Mashable: Dan and Phil turned a 16-year relationship reveal into a lesson on parasocial boundaries. “In a 46-minute satirical ‘conspiracy’ documentary, skillfully evoking the popular 2010s YouTube format, the creator duo confirmed what fans have speculated for nearly 16 years: that the creative partners, roommates, and best friends have been romantically linked the whole time, and that they’ve […]
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Understanding Parasocial Relationships: How Our One-Sided Connections Impact Us
Parasocial relationships are one-sided attachments that occur when individuals feel connected to influencers or content creators without any mutual interaction. This phenomenon, first identified in 1956 with the rise of television, is now common with the popularity of social media influencers, YouTu... [More info]
https://rumble.com/v6vfhnh-liver-kings-dark-turn-threatening-joe-rogan-and-the-aftermath.html
Liver King’s Dark Turn: Threatening Joe Rogan and the Aftermath
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TikTok's direct-to-camera format tricks your brain into thinking creators are talking TO you, not AT an audience.
This creates intense parasocial relationships: one-sided emotional connections that feel surprisingly real and meaningful.
People are discovering autism, exploring identity, finding mental health support through creators they've never met.
#ParasocialRelationships #TikTokPsychology #DigitalConnections
PsyPost: Parasocial jealousy is real: Study finds fans feel more threatened when rivals differ from them. “New research published in Psychology of Popular Media finds that people in one-sided romantic attachments with celebrities — known as parasocial romantic relationships — can experience jealousy when their favorite media figures begin a real-life romance. But not just any relationship […]
Tubefilter: Is paying for private security just another cost of being a female streamer?. “Obviously we’re not saying male content creators have zero need for security, or that they never face threats of their own. More than a few male content creators have been swatted, and some have also had their homes broken into. But Emiru, Cinna, and Valkyrae’s incident especially highlights how […]
We’re talking about a new, and an ongoing series — ZERO DAY & PRIME TARGET.
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New York Times: The Agony of Adoring Online Dogs. This link goes to a gift article. “There’s something distinct and humbling about forming a parasocial relationship with, and experiencing heartbreak from, an animal you’ve never met. Now that many of us have been on social media for a decade or more, it’s becoming impossible to not brace for the inevitable. And when these animals ‘cross […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/11/new-york-times-the-agony-of-adoring-online-dogs/
Tubefilter: YouTube wants creators and fans closer than ever with its new Communities update. “YouTube has put a big spotlight on fandom over the past year or so, recognizing that giving creators multiple ways to engage with fans plays a significant role in keeping audiences strong. And it scrapped the ‘Community’ name for text posts because it just introduced Communities–a new, dedicated […]
Why podcast hosts feel like friends: Study explores authenticity and parasocial relationships https://www.psypost.org/why-podcast-hosts-feel-like-friends-study-explores-authenticity-and-parasocial-relationships/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Podcasting #PodcastHosts #Authenticity #ParasocialRelationships #Friendship
Parasocial relationships are common but can impact well-being. Signs of overinvestment include obsessive behavior. Strategies include setting boundaries and seeking help.
https://froydinger.com/parasocial-relationships-are-you-too-invested/
The latest obsession for celebrity fans is the romance between actor Callum Turner and singer Dua Lipa. It's just the latest example of a so-called parasocial relationship, where fans feel like they genuinely know celebrities, leading to feelings of ownership, protectiveness, and sometimes disappointment if a romance ends or a star does or says something "wrong." Here's a story from Stylecaster examining the phenomenon. But we want to know, do you think this is really a fresh phenomenon, or is it just regular old fandom and celeb culture with a swanky new name.
#Lifestyle #Celebrity #Relationships #Psychology #PopPsychology #ParasocialRelationships
One of the many downsides to investing in parasocial relationships is that none of your actual social relations are going to want to hear that much about it.
Especially if, like me, you're not even keeping up with the times so you're mostly excited about things that happened to people you don't actually know 10 years ago....
(at least my interest in people that goes back more than 20 years can be reclassified as 'historical'. Follow me for all the hottest outdated David Tennant and Kit Marlowe gossip!)
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I've created an aoir.social account, so here's my #introduction post! I'm a Ph.D Candidate at the University of South Carolina & Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Jacksonville State University.
I am in the process of wrapping up my #dissertation which is studying influencers through the #publicrelations lens to better understand #audienceperception and #parasocialrelationships.
I am a 2x grad from Auburn University #WarEagle and love to research & teach all things #socialmedia.
At first, I felt some shame but now I feel pretty neutral about the fact that I use #ParasocialRelationships to ease some loneliness. I love being alone, in many ways it’s my preferred state. And, I love being with friends (one at a time.) For a lot of reasons, I haven’t spent time with friends much lately, so I’ve been replaying the #MaintenancePhase podcast as kind of “company.” I know I don’t really know these people, and they certainly don’t know me. And also, it’s comforting.
I had a realization that there's a sort of implied social contract that parasocial relationships must stay parasocial relationships, hence it's always weird to meet someone from a fandom or what-have-you. But, I think the weirder part is, when a fandom is relatively small, especially if it's small, there's no actual reason for that separation.
Like, if you're a podcast with like five people, that is your tribe now. If you have a youtube channel with like a dozen followers, those could be your friends. It's only when the input becomes overwhelming (see: any popular youtuber's live chat) when the disconnect becomes mandatory.
Anyway, I guess it's just a #showerthoughts I had, especially back on Twitter when someone would post some drawing, get five replies, but only reply to like, one person.
Like bruh... I feel like you need to reach a certain popularity threshold before you start saying "oh wow I don't know these people" like cmon, if you have three fans of your work, you may as well be active.
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Hit a limitation on using social media I've not encountered before. Usually I feel very comfortable chatting with people online about all kinds of things. But I've just read something distressing about an actor I admire very much, something bad that's happened in her private life. That her fans now know about.
I really want to talk about it, because it's a confusing situation and even though, of course, I don't actually "know" the people involved, I care about them. The people I know offline don't know (or care) about the personalities involved, so I can't really talk to them. And it seems wrong posting about it online because the conversation would be so public, and it's about a real person's trauma.
UGH! ugh. ugh ugh ugh.
I'm reduce do lurking on reddit fan discussions.
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