once you're past childhood, it's not a straightforward monkey-see-monkey-do effect where people blindly repeat or mimic what they see in media, especially fiction. people love to trot out the "fiction doesn't affect reality" line, but it's really more complicated than saying "no real humans were harmed, so everything goes in fiction".
fiction is an...... reply
Of course it does! Fiction always contains many triggers. Fiction has a foothold reality base so of course even if 'it is a fictional story' being written, don't care if it is about demons, vampires, psychological genre or whatever, it has a reality basis of social and culture and cues from real life that people associate with and can cause cross...... reply
The only time fiction affects me so bad is probably doing kameha like Goku.
The effects of fiction from reality depends on anyone. For I can say I know I can separate this and that while others would copy it and end up being psychopaths and criminals. reply
Pedophiles, shotacons, lolis, rapists, assaulters, just terrible people always say the same thing, “fiction doesn’t affect reality” or along the lines of that. That says a lot of what we should know.. reply
