I love a good hyperfixation as much as the next person, but can we all chill the fuck out about actual real people?
Or at the very least afford them some decency by respecting their boundaries?
Parasocial relationships are scary, man.
Go off on your fictional blorbos, that's hurting no one.
But please, please don't blur the line between the fictional character and the person who plays the fictional character. Because you don't actually know that person, at all. Just their public persona... and you're entitled to nothing from them.
What's up with people that can't grasp the concept of others wanting to know all the hot, messy tea of someone famous just because it's hot and messy tea and not necessarily a pArASoCiaL relationship. Let us be nosey and shut up
Reminder: You can stop stanning a famous person anytime you want. You don't need to make a big statement or announce your exit from their fandom. You can just stop being a fan.
Me: I honestly don’t get parasocial relationships. That singer is not your friend. Don’t call that author by their first name. Your favorite YouTuber doesn’t know you and probably wouldn’t care to. Just consume their media and move on. Their work can be important to you, but you won’t be important to them. Just be normal.
Dropout and Dimension20: *exists*
Me: The only thing stopping me and Brennan Lee Mulligan from being the very best of friends is that we’ve never actually met.
Gerard Way was the only person who came to my birthday party and we had a conversation about parasocial relationships with celebrities and maintaining respectful boundaries when meeting them in person. They were wearing the secretary costume and referred to themself as a milf once.
swifties are angry at joe alwyn for posting about gaza on taylor’s birthday, calling him “pathetic,” “manipulative,” and “evil.”
I wish I could tell you that this was all a joke, that these are all parody accounts, but they’re dead serious. and of course we get the conspiracy theory about HIS TEAM trying to make him look good, because anyone who comes online and says anything critical about taylor MUST be a member of joe alwyn’s PR team. 🙄
but yeah, swifties are convinced that joe was trying to SHADE taylor by posting about gaza on her birthday, because s hasn’t said or done shit regarding this issue. also, they literally cannot fathom that there is anything happening in the world that is MORE IMPORTANT than a billionaire’s birthday.
and these swifties really need to ask themselves: WHY does joe alwyn posting about gaza make them SO ANGRY? is it because they’re reminded that taylor has not done or said JACK SHIT about palestine because she’s too afraid to lose money by being too “controversial?”
“not to mention it’s a screenshot and it’s not even a donation link like…”
it’s a LINK TO AN ARTICLE and it’s still more than TAYLOR has ever posted?? y’all think he was trying to “shade” taylor on her birthday (even if he was, so what? she + her team + her stupid friends have been shading him SINCE APRIL) by bringing to attention her lack of care about palestine or really any issue that doesn’t directly affect her (or her “home state.”). and the fact is, taylor could VERY QUICKLY AND EASILY shut up the critics who say she hasn’t said or done enough regarding palestine, but she won’t. miss americana, the goth punk billionaire, who spent a whole documentary crying about how she wasn’t allowed to speak up on important issues, has suddenly become ALLERGIC to saying anything remotely political or controversial. and at some point you’re gonna have to ask yourself why.
I think another reason Joe is getting so much hate from Taylor and Swifties that isn’t talked about is…
He is proof Taylor is the problem.
When they started dating it was doing the time everyone was calling her a snake. Which she might not have deserved it when it came to Kim and Kanye but she is still a snake. She always has been because she will attack anyone that she believe she is justified to.
Anyway, Joe and her staying together for so long allowed Taylor and Swifties to tell the world that she was never to blame for all her failed relationships.
Even when she wrote songs about how she causes/caused problems in joe and her relationship him sticking around meant that all those other men were terrible for not putting up with it.
Now that the relationship is over she and her fans are back in the same position they were before him. Were non Swifties are once again proving Taylor is the problem. This has caused her and them to have to try harder to convince the world she is only a victim.
Taylor won’t take personal responsibility for her actions ruining her relationships and her fans, cult honestly, refuse to see her true colors so they are all taking it out on Joe.
She is a climate criminal and she does not care about you no matter how hard you may claim she does. She has created this parasocial relationship with her fans just so they can give her more money.
Taylor swift is not one of us, she is a billionaire and all billionaires deserve the absolute worst in life. She is not the exception.