Four. The fear content

There is a whole genre built on frightening people out of this. Graphic descriptions of punishment delivered as motivation. Medical sounding claims about what it does to the brain. The forty days claim, which turns up constantly. We searched the corpus for it and nothing matching it came back sound, and nobody has been able to show us a chain for it either.

Set aside whether any of it is accurate, and just look at what it does. It raises shame. Shame predicts the next time. So the genre is, mechanically, a driver of the thing it is trying to stop.

If you have been consuming that material, it is worth knowing that you have been treating the loop with the loop.