A mechanism or tactic · 2010 · Internet
Watching the replies
The public performance of being at war with somebody, in public, for an audience, in a thread that never closes.
A parasocial relationship conducted with a second parasocial relationship attached - you are performing the fight for the room, not having it with the person. The room is the relationship and the person is the prop.
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