brought this up, Tommy. One of the most interesting-slash-weird phenomena in our Extremely Online world is the emergence of what are called parasocial relationships, where an influencer’s followers begin to think of the influencer as a friend. Like, a real one. The follower will refresh their social feed and see the influencer’s posts mixed in with cringe pictures of their friend’s kids or their neighbor’s
Do SOCIAL-MEDIA INFLUENCERS motivate us to work out MORE OR LESS than our FRIENDS WHO POST about working out? —@tommy.kent.5
Jun 22, 2023
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