An event or moment · 2023 · Assembled fandom
The residency
A single artist booking a stadium for many consecutive nights, generating a physical economy around one very large parasocial bond.
Concentration. Every other configuration in this file has a large number of small bonds; this is one enormous one, and its entire economy is downstream of it.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Manipulation. One-sided attachment engineered for somebody else's benefit. Paid intimacy, parasocial persuasion, sasaeng, grief extraction, the streak. The lane that pays the bills and the lane that causes the most harm, frequently at the same time.
Where it sits
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