• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    56 minutes ago

    I’m going to do a squarespace ad during my selfie-recorded-last-distress-video on my phone just before the killer finds my hiding space, that way my family can afford a funeral for the bits of me he doesnt eat.

  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I like when true crime podcasters eventually come to terms that the police is between inept to malicious and often won’t actually solve anything. Sometimes it’s the community that solves the crime, sometimes one good apple who insists on it and works against his own superiors. Sometimes the murderer is a policeman, sometimes the murderer is friends with the police. Often the police as an institution just makes a note, sometimes before the crime happens, and ignores it until it becomes too big to ignore. It’s ridiculous seeing so many true crime episodes come to similar conclusions about the police. And since most true crime is american due to america’s lack of privacy regulations, the way the police treats black people is also insane.

  • Cloud55@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    My wife watches only true crime and cop shows. I spend my time playing games and online, but this horrifying parade of humans brutalising other humans in the background is getting to me. I feel damaged, like it’s leaving a stain on my soul. Still she loves it, happy wife happy life eh?

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I eventually got my ex some really nice headphones because the literally constant true crime (she would literally fall asleep to it) was driving me driving insane.

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    4 hours ago

    I love horror movies but I don’t understand how people enjoy true crime. Hearing about terrible things that happened to other people just makes me sad.

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      2 hours ago

      I think there is an interest in trying to understand why people do things that society generally agrees are not acceptable. This sort of dates back to like before written language.

      • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk
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        That’s how it is for me at least. Though I will say that a lot of the true crime podcasts is shit and damn near slop, and some even glorifying the murdere.