ConCarolinas 2019 / Deep South Con 57

Have you ever watched someone's YouTube videos and felt like they're your friend? Even though you don't know them and have never met? A parasocial relationship is a one-way, non-reciprocated relationship, and over the past few decades first TV presenters and now online content creators have perfected methods of fostering and exploiting those relationships. Come learn the history of the term and how these relationships are used, both for good and for bad