They have been turned into untouchable beings that shouldn't be approached at all, and it's honestly disgusting, oh you want to be more than a fan towards the cute streamer girl? "Lmao creep, loser, you will never meet them lmao", etc. I get it, there's creepy people out there.
However assuming everyone with intentions like these is a creep has to be the worst stuff ever normalized on the internet in the past years (obvious exaggeration but still). Ah yes, let's focus on the over obsessive people who are the minority, and not in the giant amount of cases where the complete opposite happened, be it Japan or any other country with a heavy streamer presence, most of the cases of fans going towards being more than fans have not been negative at all, and before someone jumps into "WHAT ABOUT IDOL CULTURE"
The biggest known cases of stuff happening to them were either.
>Insanely deranged people who already had a few screws loose
>Jealous people who were mad a girl made more money than them
Not defending the obvious bullcrap that is actual idol culture of course.
But seriously, how did we go from the NND days where people used it as a place to hook up/meet people to this wasteland where even trying to do so gets you put on a watchlist in the entire internet. Streamers are normal people behind a screen, your chances with them exist
Even actual idols meet up with random nobodies and end up having happy relationships, i really don't get why this gets treated differently. Hell, even famous actors worldwide have meet and dated fans who went throught the trouble of getting to know them better.
Am i saying any deranged person should be given the time of day? Hell no, I'm saying that any person that goes for a streamer in a friendly/romantic manner needs to stop being treated like a creep that's aiming for the impossible, it's just a normal person behind a screen, your chances with them are the same as anyone you find on the street, don't be discouraged by a bunch of morons that literally treat their favorite streamer as a untouchable/unreachable being. If it works it works, if it doesn't so be it.
With that said, obviously realize if you truly love them/want to be their friend by approaching them wanting to know more about them, if they say no, respect that and let it go, parasocial relationships that get unhealthy exist, but not by the current internet definition.
Overall, this was just a way to get the personal way of how i feel out of my chest, is this a cope?, maybe, but seeing people with decent intentions being called the worst things ever because "OMG HE/SHE WANTS THE STREAMER" is beyond dumb and shouldn't exist.