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   Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 01:20:55 JST Jesse

   People take real events involving the lives of real people and turn them into myths, memes, and metaphors. See: orcas attacking yachts; billionaires dying in submarines; main characters on Twitter; the True Crime Industrial Complex; celebrities and their parasocial fans. It's probably inevitable as long as we have mass media. It's not always all bad, but we should feel conflicted. The big problem is the blurring - not being clear that these are just "stories inspired by true events".

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 01:24:35 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I experienced this firsthand, watching an unhappy situation at my own school turn into a NYT op-Ed that made many good arguments about an abstracted version of the story that was grossly misleading without •technically• being factually inaccurate, and completely missed the real problem. It was so disheartening.