Creators — like Hank Green and Brittany Browski and everyone in between — look to their audiences for feedback, direction, and guidance on how to act, what to say, what to make, and how to keep the audience “happy.”
If these relationships were interpersonal, they would be unhealthy and dysfunctional.
Yet, the nature of the relationship is parasocial — an abnormal relationship. But they are interacting telesocially — at a distance and heavily mediated by technology and its context.
If we can understand the dynamics at play for our favorite creators and makers performing for us, would we not be in a better position to make the relationship healthier?
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