The fans have been dubbed “Murderinos” and there are almost 200,000 members in its Reddit group.
“More often they share the kinds of stories you see on late-night news, in which the victim is usually white, female and, as they describe her, a ‘badass,’ and the perpetrator is ‘a f****** monster,'” DenHoed wrote. Their facts, as Andrea DenHoed described it in the New Republic in 2019, their facts are “from TV shows and various not-strictly-authoritative online sources they’re loose with the details riff freely.” The hosts make jokes, share personal stories and go off on conversational tangents throughout each episode. Unlike other popular true crime podcasts - such as Crime Junkie, Sword and Scale and Anatomy of Murder - MFM is supposed to seem like eavesdropping on two friends’ conversation at a party, according to the Washington Post. The hosts have more comedy-focused backgrounds - Kilgariff was a writer and stand-up comedian for a number of years, and Hardstark was a host on the Cooking Channel and a contributor to Drunk History - so the podcast itself is advertised as “true crime comedy.”
While MFM has had its fair share of controversies, the last week has seen an uptick in TikTok users - both former fans of the podcast and first-time listeners - who are questioning the ethics of making entertainment and profiting off of murder and other crimes. The show was named by Forbes as the second highest-earning podcast, with 35 million monthly downloads and the co-hosts reportedly raking in $15 million in 2019. Two years after the mainstream success of another true crime podcast, Serial, co-hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark wanted to do something more conversational and humorous about the true crime stories they already obsessed over.Īmazon paid more than $100 million for exclusive distribution and advertising rights to MFM in 2022. The podcast My Favorite Murder ( MFM) has been a cultural touchstone since shortly after its launch in January 2016. Please take care while reading, and note the helpful resources at the end of this story. Editor’s Note: This article contains mentions of sexual violence.
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