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Although the term parasocial relationship originally refered to people viewing mass media, this does not strictly seem to be the case for onlyfans. So we're stretching the definition in any case. Although onlyfans is a little bit more of a one way street. What I meant is internet forums fill a similar need for illusory interaction. My relationship to HN is definitely of the illusory personal connection type. I can fool myself into believing that my words actually matter. Yet the hivemind does not even register what I write. Your experience might be entirely different. But if you don't have any type of emotional investment into this, why do you write?


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