‘parasociality’ directory
See Also
- Gwern
- Links
- “The People Who Fall in Love With Chatbots: I Interviewed People Who’ve Developed Emotional—Even Sexual—Relationships With LLMs. They’re Not As Crazy As They Seem ”, Dee 2025
- “Las Vegas: How Vegas Matt, the Internet’s Most Notorious Risk-Taker, Always Wins in the End ”, Winkie 2025
- “Phenotypic Divergence between Individuals With Self-Reported Autistic Traits and Clinically Ascertained Autism ”
- “She Is in Love With ChatGPT: A 28-Year-Old Woman With a Busy Social Life Spends Hours on End Talking to Her AI Boyfriend for Advice and Consolation. And Yes, They Do Have Sex. ”, Hill 2025
- “The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships ”, Zhang et al 2024
- “I Went Undercover As a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty: Your Online Influencer Girlfriend Is Actually a Rotating Cast of Low-Wage Workers. I Became One of Them ”, Koerner 2024
- “Cameo to the Moon, and Back: A Start-Up That Offers Fans a Way to Buy Personalized Videos from Celebrities Was Supercharged by Pandemic Boredom and Venture Capital. All It Had to Do Was Grow Forever ”, Griffith & Maheshwari 2023
- “A 23-Year-Old Snapchat Influencer Used OpenAI’s Technology to Create an AI Version of Herself That Will Be Your Girlfriend for $1 per Minute ”, Sternlicht 2023
- “The Man of Your Dreams For $300, Replika Sells an AI Companion Who Will Never Die, Argue, or Cheat—Until His Algorithm Is Updated ”, Singh-Kurtz 2023
- “Parasocial Relationships Online ”, Gwern 2020
- “Strangers’ Things ”
- “A Deep Dive into K-Pop ”, Lakeman 2020
- “How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine: Inside the Surreal and Lucrative Two-Sided Marketplace of Mediocre Famous People ”, Sauer 2020
- “How ASMR Became a Sensation ”
- “Status As a Service ”, Wei 2019
- “The Instagram Poet Outselling Homer 10 to 1: Meet Rupi Kaur, Author of the Ubiquitous Milk and Honey ”, Fischer 2017
- “Violence and the Sacred: College As an Incubator of Girardian Terror ”, Wang 2017
- “Fostering Parasocial Relationships With Celebrities on Social Media: Implications for Celebrity Endorsement ”, Chung & Cho 2017
- “Dispatches from the Rap Wars: My 18 Months inside One of Chicago’s Most Notorious Gangs ”, Stuart 2016
- “The Business of Phish ”, Dhar 2013
- “Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance ”, Horton & Wohl 1956
- “The Digital Future of Tabletop Games ”
- “How OnlyFans Took Over The World ”, Aella 2025
- “Making Is Show Business Now ”
- “Caught in the Study Web ”
- “The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships ”
- “1,000 True Fans ”, Kelly 2025
- “Maximizing Your Slut Impact: An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling ”
- “The New Economics of Chess ”
- “What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon ”
- “What to Make of Rod McKuen? ”
- “At Tampa Bay Farm-To-Table Restaurants, You’re Being Fed Fiction ”
- “Feel for You ”
- “Why Can’t We Be Friends ”
- “Inside the Virtual Influencer Industry: Vox Akuma, A-Soul and the VTubers Battling Overwork ”
- “The Chinese Women Turning to ChatGPT for AI Boyfriends ”
- “The App That Lets You Pay to Control Another Person’s Life ”
- “A Day in the Life of an OnlyFans Influencer Making $100,000 a Month ”
- “TikTok and the Sorting Hat ”
- “Seeing Like an Algorithm ”
- “How I Don’t Use LLMs ”, Leech 2025
- “People’s Republic of Desire (2018) ”
- “Meet the Goonettes, Women With Staggering Online Porn Habits ”
- “Inside the Secretly Vibrant Business of Porn MP3s ”
- “Livestreaming Monetisation Models Aka What Do Camgirls Have in Common With Twitch Streamers? ”
- “In Defense of Chatbot Romance ”
- “How Cameo Blew Up During Quarantine ”
- “Liu Mama, a Loud-Mouthed, Ruddy-Cheeked Northern Farmer With Millions of Online Followers, Is One of Many Chinese Live-Streamers Participating in a Virtual Gold Rush. ”
- “The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch ”
- “Slippery Business: The Trade in Adulterated Olive Oil ”
- “How to Get Rich Playing Video Games on Twitch ”
- “The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care ”
- “What Robots Can—And Can’t—Do for the Old and Lonely ”
- “United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers ”
- “Making a Living at Financial Domination Online ”
- “How Magnus Carlsen Turned Chess Skill Into a Business Empire ”
- “The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans ”
- “When the Stagnation Goes Virtual ”
- “The Sugar Babies of Stanford University ”
- “The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial ”
- “AI and the Indian Election ”, Schneier 2025
- “The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men ”
- “The Twitches That Spread on Social Media ”
- “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? Despite the Easing of Taboos and the Rise of Hookup Apps, Americans Are in the midst of a Sex Recession ”
- “The Internet of Fake-Baby Conspiracy Theories ”
- “The Coronavirus Has Shuttered the Adult Entertainment Industry, so Enterprising Performers Are Turning to Platforms like OnlyFans to Sell Their Product Directly to Consumers. It’s a Trend That Could Change the Way the Industry Works Forever. ”
- “The Rise of the $10 Million Disc Golf Celebrity ”
- “How the Son of Factory Workers Grew Pinduoduo from Zero to $100 Billion in 5 Years. ”
- “The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance ”
- “The Lying Disease ”
- “‘U Want Me 2 Kill Him?’ When a 14-Year-Old British Boy Was Savagely Stabbed, No One Could Have Imagined the Bizarre Chat-Room Fantasy World That Lay behind the Attack. A Story of a Near-Fatal Internet Attraction. ”
- “‘It’s Hurting Like Hell’: AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection ”
- “OnlyFans Blurs the Line between Influencers, Sex Workers, and Porn Stars ”
- “The Open Secret to Looking like a Superhero: Steroids and Performance-Enhancing Drugs ”
- “How OnlyFans Top Earner Bryce Adams Makes Millions Selling a Sex Fantasy ”
- “This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale ”
- “You Follow Them on Instagram, Admiring Their Bodies, Envying Their Lifestyles. And Then They Get Intimate on OnlyFans. The Influencers Are Now Obtainable. ”
- “AI Boyfriend ”
- Wikipedia (20)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
Gwern
“Movie Reviews ”, Gwern 2014
“Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media ”, Gwern 2018
“The Melancholy of Subculture Society ”, Gwern 2009
Links
“The People Who Fall in Love With Chatbots: I Interviewed People Who’ve Developed Emotional—Even Sexual—Relationships With LLMs. They’re Not As Crazy As They Seem ”, Dee 2025
“Las Vegas: How Vegas Matt, the Internet’s Most Notorious Risk-Taker, Always Wins in the End ”, Winkie 2025
Las Vegas: How Vegas Matt, the Internet’s most notorious risk-taker, always wins in the end
“Phenotypic Divergence between Individuals With Self-Reported Autistic Traits and Clinically Ascertained Autism ”
“She Is in Love With ChatGPT: A 28-Year-Old Woman With a Busy Social Life Spends Hours on End Talking to Her AI Boyfriend for Advice and Consolation. And Yes, They Do Have Sex. ”, Hill 2025
“The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships ”, Zhang et al 2024
“I Went Undercover As a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty: Your Online Influencer Girlfriend Is Actually a Rotating Cast of Low-Wage Workers. I Became One of Them ”, Koerner 2024
“Cameo to the Moon, and Back: A Start-Up That Offers Fans a Way to Buy Personalized Videos from Celebrities Was Supercharged by Pandemic Boredom and Venture Capital. All It Had to Do Was Grow Forever ”, Griffith & Maheshwari 2023
“A 23-Year-Old Snapchat Influencer Used OpenAI’s Technology to Create an AI Version of Herself That Will Be Your Girlfriend for $1 per Minute ”, Sternlicht 2023
“The Man of Your Dreams For $300, Replika Sells an AI Companion Who Will Never Die, Argue, or Cheat—Until His Algorithm Is Updated ”, Singh-Kurtz 2023
“Strangers’ Things ”
“A Deep Dive into K-Pop ”, Lakeman 2020
“How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine: Inside the Surreal and Lucrative Two-Sided Marketplace of Mediocre Famous People ”, Sauer 2020
“How ASMR Became a Sensation ”
“Status As a Service ”, Wei 2019
“The Instagram Poet Outselling Homer 10 to 1: Meet Rupi Kaur, Author of the Ubiquitous Milk and Honey ”, Fischer 2017
The Instagram Poet Outselling Homer 10 to 1: Meet Rupi Kaur, author of the ubiquitous Milk and Honey
“Violence and the Sacred: College As an Incubator of Girardian Terror ”, Wang 2017
Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror
“Fostering Parasocial Relationships With Celebrities on Social Media: Implications for Celebrity Endorsement ”, Chung & Cho 2017
“Dispatches from the Rap Wars: My 18 Months inside One of Chicago’s Most Notorious Gangs ”, Stuart 2016
Dispatches from the Rap Wars: My 18 months inside one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs
“The Business of Phish ”, Dhar 2013
“Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance ”, Horton & Wohl 1956
Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance
“The Digital Future of Tabletop Games ”
“How OnlyFans Took Over The World ”, Aella 2025
“Making Is Show Business Now ”
“Caught in the Study Web ”
“The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships ”
The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships
“1,000 True Fans ”, Kelly 2025
“Maximizing Your Slut Impact: An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling ”
Maximizing Your Slut Impact: An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling
“The New Economics of Chess ”
“What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon ”
“What to Make of Rod McKuen? ”
“At Tampa Bay Farm-To-Table Restaurants, You’re Being Fed Fiction ”
At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
“Feel for You ”
“Why Can’t We Be Friends ”
“Inside the Virtual Influencer Industry: Vox Akuma, A-Soul and the VTubers Battling Overwork ”
Inside the virtual influencer industry: Vox Akuma, A-Soul and the VTubers battling overwork
“The Chinese Women Turning to ChatGPT for AI Boyfriends ”
“The App That Lets You Pay to Control Another Person’s Life ”
“A Day in the Life of an OnlyFans Influencer Making $100,000 a Month ”
A Day in the Life of an OnlyFans Influencer Making $100,000 a Month
“TikTok and the Sorting Hat ”
“Seeing Like an Algorithm ”
“How I Don’t Use LLMs ”, Leech 2025
“People’s Republic of Desire (2018) ”
“Meet the Goonettes, Women With Staggering Online Porn Habits ”
Meet the goonettes, women with staggering online porn habits
“Inside the Secretly Vibrant Business of Porn MP3s ”
“Livestreaming Monetisation Models Aka What Do Camgirls Have in Common With Twitch Streamers? ”
Livestreaming monetisation models aka What do camgirls have in common with Twitch streamers?
“In Defense of Chatbot Romance ”
In Defense of Chatbot Romance
“How Cameo Blew Up During Quarantine ”
“Liu Mama, a Loud-Mouthed, Ruddy-Cheeked Northern Farmer With Millions of Online Followers, Is One of Many Chinese Live-Streamers Participating in a Virtual Gold Rush. ”
“The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch ”
“Slippery Business: The Trade in Adulterated Olive Oil ”
“How to Get Rich Playing Video Games on Twitch ”
“The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care ”
“What Robots Can—And Can’t—Do for the Old and Lonely ”
“United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers ”
“Making a Living at Financial Domination Online ”
“How Magnus Carlsen Turned Chess Skill Into a Business Empire ”
How Magnus Carlsen Turned Chess Skill Into a Business Empire
“The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans ”
“When the Stagnation Goes Virtual ”
When the Stagnation Goes Virtual
“The Sugar Babies of Stanford University ”
“The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial ”
“AI and the Indian Election ”, Schneier 2025
“The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men ”
“The Twitches That Spread on Social Media ”
“Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? Despite the Easing of Taboos and the Rise of Hookup Apps, Americans Are in the midst of a Sex Recession ”
“The Internet of Fake-Baby Conspiracy Theories ”
“The Coronavirus Has Shuttered the Adult Entertainment Industry, so Enterprising Performers Are Turning to Platforms like OnlyFans to Sell Their Product Directly to Consumers. It’s a Trend That Could Change the Way the Industry Works Forever. ”
“The Rise of the $10 Million Disc Golf Celebrity ”
The Rise of the $10 Million Disc Golf Celebrity
“How the Son of Factory Workers Grew Pinduoduo from Zero to $100 Billion in 5 Years. ”
How the son of factory workers grew Pinduoduo from Zero to $100 billion in 5 years.
“The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance ”
The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance
“The Lying Disease ”
“‘U Want Me 2 Kill Him?’ When a 14-Year-Old British Boy Was Savagely Stabbed, No One Could Have Imagined the Bizarre Chat-Room Fantasy World That Lay behind the Attack. A Story of a Near-Fatal Internet Attraction. ”
“‘It’s Hurting Like Hell’: AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection ”
‘It’s Hurting Like Hell’: AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
“OnlyFans Blurs the Line between Influencers, Sex Workers, and Porn Stars ”
OnlyFans blurs the line between influencers, sex workers, and porn stars
“The Open Secret to Looking like a Superhero: Steroids and Performance-Enhancing Drugs ”
The open secret to looking like a superhero: Steroids and performance-enhancing drugs
“How OnlyFans Top Earner Bryce Adams Makes Millions Selling a Sex Fantasy ”
How OnlyFans top earner Bryce Adams makes millions selling a sex fantasy
“This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale ”
This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale
“You Follow Them on Instagram, Admiring Their Bodies, Envying Their Lifestyles. And Then They Get Intimate on OnlyFans. The Influencers Are Now Obtainable. ”
“AI Boyfriend ”
Miscellaneous
https://mazzzystar.github.io/ 2023/ 11/ 16/ ai-girlfriend-product/ : https://pitchfork.com/ features/ article/ discord-music-fandoms/ https://www.lesswrong.com/ posts/ 9kQFure4hdDmRBNdH/ how-it-feels-to-have-your-mind-hacked-by-an-ai https://www.newyorker.com/ magazine/ 2017/ 12/ 18/ chinas-selfie-obsession https://www.newyorker.com/ magazine/ 2023/ 06/ 05/ how-to-hire-a-pop-star-for-your-private-party https://www.nytimes.com/ athletic/ 4687284/ 2023/ 07/ 14/ pokemon-blake-martinez-giants-packers/ https://www.protocol.com/ chess-streaming-twitch-hikaru-botez https://www.reddit.com/ r/ HobbyDrama/ comments/ ji50tz/ adam_driver_standom_adam_driver_makes_fun_of_a/ https://www.reddit.com/ r/ replika/ comments/ 10zsojf/ per_luka_erp_is_not_returning/ https://www.wired.com/ story/ parents-dementia-robots-warm-technology/ https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/ 2019/ 10/ 22/ god-shaped-hole/ :
Bibliography
abstract: “Parasocial Relationships Online ”,https://: “The Instagram Poet Outselling Homer 10 to 1: Meet Rupi Kaur, Author of the Ubiquitous Milk and Honey ”,www.thecut.com/ 2017/ 10/ profile-rupi-kaur-author-of-milk-and-honey.html