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For me is the brief satanic panic over Yugioh here in Chile
>Height of the Yugioh craze
>Some kid ACKed himself, likely because of depression or neglicence
>Father lie and say he killed himself because he followed the same ritual he saw in Yugioh "where a character sacrificed himself to later resurrect and gain more power"
>But that shit never happened. Again, this is back when the duelist kingdom arc was still airing. Shit like Marik being reduced to a single eye to power his Winged Dragon of Ra would happen years later
>Then three more cases became public (including one that happened BEFORE the one that started the mass hysteria), all accidents but were still pinned on this supposed ritual suicide As-Seen-on-Yugioh™
>The game of telephone runs wild. One version of the story adding that they followed the instructions of the "Hanged Man" card. There was no "Hanged Man" card until fucking Yugioh GX with the Arcana Force archetype. Another where the culprit was Exodia... who is chained, not hanged, and has nothing to do with sacrifice
>A deputy, wanting her minute of fame, called the national tv agency to take ygo off the airwaves
>A fucking prime time show (now lost media) called Real Threat nominated YGO as the "Threat (to society) of the Week" over someone involved in the Spiniak Case
I'll never forget that because around that same time, a classmate stole my collection of MyL cards (not ygo) and when I faced him he went "Uuuuh, didn't you see the tv? Tv says the cards are bad, so we kids shouldn't have those cards so my mom took them away :)" I'm holding that grudge like a warhammer dwarf