Anonymous
10/24/2025, 3:15:54 AM
No.82897716
>>82893165
It's the first generation to fully grow up in internet times where they watched streamers constantly and formed parasocial relationships from a young age. Back in the olden days there might have been a couple of wackadoos that thought Judy Garland was professing her love for them via her performance or whatever, but those people were one in a billion. Now most people have formed what they feel are genuine connections with online personalities due to spending so much time consuming content, and those connections are purely one-side parasocial relationships. Genuine from one end, but not the other.
Millennials are affected by this too, but most of us can still remember the before times
It's the first generation to fully grow up in internet times where they watched streamers constantly and formed parasocial relationships from a young age. Back in the olden days there might have been a couple of wackadoos that thought Judy Garland was professing her love for them via her performance or whatever, but those people were one in a billion. Now most people have formed what they feel are genuine connections with online personalities due to spending so much time consuming content, and those connections are purely one-side parasocial relationships. Genuine from one end, but not the other.
Millennials are affected by this too, but most of us can still remember the before times