The Neuroscience of Parasocial Relationships

I think Twitch is cool because we have all these tools at our disposal so. It makes it a lot cleaner and makes the rules. You know the rules are there. They're upfront. I'm not hiding things from people. But you go on other forms of social media and a lot of people don't do that in order to control what they say or how they say it. And for a dude it can be really confusing because they're under the impression whether it's correct or incorrect or programmed or genetic I have no idea. Somewhere along the way they have this programming in their mind that if I'm emotionally intimate with someone that also comes with feelings of romance and sex. So those are