Not without a certain amount of irony, everybody's parasocial internet friend Tom Scott did a really good segment on the parasocial relationship as part of his talk to the Royal Institution: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&t=2215s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&t=2215s</a><p>I swear it's also a short video on its own somewhere, but neither Google nor I can find it today.