True Crime Community

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The True Crime Community (TCC) is an online fandom for criminals, particularly high profile killers. [1] Several members of the TCC have gone on to commit their own crimes. [1] It has been linked to nihilistic violent extremism. [2]

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Perpetrators of various school shootings in Russia may have been involved in the fandom, [3] as well as the school shooting in Jokela in 2007. However, activity associated with the TCC increased significantly in 2024. [4]

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  1. 1 2 "How the True Crime Community generates its own killers". Institute for Strategic Dialogue. 2025-10-02. Retrieved February 22, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Ondrak, Joe (2025-12-18). "Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence". GNET. Retrieved 2026-02-22.
  3. "Сообщество тру-крайм: как интерес к убийствам превратился в подростковую субкультуру" [True Crime Community: How an interest in murder became a teenage subculture]. Afisha Daily (in Russian). January 20, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  4. Smith, Cadenhead & Broekaert 2026, p. 17.

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