#unknowable nonhuman entity with unknowable experiences rather than acknowledging the actual point of examining an Actual Parasocial | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

corset · 1 year ago

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Ok people really need to stop using the word parasocial so wildly…Like it’s gotten to the point where I’m in the comments of a video and someone is like “not to be parasocial but I relate to you experiencing grief because someone close to you died” and it’s like. You are allowed to….relate to another person…experiencing a feeling about a common experience that basically everyone has at SOME point. What???

#Like the specific example I gave is what drove me to make this post but legitimately I think it’s gotten to the point where people are #afraid to FEEL ANYTHING in relation to someone they do not personally know like that stranger suddenly becomes some unrelatable and #unknowable nonhuman entity with unknowable experiences rather than acknowledging the actual point of examining an Actual Parasocial #Relationship and being unhealthily invested and attached to someone you don’t personally know to the point you act like you do etc etc like #DIFFERENT THINGS

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