>>42934087>No it isn't. It's something to watch on a screen. Is The Sopranos parasocial? It's something you can stream, after allparasocial interaction
>A term coined by Horton and Wohl in 1956 to refer to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by members of an audience in their mediated encounters with certain performers in the mass media, particularly on television. Regular viewers come to feel that they know familiar television personalities almost as friends.So yes, you can form a parasocial relationship with characters/actors from The Sopranos.
A streamer is this written large, they interact with chat, they communicate with "you" through a variety of ways even if they aren't really communicating with you. A streamer/chat relationship is oddly a two way parasocial relationship.
A parasocial relationship isn't necessarily negative, but a viewer (and streamer) needs to know when to switch it off so to speak.
