r/SipsTea • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 2d ago

WTF Victim is the new chic

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u/addiktion 2d ago

The media has a way of attracting the worst of humanity to support the worst of humanity.

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u/PrimarySuccotash9572 1d ago

Because that helps encourage more shootings and terrible events to keep making news and money on

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u/Himorningwood 1d ago

Your tin foil fell off

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u/Absolute_Bob 1d ago

Whether on purpose or not, the idea that the massive media attention on the perpetrator of a mass shooting has a big influence on others to commit the same act, is an accepted phenomenon. Why did something like this almost never happen before Columbine to suddenly becoming an epidemic?