An American teenager killed himself, setting up an online component and becoming a media star in death. There are several haunted media features:
- Suicide and digital media. We've seen this in journalism and fiction.
- Youth. The fellow was 19, connecting with anxieties about minors: their desires, their expertise.
- A dark pattern of social behavior. The audience of watchers, readers, and followers didn't act until too late. Cue charges of digitally-inspired callousness, or moral decay.
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