cyberdora wrote:
I think it illustrates that some bored wealthy people engage in hidden activities in order to quench depraved desires.
"Depraved" or otherwise. Unless someone is actually being harmed, "depraved" is a subjective value judgment on your part.
Of course, some rich folks (such as Jeffrey Epstein, to name a glaringly obvious example) do have hobbies that are truly harmful.
And there are also plenty of rich folks who pressure governments do truly harmful things to the rest of us, not as a hobby and not out of boredom, but out of sheer greed.
cyberdora wrote:
Cosplaying vampires is likely the tip of the iceberg.
Cosplay, in its many varieties (the "vampire lifestyler" scene being just one of the many genres of cosplay), isn't just a rich person's thing. Plenty of middle-class and even working-class folks have been known to indulge in it too.
cyberdora wrote:
In Victorian Britain seances and Ouija boards to communicate with spirits was all the rage. the list is endless. everything from secret societies engaging in sacrifice
Your evidence of "secret societies engaging in sacrifice"???
Here you seem to be entering Satanic panic territory.
cyberdora wrote:
all the way to paying mercenaries to enter war zones and hunt civilians. the concept plays out in popular cinema from James Bond to Squid games.
Not sure exactly what you are referring to here, but there are indeed plenty of real-world horrors that the greedy plutocrats who now run our government have been happily sponsoring abroad, such as Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
cyberdora wrote:
In that regard cosplaying vampires is tame.
Not just "tame" but completely irrelevant to the real-life horrors going on in today's world.
cyberdora wrote:
I'm guessing Vampire genre had it's heyday with young people during the twighlight era.
There have been many waves of pop-cultural interest in vampires over the past several decades. The "Twilight" era was just one of them.
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