An event or moment · 2022 · Live
The talent agency that is not an agency
A high-profile streaming collective, featuring several women who had left other setups, collapses publicly and in litigation.
The most significant parasocial litigation of the streaming era, and it turned on precisely this site's question: who holds the relationship, and what are the terms. The answer turned out to be documented and not what the audience assumed.
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.
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