>>70238396its delusional thinking with potentially harmful effects, like prioritising the false, one-way creator-consumer social relationship over your actual needs & circumstances, especially social
parasocial relationships were bad when they were directed at traditional celebrities - and modern social media has only hypercharged the issue with influencers and influencer marketing
the reason its talked so much about in vtubing is because the chuuba is explicitly a character so there's an extra layer of abstraction (or the layer of abstraction is made obvious)
it also hits on so many tropes such as otaku culture being for lonely, obsessive men, the anime gf, the hikki escapism and all their associated dangers and social ills
also
>parasocialism 