It’s basically the “chronically online effect” but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I’m old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for “deviant” sexual acts with children. I call it the “colonizer effect” where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by “blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc” and if there isn’t anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.
It’s basically the “chronically online effect” but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I’m old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for “deviant” sexual acts with children. I call it the “colonizer effect” where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by “blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc” and if there isn’t anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.