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The_Korey posted...

For the average person, this leap in logic is quite a stretch, but unfortunately we live in a world where actors occasionally get harassed/threatened as if they really were the antagonists they've played, so yeah, I'd expect a percentage of people to start believing/doing kreepy shit after prolonged exposure.

And keep in mind, those are just performances through traditional media. That's not even considering other people who have developed serious parasocial issues with streamers and other content creators who talk directly to the camera as if they're talking to the audience. Whose allegiance to them as a good guy or a villain is on a razor thin wire every day.

Imagine that, except the figure they're interacting with is a physical being they can speak to and physically touch who is, for all intents and purposes, a person as opposed to a video feed. Specifically, their idealized version of you who meets all of their values and desires, given a physical form. A person they increasingly adjust to as the definitive version of yourself, and a lens they begin to view you through.

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