Bundy is suspected of other sex murders
why is this happening
According to one psychiatrist, it is a mixture of fear, intrigue, and in particular sexual attraction
and so yes I do think this is an underlying sense a
sexual attraction using that word very broadly for the moment but there is no
question but what violence does quicken the pulse of many people and certainly of young women
You try to imagine yourself in his place and to see how he's feeling
looking at the pillows with bloodstains and everything if he really did it or not
he even asked one of his admirers to marry him in court
Carol.
Do you want to marry me?
Yes.
And I want to Marry You? Yes.
And I do want to Marry You.
Though there is psychological explanation creating memes and fantasizing over normal videos of
these mass shooters still seems wrong
My love he was a goofy kid I hate to see that fade
you're of course free to feel those feelings after all you can't
really help them but glorifying them especially when the tragic events
happened so recently motivates copycats, people who believe this is the only way
they will get attention.
Location is Stonewood Douglas.
And Parkland Florida.
It's going to be a big event.
And when you see me on the news, you will all know who I am
but the true crime community has responded to such criticisms in the best way the know how, memes
What some of the TCC says: you should be able to feel empathy for the
killer too because they are still a person and just because they did
horrible things doesn't mean they weren't going through a lot. I'm not
saying it excuses their actions just that one person being a victim doesn't
mean another can't be one as well.
What some Antis hear: UwU N did nothing wrong
and could F me sideways. My poor innocent baby UwU
well the memes that a lot of the TCC post counter this. I don't get why people
think I condone what N did. Sad Face. Anyways here's my fifth flower crown
edit for today. I hope N is doing okay in prison. He doesn't deserve any of this
N is daddy. Need i say more?
i genuinely want to know if you think there's a
difference between making artwork of charles manson and making artwork of a
recent school shooter. Also if you guys ever visit the death museum i wrote in
their book of how you die and if you find it tag me on instagram. Also my
sister wrote in it. Yours is funny? Yeah but i think no one's gonna find it.
Did you put your name? I didn't put my name. AWWW how are they gonna know it's you?
Because I'm the only one who wrote about Shrek
As usual i post a Q&A about the video on my instagram stories 24 hours
after the video is posted so follow me there that's the end of the video i'll
see you guys next time stay psyched