The thing that is maybe being lost in this is that it literally is unhinged people doing this.
Most people in their day to day life only pass by people with schizophrenia or delusions of reference. But when media has a wide enough audience, those people fixate on various things in unhealthy ways.
Schizophrenics play video games too. But the way they relate to the games is different from how healthy people do.
If millions of people play the game, and even only 0.01% of the audience are unhinged enough to send death threats to an actors’ family because they can’t separate fact from fiction, that’s still 10 people sending death threats for every million people that play.
The thing that is maybe being lost in this is that it literally is unhinged people doing this.
Most people in their day to day life only pass by people with schizophrenia or delusions of reference. But when media has a wide enough audience, those people fixate on various things in unhealthy ways.
Schizophrenics play video games too. But the way they relate to the games is different from how healthy people do.
If millions of people play the game, and even only 0.01% of the audience are unhinged enough to send death threats to an actors’ family because they can’t separate fact from fiction, that’s still 10 people sending death threats for every million people that play.
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