Selena Gomez’ Netflix Show Causing Suicides

Selena Gomez was the figure head producer for Netflix’s show 13 Reasons Why, based on the novel of the same name that touched suicidal leaning teenaged girls across the nation. Troubled teen boys like anime tentacle porn. Girls more on the hemlock chugging to show everybody how hurt I am side. Hard to say which is more disturbing. The latter clearly has more long term effects.

The story is from the POV of a teen girl who suffers from all the modern teen girl problems of cyberbullying, peer pressure, super not helpful parents and social structures, and depression. Ask the hot cheerleader in high school and even she will list all of these. The main character offs herself, leaving behind thirteen audio tapes for those she blames for leading to her demise. Serial killers are less passive aggressive.

The Netflix production ran into early opposition from parents groups and mental health professionals worried that the story glamorizes, or in the least, highlights suicide as a valid form of dealing with teen angst. The show production moved forward with various corporate disclaimers, Selena Gomez speeches about the show opening up dialogues between parents and teens, and links to psychological support help and suicide prevention hotline. Posted in 35 languages. It seemed like a solid cover.

Now at least two families are blaming their teen girl’s suicide on the show. Because the girls were carefree bon vivants prior to binge watching 13 Reasons Why. You can tell simply by their descriptions in the media:

Bella Herndon was a 15-year-old who loved to read and write and was earning straight A’s as a sophomore in high school.

Priscilla Chiu was also a high school sophomore described as “precocious” and “determined.”

Naturally, TV turned them one-eighty into depressed and lost and suicidal. 

Parents have been blaming music, TV, and movies for the demise of their teens since the dawn of network and cable news outlets needing shocking child-in-danger headline stories. There’s little scientific evidence that entertainment choices are high on the list of contributing to anything kids grow up to be. Even suicidal. Basketball Diaries did not create Columbine. Batman didn’t create the Colorado mass movie theater shooting.

Creative content may provide trouble kids the dramatic fine points to their demise. It hardly matches crappy parents or grabby priests or merely merely natural human genetic and chemical defects, in terms of motivation to commit anti-social or self-destructive acts. 

Naturally, there will be hysterical parent outrage over 13 Reasons Why as if these girls wouldn’t have jumped off a bridge if Netflix weren’t around. They’re self-selecting content. Teen suicide rates are rising, but more to do with the reasons why the character in the story kills herself, than because somebody else is watching her story. It’s hard to be intelligent and objective about shit when two teen girls are dead. But it’s worth a shot.

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