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Background

Chris Watts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_family_murders) is a family annihilator who murdered his pregnant wife Shannan and two young children 2018. They were a striving middle class family in a mcmansion, with Shannan being a a stay at home mother/MLM scammer/influencer, and Chris earning relatively large sums on the oil fields. They had no recorded domestic violence history, no real criminal history, and were famously white attractive. Case got a lot of attention because the police released a lot of information, including bodycam footage of the moment Chris is confronted with evidence that his wife couldn't have run away with the kids in the way he claimed. After a day or two of telling the media he misses his disappeared family, he confesses to the crime and hundreds of hours of true crime content is born. He gets fan mail from crazies in jail to this day.

The defenders

Who would defend such a man, you ask? To answer that, we have to understand the volumous internet presence Shannan had on social media up until her murder. She posted several times a day, including livestreams, in order to shill her MLM product and present a curated picture of her 'perfect' life. These posts and streams are a morbid curiosity to people because Chris featured often, and people say you can tell he seems disinterested and disengaged even back then (to me he just seems like a guy bored by his wife's incessesant posting and filming, tbh).

Here is a compilation of relevant social media videos from Shannan to give a sense of her tone online:

Because of how widespread this is, it's near impossible to gaze upon any discussion of the topic without noticing how many people seem focussed on how unlikeable Shannan is, how hard Chris must have had it. At least until recently, reddit had snark-style subs dedicated to pooping on Shannan's online presence (which seems like a dead end considering there is only so much content she will ever produce). Shannan's personality on social media is so fundarnetally annoying and unlikeable, apparently, that hordes of people are more compelled by that than the cold blooded triple murder by her husband.

From the comments of the video above:

>Chris did not like being on camera, you can tell.

>Did she really record these massively long videos and post them on Facebook? I feel like the average person would not watch the majority of these lol

>The first one is so cringe. Everybody trying to act like they're rockin' and rollin' to some shitty cover band with zero attendance. Ick.

>She is annoying but that doesn't warrant murder

>If you are constantly filming, I don't think you are truly engaged in the moment.

>This woman was so desperately addicted to posting everything about her life online that 3 hours of online silence was all her neighbor needed to know something was wrong

(this refers to the fact that Shannan's loved ones got police involved mere hours after her middle-of-the-night murder simply because she hadn't yet posted an obnoxious video or livestream on FB that day lol)

>The dude should have just left her, the constant filming would have been enough for me. Totally unhinged behavior, when I see families in restaurants all on their phones, I just think I'm so glad I'm not you. Zero parental skills.

>He should've got the balls to tell her that, "her job isn't real, social media isn't real and I think I'm falling out of love with you."

>Shes very dismissive of Chris making him look like he's really awkward.

>I can't imagine live in relationship when my partner record everything all the time and post it ...

And so on. This isn't even one half of it. And these comments are about a woman who was violently killed by her husband while she slept.

Reddit

Anyway, Reddit somehow has allowed a large community of Shannan Watts (murder victim) snark subs to thrive. Some key posts:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/16zkuoe/shannon_watts_and_the_ridiculous_shirts/

In this post, redditors mock her for tacky t-shirts and clothes she put on the children (before their murder)

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/1g1s63h/lupus_shmupus/

In this post, Shannan is mocked for at one point saying she might have lupus but posting things on facebook that indicate she may not have lupus.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/1cigxc2/having_no_balls/

Redditors theorise to what extent did Shannan emasculate Chris, prior to her murder.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/16t49mb/i_thought_it_was_just_me/

A redditor rejoices at finding a sub of like-minded people who, like them, also hate the murder victim:

>When I first heard of this case, I was so shocked. But from the very beginning, what I learned of SW irked me. After watching the TV shows, including Netfix, I really disliked everything about her. But every media thing I read praised her. The videos I found showed her in a shining light, lol. I finally dropped it and moved on.

Lmao OP saw the coverage "woman and her two kids murdered in cold blood" and really laser focussed in how irritating the victim was.

Anyway, you can explore the sub yourself - search by top posts for most dramatic and angry redditors.

The point

I never promised I had a point. I suppose I find this drama-worthy because it's truly fascinating to me that this woman was apparently so annoying, and hit on so many of reddit's sore spots (fake disroder cringe, influence life) that it overrode the normal reddit instinct to find a female victim of her husband murdering her and her kids sympathetic. To be clear, none of these people met Shannan while she was alive or even saw her posts prior to her death. They have created an image of her post-mortem they find so infuriating they are posting about it six years later. Majority of the reddit users are women, which further excludes inceldom as a

primary motivator.

I, for one, strive to be such an annoying person that my eventual death by murder is the least interesting thing about me.

Happy hannukah!

Yes, I said all didn’t I?

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 29, 2025

As the new head mod of this hole, I need jannies to help keep it alive. You must be a member of house !femboys

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So suffuse with rage at Elon's Heated G*mer Moment is the British Government that even Starmer has 'hit out' at the Nazi c*nt in one of his latest 'uwu notice me elon' press releases

Starmer hits out by saying he would "not be happy" if somebody in his Government did it, and wouldn't confirm he was talking specifically about Musk, instead giving an evasive 'well if the cap fits...' response.

Here's one of his senior MPs unambiguously praising a man who killed sixty million people

Too scared to call out Trump's buddy in case Trump gets upset and hits us with tariffs. Truly spineless.

Frick, now even Starmer is part of Musk's gang of acolytes? How far up does this go?

'hit us with tarriffs' neighbor we don't even export anything, personally I hope he hits us with nuclear missiles

Musk-san please

Musk is a fricking nazi.

He does nazi shit, like the salute, he supports the AfD, he's seemingly paying for Tommy "But please call me Robinson as the poors won't like me with a double-barreled surname and I can't grift off 'em" Yaxley-Lennon, anti-Woke-but-not-satirically, disingenuous, lying, grifting, obsequious little narcissist.

Anyone defending Musk with "It was a heart gesture" or "He has Autism!" is talking unmitigated, willfully ignorant, racist apologist, bollocks and they fricking know it.

CRASH OUT ALERT

let me get this straight neighbor, Musk was secretly a devoted national socialist, kept this fact so well-hidden that nobody even had an inkling until he came out in support of the 1st amendment (a known nazi amendment), and in the years since then he expertly manouevered himself into a tenuous position of mediocre state power, just to throw it all away at the end by getting up on stage and throwing his best Roman?

Anyone denying it was a nazi salute is blind or wilfully ignorant

report this man for antisemitism

This is so stupid. It wasn't a salute. Why are we even wasting time on this when the economy is in tatters?

It absolutely was though

do you think we could maybe have some quality of life or-

no we HAVE to obsess over the literal hand gestures of a foreign billionaire for some reason

ARMED POLICE THERE'S AN UNLICENSED THOUGHT ON THIS PROPERTY

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A big sorry to you from the U.S.Just know that at least half of us want nothing to do with these tariffs. (-37)

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As a red blooded 'merican. I'd flip it off with you. (-11)

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And a flappy head. (199)

Can confirm. We all look exactly like South Park portrayed us.  (31)

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He even has Canadian hands (927)

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Just because a president is dumbo, and 30% of voters elected him along with his team, doesn't mean you should hate an entire country for it. This is the problem with people today—you don't realize that hatred starts from small things. Then one day, you wake up wondering, why do they hate us back? and suddenly, there's a war. Hate me or disagree with me all you want, but today it's this guy, tomorrow it will be another, and so on. This is how hatred toward an entire nation grows—because of a single person who comes to power. One leader's actions shouldn't define an entire people. (1)

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There are a lot jokes… but in reality this post is sad.The orange frick, his administration and the policies they are enacting has made an average citizen in arguably our closest ally nation feel it necessary to give us the finger.Instead of "making America great again," these pieces of shit are destroying our standing on the world stage (which was already shaky to begin with). (1)

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american tiktok users installing a chinese app (rednote) directly on their phone bc of the tiktok ban is hilarious pic.twitter.com/F9rfqarCLv

— 🐻‍❄️⁷ is happy (@userbfIy) January 13, 2025

ok I know it's probably like 10 people doing this but look how heckin cute and wholesome they are

please please please let this be how china wins think of how funny it would be omg

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-01-15/24154

It's so beautiful

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for what? this motherlover is going to be looked at less favorably than james buchanan for the immediate consequences of his presidency (180)

Wrong. Biden did A LOT of awesome shit. (-24)

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Thank you for...? What exactly? Being so terrible we ended up with a fascist in power? Being unable to beat an adjudicated male feminist business fraud billionaire robber baron felon? Neoliberals don't deserve any praise. They failed to deliver people's basic needs, and now we're going to find out how low the US can stoop. (0)

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Frick Joe Biden and frick the Democrats in general. I have voted for them consistently and consistently I've been left wanting. The democrats have no backbone. They have no will to fight. They've coasted for decades by being "the rational adult" in the room while the Republicans go further and further into the most insane levels of theocratic fascism seen since the 19fricking30s.Frick the Democrats, frick their decorum, and frick Joe Biden for being a worthless sack of bones in general. My lifespan just got statistically shortened by four fricking years because of this flaccid do-nothing excuse for a party. (0)

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He really let us down. Yes, I do think Biden's presidency overall was beneficial for the middle class, but he failed us where it mattered most—holding the previous administration accountable. The appointment of Merick Garland alone was a failure. Throw in his 180 in being a one term President, his administration hiding his mental decline, his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal (I'm a veteran of that war, that one hurt), and his failure to exit the race in a timely manner all allowed Trump to win and put us in a position to collapse as a nation.Biden did a lot of good, but his failures far outweigh his successes in my opinion. I'm a democrat for what it's worth. (281)

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tl;dr: Blake Lively () claimed that that Justin Baldoni sexually harassed her while filming a dance scene by dragging his lips down her neck and telling her 'it smells so good'. In her complaint filed last month she insisted nobody overheard the comment because the romantic montage was silent and the microphones were switched off. In fact, the microphones were on and the tapes makes clear the comment about her smelling so good was in response to Lively talking about her spray tan.

It's "their job" to be intimate when it's what they signed up for, but at the same time, it's "the job" of the director (and others) to facilitate that by creating a comfortable and safe environment. The little bit of script that was included at the beginning of the video didn't mention kissing at all. Actors are human beings, acting is an emotional process, actors on a studio film set are also workers with rights that deserve basic respect (like not being intimately touched by their boss in a way that they didn't agree to and makes them feel unsafe).

It's a kiss in a romance movie. She didn't sign up for a Disney movie and get asked to spread her holes for the camera.

The thing that gets me is that he asked consent about putting mouths near each other, but didn't get consent to nuzzle her neck. Isn't she allowed to be uncomfortable about that?

He didn't get consent to look in her general direction! Hang that man!

Is it normal for "evidence" to be released like this? I mean, shouldn't this wait for court?

It's the Depp playbook and you can tell he has the same PR smear team.

Noooooo you can't just disprove the accusations we made in public by making the evidence public NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

/u/followingwaves unironically die pls

I'm sorry, if you're so completely retarded that you're saying you and your loser cohort are stacking on peoples houses over a radio, you deserve a dragging (and honestly worse). If you're defending that, you at a minimum have earned a public shaming.

Take it and move on. pic.twitter.com/TP3lLWEA5K

— NC Scout (@Brushbeater) February 14, 2025

OP

Canadian here. Not sure if this is PreperIntel worthy but just reporting something I've honestly never seen in my life. Canadians woke up today feeling super patriotic. And super pissed. Not that we aren't usually patriotic but we aren't a bunch of flag wavers. It's more a quiet patriotism we keep to ourselves. And we are generally a polite and reserved bunch in general.

Not today. Holy... the mood in Canada is ... PISSED.

Most of the anger is aimed at your current head of state but also at your country as a whole. Not so much individual Americans. You will be perfectly safe traveling through Canada or visiting. But there is outright anger directed at any product with a "Made in the USA" flag. Every store in Canada is going around with maple leaf stickers marking the "Made in Canada" products. Consumer boycotts are springing up organically across the country. The talk is really sort of ... ugly.

I get the sense there has been significant damage done to the US Brand in Canada. And I don't think it's confined to Canada. I have friends in the UK who say the same. They are also just frankly pissed beyond all reason. I expect it's the same across Europe.

Hopefully it dies down. It's absolutely non-productive and unCanadian. America and Canada have been ride or die BFF's for a century or more. I live in Arizona 1/2 time and I love LOVE it here. I have yet to personally meet an American I didn't genuinely like. You are good people. You do not deserve any of this.

Unless of course you voted for this. In which case... hope you get everything you voted for and then some.

also RIP to /r/prepperintel, it has turned into just another 'Drumf le bad' subreddit

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