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It's Not Me, It's You: The Messy Psychology of Fandom Breakups at Scale

It's Not Me, It's You: The Messy Psychology of Fandom Breakups at Scale

One day a celebrity has millions of devoted fans who would tattoo their face on their forearm without blinking. The next day, those same fans are coordinating mass unfollows like they're planning a military operation. The parasocial breakup is one of the weirdest, most uniquely modern phenomena happening on the internet right now — and it hits different when it happens to someone you've never actually met.