#web sleuthing

[yes-shewrites]

Websleuths. Dumbasses.

Fuck true crime part 2

The true crime genre grows more popular with each passing year. It’s a multifaceted industry between all the Netflix documentaries, TV shows, podcasts and YouTube channels that sickeningly profit off of other people's personal tragedies for monetary gain. 

But what if sensationalism wasn’t the tip of the iceberg? Introducing websleuths, true crime fans even higher off their asses. They think they’re smarter and more capable than law enforcement and dedicate their spare time to cracking cold cases from their mothers’ basements. They even have their own website! (Note that the term websleuth applies to everybody online that does this though, not just the people in this particular corner of the internet.)

I can’t even begin to describe how dumb these people are. They have a combined iq of five. Their “sleuthing” is them bouncing the same outlandish conspiracies off each other. None of them, including their so-called “experts,” know the first thing about criminology, but they pretend they’re better than the police. Inventing conspiracy theories isn’t going to solve a murder. Leave the investigating to the actual detectives, guys.

Honestly though, we shouldn’t be laughing at them. I mean, we should, but we should also be creeped out. Their intrigue borders obsession. A bunch of the members have profile pics of iconic missing persons, and they post all sorts of creepy messages that go something like, “Poor little sweet precious baby heavenly star we hope u find your way home soon God will avenge u xoxoxoxoxo ily <333.” Get help.  

Most websleuths are relatively harmless clowns who exist purely to make fools of themselves for our entertainment. However, there are cases where sleuths have genuinely harmed victims, their families and active investigations by being nosy, delusional motherfuckers.

For example, take the disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil, a toddler who vanished from a playground in San Antonio. True crime fans started a vicious racist conspiracy theory that basically goes like this: Lina’s parents are muslim Afghani refugees, so they must have murdered/sold their child and covered it up, because, you know. For more detail, here is a link to one of the many posts on true crime subreddits perpetuating this lunatic speculation. Lina’s parents were harassed in public to such an extent that they stopped hosting community searches. 

Leave it to a bunch of armchair detectives to hinder a missing person investigation with their stupid ass conspiracies. These people are grieving the loss of their child for fuck’s sake. Keep it to yourselves if you guys think they’re suspicious. That’s for cops to decide, not you.

Another remarkably similar example is Dulce María Alavez. Like Lina, Dulce was also abducted from a playground while her mother’s back was turned. Noema Alavez Perez was a teen mom and high school dropout with a history of substance abuse. She was too busy partying to play an active role in her children’s lives, who were primarily raised by their grandparents. Not the cleanest parenting track record. On the day Dulce was kidnapped, Noema was distracted in her car 30 yards away from where her daughter was playing.

Yes, Noema was irresponsible. But the online harassment she has been subjected to is uncalled for. Scroll through any given online forum and you have a bunch of keyboard warriors calling her a “welfare bum” and a “whore,” making racist remarks (she’s Hispanic), pinning Dulce’s disappearance on her and even accusing her of selling her daughter into sex slavery. E.g. This documentary and this Facebook post. Apparently, she’s suspicious because she’s not bawling her eyes out on TV. Never mind that emotional numbness is a common symptom of grief, trauma and depression. The language barrier totally isn’t a factor either. 

Good grief. She was an immature teenager who made a terrible mistake that’s going to haunt her for the rest of her life, not a sociopath behind her daughter’s disappearance. What’s even sadder about the whole situation is that from the looks of it, Noema has really turned her life around since 2019. But that doesn’t matter to the self-righteous internet sleuths and their warped sense of justice—guilty until proven innocent.

#truecrimecommunity #web sleuthing #fucking idiots #true cringe community

[runawayjusticeteam]

#truecrime #armchair #web sleuthing #moscow idaho

[tinseltownie]

I’m sorry but has Oscar been hanging out with Lando and Max this whole time and there’s only ONE PICTURE OF IT???

#formula 1 #lando norris #oscar piastri #landoscar #someone better than me do some sleuthing #and not like #I mean don’t follow them around the city or anything #just search the inter webs #f1

[bimbows-xp]

Shit just got real...

Made this Problem Sleuth stamp bc I recently began reading and loving it.

#problem sleuth #mspa #stamp #da stamps #deviantart stamps #webcore #2000s #old web #flashing //

[thefoilguy]

Problem Sleuth - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

#problem sleuth #problem sleuth fanart #problem sleuth art #private investigator #detective #foil #sculpture #fanart #web comic

[sadbeautifutragic]

people are spreading conspiracies about the carlee russell case. i think it's too soon to be jumping to conclusions like that :/

#i'd rather believe a person's story than risk the chances of falsely accusing them of lying about a traumatic experience #times like these are why i'm fed up with internet web sleuths because we don't have information

[swampcanum]

MOTE!

The tumblr powered forum adventure about funny little spacemen getting into big trouble is now on chapter three! Featuring all new jokes, weird fake science, and animations! See what tons of people online are saying is "pretty good!"

Click here if you're a new reader!

Or Here if you've read chapters 1 & 2 already!

If you're seeing this give it a shot! We need a ton of user submitted commands to keep the story going in fast and fun directions and you could be part of it! Heck send a command even if you think it's dumb!

Here try it!

#web comic #animation #inspired by problem sleuth #inspired by among us #inspired by portal #inspired by hitchhiker's guide #artists on tumblr #mspfa #flashing lights #animated gif #eye strain

[kitsunabi]

The Mesmerizing Dream at Sea web event chibis are so adorable! I made more gifs again

#genshin impact #Mesmerizing Dream at Sea #paimon #kaedehara kazuha #xinyan #fischl #mona megistus #GI Gifs #i'm starting to learn that I'm actually a web event gif-er hobbyist #also turns out i hate shaky cam bc gif-ing was a pain for kazuha and a few others #mona's turned out nicer than i thought it would! #it occurred to me too late that i could have gif'd the traveler and paimon when they were dream sleuthing but ah well OTL #i suppose if this keeps up i'm going to need a tag for these

[voxceleste]

Reading true crime reddit posts so I can convincingly write the parts of my fic wip that are fake true crime reddit posts. Receiving unimaginable psychic damage. I suffer so much for the integrity of my art

#even in my big true crime phase I could not deal with redditors lmao #Web sleuth redditors. To be clear

[avagarde]

Happy Mote-Versary

Who knows how many more we'll go on for, but I will say, this first year of the comic has been some of the sweetest work I've ever done.

In the meantime please checkout motecomic.tumblr.com and hit START READING if you're new or CHAPTER SELECT if you're getting back in

#mote comic #comics #mspfa #ava draws #web comic #free stories #choose your own adventure #inspired by among us #inspired by problem sleuth

[glassesandpassion]

🖤Miyako’s Heartbreaking Ex-Beau List🖤

No. 4: Takumi Aiba

With the bonds between the Digital World and the Real World straightened, new issues begin to rise, and with them, new solutions. One of them was Takumi Aiba, known as the Cyber Sleuth, a Chosen Child who used his D-3 to hop around both worlds and solve digimon-related cases. But, as skilled as Takumi may be, he still had trouble landing after going through a Digital Gate. That's when he met the Computer Club President Miyako. It was love at first sight: he was cute, he was sweet, he was good-looking, he was smart, he fell from her computer right into her arms. Takumi wasn't good at talking, but Miyako and his digimon partner Terriermon more than made up for it. Unfortunately the detective, despite being loving, was far too busy with his duties. There simply wasn't enough time for his (very) needy girlfriend. The one who ended the relationship was Miyako. She wanted the 1st place in her his heart, which was the one thing the Cyber Sleuth couldn't give her.

#Tripping On The Miyannaise | Headcanons #Dubious Logomark Designing | Personal Drawings #{takumi was harder to draw in tri style than expected} #{idk if i like it but idk if i like any of these lmao} #{'ive never played cyber sleuth sleuth i'm poor bye} #World Wide Chosen Web | The Digimon Network #Miyako's Heartbreaking Ex-Beau List | Shipping Headcanon

[daaaahmer]

Anybody following the Dave Mckissen craziness on Facebook?

#Dave mckissen #tcc #true crime #crime accusations #crime #criminal #criminology #web sleuths

[busylazy]

One episode and already Most Liked? Why? Watches first then Internet sleuth mode on.

Oh, it is cute! And so I read all four books in summary.

One element caught my eye, PTSD. This is something kids who grew up from abusive homes can probably relate with or completely avoid as it may be triggering.

I'm satisfied from the web detective mode results but felt the secondhand trauma as well.

#my happy marriage #netflix adaptation #anime adaptation #tw ptsd #childhood ptsd #ptsd flashbacks #manga #internet sleuth #web detective #anime #most liked

[the-koma-gazette]

Digimon Seekers Chapter 1.11 Thoughts (Spoilers)

This Chapter was by far the most poorly translated chapter so far. It reminded me of late 2000s manga fan translations and was formatted wonkily.

The Chapter starts with Loogamon talking to a chuumon, I think? This part was almost unreadable and I couldn't follow anything they were saying, but they also changed Loogamon to Lugamon for some reason. Kowloon Castle was mentioned and I found this interesting as in the Cyber Sleuth games you can go to the Kowloon Servers.

After this, it explains how the Mind Link connects Eiji to Loogamon's DigiCore to feel his senses. And that was pretty much all for this chapter. Nothing really happened from what I could understand anyways.

Overall, I have no thoughts on this chapter besides Disappointment in how poorly translated it was and the Cyber Story mention was cool. Hopefully, they improve the translations for the future chapter because this one really killed my excitement.

#digimon #digimon seekers #web novel #loogamon #digimon story cyber sleuth

[charliadamswriter]

The Nature of Secrets (Finley O’Sullivan Book 2) by Debra Web

Legal investigator Finley O’Sullivan has had a difficult year in the wake of her husband’s murder. But in her line of work, there’s no time to grieve. Her job is to protect the firm’s clients and defend their innocence through grueling investigative work.Ellen Winthrop is a force to be reckoned with in the financial world. In a male-dominated industry, she shattered the glass ceiling by…

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#ARC Review #book #Crime #crime fiction #Debra Web #Fiction #Finley O’Sullivan Book 2 #Finley O’Sullivan series #Mystery #mystery thriller #NetGalley #Police Procedurals #The Nature of Secrets #Thriller #Women Sleuths

[dingbingbats]

Why the hell is there thematic and plot beat overlap between arata digimonstorycybersleuth and taylor wormwebserial

#wormposting #digiposting #digimon cyber sleuth #worm web serial #something something turning into monsters willingly #and to try to save those they care about after past failings #and both ending with the characters being able to live happily ever after in another world #all because somebody saw the humanity and reason for the monster they became