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How does one go from McDonalds manager to mummified corpse found in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights?
First, getradicalizedon mid-aughts-era blogs and start touting New Age spirituality beliefs and posting endlessly about themonline.
She was also a YouTube livestreamer.
Its the era of parasocial, and often money-seeking, self-promotion after all.
Olson began the project three weeks after Carlsons body was found in April 2021.
People looking to make sense of a reality that just doesnt work for a lot of America anymore.
The ideology that [Carlson] espoused took on a life of its own.
Her followers so were intent on her being God that they neglected her humanity.
Carlson is patient zero of the series as someone miserable in her own reality.
And he says that being on the internet is a lot like dreaming because you lose control over it.
Its like a boat floating downstream and that stream takes you where its going to go.
