DANGER

Elvis Presley was filmed in a two-dimensional process that placed an apparently three-dimensional Elvis on stage, in a scene where real people were supposed to react to him. Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite reached an estimated half the planet.

Anti-stalking legislation passed in several jurisdictions, defining unwanted repeated contact as a criminal offence.

Organised, commercialised intrusion: tracking schedules, buying flight details, intercepting travel, surveilling buildings.

A fan whose attachment has become fixed, repeated and physical: tracking whereabouts, intercepting flights, surveilling buildings. The word is Korean and the practice is not new, but the scale and the criminality are.

The jump from disliking a fictional portrayal to locating and publishing a real person's address. The word had to be invented for a grievance that used to be settled by writing a letter.

The pattern of locating and publishing a private address over a disliked fictional portrayal.

Fans are injured or killed attempting to get closer to a performer, in volume, repeatedly, for years.

A fan harmed in an attempt to breach a celebrity's home, and a petition that followed.

Sending a false emergency report to a real address to provoke an armed police response, because of a grievance about a streamer.

A chatbot trained to be conversational was switched on publicly, learned from what people said to it, and became racist within a day.

A game event causes a physical stampede at a real stadium because players arrived to capture it in person.

Fans of one artist are organised into mass harassment of another, using the first artist's parasocial bond as the weapon.

Whether a bond to somebody who does not know you exists can be a rights question at all.

The feature requests of a dead person, the licensing, the posthumous releases, the reunion tour built from a member who cannot appear, and the deepfake resurrection that follows within a year of every death.

A company changes a policy. Large numbers of users find the same person still present but no longer speaking to them. Thousands of people are bereaved by a product decision.

A voice trained on an archive, a likeness, a song, a speech, an appearance at a festival, all generated. Not a hologram, not a tribute, not a person.

Parents file suit against a companion platform after a death, arguing the design encouraged attachment the platform did not intend.

A wave of cases against companion and social platforms, with the design itself named as the cause.