"Nonetheless, new media, and especially social media, has surely changed the nature of parasocial relationships."
"Parasocial relationships are completely normal and can even have a positive impact on a person's well-being."
"A parasocial relationship is kind of a one-sided relationship where one party is investing a lot of emotional energy into the relationship, and the other party isn't even aware that the first person exists."
"Achieving widespread success online is difficult if you aren't willing to allow the public to peer into your personal life and develop a parasocial relationship with you."
"With the rise of social media, the current of parasocial relationships becomes even more evident."
"Many psychologists think parasocial relationships are usually good for us."
"Parasocial interaction...the feeling of connecting with an on-screen character...they can strongly affect a viewer's emotions and behaviors in the long term."
"Parasocial relationships, at its crux, is about fulfilling our need and typical parasocial relationships aren't harmful."
"I don't think all parasocial relationships are a bad thing."
"Many people who get into reactionary politics have hardcore parasocial relationships with online figures."
"This is the first movie I've seen that really tackles the kind of psychology of a parasocial relationship."
"The interactivity feeds into our propensity for parasocial relationships."
"Stalking is what happens when a parasocial relationship goes wrong."
"I want to have a parasocial relationship with a reporter or a news commentator or investigator that I trust."
"All of us are parasocial towards someone or something in various things."
"The point that I'm trying to get at here is that everyone forms parasocial bonds to someone and that's normal, that's reasonable in an era of mass media."
"I think she's a little too parasocial because she reads all her indirects and then blocks people on Twitter when they say something mean. It's like, good!"
"What do you think about the Doja and Ariana drama and more so what do you as a consumer of Music thinking about the nature of parasocial relationships with celebrities?"
"The overall point... readers feel like they know you."
"We ought not to engage in the sinful practices."
"Parasocial relationships can feel very real and personal."
"A parasocial relationship fills a social need, basically what it's doing is filling a validation, acceptance, and a place of belonging need."
"Parasocial relationships themselves were correlated with greater social anxiety, anxious and avoiding attachment, and loneliness."
"There are so many benefits to engaging in fiction and to these parasocial relationships."
"A parasocial relationship is when you perceive a developed connection with someone else but it's not reciprocated."
"A potent metaphor for the hell of parasocial."
"Despite not being real, parasocial relationships can have a powerful emotional impact on anyone."
"People do have this sense of friendship and camaraderie with me even though we don't actually know each other."
"You can imagine that parasocial relationships changed from the time where the silver screen and the radio and the TV were people's only access."
"Welcome to the metaverse. Chuck has broken the parasocial relationship."
"It's parasocial, you know me significantly better than I know you."
"There's this thing called parasocial interaction."
"I don't see the parasocial as an inherently degraded thing. I think that it can be a legitimate supplement to real relationships."
"Parasocial relationships: a one-sided relationship, the illusion of intimacy, a similacrum of reciprocal conversation."
"Parasocial intimacy can become deeply meaningful, a legitimate part of human sociability."
"Pathological parasocial relationships occur when illusion becomes delusion."
"Many of us formed parasocial relationships with these kids we saw them on our TVs every week we grew up with them knowing what was going on behind the scenes adds a very dark cloud over those memories."
"A formal interesting question is why you need so much parasocial attention from your favorite youtuber."
"Having such a deep obsession towards someone... is one of the biggest reasons parasocial relationships can become so dangerous."
"Parasocial stuff is a thing but it's born of loneliness. It's not born of streamers. It's just not."
"Women's presence, time, gifts, labor, and bodies have value, and men would pay for parasocial relationships because they cannot access in real life relationships with women."
"Unfortunately the only thing more shocking than falling into a Parasocial relationship with a streamer is being snapped back out of it by the harsh cookie of reality"
"I feel like I know Rebecca and it's just a bizarre, bizarre place to be in."
"I think that that's like par social I guess a little bit where you're like oh this big content creator gave me some attention like we're friends now"
"We appreciate you, our parasocial darlings, and all of the people who watch this."
"There are fans who can take the parasocial relationship way too far, they lose touch with reality and begin to believe that they personally know the figure."
"The viewer's one-sided exchange mirrors a real-life relationship."
"Just as real friendships take time to build, parasocial relationships do as well."
"One of my favorite projects that I really like genuinely enjoy doing probably contributes to that parasocial relationship."
"Parasocial relationships... it's a very interesting thing."
"I think it's beautiful and poetic when a person comes to me and they go, 'I really feel connected to you,' and I have to be like, 'Take me off that pedestal in that parasocial relationship. I'm just a person.'"
"For the most part, parasocial relationships are neutral to positive. They tend to be temporary holding places that are really good for community building."
"In the Modern Age of parasocial attachment, communities frequently form around their idols rather than being formed by their idols."
"I'm really hoping that this video can spark some kind of insightful discussion about parasocial relationships."