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What about parasocial relationships? With game streamers, youtubers, onlyfans girls, etc? IMO these blur the lines between celebrity and friend. Viewer can ofte
by aftbit 5y ago
What about parasocial relationships? With game streamers, youtubers, onlyfans girls, etc? IMO these blur the lines between celebrity and friend. Viewer can often have deep relationships to their content creators. The content creators in turn have a shallow, multiplexed, but still meaningful relationship with their viewers.
- Retric 5y agoThe perception of a connection is valuable for everyone from senators to plumbers, but rarely is it a reciprocal and enduring connection. I think this is the same basic question as the degree to which a waiter or barista is having a relationship with their customers. Content creators may have strong individual connections to some viewers. However abstracting that to the audience as a whole is like suggesting you have a relationship with the miner who extracted some copper in whatever device you’re using right now. It’s can be meaningful to talk about such weak connections in contexts like economics, but individually most such connections don’t rise to the level of having an emotional response.