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Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

[jeffreydahmerwasamonster]

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

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I myself enjoy dark humor to a certain degree. I feel like this joke would have been just as effective if they had referenced a fictional killer or even a killer who has been long dead and is more of a legend than a name (like Jack the Ripper). Hannibal Lecter is a fictional killer who would have worked just as well, the joke wouldn’t have lost anything from using his name instead. 

The biggest problems I have are that it seems out of place, it brings reality to a fictional world, it names and glamorizes an actual known killer, and the creator who wanted this has expressed not wanting to name other killers because they don’t deserve to be famous. 

The issue of it being out of place is that it’s so jarring and different in the actual scene. Any fictional killer would have fit the line “Jeffrey couldn’t be here to do his cannibal cooking segment.” They could have even used their own characters considering that the joke goes out of its way to mention he’s a cannibal, so it would have worked for anyone and anything. 

The second issue with it bringing reality to fiction is that this pilot is set in Hell and it’s a Hell where everyone is (in theory) redeemable. I get that criminals will be down there, I think there’s a lot of room for dark humor down there, but I don’t think establishing that Jeffrey Dahmer exists canonically in this world was a good idea. Do the Columbine shooters have a gun-care segment on the same program? Where does the line get drawn? 

The people in the trial footage, direct relatives of Dahmer’s victims, gave their impact statements in the 90′s. They are very much still alive. If people do start getting t-shirts like they express wanting with his likeness and name, that’s horrible. 

Lastly, Vivziepop even said on her Twitter when it came to the Christchurch shootings that giving “these sick monsters” fame and publishing their names is inherently bad. But she names, depicts glamorously, and glorifies (he might be in Hell, but he’s in a redeemable Hell with his own television segment) a very real, very recent monster. It’s extremely hypocritical. If portraying killers in a positive light in a news headline encourages more killers, what does immortalizing, depicting glamorously, and publishing killers do? I don’t think this was considered. 

Once again, I am not trying to cancel the show. I am not trying to convince people not to watch the show. I do not hate the creators for this. But I believe it needs to be addressed, because I believe they did this more out of ignorance than anything else. It was done for the sake of “haha edgy humor” without considering the actual atmosphere around this man. I’d like to see this brought to their attention so that they can stop to think about it. 

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

[jeffreydahmerwasamonster]

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

[jeffreydahmerwasamonster]

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

[jeffreydahmerwasamonster]

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way. 

[jeffreydahmerwasamonster]

Jeffrey Dahmer does not deserve to be immortalized glamorously

Jeffrey Dahmer was a murderer, rapist, and cannibal who ruined the lives of the people his actions touched. There’s a plethora of information available about him and his crimes and he has been the center of a lot of fascination in documentaries and graphic novels. And relatively recently, he has been making more and more appearances in everyday media. Very recently, it has been done so in a very glamorized light. 

The first time I heard his name in common media was when the Kesha song “Cannibal” came out, quoting “I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer” in reference to eating a man. Since then, I’ve heard it in other songs, I’ve seen it on South Park and Book of Mormon, and very recently when my attention was pulled to Hazbin Hotel, I was shocked and mortified to see a very glamorized illustration of him having a “cannibal cooking show” in the episode. 

While I understand that, in theory, putting a character in Hell doesn’t seem like a very glamorous position to be in, the fact that he’s drawn so beautifully, immortalized, referenced as if he’s a popular person, and then praised by fans who express wanting t-shirts of his face on them, has been extremely distressing and has been sticking with me. The Hell he resides in is even established as a Hell where being purged is considered a bad thing and everyone is mentioned to be redeemable. 

The direct relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims are still alive today. The people who attended the trial to give statements on how his actions affected them are still very much alive. They may have heard his name on the radio in the Kesha song. They may have heard his name referenced in The Book of Mormon. And now, they may be exposed to his name and likeness once again in a glamorized immortalizing poster where he’s meant to be a joke. I think this went way too far. 

The particular image I’m referring to is here: 

And the reactions have been as follows: 

The phrase “I would kill to have a t-shirt with [Jeffrey Dahmer] on it” is what finally made me disgusted enough to want to address this. 

The people directly touched by what he did are still alive today, the people who had to face him in trial. The following video is of Rita Isbell, a woman who attended the trial to discuss how these crimes affected her and her family, her little brother being a victim of Dahmer. 

This man was killed in prison by another inmate because he “expressed no remorse for what he’d done”. He took vulnerable young men home, experimented on and raped them, murdered them, and then broke their bodies down. He drilled into the skull of a fourteen year old boy with a power drill and poured acid in through the hole. He hollowed out the body of a man to post it bent over backwards and take photographs of it. He was, in the most real way a person can be, a monster. 

I am not for media censorship. I do not believe that a higher governing body should have any right to censor the media put out. But I do believe that we, as people, as empathetic human beings, should understand the severity of glamorizing these sort of things, and should treat them with at least a basic amount of respect as topics. 

When the creator of this “joke” posts things like this on her twitter: 

Expressing that she understands how badly immortalizing these monsters affects us as a society, us as people, and glamorizes the idea of these killers for future copycat killers, it is in extremely poor taste that she also requests a glamorized, handsome rendition of a very real, very recent, very monstrous killer to be placed in a Hell where the premise is that everyone is redeemable. 

I am not for cancel culture. I do not believe that you should boycott or hurt the pilot, that you could boycott or hurt the artists involved, or that you should do anything that could hurt them or their careers. However, I do feel that this owes being addressed. I do believe that the people involved may not understand the severity of what they’re doing in actuality. I would like to leave this open for discussion with @vivziepop and @faustisse​ and I am more than willing to hold a conversation with them if they truly didn’t understand this. I would love to discuss with them how this is wrong, so that either they can argue their thinking behind this, or can hear where I am coming from and express an apology. 

If anyone closer to them could bring their attention to this, I would very much appreciate it. 

Once again, I am not attempting to get the show cancelled. I am not attempting to get the artists “cancelled”. But I do believe that they should consider these things, especially with the very impressionable audience they appeal to, and that other artists and creators alike should learn from this and refrain from making similar references in the same way.