‘Columbine’ Author: Parkland Students Like Emma Gonzales ‘Made It Less Cool’ To Be a School Shooter

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CULLEN: "Pre-Parkland, I was blocking about 50 a week. There are these kids online, there's a whole group of them called the TCC, for True Crime Community, that sort of idolize them or at least pretend to to be cool with each other. So by the way, that was, I said, before Parkland, after every shooting it stops cold. They just — I wake up to 10, 20, 30 of these a day but they stop as soon as it happens, usually for a about a week and then they pick up. Parkland, they never came back. Until about, like, the last month or two, they're starting to gradually slowly. I kind of wonder if it's Emma Gonzalez and people like that — who became more cool than being cool by being so edgy that I’m a rebel, I think they just made it less cool to be these kids. So I see it mostly by them waking up and just like all of these horrible things said to me, that's sort of my data point."