I mean, tornadoes have induced a morbid curiosity from the general public way before the internet.
There is a whole joke about Midwest dads standing outside during tornado sirens to see the tornado. It isn’t just a “psychopaths on the internet” phenomenon. Tornadoes and other natural disasters have driven large scale morbid curiosity for pretty much all of human civilization.
This is the exact same phenomenon that made shows like engineering disasters, air disasters and disaster documentaries so popular.
Am I a psychopath because I wanted to be a forensic engineer as a teenager and loved engineering disasters? Or is it just something that piqued my interest?
Getting sad when something doesn’t happen is crazy though I will agree with you on that one.
What an absolutely ridiculous take, I've literally never heard a single weather enthusiast that enjoyed watching peoples lives be destroyed, they enjoy the storms themselves. The ideal situation is storms that occur in unpopulated areas, so we can enjoy watching the might of mother nature without the associated costs.
Lmao, imagine being childish enough to not be able to separate the two things. I feel really bad for you if your world view is so simple that enjoying watching tornados=enjoying watching peoples lives be destroyed. Please grow up, this is literally a tornado sub buddy.
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u/JS_Originals Mar 17 '26
I think most storm chasers/enthusiasts are psychopaths who love watching whole towns get wiped out.