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>Why I think it's reductive
This is the bigger problem. It's inherently limiting. "Just add whatever horror movie on top of that and you have a plot for vampire" puts you in an extremely limited window of what you can do. One of the things I like about vampire is you can play it many different ways, you can have high level political intrigue, a holy war of the damned, a study of the human condition, a classical tragedy, or the tale of normal people having their lives turned upside down, to name a few.
So when people repeatedly reduce VtM to a mafia movie but with vampires, especially as a way to shorthand its themes or what it plays like to prospective players, it can put them into a mindset that becomes very hard to break out of. You see this in the D&D community with the people who refuse to stop playing 5e, even when they want to do things that D&D in general, let alone 5e, is unfit to run.
To liken it to something as narrow as organized crime or more accurately the pop-culture perception of organized crime is needlessly limiting what someone can do with VtM, when it is frankly capable of doing so many more interesting things.
Even if I were to accept that it were a reasonable comparison, its overuse does a disservice to the other comparisons one could make. It isn't helped that I typically see this view pushed by tabletop youtubers, who are frankly infamous for reductive, moronic takes designed to make nogaems clap.
