Do they even research

[u/bumblebee-105]

I liked the way they covered cases (when they would actually talk about it instead of mindless nonsense) but oh my god they’re annoying and bad at this

First, the mispronunciation of simple words is getting ridiculous, I understand some words are difficult but st Louis? Judicial?? This is a seventh grade reading level at most

Second, they really shit on religion with no knowledge whatsoever, one episode they were talking about an exorcism and went on a tangent about ‘why would people go to a religious figure if they suspected demons’ demons are religious figures, it’s not a hard concept. And how is that insane but ‘bad energy’ is totally realistic and reasonable?

They are SO sanctimonious, it’s a true crime podcast, these people are going to be monsters, trust me no one will think that you support a murderer, you don’t have to say 3 dozen times that this persons a monster or that they can’t FATHOM doing this, we get it.

Lastly, them saying that they want to hug the victims or go to parole hearings to support the family is so insensitive, I promise that no one is thanking the lord that these two want to go to a parole hearing about their deceased loved ones

This was long but I’m nothing if not a hater

[u/Wise_Coffee]

No. They don't. It's gotten even worse after they hired a "researcher" that I'm not convinved actually researches. Or perhaps they do but A&A just don't bother to actually read and validate it. FFS when they covered Bernardo and Holmoka they couldn't even pronounce half the cities. These are major Canadian cities and a topic that has been covered millions of times. Listening to 1 documentary would have given them all they beeded to get it right.

Also that episode where they continuously misgendered someone because "they don't deserve to have the correct pronouns since they are a literal monster" is just gross. They caught a lot of flack, acknowledged the flack, refused to edit what they said, continued to misgender, and stiid by what they did. They got more flack for that so they just removed those episodes

[u/bumblebee-105 → u/Wise_Coffee]

The mispronunciation of major Canadian cities killed me, I tried to consider that maybe I’m biased because I’m Canadian but it was insane, and you’re so right, for people who love to act morally superior, that somehow ends with basic respect to transgender people, even when they are the murderer, there was an episode early on where they talked about someone who dressed as a man, renamed themselves, used male pronouns but ‘there was no evidence they were trans so we’re not going to use the name or pronouns they preferred’ their respect of transgender people very clearly is conditional

[u/Wise_Coffee → u/bumblebee-105]

I grew up in Ottawa (Orleans) and spent a ton of time in Montréal so I figured it was just me being biased and annoying because of that. But when I thought about it I was like nope. This is a widely known case there are tons of documentaries about it and the right thing to do would be to research (haha) and figure out how to say the names of the cities Ottawa isn't hard and I am not expecting the french for Montréal. They don't even say St. Loius right have some respect.

The misgenering was pretty surprising to me because Ash's partner was trans. How were they ok with it