thats why celebrities rarely interact with fans like these in a public setting, they need round the clock security. codepenacy is very similar, if you ever encountered people like that, parasocial is the extreme version of that. (it was pretty common in college setting, for some reason. if anyone watched Supernatural before, the fans are pretty parasocial, at least the ones that goes to those CONS.
![[Dax Harwood] Unfortunately, over the last year & a half, myself, my mom, & now my wife, have all been either stalked, threatened, or verbally attacked by an individual on Instagram.](https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/f257620e-b7d3-448e-bfd1-0aa2c12bcabf.webp){kind=link}
thats why celebrities rarely interact with fans like these in a public setting, they need round the clock security. codepenacy is very similar, if you ever encountered people like that, parasocial is the extreme version of that. (it was pretty common in college setting, for some reason. if anyone watched Supernatural before, the fans are pretty parasocial, at least the ones that goes to those CONS.
Christ I know too damned many horny 50yo’s who tell me frequently how much they wanna get railed by Dean to this day…
Literally my favorite show. Are you talking about the episode or in general?