> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it. Some call it this: https://en.wi

> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it. Some call it this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction A deep link to a Tom Scott video about it: https://youtu.be/leX541Dr2rU?t=33m40s https://youtu.be/leX541Dr2rU?t=33m40s What gp (Retric) was trying to say is that the terminology of "social relationships" found in the wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number ... is not talking about parasocial relationships. Yes "parasocial relationships" is a real phenomenon but that's not what Dunbar was referring to when correlating "# of maintained relationships" with the primate neocortex size in his research.