#especially in kpop there's an entire active 'kpop tarot' tag

[youremyonlyhope]

Every day I am more and more upset I didn’t write that research paper on parasocial relationships in social media a whole decade ago.

#possibly my biggest regret in life #the writing was on the wall. but no one has started researching it #*HAD started #twitter was only a couple years old. same with instagram. but I saw it. it was there #i needed proper scholarly sources so I switched topics #but god the world is in worse shape than I had predicted in 2013 #yes this is partially prompted by the whole watcher thing where people seem far too heartbroken #for it to truly be a healthy fan reaction. but also I was just in some tarot tags #and I'm always so confused by the popularity of celebrity tarot. where people request readings on celebs relationships and stuff #especially in kpop there's an entire active 'kpop tarot' tag #now that's something I definitely did not see coming a decade ago. but it's still part of the larger symptom #god if only I could have been at the forefront of research and be a prominent sociologist of this field #in an alternate universe that paper would have been written and maybe I'd have revisited it doing a phd or something #I still remember my teacher asking if parasocial was a real term and that the topic was too niche #it was. it definitely was. I'd have been miserable writing 20 pages on it. but still. I knew what was on the horizon #it's just that what I thought was a wave is actually a tsunami