· 1956 · First contact
Elvis Presley
A national simultaneous viewing event, and an industry that learned within two years that the appeal was not the music.
The founding demonstration that a parasocial bond can be manufactured deliberately, at scale, for commercial return. The Colonel Tom Parker apparatus is the first parasocial persuasion machine.
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