The Illusory World of Social Media -1
TikTok Star Jinnkid Kills His Wife
They Were The Picture Of Marital Bliss on Social Media
In another incident that highlights the deceptive nature of social media, a TikTok star, Ali Nassar Abulaban, popularly known as Jinnkid, killed his wife and her male friend in their San Diego apartment.
Jinnkid is just shy of 1 million followers on Tiktok, where he posts comedy skits of himself impersonating, mostly, Al — Pacino’s character of Tony Montana from Scarface.
The 29-year-old Ali shot his wife, Ana Abulaban(29), point-blank in the forehead after shooting her male friend(Rayburn Barron, 28) three times — in the neck, cheek, and back in the afternoon of 21st of October.
Trouble started when Ana wanted to end their marriage and asked Ali to move out of their apartment.
Ali was not happy. He started stalking Ana and even installed software on their daughter’s Ipad that allowed him to listen in on conversations inside their apartment.
On the 21st of October, when he heard a male’s voice inside the apartment, he stormed inside (with a duplicate key) and shot them dead in a fit of rage.
He later called the police and confessed to his crime.
Ironically, he and his wife had appeared together in a few of his videos — presenting a picture of marital bliss. He even called her the love of his life in one of these videos.
Their daughter revealed that “dad had hurt mummy before.”
A sad ending.
The cracks in the solid wall of their marriage were never visible on social media — one assumed they were the epitome of the perfect married couple.
Living the dream life is what most people want to show on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.
Jinnkid Became Tony Montana For Real
The question arises: how much of a role does the social media persona of these social media stars play in such tragedies?
Ali was impersonating Tony Montana from Scarface on TikTok.
People pretend to be all sorts of characters on Social Media: you won’t jump off a building if you played superman in your social media videos.
It would be stupid to insinuate that a person’s social media persona takes over their real persona.
But wait. Maybe it does, and all it requires is a trigger to unleash it — the wife asking for a divorce in Ali’s case.
Ali had impersonated Tony shooting so many times on TikTok — he became Tony for real this time.
Questions I would like to Pose To The Mind Experts on Medium
- Is it a coincidence that Ali shot his wife and her friend ala Tony Montana style?
- Was he so possessed by his virtual identity of Tony Montana that he actually became Tony Montana?
- Did he always subconsciously identify himself as Tony Montana, and TikTok videos were where he could bring him out?
- Can you lose your identity and become someone else by constantly pretending to be him?
Maybe the experts can help us find the answers :
Richard Ragnarson, MD, Psychiatrist, Grant H Brenner, Jud Brewer MD PhD, Bertrand PICCARD, Ed Bullmore, Loren A Olson MD, Dr. Srini Pillay, The Shameless Psychiatrist, Dr. Aisha Sanober Chachar, Dr. Dana L Wiley, Keith Ablow, Marcos Wagner, Samantha Boardman MD, Reid J. Robison MD MBA, Dr Benjamin Janaway 🧠, Nancy Hillis, M.D., Dr Hui Lung Kit 許龍杰醫生, Sayeh Beheshti, Katherine Unverferth, Dr Himalee Abeya
