Donna | How The Internet Re-Branded Mass Killers @DonnaIRL | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
There are spaces on the internet that have effectively rebranded the mass killer from awkward loner to a misunderstood edgy sigma male. As bizarre as this rebranding is for the average person, these communities have large followings and their glorification may have negative consequences. As an aside, It is important to dispel any myths regards who commits mass shootings. A common myth is that most of them are carried out by people who are psychotic— that is people who are mentally ill. Psychiatry professor Dr. Ragy Girgis of Columbia University states:
“The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. Approximately 5% of mass shootings are related to severe mental illness. And although a much larger number of mass shootings (about 25%) are associated with non-psychotic psychiatric or neurological illnesses, including depression, and an estimated 23% with substance use, in most cases these conditions are incidental.”
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Main Sources:
* Mass Killers: Inside the Minds of Men Who Murder by David J. Krajicek
* Serial Killers and Their Victims by Eric W. Hickey
Articles:
* The Enigma of Adam Lanza’s Mind and Motivations for Murder by Peter Langman
* Psychotic Symptoms in Mass Shootings v. Mass Murders Not Involving Firearms: Findings from the Columbia Mass Murder Database by Gary Brucato et al.
* Expressive Violence: The Performative Effects of Subversive Participatory Media Uses by Nathalie Paton and Julien Figeac
Websites:
* Columbia Psychiatry
* The Violence Project
* United States Department of Justice
There are spaces on the internet that have effectively rebranded the mass killer from awkward loner to a misunderstood edgy sigma male. As bizarre as this rebranding is for the average person, these communities have large followings and their glorification may have negative consequences. As an aside, It is important to dispel any myths regards who commits mass shootings. A common myth is that most of them are carried out by people who are psychotic— that is people who are mentally ill. Psychiatry professor Dr. Ragy Girgis of Columbia University states:
“The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. Approximately 5% of mass shootings are related to severe mental illness. And although a much larger number of mass shootings (about 25%) are associated with non-psychotic psychiatric or neurological illnesses, including depression, and an estimated 23% with substance use, in most cases these conditions are incidental.”
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YouTube: youtube.com/user/DesigningDonna
Twitter: twitter.com/PsychedIRL
Instagram: instagram.com/psychirl
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Sigma 18-35mm F1.8: amzn.to/2vbLv5K
Canon 18-135 F3.5-5.6: amzn.to/2SZiaot
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Sennheiser MKH 416: amzn.to/3nBtiXH
Sennheiser MKE2 Lavalier Pro Set: amzn.to/2Pl5hmo
CREW
Video by Donna
Writers Donna & Britt Carroll
Editor Donna & Matthew Roe
Cam Op and Sound Marygold and Jewel Martinez
Main Sources:
* Mass Killers: Inside the Minds of Men Who Murder by David J. Krajicek
* Serial Killers and Their Victims by Eric W. Hickey
Articles:
* The Enigma of Adam Lanza’s Mind and Motivations for Murder by Peter Langman
* Psychotic Symptoms in Mass Shootings v. Mass Murders Not Involving Firearms: Findings from the Columbia Mass Murder Database by Gary Brucato et al.
* Expressive Violence: The Performative Effects of Subversive Participatory Media Uses by Nathalie Paton and Julien Figeac
Websites:
* Columbia Psychiatry
* The Violence Project
* United States Department of Justice
