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Playful does not essentially imply humorous: I found that the performative norms of TikTok enabled a critical kind of id play, whereby users invoked iconic poses and/or used editing tools to "morph" themselves into a feminine killer in response to male violence. Their creations, deliberately or not, function continuously as sociocultural parody which highlights our cultural obsession with serial killers, the infinite stream of media we eat on the subject (which makes up a fraction of a percentage of all crime), and the convenience with which we consume mediated violence. Yet much of the fan material, significantly the visual type, created the pastiche, non-political effect Booth considers a type of coloring inside the lines, reminiscent of setting clips of serial killers to horror film aesthetics. After some consideration, I elected not to include these within the evaluation, as they're not really "fannish" or professionalized fan materials. Nonetheless, several of the movies are positioned as an exactly proportional response to the frequency with which men really do kill girls, and continue to joke about it. Gifting still takes place, whether or not that be in the type of specially created videos and edits or appreciative comments. I additionally created a brand new account, so that the data not be overwhelmed by non-humorous or non-play content.