OK so I'm kinda telling on myself here
Yknow how people get weirdly attached to certain people who are... not real?
Take like furries or incels or weebs or any other terminally online person (usually male) who is very much alone for example. It like fucks their brains that porn of this one character will exist, or, god forbid, fan fiction or art depicting them as being in love with YOU, the viewer. I try to keep shit like that away with a sharp stick, but sometimes it'll creep into my life. NOW, onto what I'm trying to say-
Occasionally I will visit furry shitposting subreddits and other derivative subs. This is mainly because I had the pleasure of playing Snoot Game, which is a furry visual novel (It had rave reviews with people claiming it changed their life, totally worth playing, actually caused me to have a paradigm shift about how I view my place in the world.) Now, barring that it is a furry visual novel, it was pretty standard. HOWEVER. Upon visiting the associated subreddit I realized that people are actually replacing real female contact with these... effigies? of false women. It stuns me how prolific it is because if there's a female character somewhere there's also some lonesome incel rapidly making fan edits of them and jacking off furiously to porn art of it.
Y'all know what I'm talking about right?
(I use furries as an example but this could be applied to anything)
Alright here's the telling on myself part: I consumed a lot of content like that as a result of playing snoot game and wanted to discuss it in the subreddit (guilty by association essentially). This was at a time I felt very low in my life which has thankfully now passed. Recently I had the opportunity to begin romantically pursuing women in real life, and quite literally it took the smallest amount of real female attention to completely shatter any ties I felt whatsoever to those parasocial relationships.
Having experienced that, what shakes me deeply is how deep the other guys must be in that shit if they've been contributing to those sorts of subreddits years on end. Not much I can do about it anyway, they can stay in fantasy land. What a world we live in.
TLDR: CROCKHEAD GREAT SUCCESS!!
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Oh em gee. I knew that profile picture was rather familiar. Yes, some people who ARE furries (adding onto your example lolol) are very secretive about their interest in the community. I myself am part of this am a part of this community, and because of...that behavior some people display, we have a not-so-great reputation. If you are interested in something, it is healthy to have a good balance, especially when most of the content of said interest is found online. I totally understand coming across weird or explicit content because, lets be honest there's no escaping it, however as long as you don't allow yourself to be consumed by that type of media and have your daily dosage of IRL interaction or any other distraction, then who cares what you like. As long as it's not illegal haha.