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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".