How do you orchestrate something like these things happening without it unraveling at the root of the act......the kid. I’m having a hard time believing that these things have been planned but then I’m no mental giant?
That is actually the easiest part, remember you don't care where it happens, just that it happens somewhere, so you can groom, encourage, suggest, influence a wide list of potential candidates and as long as one does it, your goals are met.
ISIS does it that way all the time.
Those vile "Blue Whale" monsters in Russia do it the same way
One thing people forget is how sleep deprived many kids are today with all the gaming & social media stuff, push it a bit further and they will loose their grip on reality.
It's a well known issue & widely used (It's one of the torture methods we use on suspected or confirmed terrorists).
If the kid is seriously into social media or online gaming, it's pretty easy to destroy their sleep schedule & put them in a highly suggestive state where their brains are not functioning properly. The Blue Whale guys use that as a huge part of their sick plans.
Young people are perfect because they lack the experience, brain maturity and will power to fight against it, and have no idea of what is going on as they haven't studied the actual darkside of life much.
I would bet if you took just about any random teenager, kept them up for about 4 days straight after having spent the previous week making them have only a couple hours of sleep a night, well broken up, you could tell them aliens were attacking their front door & they would consider that it is really happening & they should shoot back.
You notice some of the young people who don't die as part of the actions they take, tend to be acting like they are stunned and have no idea of how the whole thing went down & seem shocked they did it.