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Unfortunately, viewing them exacerbates anxiety, according to first-of-its-kind research
Researchers also found that fear of terrorism and having a history of violent victimization appear to draw individuals to this highly graphic coverage – and that watching such videos was associated with global distress and fear of the future about two years after they went viral. The report appears in American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association.
“Our study is the first to identify the motivations behind viewing a beheading video and the long-term consequences of doing so,” said senior author Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI professor of psychological science. “Our findings suggest that when individuals are afraid of horrific acts of cruelty occurring in the world, they may be curious to seek out graphic coverage of these types of events. But this may only exacerbate their distress and anxiety over time, locking them into a spiral of fear.”
Professor Silver told us more about her research on the podcast. Stream or download the episode here Digital Human: Series 17, Ep 5 - Ghoul
-Now, I think that Subyss is a poor candidate for any ideology because of his deranged personality. Usually, ideologues don’t actively look for nutcases. He’s far too self-indulgent for modern-day far-right ideologies, and even the most destructive far-lefties would deem him to be bad publicity.
-Typically, executioners and torturers who come from long lines tend to be apolitical. They would often times be devoutly spiritual, but keep out of political ideas and just pay lip service to the dominant one so that they are left alone. They also tend to believe in the State’s monopoly on violence.
-Now, modern AU Subyss is unlikely to come from a torturer bloodline, but in terms of personality disorders, which combines an alcohol problem with a sadistic personality and histrionic personality disorder would most likely be seduced by centrism. Since, for his canon self, it’s strongly implied he’s gay, and the tattoo seem to denote some Romanian gypsy or Yenish origins, I don’t think he would come even close to anything regarding Nazism or Isis style Islam. Also, his extreme sadism would make it difficult for him to maintain any job.
-With that said, he would probably be involved in the slaughterhouse industry, but be unable to maintain a job there because of how sadistically violent he would be.
-He would have short term contracts with disc houses. I would imagine him to be a signer as his “cover up” job, with his music style being folk, chanson or rock, mostly sang in Yenish and in French.
-If he would have access to Internet, I am pretty sure he would have a musical Youtube channel.
-However, it is likely he would be involved in porn of questionable legality as an actor. He would do BDSM style whippings on actresses, and would often get subject himself to that style of treatment.
-Modern Day France is a land of illegal immigration, and this illegal immigration sadly opens up doors to human trafficking, often as sex-slaves. However, even some legal porn studios have highly unethical practices.
-Since often times, newly arrived economic migrants become the merchandise for these illegal porn sites...You guessed it. He thus would be probably a polyglot, with his mother-tongue being Yenish, second language French and he would have probably learned some Arabic, English, Swahili and\or Russian or Ukrainian. He would not speak them, but would be able to vaguely make out the subject of a conversation.
-Because of his entourage, he would know about the absolutely human-rights violating sex-lives of many politicians and buisnessmen. He would use that knowledge to afford himself luxury goods and travels his normal income would not allow for.
-He would probably be on the Dark Web.
-His lifestyle would probably be crazy...Like, on one day he would get f-cked and whipped live on camera, second day he would beat a woman’s breasts and then do quite nasty stuff, then the rest of the week he would go between repetitions for concerts and whenever he’s not in a studio, he would drink himself to a stupor. Rinse, wash, repeat. His already congenital mental health issues combined with this life-style would make him unable and unwilling to get a normal life.
-His only way out would be catching a severe illness.
-That said, he might have a slightly larger chance of rehabilitation, because this getting involved in torture lifestyle would have started at 18 at opposed to something closer to age 12, and we now have access to mental health services. That said, rehabilitation would be near impossible.
