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As someone who sort of developed a moderate interest in true crime discussions, I was surprised to later find out that apparently the consumers of true crime literature, videos and other media are overwhelmingly middle-class suburban women / cat ladies. Then it occurred to me that my surprise isn't warranted, as it's natural that the people most likely to fantasize about true crime are the ones most secluded from its reality. This view of mine was confirmed when I've heard the argument that, supposedly, this sort of true crime media is much less popular in Latin America, the reason being that crime is much more of a daily reality there, so people are less prone to fantasize about it.
Is this argument correct in your view?
No.
True Crime is primarily a meme, it's a genre. Any debate that centers primarily around a genre, rather than centering primarily around characteristics, is going to be a debate around classification.
I agree with @coffee-enjoyer that comparing against Latin American women is problematic because they might consume similar characteristics of content in different genres. In the same way it would be silly in the 1990s to say "White kids are listening to Punk Rock and Thrash Metal, Black kids aren't, does this mean white kids are angrier than Black kids?" No, it means angry Black kids are listening to gangster rap (as are many white kids).
True Crime is just a modern form of the ghost story, the horror film, Stephen King, etc. True Crime is popular predominantly among women because it is popular predominantly among women, the content creators are designing their products around their female audience. True Crime podcasts and associated properties got really popular after Serial season 1, which I listened to multiple times, it was really a brilliant podcast possibly the GOAT. That's what created the modern form. Since then, I've tried alternative podcasts that try to recapture that feel, and they're increasingly female-coded, in ways that put me off the genre. I want to like it, but I just can't get into it, the feminine touches are too much (I should note, I have a high tolerance for feminine media, I regularly watch The Bachelor).
I think men consume the same content, just in different forms, whether it is video games or horror movies or creepypasta or whatever.
Sorry but that explains nothing.
Evaporative cooling. You start with a population that is 55/45 F/M, podcasts that cater to women in various ways will do better but turn some men off, it drifts to 60/40, the process repeats with increasing speed.
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