• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m positive the caption is made up for a joke. The only places that talk about the true origin are subreddits which all seem to say it was drawn in a military bunker.

    • randint@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      As a Taiwanese, I can confirm the caption was made up. I just looked up “life sentence” and “suicide” in Chinese and got no relevant results. The vibe of the picture does look Taiwanese though

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        1 year ago

        Hasn’t there been a recent trend where the media doesn’t talk about suicides that happened because of copycat suicides that can occur after reporting it?

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          There has been this trend indeed, but I do still see news reports about suicides every now and then.

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          Love the approach of lowering suicide rates by not talking about