PARASOCIALIZE

The long history of the one-sided bond

The parasocial timeline

264 instances, from a Neanderthal burial to a model that can generate the next line. 122 are sourced entries and 142 are the historical layer from the supplied PDF, marked PDF. The full 255-entry database is in the corpus.

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Phase 1 · Myth & Legend

c. 70,000 BCE

The dead kept in the cave

Neanderthals repeatedly carried their dead into one cave in northern Iraq and put them down in the floor.

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Phase 1 · Antiquity, Ancient Ritual & Sacred Proxies22

c. 70,000 BCE – 1605 · Before mass media, the bond is made by ritual, recitation, the image and the tomb.

c. 70,000 BCE The dead kept in the cave c. 40,000 BCE The carved animals c. 9500 BCE Eleven thousand years of pillars c. 3000 BCE The ka statue and the false door c. 1350 BCE Akhenaten and the visible sun c. 800 BCE Homer and the voice in the room c. 534 BCE Thespis steps out of the chorus c. 430 BCE Asclepius and the dream that visits c. 250 BCE–550 CE The wax masks in the hall c. 8 CE Narcissus and Echo: the image that cannot answer c. 100 CE The priest c. 160 CE Lucian and the puppet god 787 CE The icon answers nothing c. 1320 Dante's Beatrice: the woman who becomes a guide c. 1327–1374 Petrarch's Laura and the poetry of absence c. 1373–1438 Margery Kempe c. 1387-1400 Chaucer's 'I': a narrator who is not the author 1418 The Imitation of Christ and the inward companion 16th century (c. 1500–1600) The ikiryō and the spirit that leaves 1531 Am I not here, I who am your mother? 1582 John Dee, Edward Kelley and the angel conversations 1605 Don Quixote reads himself into a knight

Phase 2 · Literature, Early Mass Print & Stage Magic90

1740–1911 · Print makes the same face available to strangers at the same time.

1740 Virtue rewarded 1748 Clarissa dies and the readers write back 1774 Werther and the costume of grief 1812–1824 Byron and the poet as his own hero 1813 The Caroline Lamb Obsession and Glenarvon (1816)PDF 1814 Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park & The Domestic Novel CompanionPDF 1814 Walter Scott’s Anonymous Waverley Novels (Waverley)PDF 1815 The Exile of Napoleon Bonaparte to Saint HelenaPDF 1816 The "Year Without a Summer" & The Villa Diodati CirclePDF 1817 The Public Tragedy & National Mourning for Princess CharlottePDF 1818 John Keats’s Endymion & The Hostile Reviewer DynamicPDF 1820 The Trial of Queen Caroline & Mass Media PartisanshipPDF 1821 The Death of John Keats & The Invention of the Tragic Romantic MartyrPDF 1821 Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-EaterPDF 1824 The Death of Lord Byron at Missolonghi & Global Relic CulturePDF 1824 The Premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony & The Myth of the Deaf GeniusPDF 1827 Niccolò Paganini’s International Virtuoso Tours & "Paganinomania"PDF 1828 Early Commercial Lithography & The Affordable Celebrity PortraitPDF 1828 The Appearance of Kaspar Hauser & Mass Narrative ProjectionPDF 1829 Andrew Jackson’s Inauguration & The Mass Political SwarmPDF 1830 The French July Revolution & Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the PeoplePDF 1831 Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)PDF 1833 The Launch of The New York Sun & The "Penny Press" RevolutionPDF 1835 The Great Moon Hoax (New York Sun)PDF 1830s-1850s Dickens, the serial, and the death of Little Nell 1837 The Accession of Queen Victoria & Teen Queen Media CrazePDF 1838 Grace Darling & The First Modern Female Mass HeroinePDF 1839 The Announcement of the Daguerreotype (Louis Daguerre)PDF 1840–1847 Lisztomania and the souvenir body 1843 The Birth of Commercial Daguerreotype Portrait ParlorsPDF 1844 Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo & Vengeance IdentificationPDF 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" & The Instant Literary PersonaPDF 1847 Jane Eyre speaks to one reader at a time 1847 The Bronte Sisters (Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights) & Pseudo-Anonymous IntimacyPDF 1848 Jenny Lind ("The Swedish Nightingale") & P.T. Barnum’s Pre-Tour Hype MachinePDF 1848 The Fox sisters and the paid séance 1850–1852 Jenny Lind’s American Tour & P.T. Barnum’s Merchandising EmpirePDF 1850s–1860s The carte de visite and the face in the album 1851 Lola Montez & The Celebrity Adventuress PersonaPDF 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin and the mass feeling for strangers 1854 Adolphe Disdéri Patents the Carte-de-Visite (Card Photography)PDF 1854 Florence Nightingale & The British Press’s "Lady with the Lamp"PDF 1857 Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary & The Parasocial Tragic Romance ReaderPDF 1857 The Indian Rebellion & Sensationalized Colonial Atrocity PrintsPDF 1858–1870 Dickens reads himself into the room 1858 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates & Printed Political OratoryPDF 1859 Frederic Edwin Church’s The Heart of the Andes Single-Picture ExhibitionPDF 1860–61 Miss Havisham 1860 The Abraham Lincoln Beardless-to-Bearded TransfigurationPDF 1861–1865 The Civil War Carte-de-Visite Exchange & Pocket ProxiesPDF 1862 Mathew Brady’s "The Dead of Antietam" Gallery ExhibitionPDF 1862 Pepper's Ghost and the body that is only light 1865 Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Fictional EscapePDF 1865 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln & Relic-Driven Martyr WorshipPDF 1868–1869 Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women & Reader-Driven Plot DemandsPDF 1869 The Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad & Nation-Binding MediaPDF 1871 The Fall of the Paris Commune & Photography as Political Execution GridPDF 1872–1873 The Henry Ward Beecher & Elizabeth Tilton Adultery ScandalPDF 1874 The Kidnapping of Charley Ross & The First National Missing-Child PanicPDF 1875 The Explosion of the "Cabinet Card" & Domestic Celebrity Wall GridsPDF 1876 Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone & The Disembodied VoicePDF 1877 Thomas Edison Invents the Phonograph & The Captured VoicePDF 1878 The National Popularity of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. PinaforePDF 1881–1882 Oscar Wilde’s American Tour & The Commercially Manufactured Aesthetic PersonaPDF 1882 The Death of Jumbo the Elephant & Children’s Commercial MourningPDF 1883 The Opening of the Metropolitan Opera & Gilded Age Box-Seat VoyeurismPDF 1885 W.T. Stead’s "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (The Pall Mall Gazette)PDF 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle Introduces Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet)PDF 1887 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Hits London (Queen Victoria’s Jubilee)PDF 1888 Jack the Ripper writes to the papers 1889 Nellie Bly’s Around the World in 72 Days (New York World)PDF 1891 The Divine Sarah 1893 Conan Doyle kills Sherlock Holmes 1893 The Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Cholera Rumor MythologiesPDF 1894 Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope Parlors & Single-Viewer Kinematic VoyeurismPDF 1895 The Trials of Oscar Wilde & Media Execution of an IconPDF 1895–1898 The Yellow Kid and the weekly return 1896 The "Klondike Gold Rush" & Mass Frontier EscapismPDF 1897 Bram Stoker’s Dracula & The Epistolary Voyeurism of HorrorPDF 1898 The Spanish-American War & Hearst’s "Journalistic War" SpectaclePDF 1900 The "Gibson Girl" Craze & The First National Female Visual IdealPDF 1902 Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Character MerchandisingPDF 1903 The Great Train Robbery & The Direct-to-Camera GunshotPDF 1905–1908 The "Picture Postcard Craze" & Instant Visual CollectingPDF 1905 The Launch of the First "Nickelodeon" Theaters & Weekly Movie HabitsPDF 1907 Florence Lawrence ("The Biograph Girl") & The Invention of the Movie StarPDF 1908 L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables & The Adopted HeroinePDF 1909 The Jack Johnson vs. Victor McLaglen Fight & Early Sports NewsreelsPDF 1911 The Launch of Motion Picture Story Magazine & The Modern Fan MagazinePDF 1911 Thousands came to gawk at the empty wall

Phase 3 · Golden Age Radio, Early Cinema & Propaganda30

1900–1959 · The voice and the face arrive in the home, on a schedule.

1914 A doodle of you used as your address 1914 Known to more people than any other woman in history 1914 Pearl White and the weekly peril 1915 D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation & Cinematic Political ManipulationPDF 1915 The Vamp Archetype & Theda Bara’s Manufactured ExoticismPDF 1917 The "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" Uncle Sam Poster (James Montgomery Flagg)PDF 1917–1918 The WWI "Four Minute Men" & Local Voice CredibilityPDF 1918 The Global "Spanish Flu" Pandemic & Media-Mediated IsolationPDF 1921 Cordially yours, Betty Crocker 1922 Most faithfully, Rin Tin Tin 1924 The radio church of Sister Aimee 1926 Valentino's funeral and the invention of screen grief 1927 The baseball the papers built 1929–1946 The Goldbergs and the neighbours who wrote back 1930 The soap opera 1933–1939 Calling All Cars and the audience in the chase 1933 The Fireside Chats: the president in the living room 1936 Edward VIII abdicates into the microphone 1938 The War of the Worlds and the audience that believed the voice 1938 The first superhero 1939–1945 Lord Haw-Haw and the traitor in the room 1940 The bobby-soxers 1940 This is London 1947–1960 Say, kids, what time is it? 1948 Candid Camera and the unguarded face 1952–1989 American Bandstand and the audience on camera 1954 Rear Window and the chair by the window 1955 Disneyland and the character you can meet 1956 Horton and Wohl name the parasocial relationship 1959 The quiz show that was a performance

Phase 4 · Modern Media, Psychoanalysis & Pop Idols63

1960–1999 · The camera makes the figure intimate and the boundary dangerous.

1960 The debate that was won by the picture 1962 Telstar 1 Launch & The First Transatlantic Live Television RelayPDF 1964 Beatlemania: the scream as a mass reply 1966 ELIZA and the feeling of being understood 1966 John Lennon’s "More Popular Than Jesus" ControversyPDF 1966–1969 Star Trek and the fandom that outlived the show 1967 The "Summer of Love" in Haight-Ashbury & Counterculture EmulationPDF 1967 The Monkees & Manufactured TV Pop BandsPDF 1968 The Andy Warhol Shooting (Valerie Solanas) & Celebrity Access VulnerabilityPDF 1968 The Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast & Earthrise Visual ConsciousnessPDF 1969 Manson hears the White Album as an instruction 1969 The Altamont Free Concert & The Collapse of 1960s Utopian Media MythologiesPDF 1969 The Zodiac Killer Dispatches & Media-Obsessed TerrorPDF 1970s–1980s Televangelism and the shepherd in the camera 1970 The Death of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin & The "27 Club" MythosPDF 1972–1974 The Watergate Hearings & Woodward/Bernstein Reporter HeroesPDF 1973 The Premiere of An American Family (PBS) & The Birth of Reality TelevisionPDF 1974 The Patty Hearst Kidnapping & Symbionese Liberation Army Media TapesPDF 1975 Jaws & The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster PanicPDF 1975 The Launch of Home Box Office (HBO) & "Thrilla in Manila" Satellite BroadcastPDF 1976 The "Son of Sam" Serial Murders (David Berkowitz)PDF 1976 The audience became the show 1977 Elvis Presley's death and the fan who lost a friend 1977 Star Wars and the world you can hold 1977 The Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen" & Punk Counterculture ConfrontationPDF 1978 The Jonestown Massacre & Jim Jones’s Audio Tape LegacyPDF 1979 Sony Launches the Walkman (TPS-L2) & Privatized Audio BubblesPDF 1980 CNN Launches 24-Hour Cable News Network (June 1, 1980)PDF 1980 Dallas and the summer of 'Who shot J.R.?' 1980 John Lennon and the fan who claimed the body 1980 Pac-Man Craze & Interactive Arcade Mascot BondingPDF 1981 Hinckley, Foster, and the film that became a mandate 1981 MTV Launches & The Visual Re-Branding of Pop Music (August 1, 1981)PDF 1981 The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer (July 29, 1981)PDF 1982 Home VCR Saturation & The Ownership of Visual ReplayPDF 1982 Michael Jackson and the video on repeat 1983 The Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas Riots & Manufactured adoptionPDF 1984 Madonna and the persona people argued with 1985 Live Aid and the audience as witness 1985 The AIDS Epidemic & Rock Hudson’s Public DiagnosisPDF 1985 The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) & Super Mario BrosPDF 1986–2011 Oprah and the studio as confessional 1986 The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (January 28, 1986)PDF 1987 Televangelist Scandals (Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker / Jimmy Swaggart)PDF 1988–2021 Rush Limbaugh and the friend who told you what you thought 1989 Rebecca Schaeffer and the address behind the screen 1991 The Rodney King Video & The Dawn of Citizen Video TestimonyPDF 1991 Usenet Newsgroups (alt.fan.*) & The Birth of Digital Fan NetworksPDF 1994 The Launch of The X-Files Online Community & Modern "Shipping"PDF 1994 The O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco Chase & Court TV Voyeurism (June 17, 1994)PDF 1995 The Real World: San Francisco & Pedro Zamora’s Public LegacyPDF 1996 Spice Girls ("Girl Power") & Manufactured Pop Ensemble IdentitiesPDF 1996 Tamagotchi and the pet in your pocket 1996 Tomb Raider & Lara Croft as a Virtual Screen IconPDF 1997 Diana: a funeral for someone you never met 1997 Titanic & The Leonardo DiCaprio Fan Hysteria ("Leo-Mania")PDF 1998 TRL (Total Request Live with Carson Daly) & Times Square CrowdsPDF 1998 The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal & The Birth of 24/7 Web News (Drudge Report)PDF 1998 The Truman Show: the audience as the last wall 1999 Pokémon (Red/Blue & Anime) & The "Catch 'Em All" Collector ImpulsePDF 1999 The Blair Witch Project and the missing students 1999–2004 World of Warcraft (2004) & Guild-Based Mass Online IdentityPDF 2000 'Stan': the fan who mistakes the reply for a promise

Phase 5 · Web 1.0, Digital Fandom & Creator Economies45

1996–2020 · The audience becomes a feed, a subscriber and a patron.

1996 JenniCam and the room that was always there 1996 Kyoko Date and the first virtual idol 1999– Big Brother and the house that watches back 2000s Sasaeng culture 2001 The Sims & Algorithmic Household ManipulationPDF 2002 American Idol Premieres & Mass Participatory Voting MechanicsPDF 2002– The Bachelor and the audience as judge 2003 The Launch of MySpace & The Top 8 Friendship HierarchyPDF 2004 Facebook and the profile as a public life 2004 The Janet Jackson "Wardrobe Malfunction" & The Inception of YouTubePDF 2005-2006 YouTube and the bedroom that looks at you 2006 Second Life & The Virtual Avatar EconomyPDF 2006– Taylor Swift and the fandom as co-author 2006–2009 Twitter and the follow that feels like a conversation 2007 Apple Launches the iPhone & Always-On Mobile IntimacyPDF 2007 Britney Spears’s Media Breakdown & Paparazzi Stalking SaturationPDF 2007 Hatsune Miku and the crowd-authored star 2007 Keeping Up with the Kardashians: the family as a schedule 2008– The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the long subscription 2008 The Twilight Book/Film Craze & Inter-Generational "Shipping" WarsPDF 2009 The Death of Michael Jackson & The First Global Internet Outage (June 25, 2009)PDF 2010s ASMR and the attention that feels personal 2010 Instagram and the curated life 2010–2016 One Direction and the fandom that did the work 2011–2019 Game of Thrones and the audience that owned the ending 2011 Snapchat and the message that disappears 2011–2014 Twitch and the donation that says your name 2012– MrBeast and the spectacle of giving 2012 The Rise of "Stan Twitter" & Organized Fandom WarfarePDF 2013 Her and the operating system who leaves 2013– Netflix and the weekend-long relationship 2013 Patreon and the paid continuation 2013 Vine Launches & Hyper-Compressed 6-Second PersonalitiesPDF 2014 Serial Podcast & The True-Crime Audio Companion CrazePDF 2014 The podcast as an intimate medium 2015 Donald Trump’s Campaign & The Twitter Political Feedback LoopPDF 2016 Lil Miquela and the influencer with no body 2016 OnlyFans and the intimacy you can buy 2016 Pokémon GO & Augmented Reality Spatial ConvergencePDF 2016 The virtual creator 2017 Replika and the companion that was edited 2017 The #MeToo Movement & Public Accountability DisillusionmentPDF 2018 The Rise of "Cancel Culture" & Public Execution RitualsPDF 2019 BTS & The Global K-Pop "ARMY" Intimacy EnginePDF 2020 Animal Crossing and the villagers who remembered you

Phase 6 · Post-Human, Algorithmic & Synthetic Frontiers14

2020–2024 · The far end becomes a model, a voice and a grief that can answer.

2020 Global COVID-19 Lockdowns & The "Cozy Media" LifelinePDF 2020 The Vtuber Global Explosion & Hololive Transmedia SaturationPDF 2020 TikTok's For You page and the feed that knows you 2021 Squid Game & Algorithmic Global Transmedia ViralityPDF 2021 The Gamestop Short Squeeze & Reddit-Driven Financial PopulismPDF 2022 Character.AI and the companion with no one inside 2023 Neuro-sama and the streamer with no one inside 2023–2024 OpenAI, Custom GPTs and the voice on the phone 2023 The "Fake Drake" AI Song ("Heart on My Sleeve") & Synthetic Vocal TheftPDF 2024 Apple Vision Pro Launch & Spatial Spatialized IntimacyPDF 2024–2025 Generative Video Models (Sora, Wan, MiniMax) & Custom Cinematic RealityPDF 2024 The dead celebrity, generated 2024 The griefbot and the dead who answer 2025–2026 Agentic AI Voice Assistants & Continuous Everyday PresencePDF

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