An event or moment · 2019 · Television
The finale nobody wanted
Six million people remain in a public argument about characters who no longer exist, for years, entirely in good faith.
A parasocial relationship conducted in public with complete strangers, where nobody is pretending and everybody is sincere. It is also the largest documented instance of viewers disagreeing about a shared fiction as if it were a shared fact.
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