You start to feel that something is wrong when you find out that the blogger you have been following has done something unusual.
Your favorite blogger has changed her style, her way of speaking, her dress details... Recently, the abnormal behavior has escalated again. She started talking nonsense, whispering in front of the camera, even you heard "Save Save me" voice. You begin to make sure that the blogger you like is controlled and she may be in unknown danger.
With your ingenuity and careful observation, you reported the matter to the police, which attracted their attention. In the end, the police rescued your favorite blogger. She had been controlled by her boyfriend for several months and was forced to post some video content against her wishes. Fortunately, clever fan-you discovered all this by pulling the cocoon.
This is a standard movie script, exciting, tortuous, and conflicting.
But in reality, it may tell another story.
The well-known blogger has a sudden change in personality, and the weirdness is worrying.
A few years ago, YouTube's beauty blogger Marina Joyce was very popular. Although only 19 years old, she already has fans that most people cannot have in their lifetime. However, it is precisely because she has a lot of fans that her behavior is magnified a little bit on the microscope and given more meaning.
In previous videos, Joyce's personality has always been optimistic and a little weird, but everything has changed.
In recent episodes of videos, her personality and habits seem to have changed overnight. In the videos, she became silent, and her eyes always looked out of the camera. She accidentally turned around and showed obvious bruises on her arms. Blue scars...
▲ The bruises found by the fans were blurred due to the picture quality.
With doubts and concerns, fans began to "check" her recent video content.
They found that in one episode of the video, Joyce had an obvious change from happy to frightened and afraid. When
answered a fan's question "what kind of socks are you wearing now" in the first issue, she wanted to jump up and show the fans the socks she was wearing, but the sound of the chain shaking was heard in the video. Until the end, people didn't see what kind of socks she was wearing. It seemed that she couldn't raise her legs, and couldn't show what kind of socks she was wearing. Of course, it could also be because her ankles were bound by chains. Up.
In another live broadcast, fans asked in the comments why there was a sound of iron chains in her video. Joyce immediately changed the subject with the good weather today. Then when she took the fans to visit her room, her eyes began to look to the front right and her expression became flustered. From the perspective of fans, they felt that someone appeared behind the camera and threatened her.
was in the same video, and she also appeared in the introductory words: "I am scared now, because..." After choking, she regained her composure and smiled and said, "Now we are in me. In her bedroom.”
Later, in one of her beauty videos, fans spotted a shotgun from a flash.
Why is there a gun in the house of a 19-year-old young girl? This became another important evidence that netizens believed she was kidnapped.
There are a lot of evidences like this. In an outdoor video, a hand accidentally appeared in the camera, pointing to Joyce, seeming to direct her.
And the mood dynamic she posted, "Hope everyone likes pancakes." The first letter of the four words adds up to "Help". In the eyes of fans, this is a vague call for help. Fans of
Joyce started to notice something was wrong, they thought she was kidnapped. At this point, the fans' campaign to save Joyce officially kicked off.
It does not matter whether you are tied up or not. We think it is important that you are tied up.
If this is a movie, the plot should be the only person in the world who has discovered the truth. If you report to the police and find that everything is fine, then you are a "false police report"; but if Joyce is really kidnapped, you did not report to the police in time.Sharing information, this guilt will continue to torture you later.
But in the real world, this is the collective voice support of many "detectives". They made the operation of SaveMarinaJoyce a hot topic, and more and more people began to pay attention to it.
When I discovered all this in Joyce and chose to invite fans to a certain place to refute rumors face-to-face, the Internet began to be flooded with warnings and conspiracy theories.
don't go! She may have been controlled.
Remember the last time the Munich McDonald’s bombing? If we go...
ISIS may have controlled her, this is part of the plan.
▲ Some netizens in the comment area asked her to post a self-portrait certification "I am me"
Since she is unwilling to meet offline, let's make it clear on the live broadcast. In the live broadcast, Joyce answered the suspicions of netizens one by one. For example, the shotgun that everyone found was actually an air gun. The bruises were caused by her wrestling in the woods. She was not restricted to her freedom of life, nor was she controlled by drugs.
Two of her friends and her family have joined the ranks of refuting rumors. They said that Joyce has some personal issues to deal with, but everything is not what netizens think.
But you probably all guessed the ending, netizens don't believe it at all.
They also blatantly accused Joyce's relatives and friends, thinking they were indifferent to her situation. Even Joyce's makeup during the live broadcast-the two blue lines drawn on the cheeks, are seen by fans as a sign that victims of domestic violence are seeking help.
Things got worse and the police were alarmed. They came to check the situation in person and released the results of the investigation to the public, believing that Joyce is safe and sound. Joyce himself said on Twitter that he was "completely fine."
But those who should worry are still very worried, they think all this is a trick of the kidnappers. An innocent girl said something lie under the control of the kidnapper. Her family and friends may be accomplices, and the stupid policeman was thus deceived.
▲ Netizens thought that the hand in the video was directing Joyce. Someone was controlling her.
Thousands of teenagers who followed the matter revealed that they could not fall asleep. They trembled when they thought that Joyce might be kidnapped or taken hostage. More than 60 people said on Twitter that all this made them feel anxious or panicked, and they began to hysterical.
I feel anxious whenever I think about her being kidnapped and abused.
Usha Vandermaelen, a 19-year-old student from Belgium, suffered from panic disorder after paying attention to this incident. There was no way to stop crying. This situation continued for several hours: "It feels like every wall is coming to me. Go... I have to pause the video, keep myself calm, and try not to cry out loud."
▲ In order to "save" her, fans spontaneously made the video and invited more people to forward it, which attracted attention
but the matter was not over . As Joyce repeatedly refuted the rumors to the media, telling the outside world that she was good, she changed from a "who is to be saved" to a "vulgar speculator" in the eyes of the public. After she was interviewed by The Sun, boycottmarinajoyce became popular, and everyone accused her of planning the whole thing to promote herself in order to attract more fans.
wanted to "rescue" her fans and began to boycott her, and they thought this was a low-level hype incident, but the hype method was relatively new.
Regarding this, Joyce and her family dispelled the rumors once again in an interview with The Guardian:
was a complete accident-everything is unbelievable.
This is not a gimmick, we can't do all of this. This is not a planned event.
is a detective on the Internet, and the whole world is the same.
The case in the UK a few years ago is now remembered again, mainly because Joyce has disappeared "again" recently.
The person who discovered her missing this time is still a fan, the police are still involved, and the family and the police are still on the battlefield to prove her safety.
and in this incident, moreYears ago, the "kidnapping incident" was mentioned again, and everyone began to wonder if she was really under control.
is not just British netizens who like conspiracy theories so much, they like the "kidnapped" drama, at this point, the whole world is like this. The most well-known case of
is Britney Spears.
When the key words of each female singer are gossip, works, and performances, Britney's key word is "house arrest". The remarks that "Britney is controlled by her father and the team" have been circulating for many years, and the topic of FreeBritney has become a hot search on the Internet.
netizens found multiple evidence to support their judgment.
Britney’s old letter to her friend was exposed by the Daily Mail. In the letter, she referred to herself as Britney in the third person throughout the whole process; her resident singing performance was suddenly cancelled due to her father’s health problems. She expressed herself on INS Some "me time" is needed; the gossip website TMZ revealed that she had entered a health facility for treatment due to pressure from her father, and a company insider revealed that she was forced to be admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Everything is worrying. Even if Britney shot a clarification video and returned home from the treatment facility the next day in full view, countless people still thought she was under house arrest.
▲ Fans asked Britney to be free
and the Chinese social network "Shen's husband", which is popular with fans, also had a similar "control" incident not long ago. The cause of
was that someone broke the news that "a couple has passed away due to illness for half a year, but the other is kept secret, updated with the previous saved picture, and quietly took care of his account." According to the news, netizens speculated that this was "Shen's Husband", of course, also found a series of evidence to support this: Weibo after September is no longer original, the update frequency has become extremely slow, punctuation usage habits have changed, emojis will no longer be reused, and a good birthday The live broadcast drags on...
Fortunately, this rumor is easy to dispel, and it’s enough for a real person to walk around.
After being questioned and passed away, Shen Kenny reluctantly posted a video to refute the rumors. The control talk and the death talk stopped. What followed was hype and questioning. Is
a familiar formula, a familiar taste?
Some netizens silently left a message in the comment area, "The people who broke the news, the people who eat melons speculate, the host appeared to refute the rumors, and in the end everything was the host idle and nothing to speculate??"
In this regard, the Internet psychology of Bournemouth University Scientific researcher Jacqui Taylor believes this is because people in social networks are under pressure to react immediately.
This pressure intensifies group thinking because there is no time to verify facts or consider other explanations.
When people find that other people have similar opinions or emotions, and when they confirm that they are in agreement with each other, the hysterical emotions will start to become infected, and everything will spiral upward.
By acting as a detective, those who successfully share theories begin to be satisfied, and their pride emerges spontaneously. They became saviors, the only sober people in that incident. They ignore the voices of refuting rumors, refute words that are contrary to them, and are immersed in the role of savior.
But if everything reverses and the speculation turns out to be false, then the hype begins to spread. Compared with being deceived,
is too difficult to admit that you have done wrong, and conspiracy theories never lack the soil for growth.
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, Alison Attrill, said: “In all areas of our lives, we are all involved in a process called social comparison.”
Competent people compare, if he can beat them when solving a case, it will make them feel good about themselves.
social media makes this behavior affordable and accessible to people. Users do not need to receive a long education to become an investigator, everything is at their fingertips.
The police didn't find that you were kidnapped. It's okay. I found out. I will save you.
If you were not kidnapped, then I have reason to suspect that everything is just a hype carefully planned by you.
