There are more than 38,000 members in the R/FREELTIGI community in Reddit Celebrating, the 26 -year -old accused murderer who affectionately call “Lulu”, but most are not exactly outside and proud of his Fandom.
Perhaps because they are a cheers of the cold blood murder of the CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson, these more fans and young girls are instructed to the others who do not get involved with the press. They hide behind the masks of avatars online and N-95 in manifestations outside the audiences of the Mangione court.
I liked to learn more than WHO’s women’s thesis are really, so I spent days touring their Reddit threads, Instagram pages and Smut websites.
“I am ashamed to say that I think Luigi has probably changed my life,” says a Reddit post that has gained hounds of I like it. “This is what he needed to recognize that I have to be better as a person.”
“It’s as if I wrote my thoughts for me,” said another fan.
They are discussing whether donations to the Mangione Defense Fund are tax deductible now and how to maximize the jury selection chans if you live in New York City. (The next hearing in the federal case against Mangione is April 18 in Manhattan).
They share photos of Luigi’s theme shirts (some that portray it as a saint), sketches, cakes, embroidery and paintings they created.
After having carried out forensic bueces in the past of the alleged murderer, the circular photos excited from all the way back to his childhood.
“I am a married woman, have mercy,” said a redditor about a photo of Mangione Cheering without a shirt in a sporting event of the University of Pennsylvania.
In another publication, an enthusiastic observer noticed that an image of a 2020 graduation party at the University of Pennsylvania seems to show Mangione’s ear.
The obsessive and oriented qualities oriented to Luigi’s details follow a pattern that extends through a story of female fandoms, from the Beatles to the K-Pop Boy and Chappell Roan bands. Except, or of course, they are obsessed with an alleged murderer.
For many of these girls and women, he is part of his daily life.
One in Reddit published a letter that she wrote to her, regretting that “it is not so good” because “some letters that I wrote to you were returned to me … but myself myself with the thought that are the letters of mine were more fortunate.
“I’m going to try to write you a little more,” he said. “Take care of yourself, dear Luigi. I think of you every day.”
A 21 -year -old student in New York City who directs a mangane fans account on Instagram agreed to talk to me anonymously, says that “people who run fans pages for Luigi cannot say anything so that we will not strive more for Himer.”
“He is not worth the death,” he told me, after the news that Attorney General Pam Bondi is looking for capital punishment for the mangress. “They are trying to finish a young man’s life due to a murder … everything is really crazy.”
Whether spoken out loud or not, the collective sense that Thompson’s death was justified is chilling.
The @luigi_mangione_fanpage on Instagram has published images of Hello Kitty holding a chainsaw with the legend “Where is the CEO”?
And there is no scarcity of fiction. A website has 143 stories about Mangione.
“You were assigned a group project with acquaintances and Alfa, Luigi Mangione,” says a summary of one. “But without knowing it to you, he has the hot ones for you and is willing to do whatever it takes to understand how much you feel.”
They also satisfy the requests of others: “I would love a fiction of fans where Lulu is dating a girl with bad anxiety and comforts her through an anxiety attack. He makes a deep look with her, she embraces her, many many cdomles, many dys or many dys, or many dys, or many cdles, or many lots or many or cddles or cddles or cddles
While many accounts that interact with Luigi’s content belong to girls under 18, I noticed a considerable commitment of medium -sized women in the comments. One described a photo of Mangione as “give François Arnaud as Cesare in” The Borgias “, followed by an eye emoji from the heart.
There is also a very active international admirers base, the emotion of South Korea to Brazil to Germany.
Noa, a 21 -year -old supporter from South Africa who studies biomedicine in the United Kingdom, told me that his support for Mangione has less to do with his charismatic eyebrows. She supports it “because health insurance has become a fraud sanctioned by the state disguised as a security network.
“They are institutionalizing fraud and operating a scam,” he said about the insurers, noting that his anger is fed by his grandmother’s negative experience while suffering from stage IV cancer.
“People like Brian [Thompson] They have killed many by refusing medical care, “he said.” He was not an innocent man who was a victim of random violence; He lost his life on a battlefield in which he chose to fight. “
“I hope this does not seem too bad,” said Noena, but she believes that Mangione’s message about the insurance industry could only be expressed through violence. “[I don’t] See any other way that you can transmit the leg. “
It is scary. Mangione did more than allegedly commit a murder. He also aroused a dark revenge that stalks in the hearts of thousands of anonymous girls around the world.
