Why Can’t We Be Friends — Real Life

Podcasts and other forms of “parasocial” media reframe friendship as monetized self-care

Why Can’t We Be Friends Podcasts and other forms of “parasocial” media reframe friendship as monetized self-care Brendan Mackie July 01, 2021 share Image: Surface Tension (1992) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer . Photo by Maxime Dufour. Courtesy the artist and Bitforms Gallery, New York. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Why-Cant-We-Be-Friends-1.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common for people to develop intense one-sided relationships with famous people on the internet. What are called parasocial relationshi

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