Am I crazy if I think a lot of streamers are just as parasocial as we are?

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I might be coping, but seeing the same names day after day in chat...
Hearting comments and laughing at jokes on stream...
Hell, Kiara talked about exactly this!

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>>45763394
Depending on what you mean by that, I don't think you're crazy. The big difference is that while you can know a lot about your oshi abstractly, it's harder for her to treat her audience like individuals.

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>>45763394
Nobody likes talking to an empty room. Your chuuba depends on your support to make the streams lively and interesting. This applies to all chuubas from the top of the chart all the way to the most struggling /asp/ie pngtuber. They may not all be number-watching menheras but streaming is, by nature, very personal entertainment.

So always do your best to support your oshis because they depend on your support.

t. some terrible 1view

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>>45763394
Nah you're not crazy
Most if not all streamers are parasocial, the ones who say they aren't don't know what parasocial means and they're retarded.
There's no problem with being parasocial as long as you don't overstep boundaries

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>>45765014
This. "Parasocial" doesn't mean its most extreme case in every case. You don't know your oshi personally and they don't know you personally and hopefully there's a healthy boundary between you and your oshi that you respect. At the same time, you spend a lot of time "with" them, talking to them, being talked to by them. Sometimes they see your messages and respond to you. You share jokes and funny moments together. Sometimes you can feel close to your chuubas in a way that they may also feel close to their audience as well. Its important to remember that individual attention is very rare from chuubas, especially those with larger audiences but its very likely that even in a larger crowd, the chuuba will still take notice of names they see a lot. They'll often notice when that name isn't in chat after being there a while. Streamers are humans and have normal human emotions to interacting with people.

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>>45765344
I think the best way to take this into account is to recall that the original example of a parasocial relationship is Americans with Walter Kronkite and other news anchors.

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>>45763394
They are, at a certain level.

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>>45765457
Sometimes I remember that a lot of /vt/ is too young to remember the Eminem song "Stan" where the modern slang term for extremely parasocial fans came from.

[Anonymous No.]

They see you as a cute pet at best, someone that they can dump affection and trauma with little repercussions to their private life.

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>>45765562
kpoop fans ruined it

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>>45765638
Kpop and its consequences have been a distaster for the human race

[Anonymous No.]

It's funny that the usual definition of a parqsocial interaction is something like "the one sided process of media person perception during media exposure." Most vtuber interactions aren't actually parasocial by that metric.

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>>45763394
no, just retarded

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>>45763394
Online friends are a thing and some can even use the place as a datting app, so yes and at the same time no. She’s not thinking of you no matter how much you post >yeah me

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>>45766343
>She’s not thinking of you no matter how much you post
We're getting married. Later fucko

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>>45763394
>I might be coping
but I feel so wide awake
a secret yearning that is deep inside of me
I can feel you but I cannot see you
reaching out
reaching ooooout

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>>45766075
Yeah, I expect academics to move to cyber-social soon enough:

>Interpersonal relations on live streaming services are neither social relations (there are no spatial proximity and no bodily contact) nor parasocial relations (as there is reciprocity and temporal proximity), but cyber-social relations. Cyber-social relations occupy a position in between social and parasocial relations, giving live streaming an exceptional position in the entire landscape of social media. In some articles, the interpersonal relations on live streaming services are called “parasocial.” Due to our results, this terminology is not suitable and should be avoided as live streaming mediated relations are a relation in its own rights. It is a task for the future to develop a scale for the determination of the extent of the respective live streaming mediated interpersonal relation.

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3f5bc38c-fb9f-41a8-b4fa-cb5bfe206d70/content

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>>45763394
Some definitely are like Vox apologizing to his Kindred after he got upset at them for harrassing his Genmates really felt parasocial on his end. Having people constantly tell you how cool, cute and attractive they are is bound to have an affect on people.