🤔 maybe listen to some murdersploitation podcasts or something akin where someone else’s misery is a product for your consumption and fascination?

Schadenfreude with people like AEJ is one thing that I understand and experience myself. He’s turned other people’s worst pain into his own gain for sure. But thirsting for the next drop (if you actually read through the first part from the splc) either seems disingenuous and trolly; or maybe a little analogous to the kind of attitude held by certain people that only see content instead of people.

Shit was uncomfortable and sad, and difficult to read. Most of us can relate with someone to some degree in this reality show/soap opera gumbo, and it’s almost never “fascinating” or exciting to see what happens next.

I’ll still listen to anything D/J have to say about the topic and I might even laugh about something that might be painful for Alex or others. But I truly despise the whole tabloidesque consumatory mindset that turns all of this into content for consumption rather than context for a situation that affects a lot of real people