In the 24 hours surrounding Tuesday September 18th, 73 tweets were logged under the discussion hashtag #TooFatToDie, with that number on the rise. Another hash, #BabySnatcher had logged 359 tweets, while the less popular infant related hashtag #BabyInDryer had only generated 58 tweets worth of online discussion. Sadly, out of all of these ridiculous hashtags, it appears people were least interested in in a dead pregnant woman, as #PregMomRunOver only carried 19 tweets.* While these microtrends aren’t large enough to merit a ton of notice, the fact that all of these hashtags are highly inorganic in their construction and sensational in subject matter makes it amazing that people are using them at all.

The driving force behind these tabloid topic discussions on Twitter is celebrity journalist Nancy Grace. While her journalistic approach on television has always been a subject of controversy in its own right, tackling low-brow and violent crime subjects while touting all exploitation of the subjects as advocating victims’ rights, her HLN show’s social media practices similarly blur the lines between broadcasting the reports, creating actual discussion, and outright troll behavior. The rigorous use of hashtags and pull quotes for every story, the way that social media editorial format is followed strictly with no variations, is an astounding feat in a world where most news organizations are still struggling to identify basic best practices in the social media landscape.

The end effect of the feed, when taken in its own context, paints a picture of Nancy Grace as a screaming schizophrenic lunatic who ends her tweets extremely shocking and violent hashtags. And if online entertainment isn’t about gawking at a lady insistently broadcasting thoughts under #DeadBabyInCar, then I don’t know what is. Below are some prime tweets from her account that read like the most entertaining kind of lunacy:

We’re talking about the murder of a pregnant mom—so this really isn’t the time to be afraid of the word vagina #BabySnatcher?

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) September 18, 2012

The couple’s relationship was ‘a little tumultuous?’ Look that word up in a dictionary—it’s either tumultuous or not. #PregMomRunOver

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) September 14, 2012

Yeah—you’re not going to come on my show & say OMG. Not on the Nancy Grace show #HIVMurder

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) September 12, 2012

A lot of perfectly normal people murder their children #BabyInDryer

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) September 11, 2012

Did he just refer to a lady as a baby? No. Not on this program. #WasItTheHubby?

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) September 6, 2012

Somebody buys me a lobster dinner & I’m supposed to have sex w/him? #DeadlyObsession?

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) August 28, 2012

Just last night John David was asking me when we were going to play putt-putt. I don’t understand how this happened #MiniGolfDeath

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) August 28, 2012

This definitely doesn’t seem like something that happened at the morning breakfast table #CoffeeMugMurder

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) August 25, 2012

She tested positive for THC? You definitely don’t find THC in Cornflakes…#BrideKillsGroom?

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) August 23, 2012

He had his foot on her thigh sitting on the sofa…and he’s turned it into an erotic experience? #what #CreepySexDiariesPart2

— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) August 22, 2012

It’s surprisingly hard to distinguish the tweets of parody account NanceryGraceHLN:

A man cooks his victim but slathers cheap ketchup on the steak instead of A1 sauce, ruining a perfectly good steak? #CrockpotWifeKiller

— NANCERY GRACE (@NanceryGraceHLN) September 21, 2012

Peeing on a baby is not a crime. What IS a crime is drowning a baby in pee. #PeeBaby? Scratch that, peeing on a baby IS a crime in 36 states

— NANCERY GRACE (@NanceryGraceHLN) September 20, 2012

I have devoted over half of my life to crime and law. I am so horny for crime right now.

— NANCERY GRACE (@NanceryGraceHLN) September 12, 2012

Man who shot wife claims he thought she was a deer. I wonder if he said “Be a dear and go over there” but instead of “dear” he said “deer”.

— NANCERY GRACE (@NanceryGraceHLN) September 12, 2012

You cannot kill someone just because they gave you HIV. We all learned this in Kindergarten. I did. I went to Montessori school.

— NANCERY GRACE (@NanceryGraceHLN) September 12, 2012

*statistics generated by hashtracker.com