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The 39 pages that link to Parasocial interaction, each with the reason it gives.

• Celebrity cultureRelated: Repeated exposure can make distant celebrities feel familiar to audiences.

• Reality televisionRelated: Repeated exposure to participants can make audiences feel familiar with people they have never met.

• CelebrityRelated: Repeated exposure can make audiences feel familiar with celebrities they have never met.

• Influencer marketingRelated: Perceived closeness can make creator recommendations feel more personal and persuasive.

• FandomRelated: It helps explain emotional attachment to performers and fictional characters within fan communities.

• FriendshipCompared with: It can feel companionable, but it lacks friendship's mutual personal relationship.

• Celebrity activismRelated: Perceived closeness can make a celebrity’s appeal feel personally persuasive.

• Celebrity brandingRelated: A sense of closeness to a celebrity can shape responses to that person’s brand promotions.

• Online communityCompared with: It can feel communal while lacking reciprocal relationships among participants.

• Live streamingRelated: Repeated live appearances and direct address can intensify perceived closeness between creators and viewers.

• Breaking the fourth wallRelated: Direct address can create an impression of personal contact despite the one-way nature of most performances.

• AudienceRelated: Presenters can cultivate a sense of direct connection despite addressing a group.

• Celebrity politicsRelated: Familiarity with entertainers can make their political messages feel personally trustworthy.

• Direct addressRelated: Repeated direct address can make mediated communication feel like a personal exchange.

• Audience receptionRelated: It names a particular audience relationship, not the full process of reception.

• Internet celebrityRelated: Frequent direct-address content can make online fame feel unusually personal.

• Japanese idolNarrower topic: Idol media can foster perceived intimacy while the relationship remains largely mediated.

• K-pop fandomRelated: Artist-fan media can encourage feelings of personal closeness within large communities.

• Sports celebrityRelated: Fans may feel close to athletes they know primarily through public appearances.

• Celebrity journalismRelated: Repeated intimate coverage can make distant celebrities feel personally familiar.

• LGBTQ representation in mediaRelated: Identification with LGBTQ characters can make mediated stories feel personally meaningful.

• Let's PlayRelated: Recurring commentary can make audiences feel familiar with a creator.

• Social media marketingRelated: Creator promotions can draw persuasive force from perceived personal closeness.

• Transgender representation in mediaRelated: Familiar transgender characters can make identities less abstract for audiences.

• Interpersonal relationshipCompared with: It can feel relational despite lacking reciprocal interaction with the perceived partner.

• Celebrity interviewRelated: Personal disclosures in interviews can make distant public figures feel familiar.

• Sports fandomRelated: Fans can feel close to athletes they follow through media.

• Representation politicsRelated: Familiar, varied portrayals can shape who audiences imagine as relatable or socially close.

• Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameCompared with: MMORPG relationships are often reciprocal, unlike the one-sided media bonds this concept describes.

• Video game cultureRelated: Live game broadcasts can make distant creators feel like familiar members of a community.

• Familiar strangerCompared with: It involves perceived intimacy, whereas familiar strangers are usually recognized without imagined closeness.

• VlogRelated: Direct address and recurring personal updates can make vlog audiences feel unusually close to creators.

• IShowSpeedRelated: Frequent direct address in livestreams can make distant viewers feel personally involved.

• Online streamerRelated: Repeated live encounters can make audiences feel unusually close to a streamer.

• Personal lifeRelated: Public figures' personal disclosures can invite audiences into perceived private relationships.

• Short-form contentRelated: Frequent creator appearances in short videos can make mediated relationships feel familiar.

• Social aspects of televisionRelated: Recurring television figures can feel socially familiar despite the absence of mutual contact.

• Social media impact on consumer behaviorRelated: Perceived closeness to creators can lend their product recommendations persuasive force.

• VTuberRelated: Direct-to-camera streams can make VTuber relationships feel personally intimate.