“ Research into the lifestyle of the perpetrators showed that their hermetic way of life ​ — shut up for months on end in their rooms with little more than a computer or a video game for company — ​ was far from exceptional, ” reports the medical journal The Lancet.
واستأثرت هذه الظاهرة باهتمام الناس نتيجة التحقيقات في عدد من الجرائم الوحشية التي ارتكبها شبان يعيشون منعزلين .‏