>>45765014This. "Parasocial" doesn't mean its most extreme case in every case. You don't know your oshi personally and they don't know you personally and hopefully there's a healthy boundary between you and your oshi that you respect. At the same time, you spend a lot of time "with" them, talking to them, being talked to by them. Sometimes they see your messages and respond to you. You share jokes and funny moments together. Sometimes you can feel close to your chuubas in a way that they may also feel close to their audience as well. Its important to remember that individual attention is very rare from chuubas, especially those with larger audiences but its very likely that even in a larger crowd, the chuuba will still take notice of names they see a lot. They'll often notice when that name isn't in chat after being there a while. Streamers are humans and have normal human emotions to interacting with people.
