I don't wanna sound like some kind of pearl clutching suburbanite, but goddamn. Out of all the spectacles America has shat out I think I hate the true crime stuff the most. It's genuinely horrifying to me. I hate how it's always framed, not as some kind of unfortunate breakdown of society or a failure of mental health services, instead true crime revels in the gore and morbidity. It's just sick and romanticizes people like Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. We're so sick we've turned serial murder into a fandom on the level of Harry Potter and Hamilton.
The conclusion is always the same but I've rarely heard it brought up. That is, these serial murderers are symptoms of white supremacist cops and a failure of mental healthcare. Last Podcast on the Left has mentioned it occasionally.
I don't know how to express my hatred of this particular obsession without sounding pretentious. I swear I like other fun stuff like violent video games and heavy metal.