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Yup. It's not that they're taking fiction seriously, it's literally that they don't understand how fiction and art work.
This picture is supposed to make the viewer feel anger and revulsion. And this is indeed what is happening to these particular viewers too. Except they have no idea what they're supposed to do with those feelings, they don't understand them, why they feel them, and end up blaming the author for those feelings. They are literally unable to process and understand that as viewers of that piece of art, it was intended for them to be able to correctly identify that those feelings were supposed to be directed at the fictional characters, as they are the ones who perpetuated those fictional crimes that made them angry.