>>56332820Playing devil's advocate, the anti-GFE troll are 100% in bad faith but the issue they point out with their ironic "touch grass, get a gf" is real and it's no wonder to me that a world with so many ways to escape reality and just live in your own virtual bubble forever with little to no contact with other humans, or even nature, managed to create generations of people completely unable to relate to one another and to their surroundings. We are the same humans who hunted mammoths, built the pyramids and crossed the Atlantic, we need what's real because it's all we have known for 99% of our history. We are not equipped to deal with the digital/vritual age and it shows.
So when I see people trying to explain why some parasocial mumbo jumbo is actually good at best I see a desperate struggle to say "let me cope", at worst I see individuals or corporations with vested interest in keeping people hooked on the placebo they sell. Kinda what happens with the whole mental illness - big pharma situation.
