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understanding the social and parasocial relationships of stan twitter: a thread. (please read till the end)
to begin this thread, i would like to give context. i have joined twitter a few months ago and i have come to see and meet a variety of different people with different backgrounds. the reason im making this thread is to give my understanding of stan culture and give my opinion.
stan culture revolves around the concept of parasocial relationships, which are one sided relationships where one person gives interest, time, and even emotional energy to another person/persona who is unaware of the other’s existence. these relationships are beneficial to—
people with low self-esteem and helps calm their fear of social rejection, although this is not always the case, as a plethora of people join stan twitter for the community and to develop relationships with other people with the same parasocial relationship.
since many people use this platform for social interactions and building friendships, they are able to grow their own personal platform and get clout from their followers, likes, and retweets. from this point, these people can do the things with their popularity that either—
caused their initial fears with social rejection or they can be respectful and exert the kindness they came looking for. simply, with their popularity they can become the bully of twitter or the friend of twitter. we have all came across both types of these people.
tangent: don’t allow the slight popularity of stan twitter get to your head, don’t allow it to give you a god complex. just for humbling, youre a person with a celebrity as your pfp so don’t think youre so much better than someone doing the same thing.
now here is my opinion, but also just common decency, be kind to people. you never know what people are going through. you should understand that people have emotions and you shouldn’t tear them down for not liking the same things or even saying something that you don’t like.
we are all here, we all want friends, and we all want social relationships. be nice, and don’t hate. understand the culture and psychology between these relationships and don’t be mean to the people searching for the same things as u.
i could’ve went more in depth, but this is already too long. SOO moral of the story, be kind and respect everyone. this is to raise awareness and being more receptive to people and their emotions. thanks for reading.
