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Kim_Seong-a posted...

I cant speak to the Dahmer special specifically, but it's well known that a contributing factor to mass shootings is the publicify they get in the news; and Thirteen Reasons Why was criticized because it ironically "glorified" suicide despite attempting to paint it as a tragic thing. (As in, it's airing correlated with a slight rise in suicides)

Sometimes it's not that the subject material is portraying something in a positive or negative light, but that the glorification comes from the attention we give these phenomenon.

That said Ive yet to hear anything tying true crime documentaries to copycat killers or the like, but it's worth noting that the societal impact of displaying certain behaviors doesnt necessarily correlate to the intention of the display. >_>

Violent video games can push violent and impressionable people over the edge to commit heinous acts. Doesn't mean video games are a problem or that we should restrict how much violence we see in them