This celebrity murder case feels like fan fiction
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What is the D4vd murder case and why is it significant?
hi it's me the other one um just a warning before we start today's episode this episode's downer uh we don't get really graphic that's not what we do but this episode deals with murder and child abuse so take care
Today we're talking about the David murder case, one of the darkest stories in pop culture at the moment. And we're going to be talking specifically about what happens when his discord of fans become the army of internet detectives that are trying to figure out what exactly happened in this case. So trying to start this episode in not an incredibly dark way, I would say that David's music sounds like absolute dog shit to me. But I guess like after spending a lot of time reporting on him, do you like get his music? Are you into it?
Yeah. And I did feel like in some ways it felt like a... i don't know like indoctrination is not the right word but i think at first and this is something that i've heard from my friends too or like people our age where they're like i don't get it like what's the deal with this music it's really bad like why do people like this and it was this thing where like at first i was like yeah i don't get it i don't know why people are so obsessed with him um his songs really are earworms like i would be listening to his like youtube videos and like trying to be like let me look for clues let me see what this is about and like find myself like i was sort of disgusted with myself because i would find myself like singing it or like singing the lyrics like they're incredibly catchy and there's just like something that kind of happened over time where i was like okay i think i get it
I think the best question to start is when did you hear of D4VD or David or whatever you want to... First, we should standardize. How do we want to call this guy?
I think David.
David. I think so too.
Yeah.
So when did you first hear about David? When did he appear on your radar?
Not until after I heard about Celeste Rivas Hernandez's murder. I think like David existed in this place where like to a certain like, you know, children and teens and like maybe 20 somethings. He was extremely popular for a particular subset. And then like anyone who aged out of that group, it was like everyone's just like, I don't know who this guy is. Is he really famous?
How did D4vd's Discord community react to the allegations?
So I only heard about him. after the murder and then had no idea he had this like rabid fan community.
I think I heard of him first due to the Arcane soundtrack. It's a Netflix show based on the video game League of Legends. He was like popping up for me in... I don't know how to describe this like layer of music that exists right now where it's like, it's not hyper pop. It's not rap or hip hop. It's not really even dance music. And it usually sounds like shit.
yeah yeah and i think like when people were hearing about him for the first time they were like oh he must be a rapper like there was all this misinformation that people like his actual fans would get sort of upset about um but yeah i mean people called it bedroom pop like it's definitely the appeal you know is that he's like i made this on my phone i laid some beats down here's some like you know royalty for youtube music and so like it sounds very emo to me like it kind of sounds like a throwback from like I don't know, like music kids were into when I was in high school of just like, yeah, like very slow, kind of like sad boy songs.
Yeah, there's like a whole strain of music that has, I think, has stayed in the underground, but like just beneath the surface that all kind of sounds like Little Peep, if you're familiar with Little Peep. Goth Boy Click.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's all Goth Boy Click stuff. And like he is probably the biggest... Of that, I don't want to say scene because it's not a scene, but it's like of that style, I suppose. And that's who we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about David or D4VD. This is Panic World, a show about how the internet warps our minds, our culture, and eventually reality. I'm Ryan Broderick.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the D4vd murder case and why is it significant?
0:00–2:32
2
How did D4vd's Discord community react to the allegations?
2:32–4:42
3
What role did David's music play in his rise to fame?
4:42–11:01
4
Who was Celeste Rivas Hernandez and what happened to her?
11:01–12:03
5
What were the reactions from fans after the murder was discovered?
12:03–22:13
6
What were the implications of David's relationship with Celeste?
22:13–28:58
7
How did internet detectives contribute to the investigation?
28:58–35:38
8
What are the broader cultural issues highlighted by this case?
35:38–1:07:11