Your video made me wonder how I got interested in true crime, and I'm guessing that part of it may have been because my dad was a prisoner officer and until the age of 6 I grew up living on a purpose built estate next to the prison for the prison officers and their families to live in. It started off as a borstal (young offenders) then eventually changed to a category C prison. It was also a farming prison at one point, so I pretty much grew up with seeing prisoners wandering about, plus we got to go to the farm, use the gym and swimming facilities. It sure wouldn't happen these days. Then kind of by accident at Uni I started studying criminology and i was particularly fascinated by miscarriages of justice and what makes people commit crimes and how they are caught. But, I was also interested in what can be done to stop people committing crimes. I had not heard of people doing makeup or something else whilst talking about a true crime. I am so glad you do not do that. I actually feel disrespectful when I am watching a true crime story and eating at the same time. I know I have mentioned this before, I do realise I am somewhat hypocritical because I would hate it if someone did a true crime story about a friend or a family member, yet I watch these type of programmes. In some instances though family members and friends are included in documentaries, but maybe not when it comes to a youtube video. I think one thing i have a huge problem with is people discussing crimes in true time, for example when it came to Gabby Petito. I saw so many people jumping on that and they realised they could make money off that. (I wrote this before i got to the part of the video that covers this) 24:00 The thing is the news covers these stories too and i think sometimes how they cover them is despicable and very intrusive. I do genuinely believe some people want to help solve crimes or help find people, I know years ago I was involved in trying to find a girl that had gone missing, hundreds of us turned up to check fields and woodland etc, for me I was driven by trying to help the girl who was missing and her family, because I would hope people would do that for me or someone I know if they went missing. I think if anything i am too compassionate and too empathetic towards what people go or gone through. I know this is specific to true crime content but the bigger picture is what other video genres are 'exploitative' e.g ones that include children that are too young to understand/consent to be included in videos yet the parents make money off them being in the videos. Videos that cover animals/pets etc. Having a hamster channel I am always conscious to just show my life with my hamsters and not make them do things that may get me more views (and against my own morals and beliefs) but would be forcing my hamsters to do things they might not want to and is harmful or dangerous to them, i'm thinking of things like those horrific hamster maze videos that get millions of views but are just animal abuse. Re mental health etc I know I can only watch so much true crime before I need to go do something completely unrelated, but also I know for example when there were a lot of break ins going on locally and everyone was talking about it on facebook day in day out, I just left facebook as it was keeping me up at night not being able to sleep. Yes it may go on, but do we need to remind ourselves 24/7 about it. It just keeps all our senses heightened. One last point, not all true crime is about murder I like true crime about corporations and when they are caught out, or people trying to con people or bank/museum robberies or miscarriages of justice when justice finally prevails. Sorry if my comment is all over the place, I had too many thoughts when I was watching your video. :)
Thank you so much for your comment! Yes I think many of us got into true crime for different reasons: psychology, justice/law, forensics etc but I suppose we just get very curious despite the circumstances. I try to only share information that was willingly given by family either in books or on talk shows (those seem very common in France) but in a perfect scenario we could all cover true crime without ever risking offending anyone. I genuinely believe many creators don’t intend to hurt or offend but intent doesn’t matter much if the impact is there. I definitely agree with you re family (mainly children) channels or even animal channels, I always think twice and ask for advice before thinking of a new hamster video because my pets are not toys. I think many people cover true crime based on how the media and documentaries/tv shows covered true crime. It’s always very much sensationalized and there’s always a cliff hanger or a plot twist, and it’s not obvious to everyone that there are other ways to share these stories. ❤
I've been interested in the psychology of the perpetrators & murderers, as well as the victims. Back in early 2003 I read every book on serial killers & books written by the FBI's profiler. I want to know what makes a person like that tick & the one thing I've discovered is that always it's in the childhood/adolescent teen years that "create" a serial killer. I've been a nurse most of my adult life so hearing &/or seeing gore & traumatic things is something I have a strong stomach for so I'm not a squeamish type of person. As far as the victims, I want to know all about that person as well bcuz sometimes it's their childhood & upbringing that places them in a position of becoming a victim later on in life. Now Ik it's not always that way but I mean sometimes them being too trusting to a fault, or even being abused as a child sometimes places them as an easy target or like those French girls who were mentally challenged etc. So to me it's important to understand human psychology and THAT'S why I find "true crime" stories interesting. Btw, now Ik why you speak the French words so fluently! I had NO idea until this video that you were French-American.
Hi Lindsey, I'm a fellow true crime creator and I've been thinking about the recent spate of anti (?) true crime videos like the one you reacted to ... and I found your response very well delivered. I'm not sure where I come down on the subject but I agreed with much of what you said. Thank you!
Here are the links mentioned in Nicole’s video. Proceeds from her video will be donated to the following:
www.niwrc.org
www.blackandmissinginc.com
Your video made me wonder how I got interested in true crime, and I'm guessing that part of it may have been because my dad was a prisoner officer and until the age of 6 I grew up living on a purpose built estate next to the prison for the prison officers and their families to live in. It started off as a borstal (young offenders) then eventually changed to a category C prison. It was also a farming prison at one point, so I pretty much grew up with seeing prisoners wandering about, plus we got to go to the farm, use the gym and swimming facilities. It sure wouldn't happen these days. Then kind of by accident at Uni I started studying criminology and i was particularly fascinated by miscarriages of justice and what makes people commit crimes and how they are caught. But, I was also interested in what can be done to stop people committing crimes.
I had not heard of people doing makeup or something else whilst talking about a true crime. I am so glad you do not do that. I actually feel disrespectful when I am watching a true crime story and eating at the same time.
I know I have mentioned this before, I do realise I am somewhat hypocritical because I would hate it if someone did a true crime story about a friend or a family member, yet I watch these type of programmes. In some instances though family members and friends are included in documentaries, but maybe not when it comes to a youtube video.
I think one thing i have a huge problem with is people discussing crimes in true time, for example when it came to Gabby Petito. I saw so many people jumping on that and they realised they could make money off that. (I wrote this before i got to the part of the video that covers this)
24:00 The thing is the news covers these stories too and i think sometimes how they cover them is despicable and very intrusive.
I do genuinely believe some people want to help solve crimes or help find people, I know years ago I was involved in trying to find a girl that had gone missing, hundreds of us turned up to check fields and woodland etc, for me I was driven by trying to help the girl who was missing and her family, because I would hope people would do that for me or someone I know if they went missing. I think if anything i am too compassionate and too empathetic towards what people go or gone through.
I know this is specific to true crime content but the bigger picture is what other video genres are 'exploitative' e.g ones that include children that are too young to understand/consent to be included in videos yet the parents make money off them being in the videos. Videos that cover animals/pets etc. Having a hamster channel I am always conscious to just show my life with my hamsters and not make them do things that may get me more views (and against my own morals and beliefs) but would be forcing my hamsters to do things they might not want to and is harmful or dangerous to them, i'm thinking of things like those horrific hamster maze videos that get millions of views but are just animal abuse.
Re mental health etc I know I can only watch so much true crime before I need to go do something completely unrelated, but also I know for example when there were a lot of break ins going on locally and everyone was talking about it on facebook day in day out, I just left facebook as it was keeping me up at night not being able to sleep. Yes it may go on, but do we need to remind ourselves 24/7 about it. It just keeps all our senses heightened.
One last point, not all true crime is about murder I like true crime about corporations and when they are caught out, or people trying to con people or bank/museum robberies or miscarriages of justice when justice finally prevails.
Sorry if my comment is all over the place, I had too many thoughts when I was watching your video. :)
Thank you so much for your comment! Yes I think many of us got into true crime for different reasons: psychology, justice/law, forensics etc but I suppose we just get very curious despite the circumstances.
I try to only share information that was willingly given by family either in books or on talk shows (those seem very common in France) but in a perfect scenario we could all cover true crime without ever risking offending anyone. I genuinely believe many creators don’t intend to hurt or offend but intent doesn’t matter much if the impact is there.
I definitely agree with you re family (mainly children) channels or even animal channels, I always think twice and ask for advice before thinking of a new hamster video because my pets are not toys.
I think many people cover true crime based on how the media and documentaries/tv shows covered true crime. It’s always very much sensationalized and there’s always a cliff hanger or a plot twist, and it’s not obvious to everyone that there are other ways to share these stories.
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I've been interested in the psychology of the perpetrators & murderers, as well as the victims. Back in early 2003 I read every book on serial killers & books written by the FBI's profiler. I want to know what makes a person like that tick & the one thing I've discovered is that always it's in the childhood/adolescent teen years that "create" a serial killer.
I've been a nurse most of my adult life so hearing &/or seeing gore & traumatic things is something I have a strong stomach for so I'm not a squeamish type of person.
As far as the victims, I want to know all about that person as well bcuz sometimes it's their childhood & upbringing that places them in a position of becoming a victim later on in life. Now Ik it's not always that way but I mean sometimes them being too trusting to a fault, or even being abused as a child sometimes places them as an easy target or like those French girls who were mentally challenged etc.
So to me it's important to understand human psychology and THAT'S why I find "true crime" stories interesting.
Btw, now Ik why you speak the French words so fluently! I had NO idea until this video that you were French-American.
Hi Lindsey, I'm a fellow true crime creator and I've been thinking about the recent spate of anti (?) true crime videos like the one you reacted to ... and I found your response very well delivered. I'm not sure where I come down on the subject but I agreed with much of what you said. Thank you!
Thank you for your comment! Definitely tricky to address these videos without being a little biased
Oh come on true crime fans aren't that bad.
Yes they are
@@leobe2104 No their not.
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@@Shirogane-Naoto no their not.
@@tygrisneal1516 stay delulu if it makes you happy, that's what dumb people usually do.