I briefly analyze not only the videos’ content but also focus on various community strategies and efforts which facilitate video creation in the first place. Over the years, JonBenét’s pageant-style images-showing her wearing heavy make-up and costumes deemed inappropriate for a child-have been continuously used for commercial purposes, attracting the audience with a promise of scandal and mystery.ĢIn this article, I take a look at an Internet community which-through the means of YouTube remixes-attempts to challenge the sensational narratives popularized in the mainstream media in order to rehabilitate the Ramsey family and recontextualize JonBenét herself. Writing for the Newsweek’s special edition, JonBenét: Twenty Years Later, Jeremy Brown aptly observes that, “ther high-profile murder cases, such as Caylee Anthony and Laci Peterson, have come and gone, but 20 years after her death, JonBenét’s murder still haunts the nation.” The case’s notoriety has often been attributed to its sensational media coverage which accentuated the girl’s participation in controversial child beauty pageants as well as the family’s speculated involvement in her death.
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To this date, her still-unsolved killing has inspired numerous articles, books, documentaries, and TV movies. Throughout more than two decades which followed her murder, this previously unknown six-year-old has been referred to as-among others-“America’s most famous little girl” (Oates, “JonBenét Ramsey”) and even “the most famous murdered child in history” (Mills and Tracey).
1On Decema little girl named JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her upscale home.
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