The invention of the internet has made it easy for people to access the world’s knowledge. With only a few clicks, one can find an innumerable quantity of information, from the relevant and helpful to the absolutely unnecessary. However, it happens every now and then that our curiosity takes us to some weird and unexpected places full of random content that are impossible to look away from.
If you’re a fan of funnily odd and mildly disturbing things, let us introduce you to the Twitter page "@crim_tweets_”. It is a place full of humorous crime tweets that might be amusing to some and slightly unsettling to others. Scroll down for some of the most criminal tweets.
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The Twitter account @crim_tweets_ was created not so long ago, in January 2022. Over the last year, the page has gained more than 831 thousand followers that enjoy a dark sense of humor. From people joking about running over a dog named “5 miles” to sharing pictures of a police car being parked in a mother and child bay, this place is full of ridiculous and humorous tweets that can take a darker turn.
To get a deeper understanding of dark-themed humor and memes online, we reached out to Deborah S. Bowen, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of PR Instruction at the University of South Florida. Scroll down to read the whole interview!
He has harmed my people! He must pay! Start the war!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cats should be indoors ONLY, especially places where coyotes live! I live in Coyote Central and my two kitties are indoors only. I had an outdoors cat when I was a kid because my mom would not allow pets in my house, and I literally lived in fear daily that she was going to get eaten by a coyote or hit by a car and I'd NEVER KNOW because she'd just disappear.
Same happened to mine. Should have gotten her chipped
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That was my first thought. Why hasn't the shelter started asking questions.
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I'm with his daughter. Shelter cats have no idea how to defend themselves in the wild, especially with coyotes etc! This guy should be *banned* from getting shelter cats.
The shelter would start asking questions after the first dozen or so, no?
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Someone has to warn all the shelters in the area not to adopt to this idiot!
My mother told a somewhat similar story. Someone she knows got new cats to replace the lost ones. I asked where she lives and I stated that there are sightings of lynx in the area. So the woman fed the lynx.
Keep your cats indoors! Full stop! No excuses! If you can't keep a cat indoors DON'T GET A CAT
I think it depends on where you live (some areas of the world aren't as dangerous for cats as others), but overall, I agree. Where I live for sure cats need to be indoors. Too many coyotes and hawks and roaming neighborhood dogs. My cat is 100% indoors and prefers it that way. I had planned to leash train him, but I quickly learned he had no interest whatsoever in the outdoors. I could leave every door wide open and he'd just stare at me, like "nah, I'm good".
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Friendly reminder that outdoor cats live half as long as purely indoor cats. Keeping your cats indoors also prevents them from contributing to the extinction of many species of songbirds.
Not even half. An outdoor cat lives 2-5 years. Indoor 10-20. Half is absolute best case scenario, but it ranges all the way to a tenth as long. If you're worried about exploration and quality of life, maybe build a catio or walk your cat with a leash and harness. It's not hard to train them and they enjoy it as much as dogs (assuming your cat isn't a weirdo like mine who has no interest in going outside). We're in the process of the catio option so he can watch and listen to his birds but still feel safe.
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Hey Mike, have you bothered to inform the shelter? I think they'd like to know about this, don't you? Although, this doesn't sound like a real animal shelter because this guy should've raised a couple red flags by now.
Tell the shelter so they stop adopting to him. Indoor cats live longer.
He’s got a lot of explaining to do to his daughter. None of which she’ll believe. Kids are smart. Now that she knows, she will never forget.
The shelters around here charge over $100 to adopt an animal. I'd like to think that would have stopped this guy.
Hopefully they alerted the shelters so they stop letting that idiot adopt live bait.
Right now here in North Ga. We have a coyote problem. We as humans have destroyed their natural habitats to make more room for humans that have no more regard for wildlife or their habitats. All the wild predators are moving into the cities and suburbs, like humans did. Yet, many of these humans still like to think their kitties and small dogs are safe outside from being attacked and likely eaten by these predators! They just want to complain and get them killed! I would love to tell them just how many rats and mice they eat snd that if they were killed off, those rodents would all come right back to our trash and messes we create... Seemingly just for them!
I literally started tearing up after reading this. What a horrible thing to do
and at that human society keep giving those cats to this man? No light-bulb moment there?
REALLY? Notify all area shelters NOT to let this IDIOT to adopt any more cats!
This is horrible and I lost a cat to coyotes....but damn if I didn't laugh. BTW, I keep my "outdoor cats" inside at night
I don't like a shelter that just gives this person a new cat, without bothering to find out what happened to the last one.
Hum, why don't the coyotes eat the neighbor, probably stop them from eating anything living
@primawesome plagiarized this ‐‐ and did a pjss-poor job at it! Original post is actually (darkly) funny.
The shelter doesn't find anything suspicious? They don't bother to investigate if he's an animal hoarder buying a new cat every two weeks?
what a stupid and horrible person. keep them in! where it's safe! where they can't kill 100+ birds a year.
I think I have heard a similar story, only this one involved Florida Man, alligators, and fluffy dogs.
Natural indeed! It’s the circle of life! Coyotes eat cats, coyotes die and fertilize the ground, and cats eat the gra-…..wait actually the cats really are being screwed over in this.
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NOT FUNNY!! The person who shared this is as repulsive, IMO. He needs to report the individual to the shelter. These are living beings. Not house plants. GEEZ!! No wonder society is messed up!!
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You can tell this is a fake tweet, 4 Million likes, and The Dude's reply got 480k likes in 4 seconds. Anyways still pretty funny.
The use of the internet has made it more common for people to consume and share dark-themed content. It's intriguing that despite the negative emotions that this kind of stuff can evoke, a lot of internet users are nevertheless drawn to it. But why are we attracted to odd or mildly unsettling things online? Deborah S. Bowen explains that we are drawn to dark-themed content in general. “Horror movies, scary stories, true-crime podcasts... it's easy to see how our minds turn to the unsettling. It gives us a thrill, quite literally; horror and dark content offers us a little adrenaline dump, a tiny frisson of fear that, paradoxically, allows us to feel safe as we realize we are lying in a room, watching American Horror Story, but we're not in any ‘real’ danger. We love to immerse ourselves vicariously into new and stimulating situations that we would never experience in the real world, and these novel experiences help us to understand how we might approach different situations, no matter how unlikely they might seem.”
The Twitter account “Criminal Tweets” shares content that might be amusing to some and slightly unsettling to others. Obviously, the intention of this page is to make fun of the criminal-like posts people share online. The question then arises: has social media had some sort of effect on our perception of morality and justice? Deborah S. Bowen shared that the old debates about heavy metal music and violent video games rear their head every time we discuss the openness of the internet and the access it allows to content we had never even dreamed of. “Old sites like Rotten.com were literally created to post the most egregiously shocking content that one could want. YouTube users can find all kinds of horrific content on that platform as well. And all of this is real, not some CGI attempts to shock and dismay.”
My ex husband told me about the time his parents brought the ashes of their deceased dog home. The dog was very old and died of natural causes. While his parents were out, my ex took the little tin and tied a string around it. He then tugged on the string and said "come on Bowser, roll over." Then when the tin fell on its side he said "play dead....good boy!". His teenage sister could not stop laughing.
“Desensitization is a very real phenomenon, one that holds that the more we are exposed to negative stimuli, the less we react negatively to it. Exposure therapy operates under this premise. Social media allows us to consume a steady diet of real and terrible events, recorded by citizen journalists. It feeds us bullying, divisive rhetoric and unfounded conspiracies. There is no question that our reliance on and love for social media has made a mark on our collective character.”
Hmm... I'm not sure if this is evil... or just good business strategy. XD
“Gallows humor, the use of grim and ironic jokes or comments in the face of desperate situations, is a coping mechanism that many of us use when we are faced with a hopeless situation. As our reliance on social media grows, gallows humor becomes a way to deflect attention away from the fact that we are either too overcome with emotion at the content we are seeing to respond appropriately -- or that we just don't care at all. Snarky comments can be a defense mechanism and a legitimate way to express our lack of shock and surprise, it's often hard to tell when someone is having a legitimately negative reaction to a piece of startling content online, or if they are just reacting in a way to make them seem ‘cool’ and detached. There is no question that the proliferation of negative content on so many platforms with almost unfettered access has affected our collective ability to be truly taken aback. In light of the racial and religious violence we see in the world around us, the idea that we ‘care less’ is troubling,” Deborah S. Bowen shared.
Social media is a breeding ground for all types of content, including those that are disturbing and even criminal in nature. While some people find posts or memes that make light of serious situations, such as death and tragedy, humorous and an escape from the stresses of daily life, others argue that they can have a negative impact on our well-being and perception of reality.
According to Deborah S. Bowen, many people take comfort in “gallows humor”, at laughing off that which is "too scary" or "too real." “But when everything becomes a joke, does that mean that we aren't treating negativity with the gravitas it deserves? Think of the ‘influencer’ taking a fun selfie at Auschwitz; the reductive posing and the laissez-faire attitude with which people co-opt awful situations can certainly alter the perception of the serious site, for example. When negative situations are not addressed with the respect they might be offered, then they lose their power to horrify. This can definitely affect our perception of reality. When nothing is so awful that it commands quiet awe or a deep and reverent respect, how are we supposed to deal with the personal nightmare scenarios that might affect us — nightmare scenarios like the death of a loved one, or a permanent illness? Social media is undoubtedly forcing users to learn to process trauma in new ways, but it is the job of the individual to ensure that they never lose touch with the compassion and kindness that makes us truly human.”
You always gotta be blasting music with headphones when you are going though all the speed bumps in the school zone
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I would be in the ER a lot because I wouldn't be able to stop hugging my koffing ♡
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The number of people in the comments taking joke tweets seriously is way too g/d high.
hella agreed. People need to pull down their shorts and slide on the ice
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Can I post a photo instead? Too many numbers to write down!
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The number of people in the comments taking joke tweets seriously is way too g/d high.
hella agreed. People need to pull down their shorts and slide on the ice
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Can I post a photo instead? Too many numbers to write down!
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