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==Manifestation== | ==Manifestation== | ||
How ''xolkriśgir'' manifests itself and how it is understood vary somewhat. Lonergan and McCall (2011) find that while some details of how people understand ''xolkriśgir'' are common to a particular demographic or geographic region, most appear to be idiosyncratic, suggesting that chromophobia should be approached not as a "folk belief" transmitted by oral tradition within a community, but rather as a modern mass-cultural phenomenon or protracted {{wp|moral panic}} that spreads and replicates itself through informally learned behaviour. Differences in how individuals believe the malign influence of colour photography "works" extend to its ascribed effects (e.g. whether | How ''xolkriśgir'' manifests itself and how it is understood vary somewhat. Lonergan and McCall (2011) find that while some details of how people understand ''xolkriśgir'' are common to a particular demographic or geographic region, most appear to be idiosyncratic, suggesting that chromophobia should be approached not as a "folk belief" transmitted by oral tradition within a community, but rather as a modern mass-cultural phenomenon or protracted {{wp|moral panic}} that spreads and replicates itself through informally learned behaviour. Differences in how individuals believe the malign influence of colour photography "works" extend to its ascribed effects (e.g. whether capture of the face is the essential mechanism to cause deleterious effects, whether the subject must pose voluntarily in order to get psychically rekt), how it is accomplished (e.g. whether the act of taking the photo does it, or it needs to be developed), and its finality (e.g. whether the effects are permanent or can be abrogated by destroying photographs of the afflicted person or through any kind of folk-ritual). | ||
There are multiple gradations of ''xolkriśgir'' in terms of how definite or vague one's beliefs surrounding colour photography are, and how dangerous one believes it to be. Toward one end of the spectrum, many believe that colour photography brings on death, {{wp|annihilationism|annihilation}}, or zombification. Others may not go as far, but still find it dangerous and unnatural and believe that it has some other less drastic and more vaguely defined supernatural effect on the subject. Toward the shallow end of the spectrum, a great many Coscivians who do not actively ''fear'' colour photography may believe it is in some way unhealthy, or at the very least find it unseemly or distasteful. | |||
{{wp|Photographic print toning|Sepiatone}} photographs do not trigger ''xolkriśgir'', and ''xolkriśgiróx'' people are generally not bothered by colour photographs of inanimate subjects. | {{wp|Photographic print toning|Sepiatone}} photographs do not trigger ''xolkriśgir'', and ''xolkriśgiróx'' people are generally not bothered by colour photographs of inanimate subjects. | ||