I hate when somebody is recorded having a genuine medical emergency and it goes viral because they “look possessed.”
I’ve seen so much horror slop where somebody is recorded having a seizure, a psychotic episode, or something caused by an abnormality in their brain and instead of it being treated the way it should be, people spread the idea that they’re probably “possessed” or “cursed” or they “did witchcraft.” It’s so genuinely disgusting and insensitive. In the video pictured, a man has a seizure that looks a bit “out of the ordinary,” so it’s treated like something supernatural is happening. In the same video, a clip of a young girl is shown where she is literally DYING. And despite the revelation that bacteria was found in her brain during her autopsy, people are preferring to say it was because her friends put a curse on her, and instead of getting her the help she needed, the people around her just record- as if it’s some Genovese effect. If a seizure I had was recorded and people started saying I was possessed, I would genuinely feel so angry and embarrassed over being belittled online and made a spectacle for something I can’t control.