About
Vlog Home from Stockholm is a youtube video featuring a young woman nonchalantly discussing her kidnapping, imprisonment, and descent into insanity at the hands of a man named Mr. Macabee.
Origin
Vlog Home from Stockholm was first uploaded to the Youtube channel hartmanncara, a woman already famous for her eHarmony Video Bio, which went viral and caused her to become a famous user on Youtube.
Content
The video features Hartmann recording what she says is a message to her parents. She explains she now lives in a closet, and that a man named Mr. Macabee is holding her captive for ransom. She casually discusses her lack of food and water, her playing of movies over and over in her head, and in general, her insanity.
Videos
Stockholm Syndrome
The video is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Stockholm Syndrome, a bizarre psychological phenomenon in which victims of kidnapping or abuse sympathize with their captor, often defending them, and albeit traumatically, bonding with them.
It is referenced by the “Stockholm” part of the title, as well as Hartmann’s defenses of Mr. Macabee and her overall situation.