The Vincent Malloy Syndrome

Hello all,

This writing is a revision of an article I wrote a while back. It is all about about a strange, and yet fascinating phenomenon that has been going through the vampire community for as long as I have been in the online community. This phenomenon, makes the person afflicted with it feel that in order to be taken seriously in the community, they must act like they are so dark and brooding, that there will never be anything to ease their mental torture. I have dubbed this phenomenon the Vincent Malloy Syndrome.

If anyone has watched the special edition of "the Nightmare before Christmas", then you know who Vincent Malloy is. However, if you have never seen it, it's a short film about a young boy (stop motion animation) written by Tim Burton. A young boy who is 7 years old, who wants to be just like Vincent Price, so he walks around pretending he is in fact, Vincent Price. In watching this film, I noticed many similarities between the people afflicted with said phenomenon and Vincent Malloy. Like Vincent Malloy, the people afflicted with the syndrome I have named after him, they really have nothing to complain about, there is nothing for them to brood about; it is merely an act. Much like young Vincent, they feel the need to force themselves into this role, merely to seem more vampiric, or what have you. The cure for this syndrome is simple; for the friends and people around people who are afflicted with this, to tell them that the way they are acting is not giving them stroke, or making them seem more vampiric. True mental pain and anguish can easily be distinguished from the Vincent Malloy Syndrome. True mental pain and anguish has a cause, the Vincent Malloy Syndrome does not. The only goal of these Vincents' (let's call them) is to seem "darker" than anyone else, or to gain the attention of others by constantly whining and moaning about how horrible life is *pardon me while I roll my eyes*.

To anyone afflicted with the Vincent Malloy Syndrome, all I can say is, acting a certain way, to seem "darker", moodier, or more tormented than you really are, will not make you gain any points in the community. Usually the only thing it makes everyone else think, is that there is a person who has no idea who they really are, or if they do, they can't deal with life on a daily basis, as everyone else in this universe has to. Darkness is one thing, it's quite another to purposefully feed off of people feeling sorry for you, and it looks, and is, basically pathetic to the point of nausea.

As always, these are my views and not necessarily those of the Vampire Church or its members. Hope I have answered the question adequately, and thank you.. Eternal, Barbie

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Barbie

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