PR: After a dude falls into depression due to inexplicably thinking he can't work and paint, or work and have friends, or work and have a couple, instead of doing less overtime or looking for a more relaxed job, he decides to post a thread about possible suicide on Reddit, where someone becomes his "Guardian Angel" (whose name he hasn't even read) simply by saying, "Maybe you should find an outlet for your negative feelings, like, IDK, painting or something."
The MC quits his job and starts his career as a painter, and he, inexplicably, since he had basically no training other than some classes when he was twelve, starts selling commissioned works.
This part is very strange, since the dude is in some sort of frantic happiness that seems drug-induced, based on the sudden shift from suicidal depression to dream life with zero transition; I guess that job really was bad.
Like in every killer documentary, and in line with the events beforehand, the transition from normal dude to killer was something like, "He was a nice lad... until he wasn't!" since he goes haywire when people post negative opinions about his work and literally tracks some teen down to beat him up (he says, "I wasn't planning on doing any physical harm to him!" but, like hell, we believe the guy browsed the net for days and traveled to another state just to rat him out to his parents), which he does.
So, a couple of things: the protagonist seems to mistake simply Googling stuff for "hacking"; literally, all he does is open a few links from Reddit to Facebook, gets lucky, and happens to find the kid's address there. He has the audacity to call that "hacking," saying, "Hacking is not as hard as Hollywood makes it seem," and even that is false; characters in Hollywood films hack into the Pentagon alone with a crappy laptop; they make it seem too easy.
Anyway, he goes to the house and "blacks out," recovering consciousness with the teen beaten up and bleeding on the floor. That's the other thing: why did he "black out"? He doesn't have any history of DID or similar mental illness that would justify that random ellipsis, and to make it worse, when he actually kills the teen, he doesn't black out, so that makes the first amnesia thing look even more random.
One thing to note is the terrible management of the situation the MC has; kidnapping the kid and taking him to his apartment without even thinking about how he'd justify that to a possible police stop for his license somewhere across the two states or to the neighbors seeing him walk in with some stranger, black-and-blue kid.
It's funny that the teen, having been kidnapped and beaten by the dude he recognizes as having trolled online, instead of pleading for forgiveness, taunts him for some reason; he goes like, "(gurgling in his own blood) You really are a shitty artist." Let's just pause here and say it: He deserved to die. You taunt your kidnapper; what's wrong with you?
Anyway, there's a cool plot twist where the teen is revealed to be the Guardian Angel, aka the dude advertising himself as a painter on a suicide thread, "Dark_Paintor97." But the story goes downhill from here; there's this pedophile/necrophile community that were just posting pics online, very realistic, and just happen to hang around some local pizza shop near MC's house. Wow, what are the odds?
He does some weird moves that seem out of "Catch a Predator," pretending to be a teenage girl to get blackmail material and having the mortician deal with the corpse on his behalf; all very strange and forced. It was a long shot to hyperlink to Dark_Paintor's home address, but it can happen; this is just ridiculous.
But the worst is the ending, where, after a killing spree where he inexplicably doesn't get caught at any point, he flees town and now "posts horror stories with a fake name, fishing for critic or slightly harsh comments to get new victims." Terrible plot twist, in my opinion, and I'm not even commenting on how lowly it looks to coerce your readers into giving positive feedback. "Uhhh, yeah, I'm a killer; if you don't like my story, I'm gonna kill you; uhhh."
It's entertaining for the most part, but there's a lot of overusing statistics and drawing bad conclusions from them, and a lot of repeating "picture this, picture that, now picture this"; I swear, half the text is statistics and repeating the terrible title of the story. Fun? At parts, mostly due to the absurdity of the concept, but far from being notable. 4/10.
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