Stephanie Soo acknowledges the bystander effect as a psychological phenomenon where individuals wait to see if others will act before they help.

“you know that that's also like a experiment that yeah huh what took the bystander effect when you see a crime you kind of think that someone else is calling 9-1-1”

The bystander effect occurs when individuals in a group fail to act during an emergency because they assume others will intervene.

“The bystander effect is where there are a lot of people in a particular situation. Something bad is happening and everybody expects someone else to do something and so nobody does anything. It's a collective action problem.”