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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-08-05 06:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #2407 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2407 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-08-06 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's exciting to exaggerate and get passionate about things on tumblr/twitter with a group of friends. You're just as bad as them with all this "oh so delusional they might do something ~drastic~" bullshit. They'll just whine and explain it all away, like fangirls have always done.

(Anonymous) 2013-08-06 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That is not a safe assumption to make. People can and do get obsessed with fictional characters to the point that it severely disrupts their real lives. I've seen it happen to personal friends.

I was only able to find one documented case of someone killing himself over a tv show (a 14-year-old Russian boy upset by a character death in 'Naruto,') but I'm actually rather surprised it doesn't happen more often, and I could very easily imagine distraught teenagers working themselves into a collective frenzy and some actual self-injuries resulting.

Though, I should add that I would expect it to happen with kids who already had serious problems not caused by the show; they are by no means uncommon online. My Tumblr dashboard is teeming with them some days.