[ SECRET POST #5713 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5713 ⌋

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Comments

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I think it's a lot like the horror genre in that the most grotesque form of this media is what gets the most attention because humans live for drama and the most attention grabbing tend to be big tragedies.

Also, the conversation about true crime being hyperfocused on murders is a result of the zeitgeist latching onto the first season of "Serial" and "My Favorite Murder" gaining a huge following mixed in with the most sensationalized/watched documentary/documentary-style shows/movies having murder be a big point of those stories.

I also think because complicated interpersonal relationships are often key points in true crime stories, we tend to latch onto murder stories because they hold more morbid intrigue.
Also, when the Me Too movement was bursting open there was focus on unfairly maligned women we hadn't had real space to bring more nuance to in the mainstream. And I think that played a heavy hand in the hyperfocus of true crime being associated with violence towards women/domestic violence, because it's...extremely common for violence/abuse in the household to be common in murder stories.

A lot of things factor into how "true crime" is perceived and handled the way it is. It always sucks when the most sensationalized aspects of a genre/thing is what most people latch onto and don't explore more, because we get less of the more interesting stuff! We need variety, even in true crime.

I love scam stories too! Like the whole "Hollywood Con Queen" story? I'm surprised that story hasn't taken off in the mainstream given that it involves major players in the Hollywood system, including Zack Snyder and his wife. As well as the "Sweet Bobby" podcast, that podcast brought on such an important topic on the rights of private citizens who have been emotionally manipulated and lied to (sometimes for YEARS), and their attackers/perpetrators see no legal or social repercussions for fucking up a person's whole life. Catfishing isn't just a silly reality tv drama where Nev Schulman shows up with a camera to ask "Why did you lie?"...it's a very serious topic that we don't take seriously enough nor do we talk about enough. A lot of shame is brought onto and felt by victims.

And that's something I think people don't discuss/do in terms of true crime. What are you seeking to gain? For example, when I heard "Serial" and got into the Adnan Syed case, it wasn't so much me asking "Is Adnan a killer?" that really pulled me into the case. It was more, "Is the justice system just?"
I understand we consume media as we do, not all of us consume media to become better people/for the same reasons, but as individuals it wouldn't hurt to ask ourselves what we're getting out of the media we consume from time to time and if we apply it to ourselves? Or are we just getting cheap thrills judging other people's lives and then not thinking beyond that?