Unraveling This (Par)asocial Life

Most days, I’d rather hang out with YouTube than my real friends.

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I’ve been spending a lot of time on YouTube lately. In the way an earlier incarnation of me might promenade about the village square and say Bonjour! to everyone like Belle, I open up my YouTube app and check in with all my subscriptions. I get that hit of dopamine that reminds me I’m a part of…