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The Internet business model encourages parasocial relationships. Click, stream, like, subscribe, follow, shut off your brain. Even with my news feeds I learn things about people and the intimate details of their lives I don’t care about, just from the headlines. People will violently defend an anime character or Taylor Swift or Andrew Tate or a streamer as if they’re relatives or actual friends.