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Blake Belladonna
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I can relate to this as a phenomenon I have seen and experienced. Specifically in video games YouTube content, anime.
It is not about people that I don't like. As I can remember if I subscribed to a community of YouTubers I would see them interacting and if they had the personality I had I would stay or move on.
I was unlikely to participate in these groups but I felt like I was part of them. Like if I met them we would be friends. I also had taken care of some kids that were into games and YouTube who used my computer to create an online identity downloading pictures and doing what other kids do online.
They'd ask me questions about their favorite characters and compare me to them. One kids asked me which ninja turtle I was. I said Leonardo. The littlest kid said I was a pony.
I suppose that kids today want friends to share things with and when the do some of that is what they have in common. That would be the cartoon character or game character or YouTube groups.
This is much more complex than TV as in the past you couldn't meet people over the Internet. Or interact with the TV actors. Now you can.
Everyone talked about Pokemon or Gameboy at school when I was little. But the Internet now exists. So they can talk long distance. See people all the time, every day, not just at 3-7 PM cartoon time.
This could before be seen as a new kind parasocial because it mixes reality and non reality in nonlinear ways. Not just something you buy a DVD on a cartoon while having no participation in.
It is not about people that I don't like. As I can remember if I subscribed to a community of YouTubers I would see them interacting and if they had the personality I had I would stay or move on.
I was unlikely to participate in these groups but I felt like I was part of them. Like if I met them we would be friends. I also had taken care of some kids that were into games and YouTube who used my computer to create an online identity downloading pictures and doing what other kids do online.
They'd ask me questions about their favorite characters and compare me to them. One kids asked me which ninja turtle I was. I said Leonardo. The littlest kid said I was a pony.
I suppose that kids today want friends to share things with and when the do some of that is what they have in common. That would be the cartoon character or game character or YouTube groups.
This is much more complex than TV as in the past you couldn't meet people over the Internet. Or interact with the TV actors. Now you can.
Everyone talked about Pokemon or Gameboy at school when I was little. But the Internet now exists. So they can talk long distance. See people all the time, every day, not just at 3-7 PM cartoon time.
This could before be seen as a new kind parasocial because it mixes reality and non reality in nonlinear ways. Not just something you buy a DVD on a cartoon while having no participation in.
