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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by dvt on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:59PM (#24348116)
> The same way some people pay top dollar for a "meet and greet" with rock stars or athletes before a show or game, where you get to shake hands, take selfies and trade platitudes with famous people and then they never see you or think of you again.

Famous people aren't exempt from fostering parasocial relationships (see Taylor Swift's iPhone app), and Eminem famously wrote/performed "Stan" about a hypothetical overzealous fan that was in a parasocial relationship with him.

I don't think I'm being reductive when I say that I think most Onlyfans subscribers -- especially those that give significant percentages of their income to models for a modicum of attention -- are "stans."

Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by chii on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:20AM (#24350200)
> are "stans"

the new name for this is SIMPs