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   VillainousHanacha
   

   Specifically I mean has any piece of media given you DIAA (or Darkness Induced Audience Apathy)

   http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarknessInducedAudienceApathy

   For those who don't feel like clicking the link, here is the short verion:

   Darkness Induced Audience Apathy (Which I shall refer to as DIAA) is when the plot, premise, characters or any combimation of them is too dark and bleak for there to be any meaningful conflict, and you as a viewer, reader or player just stop caring about it. The conflict is so bleak and dreary that you feel that nomater which side prevails, everything will be just as shitty regardless. The story and conflict does not feel meaningful because of that, and thereby you don't care about the work in general.

   Have you ever expirienced DIAA yourself, and if so, what work of fiction was it and why do you feel that way? Do you feel that DIAA is even a real thing or do you think it even applies to you?

   You are free to use any work of fiction, Anime, Manga, Games, Books, Comics, Cartoons, Movies, or Live Action TV.

   (I will post my own opinions on a latter date)

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2. 

   Mere
   

   Prometheus.

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3. 

   Kudi
   

   This thread

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4. 

   คภєк๏
   

   I'll follow the link, but I might not be back for a while.

   Edit: On second thought, since I just mentioned it in another thread recently... Kids.

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5. 

   giascle
   

   I almost closed the thread as soon as you linked to TVTropes, but thankfully you explained it yourself.

   I guess Madoka counts; it becomes obvious early on that no matter what happens, things are going to turn for the worse. It was almost impossible for me to care about the "conflict," because when you know the outcome, there really isn't any conflict at all. I feel the same way about stories like Oyasumi Punpun, in which every character has to have some kind of trauma: in trying so hard to show the cruelties of reality, it ironically becomes unrealistic.

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6. 

   Mistress Antika
   

   >Your mothers asshole.

   Was my reflex answer. Then the other answer would be: Nope, haven't found something like that yet.

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7. 

   Pacpon
   

   About 30% of my news feed on facebook. I don't know how some of these people go on with their lives.

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8. 

   Dan Hibiki
   

   Code Geass.

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9. 

   Pyrus
   

   Ethan Frome. It was a novel I had to read in high school.

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10. 

    桂 言葉 死
    

    Though much has been seen/read through my lifetime, via all mentioned media, I have (yet) to see anything too dark or depressing...

    Dystopia would probably be close, but even that theme, is acceptable...

    I guess I just like darkness themed situations...

    

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11. 

    Neat Hedgehog (2009/11/8 - 2014/03/06)
    

    Closest I ever came to it was a few episodes of Kino no Tabi, and all of Texhnolyze, but never really tuned out completely due to "dark" atmosphere.

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12. 

    Envoy Loves You
    

    Depressing (depends on mood when viewing)
    Too dark -> Nope.

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13. 

    Palmtop Tsundere
    

    Life. /thread

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14. 

    WPE
    

    giascle said:
    Madoka

    this

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15. 

    Kyubey
    

    Doesn't this also goes for "Lightness"? When you just know there will be a happy ending.

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16. 

    Satoko
    

    giascle seems to sum it up rather nicely.

    Now I haven't seen anything "too dark" in the sense of "I can't watch this! It's just too grim!" but I have seen/read plenty of things overdoing their dark theme, making it rather uninteresting and just overall dull.

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17. 

    jamesownsall
    

    The Wire.

    I've read a lot of really dark shit from animes and mangas, mostly those eroges with fucked up stories that may confuse your boner at best, or kill it for the rest of the week at worst.

    None of that could top Baltimore as shown in The Wire though. Life has always been different shades of gray, but Baltimore has the darkest variations of them all. Unlike the Japanese works though where there isn't much I can't relate to my own hood, The Wire was real. Maybe too real.

    And if we feel apathy from works of fiction, just think of the people who live in the most volatile places on Earth. Places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Columbia or Northern Mexico; where unwarranted death is a fact of life, and everyone is more likely to do shit on someone just because 'better them than us'.

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18. 

    Peppermint Parfait
    

    I had to skip some parts of Higurashi. Then again i'm really squeamish.
    Also Madoka.

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19. 

    Peter Barton
    

    Saya no Uta, but I love it regardless.

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20. 

    Dark Mage
    

    12 Monkeys ,the first Terminator movie, and Revenge of the Sith were pretty dark.

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