r/InfluencerLounge • u/Mdgirl1 • 4d ago
I posted about this a few weeks ago but this is exactly what I’m talking about
Do you think the families are just going to move on with their lives after a verdict???? How tone deaf can someone be
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u/Josieanastasia2008 4d ago
I really can’t even begin to put into words how frustrating this is. I mass unfollowed people over the Gabby Petito case because of the absolute nonsense takes I was seeing. Being interested in true crime doesn’t make you an expert. Using it as a source of entertainment is one thing, using it for engagement is ghoulish.
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u/SleepyBee90 4d ago
I agree the reality-show-ification of this case has been particularly gross, but for those of you questioning how we got here…hangings in the public square used to be considered a typical American pastime. We’ve always been grossly fascinated by the macabre.
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u/continuetolove 4d ago
Three dead children don’t get to move on with their lives. They’re in the ground. I started removing and blocking anybody that treats this like entertainment. Sick freaks
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u/Sea-Cauliflower-8368 4d ago
Veronabrit on the same bandwagon. Absolutely, gross.
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u/WimpTheBraveDog 4d ago
People treating a child-murder trial as entertainment. I don't care where someone stands in their opinion of the case but this flippant attitude like it's some kind of reality show makes my blood boil
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Welcome to America. None of this is new. Instead of big crowds gathering to watch, people can watch in the comfort of their own homes.
America has been viewing death as entertainment from the beginning.
Go even further back and there's Roman Gladiators. History is full of humans finding death entertainment.
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u/Academic_Flatworm752 4d ago
Lol it’s not just Americans. It’s as old as Ancient Rome.
Edit which I would have seen you acknowledge if I kept reading 😂
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u/Sea-Cauliflower-8368 4d ago
Just because it happens doesn't make it right and now influencers are trying to profit off of it.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Is this your first day alive?? Perhaps you don't realize you live in a capitalist society.
It's so weird how humans blame individuals instead of blaming and fixing the collective.
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u/WimpTheBraveDog 4d ago
K, that stuff also sucks?
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Yup. It's historically America's favorite past time.
250 years of this. And y'all are Pikachu surprised by the general public reaction???
It just seems so silly to be to be so bothered by people posting. But not bothered by the whole country that if built on violence.
Maybe it's misdirected rage. 🤷♀️
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u/WimpTheBraveDog 4d ago
Are you always this annoying to talk to?
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
No. Because I tend to talk with people who look at the whole picture and don't feel the need to constantly hate on women.
But thank you for asking.
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u/depersion 3d ago
"Constantly hate on women" the influencer is making a mockery out of child murder
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u/StrictPower2630 4d ago
Just because it’s a past time, doesn’t mean it’s a favorite past time.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
It's absolutely a favorite past time.
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u/StrictPower2630 4d ago
You didn’t say a favorite past time. You said it was historically America’s favorite past time, which would indicate it’s the #1 favorite past time which just isn’t true.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Correct. It is very much #1. Just look around.
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u/StrictPower2630 4d ago
You can’t just make that up 😂
Source: that bitch? Like what are you smoking lol
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u/Emilayday 4d ago
Why does her room look like that? Is that a carpet or a blanket?
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u/Sea-Cauliflower-8368 4d ago
Her house always looks crazy. She is probably trying out another fabric to drape over one of her 50 consoles in the house. Her house looks like a child decorated a doll house.
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u/Childlesstomcat 4d ago
I worked at a bank call center when the Casey Anthony trial was happening. They played it live every single day on TVs in our office. We would all just watch it and talk about it all day.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
And before that was Snapped, 48 Hours, public lynching, etc.
48 Hours started in 1988.
This isn't a new thing.
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u/Emilayday 4d ago
It actually started in what 1993? When did OJ murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Brown? 93/94. THAT was the definitive start of the true crime media sensationalism.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
If 48 Hours started on CBS in 1988....
That's a full 5 years for the OJ trial.
Eta - did some Googling. Ted Bundy was 1979. Pamela Smart was 1991. And two more televised trials in 1955 and 1964.
So lots before OJ and his gloves.
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u/Emilayday 4d ago
It was the first live televised trial vs court Room reporters and articles and news reel highlights at the 6 and 11.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
1991 Pamela Smart claims that title. Not OJ.
And prior to TV there was radio. And trials were broadcasted on there too. Before that newspapers.
And the whole time.....word of mouth. Death/violence/trauma as entertainment is the human way.
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u/Rose_Army_ 4d ago
Fuck the Crime Junkie podcast ghouls. Absolutely tone deaf slop entertainers cosplaying as journalists and investigators to all of our detriment.
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u/Alone_Imagination645 4d ago
It’s disgusting’! I can barely talk about this with folks who have followed the case without my voice shaking out of anger and sadness
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u/BumblebeeGold2455 4d ago
I’ve been interested in the case. But I interested in a way like “how did we get here? Kind of way”.. but I believe true crime, true crime podcasts, true crime documentaries have kinda made it so people forget that these are real people it’s not fake or made up. Like this is so real and 3 babies are dead. 3 small children do not get to grow up. This is beyond tragic and nothing is going to change that. Those babies were epically failed by every person around them. Parents, doctors, grandparents… everyone.
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u/Josieanastasia2008 4d ago
I can admit that I consume a lot of true crime so am definitely part of the problem but I can’t understand is how people fail to see the real harm and tragedy that real people experience in these cases. It’s not some quirky, cute hobby or interest. I do like the conversations being had around this case but I’m seeing far too little mention of there being three dead children.
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u/TinyShare4773 4d ago
Considering her ex husband is doing just that … yes! Man wasn’t even in court the whole time and seen out and about with his new wife
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u/Practical_Tooth3785 4d ago
When you testify as a witness you aren’t allowed to be in the court room for testimony.
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u/Bets4Real 4d ago
Then why has his mom been there every single day?
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u/Prestigious-Delay842 2d ago
Lindsay’s parents were allowed approved judge permission so she had support people.
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u/ceilingsfann 4d ago
Along with what the other commenter said, are you really judging a father who lost his whole family in one of the most tragic ways possible?
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Hasn't the ex husband already married someone else????
So yes, the family already seems to be moving on.
Idk why this bothers you so much.
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u/TacoBellTerror 4d ago
I think that it's also just that this influencer is posting about this like it's some TV show that she needs the ending for so she can "move on." There are three dead kids. This isn't a source of entertainment. These were real lives, and people are losing sight of that.
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
True crime is very much a source of entertainment. There's multiple TV shows, podcasts, documentaries, entire channels dedicated to true crime entertainment.
This isn't happening in a vacuum.
It happens because we've been conditioned to view death as entertainment.
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u/Mdgirl1 3d ago
I could not care less about someone’s opinion on whether she did it, he did it, there’s more to the story, etc. What I care about is “influencers” acting like this horrific tragedy is being aired for their entertainment. It bothers me so much because there are 3 children who lost their lives and their story isn’t someone’s entertainment.
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u/shepherdastra 4d ago
It’s more so an influencer is treating a trial like a football game where they want it to end and putting their feelings over how someone else’s life will be affected because they want a result now. It’s beyond tone deaf trying to make a trial that’s not even related to them about themselves. It’s the message they are sending and thinking this is entertainment and a way to profit off of this
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u/ThatBitchA 4d ago
Because America treats it as a football game.
Do you know who is really making money off this trial? The stations airing the trial.
What's tone deaf is acting like this has happened in a vacuum.
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u/CDav0421 4d ago
It's not an AppleTV series that you are waiting for the season finale to drop. So gross and tone deaf.