Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube Shooting, and the Anxiety of Demonetization
In the now all-too-familiar search for a motive that follows mass shootings in America, few recent cases have provided as seemingly clear a narrative as that of Nasim Aghdam, the woman who sneaked into the headquarters of YouTube, in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday and opened fire with a handgun, wounding three employees before killing herself. Aghdam was a YouTube content creator by trade; she starred in her own kookily amateurish music videos, sketches, fitness how-tos, and rants, many promoting veganism and all filmed in the same eerie, oversaturated hue.
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