Exploring Parasocial Relationships

This is the second edition of Cold Pitch, an experimental project from YellowHouse.Media about media, curiosity, and identity. In this edition, Sean and I talk about our favorite daily YouTube show, Good Mythical Morning.

It's the backbone of our evening routine, the content we rely on to draw a thick line between the workday and rest time, and, as you'll hear, a rich text.

Footnotes:

• Good Mythical Morning on YouTube
• Ear Biscuits on YouTube
• "Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal" on Wikipedia
• "From Work to Text" by Roland Barthes
• "Parasocial Interaction" on Wikipedia
• "Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction" by Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl in Psychiatry
• "We Found Extremely Rare Toys in These Blind Boxes" on GMM
• "Five Guys vs. Shake Shack | FOOD FEUDS" on GMM
• "Our 2500th Episode!" on GMM
• "We React to Photos That Will Break Your Brain" on GMM

• (00:00) - EP 2: This YouTube Show is a Rich Text
• (01:11) - Cold Open
• (03:29) - A Rich Text
• (07:00) - Modeling Friendship
• (08:26) - From Work to Text
• (10:02) - Parasocial Interaction
• (13:18) - Audience Participation
• (16:27) - Four Grown Ass Adults
• (22:25) - Modeling Growth