Background: Bardfinn has long had a fixation on what's known as the "Karpman Drama Triangle" which is a drama analysis variation on the psychological concept of drama triangles. Stephen Karpman, the member of the Screen Actors Guild who wrote the article introducing his theory, basically intended the Karpman triangle to be used to aid actors and screenwriters in script drama analysis, but Bardfinn is using it outside of that very specific and context context for scripted performative interactions. Bardfinn rather uses it as an explanation for everything and everyone that's bad and triggers him on the internet. Joseph Paul Watson shows another drama triangle in his video, which is closer to the way Bardfinn himself uses the Karpman triangle to accuse random people of being Nazis on Reddit so that he doesn't have to consider their criticisms of his actions. Bardfinn has posted dozens of times on Reddit about the "Karpman Drama Triangle", but I think it was mostly projection on his part. Here are some examples of such posts - keep in mind there are dozens more, Bardfinn will literally mention the "Karpman Drama Triangle" in a post at least once every month:

Karpman Drama Triangle, which describes the psychodramatic roles of Saviour (Rescuer), Victim, and Persecutor (Oppressor). So-called "Social Justice Warriors" are criticised because they behave in such a way as to play out one or more of these roles, while pushing others into playing out one or more of these roles, sometimes against their will. By this dynamic, TheFappeners, GamerGaters, FatPeopleHaters, and PaoHaters can all be classed as Social Justice Warriors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cil1m/a_history_of_whining_about_censorship_by_reddit/csvwi87/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

TIL the Karpman Drama Triangle is a model of some personal interactions between people who do not take responsibility for their own feelings. The roles are "Victim", "Persecutor", and "Rescuer".

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/39gtz9/til_the_karpman_drama_triangle_is_a_model_of_some/

The covert purpose for each player, and the reason the situation endures, is that each gets their unspoken (and frequently unconscious) psychological wishes/needs met in a manner they feel justified, without having to acknowledge the broader dysfunction or harm done in the situation as a whole.

As such, each player is acting upon their own selfish needs, rather than acting in a genuinely responsible or altruistic manner.

Thus a character might "ordinarily come on like a plaintive victim; it is now clear that she can switch into the role of Persecutor — providing it is 'accidental' and she apologises for it".

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/39gtz9/til_the_karpman_drama_triangle_is_a_model_of_some/cs3830f/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

The people on that website aren't TERFs. They're just Internet trolls. They engage in a practice described by a psychologist named Karpman — whose description survives as the Karpman Drama Triangle, describing dysfunctional psychodramatic dynamics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCynical/comments/6sa4lk/a_possible_terf_uploaded_a_picture_of_me_to_an/dlb9um3/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

They employ the Karpman Drama Triangle dynamic. It's simple and effective, and many people are unconscious to it until it's pointed out.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/fdwsfl/repicairconditioning_has_been_banned/

Both societies (the "female" Fempire and the "male" The_Donald) both heavily utilise Karpman Drama Triangle psychodynamics in order to drive their purpose narratives and engage their cultural participants. The Fempire tends to avoid the Saviour dynamic on a grand scale, however, for many reasons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/6gaame/why_do_the_look_at_this_idiotstyle_subs_tend_to/dipehtv/

Narcs are synonymous with martyr complexes, or rather with Karpman Drama Triangles. They need to play a role in a drama to have meaning to their lives, either as Persecutor, or Victim, or Saviour.

https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/5i07ma/question_dae_have_an_nparent_with_a_martyr_complex/

That said: This kind of thing is predicted by model — they're acting out a Karpman Drama Triangle psychodynamic, and got out their Victim phase this morning; This is their Saviour phase. Churn churn churn drama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/6c1mm8/fuck_you_all_were_going_to_voat_you_cucks_one/

That they are looking to dance a Karpman Drama Triangle swingdance — That they wish to play the Victim (the "cross dressing biological men in the women's restroom must be perverts there to rape" narrative) and the Oppressor (Peak Trans threads) and the Rescuer ("Think of the Children!")

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCynical/comments/6shehm/g_c_oversimplifies_news_article_to_make_parents/

You likely wish to educate yourself about the Karpman Drama Triangle. The things you have written lead me to believe that you are looking for (a) dance partner(s), and/or are seeking psychotherapy for your own emotional difficulties of dealing with a culture that isn't your own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/5oya5w/my_first_encounter_with_lgbtqqip2saa/dcn0q7h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Strawmanning and DARVO - typical abuser techniques. They're also pretty deep into the Karpman Drama Triangle Persecutor-Victim-Rescuer dysfunctional dynamic, too. If Reddit isn't shuttering that subreddit, they should be.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/dblrgc/rtheredpill_posts_a_sticky_claiming_that_the/f22z0hk/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Bardfinn is so obsessed with using the Karpman Triangle as an explanation for everything that triggers him that he has even written poetry on Twitter where he mentioned the Karpman Drama Triangle:

I am awake

Listening to a calm, gentle voice

Instructing me to focus on the sensation of relaxation

Instead I am drawn unbidden into rage against the machine

The Karpmann drama triangle

the cycle of samsara

The clowns will eat me

https://twitter.com/PennyOaken/status/946352497043607552

In the context of Bardfinn's habitual, pathological lying, it is Bardfinn himself who is the very embodiment of the narcissist as described in JPW's video as someone who triangulates at every opportunity and engages in online witchhunts based on nothing but hysteria and spurious accusations.