Another example was the movie "Joker". Some people on social media started rumours about how the movie was all about "the rage of middle aged white men", and how the movie was providing an incentive to "white violence" (whatever that even means). This spread and eventually spilled over to the mainstream media, and suddenly there were "risk of mass shootings in theathers" all over the news, and campaigning to take the movie out of theaters or at least heavily police theathers.
Meanwhile down in the real world, people just said "what?.." and went to the theaters anyway (or not). And in the end, all that's left was exactly 0 mass shootings, a nice-but-not-great movie (IMO), and another example on how Twitter (and others) is an alternate reality almost completely disconnected from the real world.
Yeah, that was a bunch of folks misunderstanding incels and assuming they must be middle aged guys. In reality, on incel forums, there were actual discussions of how this was "their movie" and they were going to shoot up movie theaters so only they could enjoy it. Of course, as with most incel crap it turned out to be so much rubbish, sure, but some folks in those communities
have actually gone through with their insanity.
Of course, considering these are also the same dingbats who can't be in the presence of anyone who isn't also an incel without feeling weak (literally, they have a term for it which I won't bother repeating here) it's entirely possible the increased security was sufficient to stop some actual plan or another. We can't really know. But to claim there was no real threat of shootings is inaccurate. There were several different posts in different incel gathering places discussing plans, at least one of which had photos of their claimed firearm collection.
Now can we get back to Cyberpunk?
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