Summary
This video details over 20 psychological manipulation tactics, explaining how they are used to control and exploit individuals. It covers methods like the Ben Franklin Effect, triangulation, negative reinforcement loops, intermittent reinforcement, and various forms of gaslighting and emotional blackmail. The core thesis is that understanding these subtle, often invisible, tactics is crucial for self-protection and recognizing manipulative behavior in relationships, workplaces, and social interactions.
Key Insights
Ben Franklin Effect: Asking for favors can foster liking and investment from others.
The Ben Franklin effect is a counterintuitive psychological phenomenon where someone who does you a favor is more likely to develop a liking for you. This happens because our minds often rewrite our attitudes to align with our actions. Ben Franklin used this by asking a rival for a favor, causing the rival to subconsciously restructure his beliefs to justify helping Franklin, leading to warmth and respect.
Triangulation: Using a third party to create tension or rivalry for control.
Triangulation is a manipulative strategy where a third party is brought into a two-person dynamic to create tension, confusion, or rivalry. It's about control through indirect communication, comparison, or gossip to destabilize relationships and assert dominance without overt aggression. It's often used by narcissists and toxic individuals to keep others unbalanced and emotionally dependent, making them question themselves and compete for approval.
Negative Reinforcement Loop: Behavior control through removal of discomfort, not reward.
A negative reinforcement loop is a psychological trap where behaviors are controlled by the strategic removal of discomfort. Instead of rewards, relief from emotional or psychological strain is given upon compliance. This makes the person avoid the negative behavior to escape punishment, conditioning them like an animal avoiding a shock, leading to walking on eggshells and suppressing needs.
Intermittent Reinforcement: Unpredictable rewards create strong emotional dependence and obsession.
Intermittent reinforcement is a psychologically addictive tactic that works by delivering rewards unpredictably, creating emotional dependence. It mirrors gambling addiction patterns, where the anticipation of a reward triggers dopamine. This unpredictability builds obsession, making individuals desperate to earn back affection, love, or attention, even when the relationship is damaging.
Covert Contracts: Unspoken expectations of reciprocation attached to favors.
Covert contracts are unspoken agreements where one person believes that by doing something for another, the other person owes them something in return. These expectations are not communicated, leading to resentment and emotional blackmail when they are not met. The manipulator feels entitled to something without stating their needs directly, setting up the other person for perceived failure.
Foot-in-the-Mouth Technique: Appealing to empathy before making a request increases compliance.
The foot-in-the-mouth technique disarms people by first appealing to their empathy with a question like 'How are you feeling today?' This creates a sense of vulnerability and a mental contradiction: if I'm doing okay, I should be helpful. Immediately after, a request is made, and saying no feels emotionally wrong due to social conditioning and perceived guilt, leading to compliance.
Reverse Psychology (Inversion): Suggesting the opposite to trigger rebellion and desired action.
Reverse psychology, or inversion, exploits human resistance by suggesting the opposite of the desired outcome. It triggers reactance, an instinct to rebel against perceived restrictions. Telling someone they probably won't do something can make them want to prove you wrong, making the idea their own while fulfilling the manipulator's original intent.
Gaslighting by Omission: Distorting reality by withholding key information, not lying outright.
Gaslighting by omission involves not lying directly, but leaving out crucial details that distort your reality. This tactic makes you question your memory and instincts through silence and gaps in truth, leading you to doubt your perceptions and blame yourself, all while the manipulator maintains innocence by claiming details weren't important or were misunderstood.
Semantic Infiltration: Shaping thoughts by using emotionally charged or ideologically loaded language.
Semantic infiltration manipulates perception by slipping loaded language into communication, changing how people think and subsequently behave. By adopting the manipulator's terms, one begins to see the world through their lens. This tactic renames facts, labels emotions (e.g., hesitation as fear), and shifts values without explicit argument, normalizing the manipulator's framing.
Boundary Erosion: Slowly breaking down limits through repeated small invasions.
Boundary erosion is a slow, calculated tactic to break down a person's limits incrementally. Each invasion, framed as harmless or justified, moves the line, weakening confidence and self-esteem. Over time, individuals may question their right to boundaries, second-guess discomfort, and start apologizing for their own feelings, allowing the manipulator to become more invasive and controlling.
Love Bombing: Overwhelming affection used to create rapid dependence and control.
Love bombing is a manipulation technique using intense affection, compliments, and attention to hook someone rapidly and create dependency. It overwhelms emotional defenses, making the target feel special and chosen. This facade breaks down, leading to devaluation and withdrawal, conditioning the target to chase the initial high and work for validation.
Withholding Information: Keeping someone uninformed to maintain power and control.
Withholding information is the conscious decision not to share critical truths that would empower someone to make informed choices or protect themselves. The manipulator remains silent to maintain power, keeping the victim powerless and uncertain. This erodes trust without confrontation, as the victim cannot prove deceit and may question their own judgment.
Guilt Tripping: Using conscience and morality to control through induced feelings of shame.
Guilt tripping uses one's sense of morality, responsibility, or love against them, making them feel like the villain for having needs or independence. Subtle comments, sighs, or emotional withdrawal are used to induce shame, making the victim feel they must 'make things right' even when they've done nothing wrong. It hijacks empathy and forces compliance out of guilt.
Push-Pull (Disqualification): Alternating closeness and distance to create emotional dependence.
The push-pull (disqualification) technique creates emotional dependence by alternating intense closeness (pull) with sudden distance or rejection (push). This emotional whiplash leaves the target confused, anxious, and desperately chasing the initial positive attention, becoming addicted to the temporary relief and the person who causes both pain and its cessation.
Micro-Invalidations: Subtle dismissals eroding reality, identity, or experience over time.
Micro-invalidations are subtle, indirect dismissals disguised as jokes or casual remarks that erode one's sense of reality, identity, or experience. Repeatedly, they chip away at confidence and self-worth, leading the victim to question their feelings ('Am I overreacting?') and internalize the message that their experiences are invalid unless approved by others.
Forced Teaming: Creating false partnership through inclusive language to lower defenses.
Forced teaming uses inclusive language ('we,' 'us,' 'our') to create an illusion of shared fate or partnership, lowering defenses and fast-tracking trust. This tactic exploits our tribal instincts, making us see the manipulator as an ally even when they're not, thereby gaining access, compliance, or silence under the guise of unity.
Minimization: Downplaying experiences or pain to control, deflect, or silence confrontation.
Minimization downplays the severity of someone's experiences, feelings, or pain, rather than denying them outright. This makes the victim doubt their perception of reality, teaching them their pain isn't valid unless validated by others. It shifts focus from the manipulator's behavior to the victim's reaction, turning their offense into the victim's fault.
Future Faking: Promising a future that will never materialize to gain present investment.
Future faking involves making grand, detailed promises about the future that the manipulator has no intention of fulfilling. This 'hope weaponized' tactic keeps the target emotionally invested and compliant in the present by dangling a fantasy future, exploiting our natural draw to hope and meaning.
Silent Treatment: Punishing with absence of emotional connection to induce guilt and desperation.
The silent treatment is the deliberate withdrawal of communication and affection to punish, control, and create uncertainty and desperation. It makes the target feel invisible and unworthy, driving them to beg for resolution and compliance to break the agonizing silence, effectively training them to avoid triggering conflict.
Moral Licensing: Using past good deeds to justify or excuse current bad behavior.
Moral licensing allows individuals to use past good deeds as a shield to justify current harmful behavior, as if virtue creates a 'moral credit'. This distorts judgment, leading victims to excuse mistreatment because the manipulator 'isn't a bad person,' weighing past goodness against present harm and eroding personal boundaries.
Tactical Ignorance: Feigning ignorance to avoid accountability and shift emotional burdens.
Tactical ignorance involves pretending confusion or lack of knowledge to avoid accountability, stall, or shift emotional labor. It weaponizes 'I didn't know' by people who do know, exhausting the other person through repeated explanations and making them appear irrational, while the manipulator remains in control and blameless.
Flooding (Overwhelm Tactic): Bombarding with information/emotion to disorient and shut down resistance.
Flooding, or the overwhelm tactic, bombards a person with excessive information, intense emotion, or rapid demands to disorient their thinking and shut down critical analysis, forcing compliance. This 'emotional shock warfare' paralyzes the brain, overriding logic and leading to submission just to stop the chaos.
Bait and Blame: Provoking a reaction then twisting it to blame the victim.
Bait and blame lures someone into reacting emotionally or honestly to a provocation, then twists their response into proof that they are the problem. This creates a no-win scenario where the victim is punished for responding, typically becoming defensive or upset, while the manipulator appears calm and justified.
Controlled Confusion: Creating chaos and mixed messages to destabilize reality and control.
Controlled confusion deliberately creates chaos, mixed messages, or contradictory information to destabilize reality and make someone reliant on the manipulator for clarity. This constant mental off-balance hijacks the brain's need for coherence, leading the victim to doubt themselves and become easier to control.
Undermining Identity: Chipping away at sense of self to make one dependent on manipulator's approval.
Undermining identity is the slow process of chipping away at someone's sense of self through subtle criticisms and comments, until they no longer recognize themselves without the manipulator's approval. This makes the victim dependent and seek permission to exist as themselves, effectively rewriting their personality.
Victim Playing: Pretending to be wronged to deflect accountability and gain control.
Victim playing involves pretending to be the wronged party to deflect accountability, gain sympathy, and seize control. By feigning suffering, the manipulator hijacks empathy, reframing their own transgressions as reactions to being hurt, making the other person feel guilty and responsible for the manipulator's actions.
False Consensus Trick: Making someone believe they are the only one who disagrees.
The false consensus trick aims to isolate and pressure someone by making them believe everyone else agrees with the manipulator, and they are the abnormal outlier. This plays on the deep fear of rejection, causing the individual to doubt themselves and conform to avoid being alone in their viewpoint.
Deliberate Misinterpretation: Intentionally twisting words or intentions to place blame.
Deliberate misinterpretation involves intentionally twisting words, intentions, or actions into something negative to gain control, derail conversations, or blame the victim. Attempts to clarify only provide more material for the manipulator to twist, turning the victim into the aggressor and avoiding accountability for their own behavior.
Anchoring Negative Emotions: Associating triggers with emotional pain to control reactions.
Anchoring negative emotions conditions someone to associate specific triggers with emotional pain, making even neutral situations feel threatening. Through pairing ordinary moments with distress, the manipulator rewires emotional reflexes, leading the victim to avoid joy or success to prevent punishment, thereby controlling their behavior implicitly.
Ingratiation: Using charm and flattery to lower defenses before exploiting guilt or control.
Ingratiation uses calculated charm, flattery, and admiration to lower defenses and win trust, only to later exploit that connection for guilt or control. It's a transaction where favors and compliments are investments, making the target feel indebted and obligated to comply with future demands.
Emotional Blackmail: Using fear, guilt, or obligation to force compliance through emotional pressure.
Emotional blackmail uses intense emotional pressure (fear, guilt, obligation) without direct threats to force compliance. It weaponizes empathy and loyalty, making resistance feel like betrayal and forcing individuals to choose between their needs and someone else's approval, often leading to self-sacrifice to avoid perceived relational destruction.
Feigning Ignorance: Pretending not to know or remember to avoid accountability or stall.
Feigning ignorance is pretending not to know, understand, or remember something to avoid accountability or shift emotional burdens. This tactic exhausts the other person with repeated explanations, painting them as irrational while the manipulator remains untouched and in control by playing dumb.
Preemptive Invalidation: Dismissing feelings or boundaries before they are expressed.
Preemptive invalidation cuts off your thoughts, feelings, or boundaries before you express them, making you doubt yourself before speaking. By anticipating and labeling your response as invalid (e.g., 'drama,' 'overreacting'), the manipulator silences you and prevents your truth from being heard or welcomed.
Cognitive Load Disruption: Overwhelming mental processing to prevent critical thinking and decision making.
Cognitive load disruption overwhelms mental processing with excessive information, demands, or stimuli, preventing critical thinking and real-time recognition of manipulation. This mental static ('chaos') leads to exhaustion and compliance, as the target agrees to things just to end the pressure, losing their ability to resist.
Comparative Devaluation: Diminishing worth by comparing unfavorably to others.
Comparative devaluation diminishes worth by constantly comparing someone unfavorably to others, creating insecurity and dependence. This tactic attacks core identity by suggesting inadequacy, driving the victim to seek approval and making them easier to control by keeping them in a state of striving and comparison.
Idealization-Devaluation-Discard Cycle: Building up, breaking down, and discarding to control.
The idealization-devaluation-discard cycle is a manipulative pattern of building someone up intensely (idealization), then breaking them down (devaluation), and finally discarding them. This process creates emotional addiction, strips identity, and ensures the victim is dependent and controllable by chasing the initial positive phase.
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Psychological Manipulation Tactics
Ben Franklin Effect: Asking for favors can foster liking and investment from others.
The Ben Franklin effect is a counterintuitive psychological phenomenon where someone who does you a favor is more likely to develop a liking for you. This happens because our minds often rewrite our attitudes to align with our actions. Ben Franklin used this by asking a rival for a favor, causing the rival to subconsciously restructure his beliefs to justify helping Franklin, leading to warmth and respect.
Triangulation: Using a third party to create tension or rivalry for control.
Triangulation is a manipulative strategy where a third party is brought into a two-person dynamic to create tension, confusion, or rivalry. It's about control through indirect communication, comparison, or gossip to destabilize relationships and assert dominance without overt aggression. It's often used by narcissists and toxic individuals to keep others unbalanced and emotionally dependent, making them question themselves and compete for approval.
Negative Reinforcement Loop: Behavior control through removal of discomfort, not reward.
A negative reinforcement loop is a psychological trap where behaviors are controlled by the strategic removal of discomfort. Instead of rewards, relief from emotional or psychological strain is given upon compliance. This makes the person avoid the negative behavior to escape punishment, conditioning them like an animal avoiding a shock, leading to walking on eggshells and suppressing needs.
Intermittent Reinforcement: Unpredictable rewards create strong emotional dependence and obsession.
Intermittent reinforcement is a psychologically addictive tactic that works by delivering rewards unpredictably, creating emotional dependence. It mirrors gambling addiction patterns, where the anticipation of a reward triggers dopamine. This unpredictability builds obsession, making individuals desperate to earn back affection, love, or attention, even when the relationship is damaging.
Covert Contracts: Unspoken expectations of reciprocation attached to favors.
Covert contracts are unspoken agreements where one person believes that by doing something for another, the other person owes them something in return. These expectations are not communicated, leading to resentment and emotional blackmail when they are not met. The manipulator feels entitled to something without stating their needs directly, setting up the other person for perceived failure.
Foot-in-the-Mouth Technique: Appealing to empathy before making a request increases compliance.
The foot-in-the-mouth technique disarms people by first appealing to their empathy with a question like 'How are you feeling today?' This creates a sense of vulnerability and a mental contradiction: if I'm doing okay, I should be helpful. Immediately after, a request is made, and saying no feels emotionally wrong due to social conditioning and perceived guilt, leading to compliance.
Reverse Psychology (Inversion): Suggesting the opposite to trigger rebellion and desired action.
Reverse psychology, or inversion, exploits human resistance by suggesting the opposite of the desired outcome. It triggers reactance, an instinct to rebel against perceived restrictions. Telling someone they probably won't do something can make them want to prove you wrong, making the idea their own while fulfilling the manipulator's original intent.
Gaslighting by Omission: Distorting reality by withholding key information, not lying outright.
Gaslighting by omission involves not lying directly, but leaving out crucial details that distort your reality. This tactic makes you question your memory and instincts through silence and gaps in truth, leading you to doubt your perceptions and blame yourself, all while the manipulator maintains innocence by claiming details weren't important or were misunderstood.
Semantic Infiltration: Shaping thoughts by using emotionally charged or ideologically loaded language.
Semantic infiltration manipulates perception by slipping loaded language into communication, changing how people think and subsequently behave. By adopting the manipulator's terms, one begins to see the world through their lens. This tactic renames facts, labels emotions (e.g., hesitation as fear), and shifts values without explicit argument, normalizing the manipulator's framing.
Boundary Erosion: Slowly breaking down limits through repeated small invasions.
Boundary erosion is a slow, calculated tactic to break down a person's limits incrementally. Each invasion, framed as harmless or justified, moves the line, weakening confidence and self-esteem. Over time, individuals may question their right to boundaries, second-guess discomfort, and start apologizing for their own feelings, allowing the manipulator to become more invasive and controlling.
Love Bombing: Overwhelming affection used to create rapid dependence and control.
Love bombing is a manipulation technique using intense affection, compliments, and attention to hook someone rapidly and create dependency. It overwhelms emotional defenses, making the target feel special and chosen. This facade breaks down, leading to devaluation and withdrawal, conditioning the target to chase the initial high and work for validation.
Withholding Information: Keeping someone uninformed to maintain power and control.
Withholding information is the conscious decision not to share critical truths that would empower someone to make informed choices or protect themselves. The manipulator remains silent to maintain power, keeping the victim powerless and uncertain. This erodes trust without confrontation, as the victim cannot prove deceit and may question their own judgment.
Guilt Tripping: Using conscience and morality to control through induced feelings of shame.
Guilt tripping uses one's sense of morality, responsibility, or love against them, making them feel like the villain for having needs or independence. Subtle comments, sighs, or emotional withdrawal are used to induce shame, making the victim feel they must 'make things right' even when they've done nothing wrong. It hijacks empathy and forces compliance out of guilt.
Push-Pull (Disqualification): Alternating closeness and distance to create emotional dependence.
The push-pull (disqualification) technique creates emotional dependence by alternating intense closeness (pull) with sudden distance or rejection (push). This emotional whiplash leaves the target confused, anxious, and desperately chasing the initial positive attention, becoming addicted to the temporary relief and the person who causes both pain and its cessation.
Micro-Invalidations: Subtle dismissals eroding reality, identity, or experience over time.
Micro-invalidations are subtle, indirect dismissals disguised as jokes or casual remarks that erode one's sense of reality, identity, or experience. Repeatedly, they chip away at confidence and self-worth, leading the victim to question their feelings ('Am I overreacting?') and internalize the message that their experiences are invalid unless approved by others.
Forced Teaming: Creating false partnership through inclusive language to lower defenses.
Forced teaming uses inclusive language ('we,' 'us,' 'our') to create an illusion of shared fate or partnership, lowering defenses and fast-tracking trust. This tactic exploits our tribal instincts, making us see the manipulator as an ally even when they're not, thereby gaining access, compliance, or silence under the guise of unity.
Minimization: Downplaying experiences or pain to control, deflect, or silence confrontation.
Minimization downplays the severity of someone's experiences, feelings, or pain, rather than denying them outright. This makes the victim doubt their perception of reality, teaching them their pain isn't valid unless validated by others. It shifts focus from the manipulator's behavior to the victim's reaction, turning their offense into the victim's fault.
Future Faking: Promising a future that will never materialize to gain present investment.
Future faking involves making grand, detailed promises about the future that the manipulator has no intention of fulfilling. This 'hope weaponized' tactic keeps the target emotionally invested and compliant in the present by dangling a fantasy future, exploiting our natural draw to hope and meaning.
Silent Treatment: Punishing with absence of emotional connection to induce guilt and desperation.
The silent treatment is the deliberate withdrawal of communication and affection to punish, control, and create uncertainty and desperation. It makes the target feel invisible and unworthy, driving them to beg for resolution and compliance to break the agonizing silence, effectively training them to avoid triggering conflict.
Moral Licensing: Using past good deeds to justify or excuse current bad behavior.
Moral licensing allows individuals to use past good deeds as a shield to justify current harmful behavior, as if virtue creates a 'moral credit'. This distorts judgment, leading victims to excuse mistreatment because the manipulator 'isn't a bad person,' weighing past goodness against present harm and eroding personal boundaries.
Tactical Ignorance: Feigning ignorance to avoid accountability and shift emotional burdens.
Tactical ignorance involves pretending confusion or lack of knowledge to avoid accountability, stall, or shift emotional labor. It weaponizes 'I didn't know' by people who do know, exhausting the other person through repeated explanations and making them appear irrational, while the manipulator remains in control and blameless.
Flooding (Overwhelm Tactic): Bombarding with information/emotion to disorient and shut down resistance.
Flooding, or the overwhelm tactic, bombards a person with excessive information, intense emotion, or rapid demands to disorient their thinking and shut down critical analysis, forcing compliance. This 'emotional shock warfare' paralyzes the brain, overriding logic and leading to submission just to stop the chaos.
Bait and Blame: Provoking a reaction then twisting it to blame the victim.
Bait and blame lures someone into reacting emotionally or honestly to a provocation, then twists their response into proof that they are the problem. This creates a no-win scenario where the victim is punished for responding, typically becoming defensive or upset, while the manipulator appears calm and justified.
Controlled Confusion: Creating chaos and mixed messages to destabilize reality and control.
Controlled confusion deliberately creates chaos, mixed messages, or contradictory information to destabilize reality and make someone reliant on the manipulator for clarity. This constant mental off-balance hijacks the brain's need for coherence, leading the victim to doubt themselves and become easier to control.
Undermining Identity: Chipping away at sense of self to make one dependent on manipulator's approval.
Undermining identity is the slow process of chipping away at someone's sense of self through subtle criticisms and comments, until they no longer recognize themselves without the manipulator's approval. This makes the victim dependent and seek permission to exist as themselves, effectively rewriting their personality.
Victim Playing: Pretending to be wronged to deflect accountability and gain control.
Victim playing involves pretending to be the wronged party to deflect accountability, gain sympathy, and seize control. By feigning suffering, the manipulator hijacks empathy, reframing their own transgressions as reactions to being hurt, making the other person feel guilty and responsible for the manipulator's actions.
False Consensus Trick: Making someone believe they are the only one who disagrees.
The false consensus trick aims to isolate and pressure someone by making them believe everyone else agrees with the manipulator, and they are the abnormal outlier. This plays on the deep fear of rejection, causing the individual to doubt themselves and conform to avoid being alone in their viewpoint.
Deliberate Misinterpretation: Intentionally twisting words or intentions to place blame.
Deliberate misinterpretation involves intentionally twisting words, intentions, or actions into something negative to gain control, derail conversations, or blame the victim. Attempts to clarify only provide more material for the manipulator to twist, turning the victim into the aggressor and avoiding accountability for their own behavior.
Anchoring Negative Emotions: Associating triggers with emotional pain to control reactions.
Anchoring negative emotions conditions someone to associate specific triggers with emotional pain, making even neutral situations feel threatening. Through pairing ordinary moments with distress, the manipulator rewires emotional reflexes, leading the victim to avoid joy or success to prevent punishment, thereby controlling their behavior implicitly.
Ingratiation: Using charm and flattery to lower defenses before exploiting guilt or control.
Ingratiation uses calculated charm, flattery, and admiration to lower defenses and win trust, only to later exploit that connection for guilt or control. It's a transaction where favors and compliments are investments, making the target feel indebted and obligated to comply with future demands.
Emotional Blackmail: Using fear, guilt, or obligation to force compliance through emotional pressure.
Emotional blackmail uses intense emotional pressure (fear, guilt, obligation) without direct threats to force compliance. It weaponizes empathy and loyalty, making resistance feel like betrayal and forcing individuals to choose between their needs and someone else's approval, often leading to self-sacrifice to avoid perceived relational destruction.
Feigning Ignorance: Pretending not to know or remember to avoid accountability or stall.
Feigning ignorance is pretending not to know, understand, or remember something to avoid accountability or shift emotional burdens. This tactic exhausts the other person with repeated explanations, painting them as irrational while the manipulator remains untouched and in control by playing dumb.
Preemptive Invalidation: Dismissing feelings or boundaries before they are expressed.
Preemptive invalidation cuts off your thoughts, feelings, or boundaries before you express them, making you doubt yourself before speaking. By anticipating and labeling your response as invalid (e.g., 'drama,' 'overreacting'), the manipulator silences you and prevents your truth from being heard or welcomed.
Cognitive Load Disruption: Overwhelming mental processing to prevent critical thinking and decision making.
Cognitive load disruption overwhelms mental processing with excessive information, demands, or stimuli, preventing critical thinking and real-time recognition of manipulation. This mental static ('chaos') leads to exhaustion and compliance, as the target agrees to things just to end the pressure, losing their ability to resist.
Comparative Devaluation: Diminishing worth by comparing unfavorably to others.
Comparative devaluation diminishes worth by constantly comparing someone unfavorably to others, creating insecurity and dependence. This tactic attacks core identity by suggesting inadequacy, driving the victim to seek approval and making them easier to control by keeping them in a state of striving and comparison.
Idealization-Devaluation-Discard Cycle: Building up, breaking down, and discarding to control.
The idealization-devaluation-discard cycle is a manipulative pattern of building someone up intensely (idealization), then breaking them down (devaluation), and finally discarding them. This process creates emotional addiction, strips identity, and ensures the victim is dependent and controllable by chasing the initial positive phase.
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