Sunday, January 08, 2017

Who Was The Audience?

By now, you've probably seen the story of the four blacks in Chicago who kidnapped and tortured a white, mentally disabled man, screaming racial epithets at him as they did so. The event was livestreamed to Facebook by one of the perpetrators. There have been plenty of stories and analysis of the event, but there's one question I haven't seen asked or answered.

Who was the intended audience of the video? You don't livestream a video like this to your Facebook peeps thinking they're going to hate it, you put things on Facebook expecting your friends will eat it up. From the story linked above comes this tidbit.
The suspects can be heard saying they want the video to go viral.
The four abusers look to me like the classic tip of the iceberg. Yes, you saw them and they've been arrested, but there was a large audience behind them you don't see. How did that audience give these four the sense that this was going to get rave reviews?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good question. How many "likes" and "ha has" did their video get? You know their friends have their approval.

Disgusting.

Foxfier said...

How did that audience give these four the sense that this was going to get rave reviews?

Same place that taught them that if they attack a teacher with a knife, and the teacher defends herself, she'll be fired?
(Part of why I didn't take the "free teacher education if you do just two years in a school we pick" offer when I left the Navy.)