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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9849249" data-attributes="member: 18">Keeping it short because off-topic - I think it's always been a major issue but the way the press operated before 24 hour news and the internet, it was generally in their interests to play it off as &quot;funny eccentricity&quot; or euphemise the hell out of it - i.e. &quot;He's a ladies man&quot; (meaning &quot;he chases 13-year-olds around&quot;), and celebs didn't have the same ability to dob themselves in, because they couldn't get on Twitter and say &quot;Maybe we should politely genocide [powerless minority group] because they mildly annoyed me!&quot;. I guarantee you had Twitter existed in say, 1960, we'd have some amazing information exactly who Elvis thought should be executed, say.Part of it is definitely age too - an awful lot of these people suddenly tilt from &quot;has some weird ideas, or &quot;kind of a jerk&quot; or &quot;seems like a creep maybe&quot; to outright frothing nutcasery in their 50s and 60s (feels like if you make it to 70 without becoming a monster, you'll probably stay fine), I guess because of some combination of early-onset dementia, &quot;I have too much money to care&quot;, &quot;People don't listen to me anymore!&quot; and so on.God this could probably be applied to superheroes with chilling effect too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9849249, member: 18"] Keeping it short because off-topic - I think it's always been a major issue but the way the press operated before 24 hour news and the internet, it was generally in their interests to play it off as "funny eccentricity" or euphemise the hell out of it - i.e. "He's a ladies man" (meaning "he chases 13-year-olds around"), and celebs didn't have the same ability to dob themselves in, because they couldn't get on Twitter and say "Maybe we should politely genocide [powerless minority group] because they mildly annoyed me!". I guarantee you had Twitter existed in say, 1960, we'd have some amazing information exactly who Elvis thought should be executed, say. Part of it is definitely age too - an awful lot of these people suddenly tilt from "has some weird ideas, or "kind of a jerk" or "seems like a creep maybe" to outright frothing nutcasery in their 50s and 60s (feels like if you make it to 70 without becoming a monster, you'll probably stay fine), I guess because of some combination of early-onset dementia, "I have too much money to care", "People don't listen to me anymore!" and so on. God this could probably be applied to superheroes with chilling effect too. [/QUOTE]

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