#christine chubbuck

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

I love how Christine Chubbuck has somehow become a femcel icon in the past few years after the 2016 film about her life (which was actually so good) because a lot of women can relate to her which is actually pretty sad tbhh!

She was pretty but in a supposedly severe and intimidating way because she had a strong face and persuasive manner, so the impression was that her resting bitchface and sardonic sense of humour frightened people away. And her talent for excelling in broadcast journalism at such a young age, with a bright future ahead of her renders her fate even more bizarre.

But it begs the question: if a more beautiful, intelligent, talented, and successful woman than many blew her brains out live on TV in 1974, what remains for the rest of us?

There’s this impression that in the 2020s women have it easy bc of dating apps and incel concepts like hypergamy. Why in an era where we are more connected than ever does Christine become a meme queen among weird edgelord girls? She lived in an era before the internet and dating apps, yet she is still relevant to loveless modern females to this day.

It turns out that even if you are an attractive and educated female with a modicum of success, you can still live an empty, isolated and void life where nobody even acknowledges your existence or wants to be around you.

But Christine stands apart from the rest of us because she was bold and deranged enough to kill herself live on air, which still shocks in an era of Bestgore, Liveleak and murderous shooting spree Go-Pro vids.

Christine always said that only blood and guts spoke to the larger public, and she used the gore of her own body to etch herself into the broader social memory and psychological fabric of 20th century pop culture and media.

She was the premier femcel martyr of the 70s, and we still look to her and wonder why she turned that gun on herself when she had a sleek modelesque exterior, drive for intellect and self-education, and a polished public persona at the mere age of 29. Her spirit still speaks to each individual woman who somehow sees herself in Christine. Also her horoscope was Cancer so go figure.

Edit: ok she was a Virgo but my point still stands 🫠

#christine chubbuck

[n3spr3sso]

#christine chubbuck #mother

[morbidology]

On 15 July, 1974, 29-year-old Christine Chubbuck informed co-workers that she was going to read a newscast to open her talk show, Suncoast Digest, which wasn’t something she normally did. Her guest for that day’s show sat in the studio while Christine went and sat down at the news anchor’s desk. 

The cameras began rolling and Christine began reading from her news report. She covered a news article on a local shooting in a restaurant. She then began reading a piece on suicide. During the reading, she explained that she would be declared dead within eleven hours and followed this by saying: “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.” 

She then produced a .38 revolver that she had concealed throughout the news report and shot herself in the head. The entire thing had been aired and members of the public began to ring 911 while others rang the station asking if it was fake. 

Christine was rushed to hospital but was declared dead 14 hours later.

#christine chubbuck #history #depression #mental health #suicide #sad

[miumiumacaron]

Christine Chubbuck, during her time at Laurel School for Girls ୨୧

#christine chubbuck #vintage #1960s #60s

[jointheamberclub]

Blood and Guts: Christine Chubbuck, Death and The Voyeur

i got very personal and slightly more abstract with this post - i decided to write about the two adaptations of Christine Chubbuck's death and life, CHRISTINE (2016) and KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (2016), and use them to talk about my own fascination death, especially its more shameful elements.

this will probably be the last bit of writing i post this year but i'm very glad i built up the courage to post it.

take a read here

#christine chubbuck #death #film #christine 2016 #kate plays christine #writing

[isseymiyakee]

thinking about christine chubbuck hours

#christine chubbuck

[guntomylips]

christine chubbuck was so fucking real

#female hysteria #girl blogger #manic pixie dream girl #female insanity #female rage #girl interupted syndrome #christine chubbuck #i love you christine

[finalwoman]

oh christine 

#christine chubbuck #christopher sorrentino #:(

[my-brutal-heart]

#christine chubbuck #news reporter #reporter #american reporter #florida #news anchor

[crawlingalloverme]

slay moment

#christine chubbuck

[antlereed]

still endlessly annoyed that the more popular “lost media” hunt for footage of people dying. there is genuine concern for media preservation but the majority of people only care about watching people die on film

#CHRISTINE CHUBBUCKS FOOTAGE SHOULDNT BE PRESERVED WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE #DAWN BRANCHEAUS FOOTAGE SHOULDNT BE PRESERVED #YOU SHOULDNT WANT TO WATCH IT. YOU SHOULDNT WANT TO HUNT IT DOWN SO BAD #GO LOOK FOR OLD CARTOONS AND MOVIES AND TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS #IF YOURE SO CONCERNED ABOUT LOST MEDIA THEN LOOK FOR SOMETHINGG THAT BENEFITS HUMANITY AND NOT THE LAST TERRIFYING MOMENTS OF THESE PEOPLE

[elevatortheory]

ilove figuring out the movies my mutuals are liveblogging about its soooo fun my little game . i want to watch that one too i think rebecca hall is soo talented (has only seen her in the night house)

#rio rambles #also she has a movie about christine chubbuck id like to watch

[deadduvznap]

i just cant catch a break today can i 😐

#most undesirable 24 hours ever #I am going to KILL MYSELF on LIVE TELEVISION exactly like CHRISTINE CHUBBUCK except TEN TIMES MORE GRAPHIC #atlas vents

[blackbellum]

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#work and life in general has me wanting to do a Christine chubbuck during my next teams meeting #this ain’t it #personal #sorry if that reference was insensitive

[gavinstrick]

one time in Berlin someone i was hanging out with looked at me and goes “are you crazy? you look kinda crazy” and i have been told that before or that my eyes look “haunted” . i always thought i looked like Christine chubbuck

Because of how a friend described her . Dark, stalk , with a long neck and hooked nose. something like an awkward swan. that is me

#i was so fascinated by her i thought she was beautiful in the same way i am #born backwards

[chiomaus]

weird wikipedia

my collection of strange, unsettling and depressing wikipedia articles

2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster Acute radiation syndrome Aktion T4 Andrea Yates Autoerotic fatality Bhopal disaster Black Dahlia Blowing from a gun Breaking wheel Byford Dolphin Chernobyl disaster Christine Chubbuck Christopher Duntsch Crimes against humanity Cruel and unusual punishment Curse of the pharaohs Dancing plague of 1518 David Hahn Death anxiety (psychology) Death by boiling Death by coconut Death by sawing Death from laughter Death of Darren Rainey Death of Gloria Ramirez Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam Duplessis Orphans Ego integrity Electroconvulsive therapy Elena Mukhina Engineering disasters Euthanasia Coaster Execution by elephant Frank Hayes (jockey) Fritzl case Georgi Markov Gladbeck hostage crisis Goiânia accident Great Molasses Flood Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes Guantanamo detainees' medical care Haunted Castle (Six Flags Great Adventure) Hemicorporectomy Hunger artist Jill Dando Jimmy Carter rabbit incident Karen Wetterhahn Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping of Colleen Stan Lake Alice Hospital Life imprisonment in England and Wales List of civilian radiation accidents List of entertainers who died during a performance List of inventors killed by their own inventions List of methods of capital punishment List of military nuclear accidents List of people who died on the toilet List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970 List of political self-immolations List of selfie-related injuries and deaths List of solved missing person cases List of structural failures and collapses List of television series canceled after one episode List of television series canceled before airing an episode List of unusual deaths Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Lists of people who disappeared Lobotomy