Spawnism Spawnism Carving Pixels into Flesh: Cult Coding Children Into Self-Harm and Online Child Sexual Exploitation Executive Summary Spawnism is a fringe but growing self‑harm movement rooted in the Roblox horror game Forsaken. Although the game’s developers confirmed the cult is fictional, online actors repackaged the lore as doctrine: carving the spawn icon into one’s skin or making “sacrifices” in‑game will trigger
Slender Man The Eleven-Year History of the Media-Fiction Effects that Underpin Participatory Nihilistic Violence It is the intention of this article to highlight and examine the socio-cognitive media affordances at play when online participatory myth-making turns to offline action. Though the media myth effects at play have existed for as long as the Internet has been established, a stabbing in Wisconsin in 2014 highlights
