People often talk about parasocial relationships, but how parasocial is it if you're literally communicating with each other regularly, have in-jokes and know about the other person's hopes and desires?

Is the relationship with your office coworkers "parasocial"? Surely not, yet the relationship between a streamer like a Vtuber and their regular audience members somehow is? This is a weaponized term used to attack people whose only relationships are online because normies will always jump on any opportunity to have an "other", a "lesser" to "righteously" mock and spit on to make themselves feel superior.